great light and adjustability; poor remote, LOUD
932336
The adjustability and light output are great. The remote is poor: you must be within about 4 feet of the light for it to work. Also, there is a loud beep each time the light is turned on/off or changed in intensity. There is no need for a very loud beep! I would recommend the light, but DO NOT pay more for the remote.

Finally, I have found the a/c plug where it attaches to the fixture to be loose, making the connection fail. Only by turning the fixture upside down was I able to fix it.
4707827
I really wanted to love this this.

It works pretty well and love the additional connectors.
What I really dislike is the lights, and the lack of functionality around them.

If you are in desperate need of a night light in your eyes, get this "Space Bar". Otherwise you will get bright lights that you cannot turn off right at eye level. This would be an ideal organizer if they just included a switch or even option to turn the light off.

I am looking for work around online, even going as far as ripping out the lights soon if I can do so without a short, otherwise I will need o get rid of it.
810531
Good: Bright light, quality adequate enough for one season IMHO, reflected by price.
Bad: To turn this thing on or off, you'll be clicking every time through all the sequences like a digititis-afflicted madman.
What was wrong with a single click?
3159792
The light quantity and quality is good, and meets my needs.

The motion sensor is more-or-less useless to me.  Generally, motion sensor circuits make use of a low-pass filter (averaging and delay) to avoid the thing blinking on and off all the time.  Poorer sensors require longer delay and more averaging.  Such is the case here; by the time the unit decides that motion has occurred, my need for the light is long over.  I use the on-off override switch.

The mounting bracket's snap connection to the unit is a bit sloppy, so when I use the on-off switch (see above), it sometimes feels like it might come loose.
519883
I really like this light, but after having it for less than six months the remote only works intermittently.  The first one I received was broken and Amazon replaced it quickly, then replacement was the wrong type, then third time was a charm.
1319885
This little light is Amazing! It's super bright and (so far) works perfectly. The detection area is pretty wide - seems more than 180 degrees because it triggers before you actually get abreast of or in front of the device. I gave it 4 stars because there are a few issues as far as it being user friendly.
1) The mounting options for the panel are limited as there's really no way to mount the solar panel on the roof where I actually want it to be.
2) It took a little bit of messing around to find the right lighting setting for me. I had to take the light inside the house, and click the buttons, wait for light to come on, wait to see if it went back off and so on. It was tedious because there's no other way to verify which setting you have selected.
3) There doesn't seem to be a way to adjust sensitivity of the motion sensor like with some other motion detector lights. It's super sensitive - a blade of grass will trigger it. We have got used to it now, but the frequent on/off is annoying and misleading.

Regardless of the cons above, what you get is a super bright, sensitive and pretty awesome little flood light. Let's see how long the battery lasts!
4155811
For the price, I expected something awesome. I like comfortable switches and the most important part of this - the dimmer feature - is a skinny, sharp-edged, stiff after-thought. The functionality is fun - one-touch, hold, always-on teeny light for visibility, so why not make the stiff huge button small and lighter-touch and make the toggle part much more dominant and comfortable? First, I had the Leviton 6674-P0T installed which is a bit cheap-looking and whose toggle is a bit jiggly but it is smooth-action, round-edged and comfortable. Sadly, since I had installed a gorgeous halogen overhead fixture, I needed a low-voltage electronic dimmer so went for this fancy Lutron one. Oh, well, it works and is expensive-looking at least. Heck, I might even glue a clear piece of silicone onto the toggle. Perhaps the Lutron S600PNLH would have been a better solution and much cheaper at that, but I don't remember seeing that as a choice before now.
757694
Nice, bright light and great little size for carrying in a pocket, purse, backpack, or in the console of your vehicle.

I do dislike the button selections though.
Example: When you first turn it on, you're at the highest brightness setting.  When you turn it off then back on, you'll be at a dimmer light setting.  Off and on a third time and it flashes the light in a strobe like setting.  Back off and on again and you're back to the bright setting once again.

I would prefer just a simple on/off at full strength instead of having to run through the various options each time you turn it off to get back to full strength the next time you turn it on.  Not a huge issue but annoying if you're needing to be at the brightest setting when you turn on the light each time.
2801445
Great light working non stop for 1 year. Don't use the remote.
3999727
I do like this light very much, and the hues I can get from it are stunning. Plus it just plain looks like a beautiful decoration.

