User Manual

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Network Range
As with any remote control, your lighting kit’s remote control must be within range of your lighting network to be
able to control your lighting. However, this does not mean that it has to be within range of any particular light bulb.
Since the light bulbs on your network are interconnected across the network, they can pass commands to each
other as long as they are within network range of each other. This means that a nearby light bulb can receive
your remote control command and pass that command across the network of connected light bulbs, ultimately to
a light bulb you want to control in a distant room. Because of this effect, larger homes would make better use of
having more network light bulbs spread across the home, maintaining a distance that allows each light bulb to
communicate with one another.
If you are using the mobile application (for kits with a Gateway), the only restriction for your smartphone is that it
maintains network connectivity with the Gateway. If your Gateway is connected to the Internet through a router,
you could even access your lighting network from your smartphone from a remote location.
Maximum Number of Light Bulbs
If your lighting network includes a Gateway, you can install up to 250 light bulbs on the same network. If you are
using only a remote control, you can install up to 40 light bulbs.
Power and Power Failure with Wireless Light Bulbs
Wireless light bulbs are powered through light fixtures the same way standard light bulbs are. However, you must
leave the light fixtures in the on position so that power is available when using your remote control to turn the