Elgato Avea App Reviews

Anything fast color full mod please!!!

This app need widget! Is not an option, is a necessity! Please add a widget

- Cannot schedule shutdown - Snooze is missing. Sound is not very loud.

Very easy to install. Nice mood light

Quality: The apps instantly linked my 6 bluetooth light bulb, no waiting or searching endlessly. The bulb are still connected since launch (It has been 2 weeks now) and no connection error occured. The app is simple. You choose a color (or a theme) then choose bulbs for that color. The color remembers wich bulb were associated with them, so its easy to setup more than 1 room, even though it seems upside down. I hesitated between 4 and 5 stars. I finally choose 5 because the only "downside" would be the simplicity of the app, but there is enough option to control bulb and thats what I wanted with the bulb.

Great App for a great product. Everything works properly and as advertised. Will give 5 stars if Elgatos next update includes more scenes and/or the ability to make our own transitions. Wake up light should make better use of colors to simulate a real colourful sunrise. Not just plain white light.

We should have the possibility to create our own color transitions, not only the presets. Wake up timer should use the colors to simulate real sunrise, not only white light! Should be easy enough to program... Do it for next update please!

The bulb and the different lighting moods are super cool, however the app needs some polishing. Improvements needed to make this product better are as follows: 1. There is no timer to turn the light off. This app should have a "sleep timer" or count down timer so you can fall as sleep with your favourite mood. 2. There is only one option/mood to wake up to. Why not be able to wake up to any mood you choose. Example being able to wake up to "cozy flames" 3. The gradual fade to "ON" over the course of 10-15mins is nice. Maybe start with a slightly less bright intensity on the wake up. Keep up the good work!

I would love to see the nottifications widget that would be so amazing

Who knew playing with...lightbulb(s) could be this much fun lol. Yea u need an Avea lightbulb, about 30-40 bucks LED low energy bulb. Just put it in any ordinary lamp you got around. Itll communicate via Bluetooth (built into the lightbulb) with your iDevice. Its able to produce quite a lot of colors, at various brightness. You can even combine multiple lamps for various color patterns, or control them separately like more regular lamps w. dimmers etc. Fun, relaxing, a small taste of that "future" smart house no one actually lives in.

This app and the lightbulb that goes with it are great. Its nice that it connects via Bluetooth and doesnt need a wifi hub like the Hue and other products out there right now. The scenes provided are pretty cool. But, I do have some issues/suggestions. 1. Sometimes randomly the bulb will disconnect and not be discoverable. The only way to resolve it is to unplug the bulb and plug it back in. Not a big deal, but is annoying. 2. I would be nice to have more granular control over the solid colors. The few colors provided do not allow for the control I would like. Maybe a color wheel type selector like you find within OS X? Something to tap and drag your finger around to find just the color you want. 3. Like I mentioned, the scenes are pretty cool. Maybe offer more of those? Overall Im pretty happy with this app and the purchase. Thanks!

I love this bulb! From the moment I read about it on the blogs I knew I had to have it. I waited and waited and checked the order page and managed to get the bulb the first day it went on sale. Ive had it since and its been great. Its a great alternative to the Phillips hue lights... The Bluetooth is usually reliable and the few times Ive had trouble a simple unplug has been enough to resolve my issue. I love the app with this product as well. It does a great job at capturing cool scenes. I do however feel it could offer more control over the bulb than just colors. A self timer would be fantastic, say turn off in 30minutes sort of thing. I would also love the ability to create my own scenes, sequence color changes, or do strobe style effects. Ive even seen some other bulbs do things like flash certain colors if you have any notifications. Maybe it was done through IFTT? Anyways ultimately I love the device just wish I had more control but who knows if well see that in the coming time, when it happens it will elevate this product tremendously.

Really cool bulb at a very affordable rate, will definitely be buying more! However I feel it could use iOS 8 Notification Center integration for 3rd party apps, it would be awesome to just slide down the menu anywhere and have the option to turn on/off. Other than that no complaints!

Compared to other offerings, Avea is an outstanding value. I have found, however that the bulb tends toward the cool side of the color spectrum. "White" looks like a fluorescent light - even when tuned as warm as it will go. I was hoping the software would allow me to tune just about any color in the spectrum but, instead, your are limited to a handful of preset colors. Also, the software has no schedule feature other than the Wake-up setting that allows you to set the light to turn on at a predetermined time (but no setting to turn the lamp off).

Phone all works well enough, and has a simple on/off in the top right corner to go back to the last setting. the watch doesnt. I like to use the light in white mode (there should be a white Mode on the main page on the phone) but on the watch I have to scroll down and go to colors and then choose white. One touch of an on/off button would solve all that. Thanks.

Is it possible to control 2 lights with the same settings at the same time? I have two lights in my room and i wold like to link and sychronize both lights.

Easy to install and easy to use this product has a lot potential please integrate it to IFTT system

No way to select your own custom color from a photo. No way to select a custom color from an RGB color picker. Your forced to use only 6 solid colors, that you can barely warm or cool. There are ample animated mood light settings but I would rather be able to reproduce a color from a photo, like a sunset. I bought the bulb assuming that it would have custom controls like the Phillips Hue, I was wrong. PS no third party apps either. Hue has several music / party third party apps.

The watch app is done broke.

Wild be nice to see HomeKit incorporated into the app so Siri can be used to control the lights. Other than that, much more control over the color of the light would also be a plus. As of now, its extremely limited. Maybe also something where you can customize your own scene?