Christmas Haul - C-Life Smart Bulbs With Google Home
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I've chronicled my experience with LIFX bulbs before here on the blog. Here's my post from February of last year showing the bulb and how we were using it . The LIFX bulbs are great. They have tons of different colors, plenty of scheduling, integration with Nest and Google Home. But they're pricey. Still. After being on the market for a number of years, they're still about $49.00 per bulb . These GE C-Life bulbs are cheaper. Much cheaper. If you can find them on sale, you can get a pair of them for $15. $7.50 per bulb is very affordable. But with that lower cost comes some trade-offs. First, there's no color. They're just normal light bulbs. Second, it appears that they're running off bluetooth, so they have to be *close* to a Google Home. Welp, for us, that's not a problem, because we have these Google Homes, Google Home Minis and Google Home what-have-yous in various places around our hous...