Emberlight Smart Light Socket

Control any dimmable bulb with your existing wifi and phone.

Emberlight smart light socket. Turn any bulb into a smart light. You ll find having the ability to control your lights with your voice to be a lifesaver when you get home with your hands full or can t find your phone. Since the company no longer has the capital to keep the servers running this unfortunately means that the sockets will no longer work once our existing server credit runs out in 3 to 4 months. Essentially emberlight is a smart bulb without the bulb.

I always thought it made much more sense to use a smart light socket that could accommodate any bulb rather than smart bulbs themselves. Description the emberlight socket turns any light into a smart light with no extra hub required. It s as simple as having a bulb made by emberlight. In 2014 the startup raised 300 000 on kickstarter gained additional investors and made it to the shelves of 270 target stores.

You screw it in then screw in whatever bulb you want led cfl halogen you name it. Just screw in a bulb that s it. All one has to do with this socket is screw it on to their current lightbulbs and connect with it. No complex wireless hub to install and configure.

Product description turn any dimmable bulb into a smart light with emberlight socket. Other basic features one would expect in the app is some kind of readout of the health of the socket. Smart light switches how and when should you use them. Control your emberlight sockets by voice using an the amazon echo or other alexa enabled product.

There is no such readout in the app and the socket itself has no led or readout of status. Just like emberlight bulbs the socket will allow consumers to control their lights from everywhere and also dim them. Mold your lights around your life. So i had a soft spot for emberlight an early purveyor of screw in wi fi sockets.

As such the emberlight socket is not really smart paired with the current version of the app it is more like a wifi bluetooh enabled light dimmer. Turn any bulb into a smart light. This thing effectively turns every light in ones house into a smart light. The idevices socket has a dim future duration.