I have a tiny yard, so this short run of LED pathway lights is OK by me

Price When Reviewed

$169.99

Best Prices Today: Eufy Outdoor Pathway Lights E10

$129.99

$129.99 ($32.50 / Count)

Anker’s Eufy division has been going all out creating new and revolutionary out of doors lighting merchandise, with its newest providing being the Eufy Outdoor Pathway Lights E10 reviewed right here.

As with Eufy’s different panorama lighting merchandise, together with the Eufy Outdoor Spotlights E10 we reviewed in December 2024, these path lights join on to your 2.4GHz Wi-Fi community (after an preliminary connection by way of Bluetooth; 5GHz Wi-Fi networks usually are not supported). You may use a Bluetooth-only reference to these lights, however a Wi-Fi connection is required to unlock their full characteristic set. I’ll go into extra element about what you are able to do with the lights later.

Specifications

These tall and engaging bollard-style lights characteristic aluminum enclosures with a matte black end and RGBWW LEDs inside, that means every mild has discrete purple, inexperienced, blue, and heat white diods to ship saturated colours and tunable white shade temperatures. Each bollard’s mild radiates from a 3.5-inch-high band of frosted plastic encircling the enclosure and a second shorter lens of the identical type atop the cylinder, so mild shines up in addition to out.

Michael Brown/Foundry

The lights aren’t tremendous vibrant, nonetheless, delivering simply 350 lumens every; don’t count on a big pool of sunshine to light up a path (the Eufy Outdoor Spotlights E10 are brighter, producing 500 lumens every, however 4 of these would set you again $200 versus $170 for this package).

In addition to a rainbow of colours, you possibly can tune these pathlights’ white shade temperature from a really heat 1500 Kelvin to a particularly cool 9000Ok (pure daylight is roughly between 4000- and 6500Ok, relying on situations and the time of day). The lights are individually addressable, so you possibly can select a definite shade for every mild. You may assign animation routines that may cycle the colours by means of the chain. That’s along with the numerous preset lighting results that I’ll talk about in additional element later.

Each Eufy Outdoor Pathway Light is about 15 inches tall, they usually include 6-inch stakes for set up in smooth soil. Unlike the way more costly Philips Hue Calla bollard mild I reviewed a number of years in the past ($130 for one, not together with the ability provide or the required Hue bridge), Eufy doesn’t present any means for putting in the lights on hardscape, akin to a deck or a concrete patio.

While Eufy offers the person bollards a weatherization ranking of IP65, that means the lights are impervious to mud ingress and that they will face up to a blast from a strain washer at an affordable distance, the ability provide they rely upon is an strange wall wart with a a lot weaker weatherization ranking of simply IP44.

Michael Brown/Foundry

According to TechHive’s IP code guide, meaning the ability provide is simply protected towards particulate matter bigger than 1 millimeter, however that it could face up to water sprayed from any course. Given that, you’ll wish to guarantee the ability provide is at the least plugged into an outlet with a bubble cowl to guard it from rain. The lights have an working temperature vary of -4 levels Fahrenheit to 104F.

Installation and setup

Eufy makes use of barrel-type DIN connectors which can be effectively shielded from water to make every cable connection. The cable itself carries solely 27 volts of electrical energy, so it may be buried straight in a 6-inch trench, as per the National Electrical Code (particularly, NEC 3000.5(A)). For this momentary set up, I took the simple approach out and simply lined it with mulch. (Pro gardening tip: mulch additionally occurs to be the very best weed deterrent for the cash, supplied you place it down thick sufficient to stop daylight from reaching any weed seeds in your soil).

The system’s most cable run is about 50 ft, with every bollard spaced 9.8 ft aside. You can put the lights nearer collectively in case you’d like, however they are often not more than 9.8 ft aside. There’s an 11-inch first section, main from the ability provide to a 13.4-foot cable that has a small puck-style on/off change within the center. The subsequent section is 4.9 ft lengthy and goes from that cable to the primary mild in your run. The remaining three lights are then spaced 9.8 ft aside, as I’ve already talked about.

Michael Brown/Foundry

As does Philips, Eufy makes use of T-connectors to attach the primary three lights to the run of energy cable (there’s a single-ended connector on the finish of the run). Unlike Philips, nonetheless, Eufy’s system can’t be prolonged past 4 lights—its energy provide can’t deal with the extra load, and the cable terminates in a single connector (not a T).

