Govee 65.6ft RGBIC LED Strip Lights, Color Changing LED Strips, App Control via Bluetooth, Smart Segmented Control, Multiple Scenes, Enhanced Music…

Bought 3 of these smart light strips from Govee. Always wanted to do under-cabinet lighting in the kitchen but continuously put it off. Finally decided to tackle the project and after a lot of research, decided to give light strips a shot. After narrowing down to “smart” light strips to integrate with our Google Home, Govee seemed like the best option on Amazon.

After a couple of weeks after install, we are very pleased and couldn’t be happier with the turnout! Totally changes the kitchen ambience and having the smart functionality is a game changer! Two of these light strips covered the entire the entire kitchen!

Additionally, we used the 3rd strip to place behind the entertainment center in the living room. I wasn’t sure if we would end up liking it but maybe 10 seconds after install and turning on, we fell in love! Very nice touch to the living room and especially cool as backlighting when watching tv and dim other lights.
– Install was a breeze, the 3M adhesion strip on Govee products is excellent and holds very well.
– Music sync works incredibly well!
– works excellent with Google home and super easy to integrate with smart controls and commands.

The amount of effects included in this thing is crazy! And also you can create even more new effects according to your taste. It has good brightness too. The strip doesn’t have any silicon protection coat, so you need to be careful when twisting it too much. That is the only thing i thought the product could have improved in. Rest is Gold!

This thing has changed DMT trips forever. Play Perturbator’s album New Model to the music setting. It will obliterate your senses and leave you quivering.

I’ve found that Govee brand lights are one of the best of the inexpensive LED strip lights on the market. There are more expensive brands (such as Phillips or Lifx), but their prices are outrageously high, and are generally much shorter in length. The expensive brands do not have enough extra features to make either of those shortcomings worth it. Many other similar, less expensive, brands to Govee have less options or more limitations in the lighting effects.

Pros with the strip:
These are bright! They seem brighter than other 5050 lights I have used of the same length (32ft). From what I can tell, this strip does not seem to lose brightness near the ends of the strip, likely due to the larger power supply it connects to. Has a pretty long power cord so it should be easy to get the lights up into high places. The microphone control is on the control box and not within the device that uses the app. While you will probably not use it, the control box can be used to turn on or off the unit. There is a timer option to turn on or off the lights at different times or days. The only limitation to the timer is that it can only turn on or off; you cannot have a timer set to blink one day, solid color the next, and chasing effect another.

Pros with the app:
Lots of customizations in the app to choose from. This strip can set a large number of group addressable color sections all through the strip, as well as a rainbow/chasing mode. The app is pretty easy to navigate, and you will likely find many different color combos that you will love. You can have a setting where the strip changes to volume or music music. I found the app quite nice in ease of use and functionality.

The Neutral:
This is not waterproofed, so this strip is a bit delicate. Like other non waterproof strips, it is easy to twist or rip if not careful. The adhesive tape is simple double sided tape, not like a thicker mounting tape. It does hold up ok since it weighs less than the waterproofed kind, but your surface needs to be perfectly clean and flat or the strip may not adhere very well. Due to the nature of all dreamcolor style LEDs like these, you cannot cut this strip or physically connect multiple sets of strips together. This is not a WiFi based strip and instead connects via Bluetooth which means you do not need to have any kind of wifi signal/router near for it to work, but your Bluetooth device usually has a much shorter working range than wifi. This is not a single 32 foot strip, but two separate 16 foot strips that connect to a single control box in the center of them. Not a huge issue, but a single longer strip could make installation options easier. Since I have not found any other Dreamcolor LED’s on the market that come in a single length 32 foot strip, I put this in the neutral section instead of the con. This has multicolors as well as a temperature adjustable white. You can control multiple strips at once, called a scene, but doing it that way has limitations; see below for details. There is no actual physical remote, so you will rely almost completely on the app.

Cons with the strip:
There is no sensitivity adjustment to the microphone so results may vary. The control box and power supply are rather large, and larger than other strip brands that I have seen. While the larger power supply and control box likely keeps the LED’s brighter than other brands, it will be a pretty big eyesore if you can’t hide them, especially if using this as indirect lighting in crown moulding.

Cons with the app:
Having two 16 foot strips separate from each other causes a bit of an issue within the app. Some of the rainbow effects start at the center of the 2 strips and emanate outward to each tip. Currently, there isn’t a setting to have a chasing effect to start at one end and travel to the other strips end. The brightness setting is all inclusive for the most part, meaning any change to brightness effects the entire strip evenly, no matter if a solid color or a rainbow effect. This also means you cannot have ‘blank’ section in your patterns or addressable sections. Would love an option where you could have a moving bright color section that diffuses to a dimmer setting and then completely ‘off’. Some transitions do include a stripwide fade to off setting, but does not work for individual sections at a time. Unfortunately the app does not save the exact color ‘numbers’ for future use, so some options in the pattern customization are hard to reproduce. Would love an option to know the exact ratio of color levels and be able to input the numbers in manually. There is a way to control multiple strips together in a scene, but you lose ALL of the chasing and addressable effects when controlling them in that manner. This means no glowing or rainbow style effects. If you want segmented or ‘chasing’ control when using multiple sets of strips, you need to adjust each strip separately. Getting 2 sets to time right together on chasing effects may be difficult.

Other: I do not have Alexa, a hub, or any other kind of device or software that connects to LED strips so I am unsure if this can work with those systems. You should read the item descriptions a bit carefully; a different but similar looking strip by Govee had a few less group addressable options. I found that it needs to say ‘segmented color control’ or something like that to get the extra addressable options. This particular strip has these options.

Conclusion:
All strips on the market have some sort of limitation, and while this brand is no different, the pros very much outweigh the cons. While there is room for improvement, I am extremely happy with my purchase.

Son muy buenas, tienes los 3 modos de música y puedes seleccionar diversos colores en la misma tira.
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