If there’s one thing that can transform how your home feels without dropping hundreds on new furniture, it’s the lighting you choose. These Govee smart bulbs now cost just $17 for a two-pack on Amazon, down from the usual $25, and you can stack an extra 10% off with the promo code IZVCRPT14KV7 to hit a record low price that makes upgrading your entire house ridiculously affordable.
You get 1000 lumens of brightness per bulb (equivalent to old 75W incandescents), access to 16 million colors, tunable white light from warm 2700K to cool 6500K, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, and full voice control through Alexa or Google Assistant. These bulbs create different atmospheres for different moods without you touching a dimmer switch. Order today and Amazon delivers them before Christmas.
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1000 Lumens Really Lights Up Big Rooms
That 1000-lumen output is a lot more important than it sounds like it would be: Cheap smart bulbs usually only go up to 600–800 lumens which means that even at full brightness, they don’t light up big rooms very well. You can make them brighter when you need task lighting or dim them down across the full 1–100% range for ambiance. The CRI90+ color rendering index makes colors look real and true instead of washed out like they do under cheap LEDs.
You can choose from 16 million colors so you can get the exact shade you want instead of going through a few presets that never quite match what you had in mind. You can make your living room glow purple while your kitchen stays warm white, or you can set all the bulbs to the same energizing blue-white for morning routines. The tunable white range goes from 2700K to 6500K which is the range of colors that goes from the warmth of candlelight to the brightness of office daylight.
The Govee Home app gives you access to 54 scene modes that handle the color programming for you if you don’t want to manually adjust settings. Music sync mode makes the bulbs change colors when your phone’s microphone picks up sound, turning any playlist into a light show that pulses with the beat. Sunrise and sunset timers gradually brighten or dim the lights to wake you naturally or ease you into evening, and you can schedule these automations to match your actual daily routine instead of fumbling for switches half-asleep.
You can control these bulbs from anywhere using the app, even when you’re not home, which lets you turn the lights on before you get there or check to see if you left something on after you left. You can change the brightness, colors, or turn lights on and off with your voice using Alexa or Google Assistant. This feels like the future at first, but then it quickly becomes the only way you want to interact with lights. The dual connectivity also acts as a backup; if your Wi-Fi goes down, you can still use Bluetooth to control things locally.
The bulbs fit in standard A19 sockets and work with any lamp or fixture that takes regular screw-in bulbs and makes installation as easy as changing old bulbs. Most routers send out 2.4GHz Wi-Fi signals, which these devices can connect to. These 9-watt bulbs use a lot less electricity than old 75-watt incandescent bulbs, but they still give off the same amount of light.
The $17 price for two bulbs becomes even better when you apply that 10% promo code, and brings your effective cost down to around $7.65 per bulb. That’s cheaper than many dumb LED bulbs that just turn on and off, except these give you millions of colors, remote control, voice commands, scheduling, and music sync capabilities.
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