GIDERWEL Smart WiFi DreamColor RGB LED Strip Lights 5m Kit for APP Control Colour Changing,Music Sync,WS2811 Addressable Alexa LED Strips 16.4ft,Work with Amazon Alexa/Google Assistant

I purchased a fee Dreamcolour WS2811 5m kits to replace 13m of RGB 5050 lighting strips. The RGB kit has been troublesome with uneven shades between strips of the same type and vendor, even with adequate PSU, power injection along the strip and RGB amplifier. Thankfully the dreamcolour strips did not require anything other than a high power PSU to light up 13m. The strips themselves have interconnects on both ends as well as Jack socket for power injection which takes out a lot of the guess work when it comes to chaining strips together and that is a really nice touch. The 5m strip is actually 10 50cm strips soldered together, but the strips may be cut every 10cm. The blocks ofnled's are.numbered L1 to L15 and it wasn't clear if these had to run in sequence when joining, but it turns out that's not the case, so if you make a cut at.say L5, you can join a new strip which begins at L1 and the lights will still function in the correct sequence. Of course if you do cut these and subsequently make a join you will have to solder on a 3 pin connector (available in bulk packs cheap from Amazon!) There appears to be some misinformation about Dreamcolour LED strips which implies that you can link loads together and just require a large PSU at one end, which most likely will fry the controller. In actuality you need.to connect power at intervals along the strip. For my project just one additional point worked adequately but at a guess I would say one connection every 10m. As mentioned, the Jack sockets on the strips make this easy. This can be split from a single power supply (a third party one as the supplied ones probably only have sufficient power for 5m). Once connected the light ana colours are even across the strip, even at 13m! As mentioned in other reviews the Dreamcolor "pixels" are blocks of 3 LED's. In conclusion this is a very nice kit which is easily chained to longer lengths, and only minor criticism is the controller which loses its identity and wifi credentials if powered off for long enough, but the strips themselves are great.

Update This is the third set I have purchased now they are amazing and great to install I have purchased the 90deg corner pieces from giderwel too for a easier install. Just cut the strip on the cut marks where you need the corner and push the corner connector in and it’s perfect. We had a bit of a fiddle around with the settings to get the colours to show correct from the app. But once it’s all set they are amazing!! So we have purchased one more set for above the cabinet. The self adhesive back it’s good but seems to have unstuck I’m not sure if little hands may have had some help in this tho and a little bit of hot glue works magic. The lights have so many different settings of dynamic light effects.

These lights are installed around the bar in our playroom. They were delivered next day neatly packed in a strong silver bag. They are very bright and have strong colours in fact I have them set to 30 percent solid red and they are just right as a backlight at that setting. The Alexa controls work well and the sound to light is good. This function uses the phone microphone and the app must be running. I did have problems with the lights when I first set them up, the last few LEDs on the strip did not respond the the App control, Giderwel were very helpful and pointed me to the setup step I had missed. As soon as the LED count was changed from 50 to 90 the strip lit up and worked perfectly.. These lights drew too much power from the USB socket on my Sony TV which caused a "high power device" warning. I would need to use a separate supply to use these behind the TV. Pros: Bright, strong colours, Alexa control and Customer service Cons: You might need a separate power supply for use as TV backlight. App and phone needed for sound to light.

Bought 3 of these. Not terrible, not excellent (compared with govee etc) but more than adequate for the price and uses magic home which runs natively with home assistant. Decent light, look pretty enough on solid colours. Was ery happy... Four months later two have completely died and the third is now on it's way out. It's not cheap if they break that quickly. Really disappointed.

3 stars because it says “individual controllable”... i was browsing for hours looking for a led strip with the ws811 or ws812 chipset to be able to control every segment of LEDs seperatly. The app for this LED strip is not capable of doing that. There are presets that make them go rainbow etc. But who needs that... the presets can be modified in color and speed but having a static amount X of segments hued one color and the others another one is not possible with this set. You can create sequences with the app inserting multiple edited presets but going from an animated chaser preset to a fading effect of one color back to a chaser does not work properly.

This is my second led strip. I was far more impressed with this one. From build quality to the features, it was better in every way. The strip is flexible and strong, while handling it, never felt it would break, which made installing it easy and worry free. The LEDs were very bright. The software is brilliant and great amount of features. Very responsive. Easy to install. Because the strip works of sound and music, I decided to have it install around the tv system.

We’ve had a couple of sets of similar light strips before, but always ended up losing the remote control, so we bought this LED strip from Giderwel as its operated through an app. It was a doddle to connect the lights to the WiFi network, and the app worked perfectly first time. The app gives a huge amount of control over the hue, the pattern and brightness. My main criticism would be that the font on the instruction pamphlet is so small that it is barely legible, however it was so easy to connect that it wasn’t really a problem. It is possible to connect to more than one Giderwel product too, so if you had more than one set, the app could control all of them. There may be a market for different coloured backing strips – they all seem to be white, although that suits us. These lights are ideal for anyone who wants a bit more control over their LED strip, and doesn’t want to have to mess around with a remote control. We are happy, these lights work exactly as they should.

Order was delivered promptly. Setup was easy and straightforward via the app. Alexa detection and setup was again easy to establish with linked account. Unfortunately the quality of this item was poor, I ordered 7 five metre rolls, so I think that this is a fair sample and indicates that I didn't simply receive a bad roll. Adhesive quality of the strips was OK, these were installed inside a right angle diffuser strip with a 10mm flat extruded aluminium surface to adhere to and this process was easy with the strips gripping well. The process of gently smoothing the strip in place damaged a number of the red LED's which now do not work. The soft gel (maybe silicone) coating over the chipset side of the strip came away easily in places, fractures occurred inside the strip at a number of locations resulting in 'dead' lengths of lights past the damage point requiring the remove of the faulty areas and new sections soldering in place. What should have been a 1 hour job tool a whole day of fault finding and repairs. The finished job was a little disappointing, the RED, GREEN or BLUE options worked OK once sections were repaired however colours that required a combination of RGB were dreadful often bearing no relation to the actual colour wheel in the app. Yellow was green, purple was blue etc etc; I would not recommend purchasing this item unless you are prepared to encounter issues and resolve them yourself and you don't have any high expectations of complex colour representations.