I already have a Hue set-up throughout the house, so when I saw non-Philips bulbs that are compatible with Hue for less than half the price of Hue GU10's I thought it was too good to be true.

So they arrived in nice stylish packaging, containing only the bulb and a small "instruction" booklet. Quite honestly the booklet was useless and had little or no detail on how to set anything up. They tried to use diagrams without words to explain the set-up, but the diagrams make little sense (even when you know how the set-up works).

Once plugged in I hit the first obstacle, after following the very simple instructions to pair the bulbs with my Hue bridge, the process simply didn't work. I unplugged the bulbs and put them into a lamp which I sat immediately next to the Hue bridge, once again the set-up failed. So I called the support guy who explained others had the same problem, and he advised installing a Java based desktop app called "Lamp Finder" ... but before doing that I decided to simply power cycle the Hue bridge and try the same set-up again, and bingo the new bulbs were picked up immediately. So far so good.

Then once the bulbs were set-up I plugged them back into the position in the house where they would be used (front porch), and unfortunately I could not control them with the Hue app. I figured that they need to be closer to the bridge, so eventually I had to relocate my Hue bridge and everything was working again. I never had an issue of distance between Philips bulbs and Hue bridge location, and even now I have Philips bulbs located much further away from the bridge than these Innr bulbs, and the Philips bulbs work fine.

My house is full of regular LED GU10's, when I've taken them out of the socket they have been warm but never hot. But with these Innr bulbs which were not on for a very long time, when I took them out they were very hot to the touch, which makes me question their energy efficiency, they are losing a lot of energy through heating up.

In collusion, I was considering returning these bulbs due to the 2 negative issues (distance with Hue bridge, energy / heat loss), but I'm going to hold on to them for a while longer before making my decision. Its great to finally see ZigBee products on the market at a better price point than Philips and attempting to break the Philips monopoly.

looks like a toilet. cold.

Their colour bulbs are £29.99 - £20 cheaper than the equivalent Philips bulb - yet will also work with the Hue bridge and Alexa (but not with Siri).

Just wanted to point out that these don't work with Apple HomeKit :smiley:

Do I need a Hue Bridge if I have an Amazon Echo?

I'm pretty sure you will need the hue bridge yes

These DO need a bridge to work with Alexa....

The Q&A section suggests they don't work with Apple HomeKit

Only Philips Hue bulbs work with Apple Home kit. These are picked up by the Hue bridge and can be used with Alexa I have 2 of these in my setup.

Their colour bulbs are £29.99 - £20 cheaper than the equivalent Philips bulb - yet will also work with the Hue bridge and Alexa (but not with Siri).

In the description on the Amazon page it says this: