Elgato Control Center

This app has great cohesive design language and is a snap to use as soon as the devices connect but that’s the thing, Elgato Lights need this app to work with all their features unless there’s a remote or in the case of the mini on-device controls. But out of the box this app is required. For that reason I wish Elgato lights worked with HomeKit & the Home app for easier use and automation. This app doesn’t utilize automation which would make it perfect for me if the temperature of the lights could change with the time of day or if I could simply tell Siri to turn them on. I’m not sure if all that is a hardware level issue but the app works well to change the lights and turn them off and on.

Constantly needs to be reset and reconnected to my iPhone. I have multiple lights and cannot create zones. Needs work. It should be an seamless experience .

Since getting my elgato air lights a year ago, the connection has been trash even across app software updates. The app used to lose connection once every 2 weeks or so requiring manual restart of the light. With the most recent update, the app needs to restart every 2 times I turn on/off the light. This is trash. I use the light daily

Have a key light mini. Every time I leave the app and come back the controls become unresponsive. I have to kill the app and reopen for it to work again every time. Incredibly annoying for what I paid for the light.

Wish the connectivity was better for my lights. Sometimes doesn’t recognize them and it’s a pain. Otherwise works great when connected.

Constantly need to restart the app, otherwise it does nothing to the connected lamp.

Lights have never worked well. Control Center can’t find them half the time and they made them impossible to turn on manually (who does that?) The latest firmware update was supposed to improve things and instead they got way worse, going from working half the time to maybe 1/10 the time. I’m done with elgato. I recommend steering clear and buying lights that can be physically turned on without relying on a buggy app.

I really like the light. My only gripe is that one out of my two consistently has trouble connecting to the WiFi so that it doesn’t turn on when the other one does (either from the app on my iPad or from my stream deck). So I have to sometimes turn it off and then back on manually. Other than that, the light is great - great aesthetic, lots of options (temperature, intensity) and goes well with the rest of my Elgato products (streamdeck, Facecam).

i’ve been tolerating re-establishing a connection to my Wi-Fi network regularly for the last two years. It doesn’t seem as though any of their updates fix this problem. The hardware is great. The software leaves a lot to be desired.

The only reliable way to have the app connect to the lamp is to have lamp power switch off, open the app, then switch the lamp power on.