Globe Suite Reviews

by Siasiasiasiasia

I bought a package of 4 door sensors, GlobeSuite fails to find it. Couple of notes:
1. My wifi supports both 5ghz and 2.4
2. The EZ mode fails waiting to finish 100% and then it takes me to the useless wizard, have you followed the wizard gourself? Seems like the steps are messed up.
3. The AP mode, my phone sees the smartlife ssid but fails to connect to it, not sure if this is an ios issue, i tried with different ios 12 and 13 on different devices.
4. I tried with multiple sensors and same issue, wasted like 2 hours
5. In AP mode asks you to connect to sensor wifi, when I switch to ios setting and connect back GlobeSuite switches to EZ mode
6. Your app smart support>report an issue is broken how am I gonna report this issue to you?
7. The video instructions just says follow AP mode wizard, what is the reason for the video then?
8.I am returning the device because of this, not sure if I can trust my home security with something that has not been tested before GA.
Thanks

by Ketzilover

I got these bulbs for free when I purchased a Google home hub. If they weren’t free i would be really mad. One bulb out of nowhere sparked and almost started a fire out of nowhere in my apartment and it a compatible non dimmer bulb socket. It was lucky i was home or it might have burned my entire house down. It was really scary. GlobeSuite is bulky not intuitive at all and it makes setting up any product a real pain. I am very tech savvy and generally can set stuff up in my home within minutes and without any manual this took me days only to have on bulb totally peter out on me. For a similar price you may as well get th Philips Hue because that app is also more intuitive than this as well. I I’m a tech dork telling you that this leaves much to be desired and i am less than impressed

by Ajsdaddy85

So I brought 9 of theses and I even wasted my time painting them black to install them on my house For down lighting. I sync the lights one at a time b4 install and worked. I climbed up a ladder 2 stories high and when I hit power they all day off line but one light. I wasn’t going to go back up to each and one of them again so I hit the light switch 3 times to put them in pairing mode I tryed every day for 2 hours a day and won’t work! Always fails. It’s not the a WiFi issue because I have four bars in front of my house . It’s not a 2.4 gig problem bc that’s what I have too. Please help me get all 9 lights to sink at the same time !!! I will not go back up there again as of now there working as ultra super white lights

by DanOstergren

Most likely if you’re here, you already spent your money on one or multiple of these bulbs, like I did.

About 80% of the time these bulbs will be “offline” and inaccessible from GlobeSuite , even with a very strong internet connection, and the only way you will be able to use GlobeSuite to operate these bulbs is if you take your phone and literally physically touch the bulb with it, and then the bulb will go back online. This completely defeats the convenience of using such an app in order to use these lights. Don’t waste your money on these, because eventually you’re just going to have to reinvest into a better smart lighting system and replace these. Avoid the hassle and skip these.

by Mikephillybaker

I first stumbled upon the Globe LED Smart Table Lamps when looking at Philips Hue Lamps and thinking why buy that why I can buy two for the same price... brand integrity is why. Ultimately I’ve experienced the same issues with these lights as many of the reviewers, it’s been 3 hours since we’ve been connected and almost 2 hours have been spent just trying to see when the lights are not “Offline”. I can assure you my network connectivity is not an issue. A great idea, with quality finishes on the lights themselves really, just comes down to poor execution. All in all, I’m planning on returning the lights. I would recommend jumping for the Philips Hue Lamps, as this process was unfortunate from download to setup to unplug. Not quite sure how you fix the network recognition on the actual lights ‘status’ wise and interface on GlobeSuite (as google home was better for these once set up) that’s my feedback for r&d. Consumers aren’t supposed to wait for the product to get better, they’re just supposed to get a better product.

by Moonpie168

We have several different smart lights in our house (Nanoleaf/Feit) and have easily been able to connect to the devices. This device however we were unable to connect to. We went through the steps several times and it was unable to find the light bulb. When looking into what could be wrong it mentioned internet and we were unable to figure out which internet size we had. It really shouldn’t be this difficult to connect and we shouldn’t have to go looking into what size our internet is. The people who made this program need to have a more advanced system.

by Surfdiva6

So I just got the led light strips today and they won’t work I am not asking for help I am just asking for you too please make your products a little easier to operate. And make GlobeSuite a little easier to operate too. When I installed the light strips tonight they would connect then a couple seconds later they would in connect. And a little tip don’t make apps to control these types of things we have remote controls for a reason. So thanks for they time reading my rage comment. (By the way I am a sad freshman in high school who got these lights. My mom was also mad that she spent $30 on something that does not work).

