Description #
This video reviews the LIFX SuperColour Mini (950lm) E27 smart bulb with full Matter support. I unbox it, compare it with the older LIFX Mini, install it in a real bathroom fixture, and walk through pairing it with Matter, Home Assistant, Google Home, and the LIFX app. If you’re looking for a compact Matter-enabled smart bulb, this is a complete setup and performance test.
Product: LIFX SuperColour Mini (950lm) E27 Edison Screw Brightness: 950lm CRI: 90 Power Use: 9W (70W equivalent) Standby: 0.5W Colour Temperature: 1500K–9000K Beam Angle: 210° Dimming: 1–100% (software) Wi-Fi: 2.4GHz, WPA/WPA2 Voltage: 100–240V Size: 60 × 60 × 108 mm
Chapters 00:00 – LIFX SuperColour Mini overview 00:48 – Unboxing 01:20 – Old vs new LIFX Mini comparison 01:46 – Installing the E27 bulb 02:03 – Matter QR pairing 02:42 – Adding to Home Assistant 03:11 – Sharing to Google Home 03:32 – LIFX app setup 04:07 – Voice control test 04:49 – Final thoughts
Smart home compatibility: Matter, Home Assistant, Google Home, LIFX App.
Keywords: LIFX SuperColour Mini, LIFX 950lm, LIFX E27 smart bulb, LIFX Matter setup, Home Assistant Matter pairing, best Matter smart bulbs, E27 LED smart bulb, LIFX SuperColour review. Smart Light
Original Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqoGh-hy-H4
Transcript #
Hey all, today we’re looking at this — a LIFX Mini bulb. It’s a bit smaller than the standard bulb. It’s a smart colour-changing light if you’re not familiar with these, and this is the newest version of the mini. I’ve used the old one before and unfortunately mine failed — in fact, I’ve had two fail. I don’t really blame the bulb; it’s installed in my bathroom in a very tight light fixture, and combined with the humidity and the heat buildup that probably happens in there, they don’t last very long. Every single bulb in my bathroom has failed at some point, including the original one the landlord installed — one of those non-replaceable LED fixtures.
So I’m not going to be too harsh on my original bulbs, but hopefully this one lasts a bit longer. I do notice this one is 950 lumens whereas the old one was 1000 lumens. Let’s open it up. Inside you get a getting-started guide, a little pull tab, and the bulb itself. That’s everything in the box. On the back of the manual is the Matter QR code, which I’m not going to show you — we’ll get to that in a bit.
Here we have three LIFX bulbs: this is the dead one I’m replacing, this is the older version of the LIFX Mini, and this is the new one. And this is a standard LIFX bulb for comparison — as you can see, the mini is just a bit smaller, which is what you’d want for a fixture where you simply can’t fit the full-size one. Next we’re going to install it in the light fixture. There it is. I’m not going to put the glass back on just yet. Now we’ll turn the power on and set it up.
The bulb is on and we just need to configure it. Back at the table, this is the Matter QR code — this is what you need to pair the device and you need to keep it safe. I’ll bring my phone over and scan it. We get a little pop-up that says “add smart home device” and it offers SmartThings. I don’t want to use SmartThings, I use Home Assistant, so I’ll pick “choose another app.” Use whatever works for you. I’ll pick Home Assistant, and I’m ready. It connects, it’s done, and we want to add this to Home Assistant — yes, add device. It’s been added and we can see it in Home Assistant with all the device info.
Now I want to share this with Google as well, so I click “share device” and it gives me a new QR code. I’ll copy it, go to Google Home, click plus, set up. This is “set up without QR code” — paste it, next, agree, I’m ready, and now it’s also on Google Home. I’ll add it to my bathroom group. Now if I go to the bathroom I’ve got three lights: the old one and the new one. Off camera I can control it just like that.
Now we’ll go into the LIFX app and finish setting up there. We don’t need another code — it’ll just find it on the network. There’s our bulb. Finished setup, almost done, continue. It’s going into a new group called bathroom. We’ll name it “bathroom LIFX mini”… actually we’re not going to do that. And we’re done. It’s connected three different ways and we’re good to go.
Let’s put the fixture back on and finish up. There’s the bulb reinstalled, and I can change the colour with my voice assistant now. “Hey Google, change the colour of the bathroom lights to purple.” And now they’re purple. “Hey Google, change the colour of the bathroom light to incandescent.” And now it’s incandescent. There it is — a colour-changing LIFX bulb. I hope this one lasts longer than the other two, but that fixture certainly isn’t helping.
That wraps up this quick look at the LIFX SuperColour Mini. I don’t notice any brightness difference between 950 and 1000 lumens. Hopefully this new version lasts longer in that horrible light fixture, but they’re fun bulbs. This is the only LIFX bulb that’s ever failed on me — all my other ones have lasted half a decade now and been absolutely great. This one just happens to be forced to work in a hostile environment. Thanks for watching, and I’ll see you next time.