Hello everybody and welcome to Pear Crew. Today we're going to be reviewing the
Heelight, a smart light bulb with an innovative twist to it. So before we
begin, let me take a moment and thank Micronovelty, Heelight's manufacturer,
sponsoring us this review unit. Now let's get this out of the way:
"What makes the Heelight so special?" you ask. You know that all smart light bulbs in
the market are controlled through Wi-Fi or Bluetooth or some sort of other
the market are controlled through WiFi or Bluetooth. What if I told you that the Heelight uses no wireless network
technology for its operation? Yes, that's right, no WiFi, no Bluetooth, no Zigbee,
not even IR – just sound. Heelight uses what they call "Digital Voice"
technology to pass on information from your phone to the bulb. Essentially the Heelight
contains a chip that recognizes a predefined set of audio patterns and
acts accordingly. I must say I'm impressed by the thought and engineering
skills that were put into this. So let's get this thing out of the box!
The Heelight comes packaged in this simple box that also has some useful details on it.
At this point I can't help but notice a possible identity crisis that
Micronovelty had when it released the Heelight. While the product was introduced
as the Heelight, the packaging also names it "The Giga Bulb". On the side of the package
we can see some of the bulb's modes that you can activate through the
app, we'll dig deeper into those later. On the specs side we see that the bulb has
an E27 standard socket, operates for about 50 thousand hours and has a 6 watt
consumption rate. The bulb gives out 400 lumens of brightness – which is fine
for a mood light or a small desk lamp- and also supports 16 million colors of
the RGB spectrum. Opening the package, we can immediately spot some discreet
discreet branding by Micronovelty on the bulb's top. On the side we also find a small
user manual in English that we're not going to be needing. When you pick up the
the bulb in your hands it feels well made. It has a hard-plastic base with decorative
groves and a good looking light diffuser on the top. The bulb weighs under 150
grams – enough to make it feel quality made but not too heavy to cause any
problems on installation. You can find the app to control the Heelight on the
Apple AppStore, Google Play or you can get it directly off Heelight's
website as a web app for your phone. Sadly the web app refuses to load on my
computer's web browser and instead prompts me to load it on my phone.
The App is rather simple in its use and unlike Xiaomi's ecosystem, it doesn't
require you to create an account to set up your lightbulb. Through its
easy to use menu you can switch the bulb on or off, select a custom
color, adjust its hue and brightness, set a delay for the bulb to turn on or off
and toggle through a set of 30 modes.
That being said, the app does have some serious cons: To begin with, a big part of it
has been badly translated from Chinese and the DIY mode, which seems
really interesting, is almost completely untranslated making it hard to
comprehend and use. Another shortcoming of the App is that upon installation it
forces a permanent notification in the notifications shade on some phones
without an option to disable it. And finally, there is also a store option
that doesn't seem to work. But all this aside, let's go test some of the
Heelight modes that I found to be the most interesting. First we have the night lamp
mode, which puts the bulb in a sort of standby mode until it detects sound and
then it dimly lights up, useful for when you get out of bed during night. Lantern
mode emulates the flickering of a Red Lantern flame. The heelight mode randomly
toggles the bulb color when you say "Hey light". SOS mode flashes the bulb according
to the SOS Morse code. Glass clink mode detects when glasses are clinking in the
surrounding area and flashes the bulb's white colors, though let's note that I
didn't have much success testing this. Candle mode allows you to blow air at
the bulb to light it off and then it lights back on again after a few seconds.
Sunrise mode smoothly transitions through a variety of white hues to
imitate the sun rising. Reading mode sets the bulbs hue to a tone that won't cause
eye strain during studying. It has a sex mode, yes you heard me... a sex mode. Finally,
rhythm and music modes change the bulb's brightness and colors according to the
music playing. So let's sum it all up, the heelight takes a really cool idea: that
of controlling your light systems through sound commands, and puts it in a
light bulb and its companion app. The bulb itself feels to be of great build
quality and its specifications exceed our expectations. Just keep in mind that
its brightness is suited best for a mood light or a small desk light. Also, what
makes the light bulb special is that it features a great variety of custom modes
to play around with and the fact that it supports such a wide spectrum of colors.
Where the he light fall short is mostly due to the quirks of the app which still
needs to be translated to become fully usable. Another thing left to be desired
is the ability to program and expand the bulbs' modes, something nearly impossible
since all these modes are hard-coded into the bulbs' chip. Also, what is
noticeably absent is a rainbow effect, probably the most common effect on RGB
products these days. In general the modes that come with heelight work great but
some of them could use some fine-tuning and refinement. For example, in rhythm
mode, the abrupt color change between four predefined colors could be replaced with
a smooth transition through random colors and the mic could be tuned to a
slightly lower sensitivity to yield better results. So my closing thoughts on
the heelight are that it's an awesome, innovative well made product with a bit
spotty software support and some missing key features. The bulb definitely
delivers on the vast majority of the promises it makes but when buying one
one should consider everything I mentioned earlier taking everything
previously mentioned into consideration and due to its price tag of 32 (correction - see description) US
dollars, I can't upfront recommend the heelight unless you're really digging the
concept or are really interested in some of its unique modes. What I would love to
see is heelight making a revision of this cool light bulb utilizing the same
potent and innovative concept but with better software and a few extra key
features that have become mainstream on other smart light bulbs in the market.
That was a it for this review guys, once again thank you to the awesome guys and
gals over at micronovelty for sending us over this unit to test. Tell us what
you think of the heelight in the comments below. I hope you enjoyed this
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