If 50 ft isn’t sufficient to run the size of your walkway, you’ll want to purchase one other 4-light package and energy provide. But that alone received’t remedy your distance challenge, since you shouldn’t depend on even an outdoor-rated extension wire for everlasting lighting—and also you definitely shouldn’t bury such a high-voltage (120V) wire within the floor.

These are a number of the causes I just like the Philips Hue method a lot. You can purchase bigger or smaller energy provides, relying on what number of lights you propose to deploy, and Philips Hue cables and connectors are way more versatile relating to general size, the space between lights, and branching.

Using the Eufy Outdoor Pathway Lights E10

Michael Brown/Foundry

You’ll wish to plug in all of the lights and add them to both the Eufy app or the Eufy Life app earlier than you place them completely, simply in case you encounter any defects that may immediate you to return the package. This can even give you a chance to put in any firmware updates that is likely to be accessible.

The Eufy app is used primarily for Eufy safety cameras, good locks, video doorbells, and its safety system, however you should utilize it to arrange and later management at the least some of the options of the Eufy Outdoor Pathway Lights. You’ll want to make use of the Eufy Life app, nonetheless, to entry all the options of Eufy’s good lighting merchandise.

Michael Brown/Foundry

You can use both app to customise the colour or the white shade temperature of the lights or to select from dozens of lighting scenes based mostly on holidays, seasons, feelings, occasions, and even flags or the climate.

An AI characteristic, in the meantime, will generate customized lighting scenes based mostly on as much as 100-character phrases you sort into the app. Some of the phrases the app suggests are: “Today is my birthday;” “My wife loves me;” and “Ocean waves at sunset.” You can use your telephone’s digicam to seize textual content for this objective, however you possibly can’t use its mic to file phrases. This novel AI characteristic is mildly entertaining, but it surely doesn’t actually add all that a lot worth to the bundle.

Linking Eufy’s pathlights to a Eufy safety digicam

The most necessary characteristic you’ll wish to allow within the Eufy Life app—assuming you additionally personal one of many many Eufy safety cameras that options Eufy’s WonderLink expertise—is to configure a kind of cameras to set off Eufy good lights.

This functionality isn’t distinctive to Eufy good dwelling merchandise; Ring safety cameras, for instance, can set off Ring good lights, and Philips Hue safety cameras can do the identical with Philips Hue lights. But in all three circumstances, the cameras can solely set off lights made by the identical producer. There are workarounds—you possibly can arrange a routine in IFTTT or within the Alexa app, for instance—however workarounds are by no means as straightforward as utilizing a local app. Perhaps when safety cameras grow to be a class within the Matter customary, that limitation will fall away.

Michael Brown/Foundry

In any occasion, you’ll click on on the LuminoLink button on the backside right-hand facet of the Eufy Life app. This will open an IFTTT-like configuration display that allows you to select gadgets to function triggers and gadgets that may carry out actions when your outlined situations are met.

Within the Eufy Life app, I configured a Eufy S330 safety digicam to set off the Eufy Outdoor Pathway Lights to activate a “Welcome” scene at 100 p.c brightness when the digicam detects an individual in its subject of view between sundown and dawn. You can select from dozens of such lighting scenes or create your personal.

This overview is a part of TechHive’s in-depth protection of the best smart lighting.

You may arrange a set off that units the pathlights to flashing purple if the digicam detects an individual, however whereas the digicam and the Eufy Homebase 3 NAS field that works with it could discern between buddies, household, neighbors, and strangers, you possibly can’t prohibit the sunshine’s triggered habits to when a stranger is detected.

Should you purchase Eufy Outdoor Pathway Lights E10?

The Eufy Outdoor Pathway Lights E10 is without doubt one of the higher good lighting options on the market. The lights are rugged and effectively shielded from the weather, they usually produce excellent high quality mild in colours and white shade temperatures. And its means to hyperlink to Eufy cameras is an excellent characteristic, though it might be much more helpful if it may set off a lighting habits when the digicam detects a stranger.

But an influence provide that’s restricted to supporting 4 lights and 50 ft of wire is simply sufficient for a comparatively brief path. The most distance between every bollard is one other disadvantage. If cash isn’t any object, Philips Hue panorama lighting is a far superior different.

That mentioned, I don’t know anybody for whom cash isn’t any barrier to outfitting their dwelling out with the best possible good merchandise in the marketplace, and a single Philips Hue Calla mild and energy provide prices greater than a 4-pack of those Eufy lights.