Yeah to Australia shipping wasn't too bad. About $80 for two RGBW bulbs + bridge + remote delivered.

With the white bulb on full I'd say they are around the 60-75W equivalent for the 9W bulbs I received. Not quite enough for me.

One thing that is quite limiting is that the bridge only supports 4 groups. Every bulb has to be in at least one of those groups and everything is controlled via those groups. So say for example you had 5 rooms you couldn't control them individually.

You can address each bulb specifically for whatever reason. That is a significant limitation. e.g. you might have a few bulbs in a room and might want to notify something with a coloured flash. All or nothing if they're in one group. So "scenes" etc are not really possible.

The "solution" is more wireless bridges but having 3-4 or more of those seems rather silly.

Very simple commands though to control. A few UDP bytes is all you need and you can broadcast too.