Fluora 4+

I love my plant, it’s in my bedroom and I have it on a timer to turn on around sunset and off around when I go to bed everyday. I keep the brightness kinda low so it’s not blaring bright as I’m turning in for the evening. However, both the fade in when it turns on and the fade out when it turns off do not respect that brightness - it fades in to 100% and then snaps to my brightness level, or jarringly snaps to 100% then fades out to 0. Super annoying to be laying in bed, winding down, enjoying the calm glow when BAM I’m assaulted with full brightness.

While I’m suggesting, knowing when sunset/sunrise is to trigger the timer would be a nice feature. Also smart home support would be choice - I’d love to be able to just ask Google or Siri to turn the plant on or off.

Based on the comments I have read from the early adopters going back a few years, it appears this product has had a rocky start which is understandable given they are a small company launching a new product.

All I can say is that as of July 14, 2024 a week after I received my Fluora mini, my experience has been good. After installing the app, the firmware was upgraded to 1.0.0 and I have been using the current version of the Fluora app which is currently 0.36.4. I had no issues connecting to my Fluora mini via Wi-Fi (just be sure you’re using 2.4 GHz instead of 5 GHz). I have also had no issues controlling the Fluora mini with the app. I am pretty pleased with the quality of the lighting and options that are currently available. I wouldn’t mind seeing some more effects in the future, and maybe ways of saving custom settings, but I am pretty pleased with what’s available.

I really, really love this plant. It’s gorgeous and fun, but the app is often frustrating. It usually can’t find the device, so you need to do a power cycle, or the app needs to be reinstalled, etc. More often than not, I have to turn it off manually. In fact, it’s usually a surprise when I open the app and it can find the plant. I feel like I would have preferred a remote.