App Profile: Surplife

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Rating: 5/5

It works great. I love the app. I’ve used it for about a year now my LED lightbulbs, but the one thing is. Whenever one light is new and it connects the other one that’s older stops working even though when the other one wasn’t working, the older one was still working other than that if this could fix and if it’s just a bug great. This could be fixed and I think you would love it even more ! Overall great app everybody should get it.

lfint00

Rating: 1/5

We have permanent outdoor lighting which requires this 3rd party app. Wish we could use something else… anything else. The app is very confusing. You can create presets and favorites, but if your light sections (i.e. the separate house peaks) don’t fall exactly into the way the app divides up the light sections (ie every x number of lights), then you can’t do anything creative. For example, we have 3 peaks on the front of our house. I want each peak a different color or only the corner lights on for safety. My choices are everything the same color, everything a different color (like christmas lights), or switching the color based on a certain number of bulbs per section which results in the color switching in the middle of the peak. You can do a “scribble” to set it exactly the way you want (per bulb) but the app doesn’t recognize that as a favorite, so can’t be used in a schedule. Not to mention, when i do have the schedule turned on, i was told that it would default to the last used setting (which it does not). Rather it keeps returning to all on, bright white, which is against my hoa rules, so if i want to turn the lights on a program, i have to manually set them every time.

Curious4756

Rating: 4/5

I am updating my review and the number of stars. This is a good app, but the problem is that it’s not necessarily intuitive. I wanted something to merely turn the lights on and off. Apparently you need to set a program scene for on and a separate program scene for off, even in the personal customization mode. All of this has to do with the design of the product, which I understand but it would be nice if better instructions were included for the on and off functions. The on function needs to be programmed in and then a complete off function needs to be programmed in separately. I finally figured this out after many frustrating attempts. Received outreach from the developer, but good luck trying to figure out how to respond on their site. Overall, I do like the app and it does what I need to do. It just took me a month to finally get it the way I wanted it to function.