All four kits are a great way to illuminate your home with smart lighting. Lighting is an essential part of your smart home. With the proper equipment, you can dim the lights, change their color, and ...

Google, Amazon and Apple are all duking it out for supremacy in the smart home space. As you’ve probably noticed, cheaper smart lights and the like typically don’t offer connectivity with Apple’s ...

Govee’s Wi-Fi Outdoor Strip Lights are bright and can be controlled via a feature-rich app packed with special effects and premade scenes to choose from. Since they are RGBIC strips, they can display ...

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The affordable, easy-to-install Govee LED Strip Light M1 with Matter works with all the major smart home ecosystems and will keep you busy with its myriad features and light animations. “Shock and awe ...

Clocks used to be dowdy old things with mechanical hands and sometimes even little cuckoo birds that would pop out to chime the hour. [David] built something altogether more modern that uses shifting ...

The Govee RGBIC LED Strip Lights deliver a unique combination of bold color effects, smooth animation, and rapid app-based ...

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Thanks to their versatility, commodity-level pricing and the eye-popping visual effects they create, programmable LED strips have become a staple ingredient for both Maker-style projects and more ...

Easy to set up and packed with better-than-expected features, Kasa’s KL400L5 light strip is a great bargain for budget-minded smart home users. It’s a bit flimsy and it can’t shine in multiple colors ...

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