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Review on 📺 Enhance Your TV Viewing Experience with 16.4ft RGBIC LED Lights for 32-75inch TVs: USB Powered Backlight with Bluetooth APP Control & Music Sync - Perfect for Bedrooms by Mike Lawler

Revainrating 3 out of 5

Well addressable led strip with unreliable controller

The first thing you should know is that this led strip has USB power connection. However, you must provide power - a USB power adapter is not included. I used a spare cell phone charger. The light bar itself is bright and works well. But the strip controller is difficult to use. In theory, you can use an infrared remote control or an app on a smartphone paired via Bluetooth. However, in practice, switching from one control to another does not work: if you start from the remote control, the application will not work, and vice versa. Sometimes none of the controls work (not the app, not the remote, not even the local power button). The only way to recover is to turn off the device and try again. I was able to set up the schedule with the app and stopped trying to use the remote. Hence two stars deduction for the unreliable, inconsistent controller. The LED strip uses addressable chips (maybe WS2812B?) so you can select light chasing effects and multicolor fades/shifts along the strip. You can spot this type of stripe because there are three conductors: power, ground, and data. Sometimes the marketing description says "dream color" or "segmented" to distinguish them from simpler light strips where each LED displays the same color at the same time. In general, this is a good LED strip, hampered by the temperamental controller.

Pros
  • Best
Cons
  • Ugly packaging