TP-Link Smart Bulb, Smart Wi-Fi LED Light, E27, 8.7W, Energy saving, Works with Amazon Alexa and Google Home, Dimmable Soft Warm White, No Hub Required - L510E(2-pack)[Energy Class F]

Work great, easy to set up and use. Works well with our other Tapo items.

First of all I have several Tapo products around the house, but this was my first time buying their smart bulbs. I am very impressed with the build quality and ease of setup via the Tapo app, which for me seems more straight forward than the setup involved with other brands. The lights are bright on the highest setting and easily dimmable to a nice warm glow, perfect for those family evenings watching a film. I love the fact that I can see the energy usage of each bulb within the app over several different time periods. It’s great to know that these are energy efficient bulbs and aren’t wasting energy. Of course these are fully compatible with Alexa and once again the setup process is simple and intuitive, needing only to activate the Tapo skill once and Alexa takes care of the rest. I would definitely recommend the Tapo L510 bulbs, they are a quality product, affordable and easy to use and setup.

Very happy with these bulbs apart from one hiccup. I have two lights controlled from a single dimmer switch and the Tapo bulbs won't work in this configuration. TP-Link tech support are looking into it but for now I'd suggest sticking to on/off switches only. Other than that the work great and are very easy to set up (I don't have an Alexa so can't comment on the reported issues). Energy efficiency labelling on the pack is unclear.

Smart bulbs and buttons are great but having used them for 10 years now, they come with a lot of issues. Firstly they lose connection all the time. The reason things like your Ring cameras and Lifx bulbs lose connection is that they're cheap and the WiFi bands that they support are limited. When your router or Mesh Wifi rotates it's bands/frequencies in order to ensure your Wifi is not colliding with nextdoors, if it moves to a band that is unsupported then everything goes offline!!! Secondly the backends of these system just go down or are unreliable. I have found especially with Lifx they just randomly go down, usually when you need them most! Thirdly the reality of smart kit is that you need some way for everyone to be able to use them. For example, are you going to ask your parents in law to download the app, give them admin permissions and to use the app to switch the bathroom light on? No!!! Now I have persevered for years with Lifx and Flic buttons and, the flic buttons run out of power all the time, disconnect and also they're not very robust. Add the crappy Lifx bulbs into the equation and you have a system thats just unreliable. So I recently took advantage of the black frinday deal and replaced everything with Tapo. So far it has been night and day better. Tapo kit is way cheaper than anything else on the market. It has an ever evolving app thats easy to use and intuitive to me and the smart buttons work brilliantly. I have not had 1 outage or issue in 2 months now, where I used to get at least 1 bulb go funky per month for no reason at all!!!! So the bulbs are basic, however they have a very nice temperature to them. The Lifx ones were better in that respect but I almost got all of my bulbs replaced for the price of just 1 Lifx one, so I don't miss the price!!! I have even got a camera hooked up to the little smart hub and I have had literally no hiccups at all. Compared to anything else I have used these are so much better. I am so impressed.

Simply the best to set up and use. I have tried many bulbs in my house since the arrival of smart connected appliances. These, and indeed all TAPO devices I have used, are the easiest to set up and to control with a very good app. I thoroughly recommend you try them and see for yourself.