The remote though? My god, whoever designed it was a complete incompetent. Oh, the concept was nice -- little touch-sensitive places to turn the lamp on and off and to select the colors. But all too often the remote goes crazy and just stays on for half a minute at a time, causing the lamp to flash and cycle through unrelated colors.

One thing I did that seems to cure the crazy behavior is I left the battery cover off, and when the remote is acting up, I nudge the batteries and that seems to stop it.

Seriously, they should have just made a standard remote with standard buttons and left it at that.

My only other criticism is I wish it was possible to make the 'color flow' (colors changing over time) able to be much, much slower. Otherwise, most of the time, I just pick a color to fit my mood on a given evening and leave it at that.
2013908
This light is pretty cool but has a couple flaws.  First off, the light is created using a mixture off colors, so if you want a solid/flat white or yellow..you cant get it because you see greens and reds coming through.  No big deal really, just want people to know that a lot of the colors look like the color but with a rainbow pattern coming through.  The other issue is, since this uses an IR remote, the light can be changed by other IR remotes like your TV remote.  I have this in a light figure next to my TV and every time i adjust the volume, change channels, etc....the light changes settings.  Super annoying, had to move the light to a fixture i didn't really want it in far away from the TV.  The only really nice settings are the flow and smooth settings, and of course just fixed color setting.  The strobe setting is really annoying and the light defaults back to it randomly.  For the price, i really cant complain, but like i said it has its flaws.  Probably best for kids or party's, not for permanent lighting options.
1423184
1st off these lights are fantastic; they are bright and can be dimmed, there is color, and lots of it, and they are energy efficient. Everything works as advertised. However the reason they don't get a 5 star is the control interaction. When I first used the lights, grabbing the iPhone, bringing up the app, and clicking on or off was kinda neat. But I have come to realize that method is a bit short of total satisfaction. My phone must be locked for various reasons; that extends the time it takes to turn on or off the lights. Nor do I leave my phone on at night; so to turn the lights on in the morning, I have to wait for start-up and log-on. I understand Phillips has announced that a separate device will be available this year that equates to a off-on switch. We'll see how that is, and how much it cost.

Also, there is the suggestion to use IFTTT for alerting or scheduling. Right now, there are lots of conversations about the security aspect of IFTTT. With the recent OpenSSL vulnerability (HeartBleed), I'm more than a bit hesitant to link these various apps together in one place. So, I'm going to stay away from the functionality for awhile.

Overall, the lights are really nice, flexible, and just plain cool.
1728122
The light is warm and beautiful unlike the typical cool white with bluish tint. Light is also very small and portable. However, I hate the controls. It cycles through Off -> Low -> High -> Strobe -> Off. There is no way to avoid going through the very annoying strobe light everytime you use it so therefore I can't use it at night because I don't want to get waken up by the blinking strobe light.
1280375
Wish it was brighter, but good deal for 5w led w/remote.
4263642
Upside:

- Yes, it is ridiculously bright
- I love the way focusing done on this light

Downside:

- It's not a tiny flash light, It barely fits in the glove compartment of my car.  I can see it not fitting in some cars' glove compartment.
- I don't like the way the control button is implemented.  It loops through 4 modes: OFF >> BRIGHT >> DIM >> STROBE >> OFF ....  I would prefer if there were 2 controls, one for on/off and another for mode, the way it's done is every time I have to turn if off I have to go to >> DIM >> STROBE >> OFF.  Given that it's so bright, I don't want to be strobing around before turning it off.
- It's an LED, so it will not dim as battery starts dying - it will just turn off.  Although, I think, it might first stop working in DIM mode, then stop working in BRIGHT mode
1581429
This is a good product, but our remote is very sensitive.  You have to hit it just right or the light will turn on and then turn right back off again.  Would be a 4 easily if the remote was user friendly.  Could just be our remote though.
2089991
The remote is so shoddy that this light wasn't really usable.  Also, the light doesn't keep it's mode setting when you turn it off with the switch, so you really can't use it without the remote (it turns back on in some sort of flashing color demo mode every time).

I also didn't go as dim as I'd hoped...