Xiaomi Yeelight Smart Lamp Review

Smart gadgets are everywhere, and smart lights are no exception. Xiaomi is one of my favorite Chinese companies offering high-quality, budget-priced tech, and their Yeelight is another fantastic example of this. Gearbest provided me with this new smart lamp to try out and I'm happy to report it is fantastic.

The Yeelight connects to your phone using the Yeelight app. It can also be controlled manually, using a touch slider on the top of the light, or the two buttons (power and color switch) on the top of the light. The buttons are inconspicuous and don't detract from the nice form factor of this minimalist lamp.






The sheer variety of colors available (claims to have 16millions RGB lights) is impressive. You'll really get a feel for it through adjusting the colors on the Yeelight app. There are multiple modes available: Flow (alternates between a variety of colors), Color, and White. In all of these modes, you can use the touch feature to adjust the warmth or brightness of the colors.

Now, I mentioned this is a "smart" lamp. It can connect via bluetooth to your phone or tablet using the Yeelight app, and here is where the fun really starts. You can remotely turn it on or off, set a wake-up light (super useful, slowly brightens over a 30 minute period to gently wake you), or set a sleep timer feature (slowly turn darken over a preset time, presumably while you go to sleep). In addition, you can adjust the hue, flow, white settings, as well as load pre-set "scene" colors, or even select a color to display using your phone's camera. There is even supposed link with the Xiaomi Mi Band, with the ability to sync the lights wake-up feature with actual waking from sleep, although I haven't tested this yet. The only critiques I have for this lamp so far is 1) wishing the wake up feature could be set from 30 to 5 mins (a range would be nice rather than fixed), 2)providing an instruction manual in English. It's fairly easy to figure out how to use the lamp, but finding the app was not easy.



Overall, the Yeelight is a fairly impressive smart lamp. Xiaomi has consistently impressed me with their array of gadgets, including the Yi action camera and the Mi band activity tracker, and this Yeelight further adds to their impressive collection of devices. You can purchase it online through Gearbest.

Check out my video review of the Yeelight below!