I love the idea of LumenIZE but there are definitely things that need fixing and improving. It’d be nice to have a factory reset button on the app. Having to do the off 3 seconds, on 1 second, off 3 seconds three times via the cable’s switch is a pain and not ideal when you have an animal in the vivarium. In general the issue of flashing lights is common - if you’re messing with schedules even if it’s for a charge at 8pm when it’s 8am - the light goes mad with flashing and flickering. I’ve also found that half the time the app doesn’t actually save my settings. For example I’ll set the light to go to 0% at 8:30pm and even click ‘copy decide’ to try to make sure it saves that change. But if I go into another light then back to the one I changed - it’ll say 100% again instead of 0. The only way I’ve been able to get changes to stick is to bookend my settings (ex setting 8:31 to 0% - that one goes back to 100% but my 8:30 setting will stay at 0% so I can then delete the 8:31 slot).Another issue which has to do with the flashing is I notice instead of a gradual increase, my UV bar seems to switch on to 100% initially then dims back down to gradually increase over the hour I set, obviously it turning on at 100% (I have it set to go from 0-100 over an hour) is not ideal. I even tried setting it to go from 0 to 1% and it still flashes on to 100% initially.It’d be nice to create schedules ‘offline’ too so the lights aren’t affected as you experiment. And also a calendar to automatically create seasons. I do love the idea of this app but it definitely needs more work and improving. Especially with how much Arcadia advertises the LumenIZE system, the app and programming really needs some attention.

Awesome LED lamp have been waiting a long time for a lamp like this but the app is awful. It clearly hasn’t been tested properly for iPhone: • Doesn’t fit properly on the screen and the Arcadia logo disappears behind the Dynamic Island • Can’t go back when looking at data manager due to the above issue - the back arrow at the top left doesn’t work. • Can’t delete time slots. I wished I had just bought the original Jungle Dawn bar until this app has been properly tested.

Where to even start. Firstly the apps poor layout and scaling. A “Device Manager” that only shows 2 devices at a time in a tiny window that you have to awkwardly scroll through. A timings window that you inadvertently adjust whenever you scroll through your various time slots. And annoyingly both issues are made worse by the more devices and slots you have. In terms of adjusting the timeslots, any adjustment made to any timeslot whether it be ahead or before your current one will cause the device to respond immediately. So dont try make any adjustments to the schedule whilst your animal is trying to sleep or go about their nightly business. It fails in its main function of light management as the devices will randomly turn on or off. Sometimes they become undiscoverable and even better sometimes they do both and you cannot readjust until you have turned the device off and on again. The power switch is located right by the plug so may be rather inconvenient in some setups. This has prompted me to install a smart plug to turn my “smart” lights off and on again so i can control them once again. (All of which you pay a premium for)As for security. Well the devices are accessible to anyone with this app so lets hope you dont have any herp loving neighbours. The lock button seemingly does nothing as any device can make adjustments to the schedule. Im not sure if i should even bother addressing the other “features”. An Animal Records page which is just a notepad, handy if you have just one animal i guess. It also features a Data Manager, which is just a single graph representing the time slots you set for all those who want to see what they just inputted in graph format, i guess.

There are some small things like not being able to click the back button when on data manager but I’ve had the app for a few months now and all of my lights except one which was faulty have worked fine. The timing it a little out by a few minutes after a while but nothing extreme. I do think it should have had more testing before putting it out!