by Borgus

Overall GlobeSuite works good. One major problem is that any “triggers” or “scenes” you create are stored on a cloud somewhere and is often slow loading or unavailable when the internet is down. Secondly there’s no way to save color settings to a trigger directly from the light’s settings screen. The scenes/trigger side of GlobeSuite is a completely separate build. It’s harder to find a color when setting a trigger because the color wheel is replaced with a slide bar. Why not use color wheel throughout GlobeSuite ? The two sides of GlobeSuite need to be merged so that you can go to the light, find the color you like, and then save it as a trigger.

by Jacull

I got the bulbs connected with a little fiddling, but it is kind of hard to understand GlobeSuite . Grouping devices is several taps away from where it should be. Why on earth can you not pick which mood when setting up smart scenes!? So for example you cannot set up a Halloween scene which changes to orange hues, then have a separate Christmas scene with red and green. There’s just no way to accomplish that automatically. If you change the mood it changes for all scenes and you’ll have to remember to change it later.

by Mcitypooch

Set up took a while because my phone wanted to use the 5G network. Finally got them to work. I like the strip light ok. The colors aren’t nearly as bright as the whites which is frustrating. I don’t care for the bulbs at all. You can only do super bright white or very soft colors, so they are too dim for overhead and you would need at least 3 to light up a small room. I am a lover of soft lighting, but this is a bit too soft for me. Please make the colors brighter. The bulb also flickers between certain colors. They also seem to run really hot for led, which surprised me. I’ll probably return the bulbs. I do like the mood scenes with the strip light. Maybe I’ll get used to the low light of the bulbs. Overall, only mildly satisfied.
Developers: Please work on the warm tones. Everything is very cool toned in general. It seems to go through a green tone between orange and yellow, and your red isn’t warm enough. Think of tomatoes and brick reds.

by TimKo67

I had my glove light for three years and setting it up was a charm and then I was away for six months because we had a fire and wasn’t allowed to return to the building and when I did come back had to get a new router and now when I try to set up the globe light why not set up either the EZ method or the AP method would work I keep getting a freaking error message that says something went wrong I did everything the instructions said to do by the letter and still I get that stupid error message. contacted tech-support and they just ignored my message no help there.

by N3ON_15

I’ve had this bulb for a few months now and I do like it, but it’s very frustrating when the on and off button on GlobeSuite doesn’t work, basically implying there is bad connection or they aren’t connected to the same wifi, but they are and my connection is not bad, would love if it didn’t take 5-10 minutes for it to work, been trying for 10 minutes now and i don’t feel like getting up to manually turn my lamp off, kind of the whole reason i bought the bulb

by NWL_91

I mainly use this as part of my morning routine. The schedule I’ve set has the light turn on an hour before my alarm at its lowest brightness and most warm color. Over the hour it increases in brightness and moves closer to white light every 5 min. This bulb/app would be perfect if it had a sunrise feature that essentially did the same thing I’ve programmed it to do but with a smoother translation from darkness to full brightness.

by Jkrup26

Its a great simple app. But it would be nice to be able to manually control bulbs together in unison. Also when setting scenes brightness and color should be in different option fields and be labeled with percentage and kelvin it is quite annoying to have to guess their positions.

by Duganator25

I’m Loven it! Love being able to use GlobeSuite to turn on and off the lights from my bed,at work 30mins away, even 80miles !! That’s the farthest I’ve tried it but I’m sure it could go farther. Lame as it is, I’m lazy and don’t want to get up to turn off lights in the traditional way. I love GlobeSuite to turns the lights off I can even turn off the tv from another room and play tricks on people lol I love it!!

by DJKluff

I bought the dual outdoor plug.
The hardware says ALEXA compatible.
GlobeSuite keeps giving me an error saying that GlobeSuite is not up to date when linking to my echo. It’s been well over a month and no app updates have come out. Fix this issue and rating will increase.

GlobeSuite standalone for the lights works very well. Love the dual plug single device with independent controls.

*edited and updated star rating*
To enable in Alexa you have to enable the global suite skill first, then this takes you to the correct link to login with your global suite info. Then this is properly enabled.

