GoveeCOB LED Strip Light Pro, LED Lights for Bedroom Compatible with Alexa, Google Assistant and Matter, RGBICW Light with Warm White, Smart Strip Light, LED Lights for Bedroom, Color Changing, 9.8ft

I really didn't have high hopes for the brightness of these lights because the Govee monitor lights I purchased, while nice, weren't terribly bright, hence the need for additional behind-desk lighting. I had also previously purchased a Govee led light strip, and ended up returning it because the leds just weren't punchy enough. The price seemed pretty steep at $99, but since they were down to about $70 on Prime Day (and they often seem to go on sale or offer coupons to bring this down to around this price), I decided to give them a try, along with the Govee RGBIC neon lights (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CQQ85ZK3?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1) to see which one would suit my needs best.The unboxing experience of these lights was pretty incredible. I was shocked at how premium they made the packaging on this (but it would be nice if maybe they could offer the product at a slightly lower cost if they didn't spend so much on the box???!), and first impressions of the pliability/flexibility and feel of the light strip itself were super favorable. In fact, I would say that I was pretty blown away by how great the housing felt. I unboxed the RGBIC neon lights as well, and while also nice, they were different.I plugged in both sets and it was immediately clear which set was brighter - these won by a fairly large margin, so I immediately put the neon lights aside. I ran through all of the light settings, but already essentially knew I'd be using the warmer colors. I'd hoped that orange was possible, but as with most of these led lights, it seems like the lights want to cycle right past orange and will either only display red or a cooler yellow. There are shades that are sort of approaching orange, but still aren't quite there. All the other light settings work really well, although the app is kind of annoying and without a lot of clear instructions.I'd originally hoped that I could mount this with 3M Command picture hangers, but when that failed miserably, I had to give in and use the included adhesive.My intention was to use these on the back edge of my desk to illuminate the wall behind it, but I ended up actually wrapping the lights behind and to each side of the desk because the strip was so long. It turned out to be incredibly fortunate that the strip was long enough to do this because now some of the darker areas of my office have a gorgeous glow, including the area underneath the desk. The photo I uploaded doesn't show it that accurately, but the COB light strip is probably twice as bright as the lights illuminating the wall behind my monitor. The one issue I have is that the adhesive on the end of the strip farthest away from the power source isn't very strong, and keeps coming unglued from my desk. It sticks up awkwardly, and sort of ruins the look of everything a bit. I'm also not sure what will happen if/when I need to replace my desktop, as I've been considering buying a larger one, and it doesn't seem like the adhesive is replaceable (or really very moveable).Despite it's pretty hefty price tag, I'm already looking for other places in my house to mount more strips because they just offer so much ambient light and have such a clean look. Best Govee product yet!

These LED strips look amazing. There are absolutely no individual LEDs that can be seen, even up close. I was looking to replace some standard LED strips that I used to backlight some artwork. I hated the fact that as you entered the room you could see the individual LEDs from the side of the frame, not anymore. These lights are absolutely stunning. They're defiantly not cheap, I purchased these on sale and they were still about double what I paid for the original LED strips, however, the look is worth it. My single and only complaint is these light strips are very bright. I wish I could dim them even more, but set at 1% they are pretty bright. They almost look like a neon light but warmer in color. These were very easy to install, I removed my old strips and used the provided attached tape to wrap them around my frames. I was able to pair these directly with SmartThings through the Matter protocol, one thing that I could not find in the documentation is these are Matter over WiFi and not Matter/Thread lights. Still, with Matter I was able to join them to my smart home and natively control them in SmartThings, which I what I was looking for. Lights that are WiFi only usually require their own app or sometimes they'll work with Google Home or Alexa and I have to create a bridge from SmartThings to be able to control them. There are some pretty interesting/fun effects that can be created in the Govee app and I played around with a few of them just to see what they could do, but I was really just interested in adding some backlight to my framed artwork to make them stand out. I highly recommend these if you're looking for light strips that will be exposed and you don't want to be able to see the individual LED segments.

Another great govee product. Brighter than most strips you can buy in teens if lumen per inch produced.Color accuracy is fairly good

Holy crap this is a solid product. I have used Govee for 90% of my smart lights from TV to smart lamps/bulbs. I saw these where on sale and grabbed the 16.4ft ones for my office/library and incredible. Very bright if needed and lots of options to play with. I already ordered a 2nd one of the same length for the bedroom and still may grab a 3rd.

If you expect this strip light to look attractive fully exposed, you may be sorely mistaken. The manufacturing quality is good, and it is downright annoyingly bright at 100% setting, but what it fails at terribly is blending between colors, which is really odd as I have light strips with non-COB LED ICs that blend WONDERFULLY, but not this. Not even close. The way it was designed, there are roughly four inches that can only be one color at a time. There is no smooth blending.Normally, I prefer the strip to be only one color at a time, but wanted to have a smoothly moving line of one color, which I programmed into a strip I made with a Rasbpi and discreet LED ICs placed inside an extruded flexible silicone diffuser. I was hoping for the same effect, but my own solution, though markedly dimmer, looks SIGNIFICANTLY better. Oh well, I made use of it nevertheless.

My boyfriend installed them on his e-bike. He is using an ego battery inverter and battery to run the lights so he can be seen and not ran over. Great lights.

Awesome lights until I updated them with the newest firmware yesterday. 1.00.17.They are half as bright now. Tried everything to fix it, including unplugging everything.