SYLVANIA Smart WiFi 4+

Affordable and Reliable!

I was drawn to the SYLVANIA lightbulbs initially due to the product’s affordability in comparison to some of the other smart bulb systems on the market today as well as the fact that it does not require an assistant device (Alexa) to function. The bulbs were extremely easy to set up through the app as it took me less than 5 minutes to complete. Also, the app has a user friendly interface which is simplistic and has no unnecessary frills. Definitely recommended to folks looking for an affordable alternative.

Love these, and I’m pretty picky

I’ve been using these smart leds for about 6 months now, and overall i find them to be pretty great. I love how I can control the mood of my lighting anywhere in the house with just the touch of a button. The groups are fairly easy to make and the scheduling is really cool, I use the scheduling feature on a daily basis. Especially handy when going out of town. They can even turn on when the skies get dark or rainy.

I have noticed that sometimes, a light will just randomly go out and the app won’t recognize it anymore. This could be user error, but I find that when a light goes out I have to get a ladder, climb up and unscrew the actual bulb, and then screw it back in again to reboot it and get the bulb to turn on again. I’m finding at least one bulb randomly goes off about once every week or so. I use 13 of them throughout my house.

In my master bedroom, I use Philips Hue LED, which are way pricier (or were when I got them 4 years ago). The Philips, in comparison, are incredibly reliable lights, I have never had to climb a ladder and reboot one. Their app is also just as functional, but more intuitive and aesthetic. But for the price, the Sylvania’s are pretty great. I think they were around $25 cheaper per bulb than the Philips Hue. Hope this helps!

New update glitchy and slow

I had to write a review because I have no idea what they did with the new update. My bulbs were working fine with the previous version of the app and now suddenly the app communication with my bulbs is so slow. I click the button in the app to turn on/off a bulbs and it takes like 3 seconds for the bulbs to respond, in the meantime i keep clicking on off on off because they don’t respond. I don’t know if it’s just the tiny power button for the bulbs in the app and i’m just not clicking dead center or what but before they were very responsive and worked fine. Also sometimes my bulbs randomly go offline now. I don’t know what they did to the firmware for the bulbs but the developer really made the performance worse. Please bring back the order old version of the app. The current app just looks too busy with too much info for the groups section and you might want to recheck the firmware for the Sylvania bulbs because my bulbs are glitching out.

Developer Response ,

Dear customer,


Thank you for using our SYLVANIA Smart WiFi app and your feedback. You might find below instruction video helpful to connect our products to your systems: https://www.screencast.com/t/hWbvXtkgL Or you could contact us at 1-800-544-4828 to speak to a representative or emailing lightbulb@ledvance.com.