My biggest gripe is for a specific situation. I have several light fixtures that have multiple bulbs. You can group the bulbs together so that you can control the entire fixture at one time. That’s great and works well. There are 2 issues. First, there is no way to have the groups be the default on the app. You have to open the app, then click on the group icon at the bottom of the screen. Then pick the group you want to control. Sounds like a a small thing but it’s a pain if that’s how you control your lights. You should be able to set group as the default for every time you open the app. Second, when you hit the group icon and then select the group you want to control it always takes several tries before the group you want to control opens. It always opens another group you didn’t select first, and if you aren’t paying attention you will be controlling the wrong light. So fix those two issue and I will be very happy.

The Cree Max bulbs are great. Good color, inexpensive. The app is clearly an afterthought. I don’t think the developers have ever actually used it. 1) Can’t edit routines (e.g. sun track) without the bulbs responding. This means the lights are going crazy if you’re editing at night. 2) The lights change if you go through different menus (e.g. dimmer -> routines -> scenes). Annoying. Somewhat related to #1. 3) Each time you click on dimmer menu, it switches over to color mode. Even if your bulbs are in white mode. If the mode must change when clicking through the menu, the new menu should assume the bulb’s current state. 4) Grouped bulbs should have an option to stagger the color changes. For example, fireplace mode would be more effective if bulbs rotated through the colors independently. This doesn’t apply to all scenes, but having the option would be nice. 5) The ‘sun track’ mode should run even in the background even if the bulbs are off. If I turn off bright white at noon, they should start at warm light when I turn them on at 5pm. 6) Add an option for power-on behavior. Cree doesn’t have a good solution for integrating with a physical smart switch, so these get turned off occasionally. I would like to select what happens when power returns.

I have many smart bulbs in my home and most are Cree since they are usually the best price. Even so, I can connect all my devices from various brands to the Cree app, which is very nice. That way I only need one Alexa skill that connects them automatically to my echos. The Cree app also seems to set devices up more reliably and easily than the other apps I’ve tried, and it communicates with Alexa smoothly and with minimal glitching.BUT using either the Cree or the Alexa app to control the lights is exceedingly clunky. I would love if Cree developed a widget for the iPhone. As it is, I’m very tempted to try moving everything over to the Treatlife app which has a widget.

We’ve been using Cree outdoor bulbs for lighting our home for 3-4 years now. When we first got the app you could control the bulbs individually or place them in a group and control them as a group. The scenes available for the groups have our home a beautiful ambiance and it was easy to use. We could not have been happier about it. Then came an update. The groups disappeared and you had to program each bulb to it’s own color. You could still program a scene as long as you programmed each parameter of each bulb for that routine. This gets tedious when you have 11 bulbs across the front of you home but, ok, I dealt. Now another update comes through. The user interface is as far from intuitive as can be. And the bulbs don’t have as much control over color in each scene as previously. I can’t even choose what color the bulb will be when I program automation. Who thought this up?You guys need to go back to allowing bulbs to be programmed by group at the very least. I can tell you that when these bulbs die I won’t be replacing them with Cree bulbs. I will find another option for lighting my home. I don’t know who your tech team is but they are adept at making your product more difficult to use with each passing update.