What you name the group and or devices directly transfers to Alexa. However Alexa can’t control the whole group device (2 independent controllable outlets on 1 device). You have to create a group in Alex app and works perfect.

by Zachhasswag1

I received my smart light bulb 3 pack yesterday and I already set them up. Unlike other reviews I read, GlobeSuite was very fast and the lights were blinking like they were supposed to immediately and easily. Setup to my WiFi was easy and fast, and I linked it with Siri and my google home mini. Colors are bright and great and I have automated scenes that work. Also GlobeSuite feels really well made. Great product for a cheap price if you can get ones that work.❤️

by Taffycatinfiniti

Just want to preface this by saying that there are basically no problems with GlobeSuite . Everything connects relatively well and it’s very smooth and fluid. That said, there are a few nitpicky things I would prefer, those primarily being portrait mode compatibility for iPad Pro, and direct Apple HomeKit integration (though it does work alright with Siri). Other than that, I can’t say I have any qualms at all with GlobeSuite.

by Coco Joe

I’ve got 16 of these lights and I need more! I couldn’t be happier with how well these lights function. I love that there’s a companion app, as well. I have the normal version and the colored version and they both replicate the same color hues so color matching an entire house is simple. Most third party makers don’t always include everything you need to ensure things work, but Globe Suite does. Five stars across the board! Please have a sale or something because I need 16 more, but I can’t afford to buy that many at full price.

by Tedster131

This most recent update made the interface much smoother and more user friendly. It had some issues before, but the software engineers behind this did a great job fixing it. It works pretty consistently, and i don’t really have any complaints. I really like how the update allowed me to to set the brightness of the bulb along with a time in the schedule window. It allows me to set a time for me to wake up at full brightness, it turns its self off after 45 minutes to make sure i don’t sleep in. And then it turns its self on again in the evening when i’m in my room again at a warm, and relaxed hue for chillin. It’s really well done for a free app! Good stuff.

by Raxus001

I use this to turn on our hot water recycler for taking a shower in the morning. I don’t take showers at the exact same time every morning. The timer changed on this version of GlobeSuite . I have a iPhone 11 and I have to push the timer start several times to get it to work. Now if I use the timer if I put 7 minutes that is when it will start so now I have to remember to turn it off. Before it would start immediately and then turn off in 7 minutes which was perfect for my needs. Wish I didn’t upgrade to this version.

by Ima4tunate1

I’ve had constant issues with these bulbs suddenly losing connection to the wifi and it always takes an hour or more just trying to get them back online. Usually takes me deleting the device and then adding it back; however, that never works out as the bulb always stops pairing long before GlobeSuite completes its setup cycle. It is so frustrating and I just want to know why this keeps happening! If the developers could fix this bug, I’ll update my review. For the time being, buy a more expensive but higher rated bulb!

by Kcm1901

i bought this for my desk light in my dorm. it says it needs a 2.4 GHz wifi network, which i guess my campus doesn’t have, therefore my bulb and phone won’t pair. AP mode does not work either. the box says that once you connect your bulb, you can use your phone’s data plan to control the lights from anywhere. i wish i was able to pair my phone and bulb using data in the first place! i’m not gonna drag my light to a starbucks or another campus so i can try to pair with their wifi instead. all i wanted was to be able to change the color of my dorm with my desk light. this bulb and app were a waste of my money.

by Witcharm

The bulb kept disconnecting from GlobeSuite and I have to keep connecting it. After I connect it, I can only control GlobeSuite using easy access which can only turn the light on and off; change the brightness and color temp, no color changing or schedule on or off, totally useless. I can’t use the full function because every time I try to access the bulb, it says “the current version does not support GlobeSuite , please update GlobeSuite ”, but I am already on the latest version!

by Quad Kangz Production

I don’t like the new update to GlobeSuite. Not only was the older version better, it was also safer. This version took too long to load on first start when I was turning on my lights which renders a safety issue in the event of an emergency. I also like the slider way better to adjust the mood settings also known as color temperature settings. The slider like the brightness settings was the best. Bring the old style back and you get your five stars back until then, I remain unhappy with this version.

by Awesome!@#123

These lights work great and are a great price. You can have different colors, times of day on and off, set to change with sunset and or sunrise (Location service needs to be on) works with Google home app and other brands of remote wifi plug controllers. I now have 6 bulbs. You also can control these lights using GlobeSuite while away from home.