Lidl’s new smart home product: Livarno Lux works with Philips Hue, it works with Smartthings, and it works with Alexa if you have a Zigbee based Amazon Echo, …
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Happy Saturday y'all! A word of warning! I am getting reports that the echo can't control the colour of the lidl lights (it can control warm white and cool white just not purple etc) I thought I had tested this but possibly not and I'm ill in bed now and can't test it. Apologies if this is the case!
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I just bought the hub at lidl for £17.99 (!) and as the guy rang it through I swear he said "ooh the zigbee" under his breath! I'm near certain of it cause he looked a bit flustered and went bright red when I chuckled!
Although I probably should paid more attention to this video as I use alexa to voice control. So it can go in the cupboard until they fix this insanity. At that price it's not a big deal!
Who tries to find the hate comments lmao
Oh lidl, oh lidl are you so smart to connect directly to my spinning echo show 10?
Any one tested to connect lidl devices directly to echo zigbee hub?
Awesome Paul
Thing I haven't seen is a breakdown of why Lidl is so much less. It's obviously a loss leader but how much? But also I suspect the curve in hue is better, lower start etc . I wonder what the life on the Lidl stuff is. But right tool for the job . No point throwing hue when you just want white and on.
Well liddl doesn't exist in the us (it probably does)
Will they ever bring them back? 😭
Soooo… I can't get them to work with Alexa even though i have a smartthings hub.
The lidls smart bulbs are zigbees , but they do not activate the colour function when connected via ZigBee hub built in Amazon echos ,
How do I connect the lidl bulbs to alexa?
what did it destroy?
there are already light bulbs with the same price, and the lidl hub, is basicly a tuya hub
and this is not in the same lague as hue
at least for me personally
i got into this 3 weeks ago, and started with a silvercrest hub, but this is catching dust now, since the tuya app is just horrible
Well I bought my first smart device today the Lidl smart plug and can I hell connect it to my Amazon dot 4th generation, it just won't find it, do I still need an extra hub. My WiFi is via vergin media hub 3. Help I knew I shouldn't have tried FFS 😅😅
hey paul, any idea if/when these will be back in stock in lidl? cant seem to find them anywhere
@Paul Hibbert I have two of the Lidl lights and I cannot control the colours via Alexa hub so is there another way of doing so without having to buy a Lidl hub? I have an old Philips hub that I don't use any more….could I use that?
I paid £14 for the Philips hub new. All my hue products have been purchased about the same price as the cheap stuff minus few quid.
have you tried adding them to hubitat hub?
lidl is sh*te
got the lamp, and the hub, works with Alex..a , just via smart life skill.
I bought the gateway and a few smart lights and switches. It works well however I am not sure about if Lidl plans to expand their smart products. I also find it hard to find existing Lidl smart products to buy.
I took my Livarno E27 colour ones back as they made a loud buzzing sound!!