Review on 🌈 Kasa Smart LED Light Strip KL430: 16 Color Zones RGBIC, 6.6ft Wi-Fi LED Lights - Works with Alexa, Google Home & IFTTT, No Hub Required by Yung Kitamura

I love LED accent lighting and was glad Kasa brought them out. I already have over a dozen other Kasa products - mostly smart lightbulbs and a few smart light switches. PROS: - For me, the smart control works well with Google devices. This is the main reason I paid a huge premium for this type of light strip, and it was the main one for me - Kasa app is easy and intuitive to use - Very easy to install - Peel and place, plug and play Play extensions are also very easy to add. You just plug them into the end of a 6.6" strip, turn the strip on and off, and the extender acts as an extender (same color, patterns look good, etc.) - Wide range of brightness - Wide range of colors including cool and warm white, as well as many, many bright colors. CONS - Depending on your application, they can get very expensive very quickly. Using two 6-foot bookshelves as accent lighting around the interior perimeter costs over $300 with taxes. And I paid for them with my own money, they did NOT give them to me for verification - I cut off a strip once, the rest is garbage. For each of my bookshelves, I had to cut off the last 16 inches of the fasteners to fit, which meant throwing away about $25 worth of extensions. The strips aren't very flexible - you'll probably need to route them in a straight line. As far as I know there are no angle adapters that would allow 90 degree rotation. The pros are that the lights work very well and give you something I don't think I could easily get from cheaper lights - being able to control on/off, color and brightness with my voice. But the downside is that you have to have the right app to pull it off. They're expensive, but the price compares pretty well to most other smart strips, and you don't need a hub or anything (other than electricity and a smart device to set them up) to control these lights. I've had good luck with Google controls. The connection was a little unstable for the first few days. But things improved quickly. and even if one command didn't work (e.g. turn on the light), I could. If you used another command (e.g. set the light to 20%), the strip responded to everything. Now it seems to be working fine and very rarely do I have to do anything special to control the lighting on the bookshelves that are part of a group with other Kasa lamps. If you're like me, this is the main reason you buy these flashlights. You buy a 6.6" piece and can add extensions (sold separately in 3.3" increments). You can't just buy an extension cord, extension cords only work with a full 6.6" strip. So if you're trying to light a 3-foot section, you'll have to buy 6.6-foot tape, cut it in half, and discard the cut piece. This is annoying as the strips are clearly made up of 1.65ft sections and connected with flimsy wires or a bulky (0.18in thick) connector. I wouldn't mind if you could set the strips to rotate (e.g. make a 90 degree angle), but you can't. Now for the good stuff. The strips are very durable. Though you can tell they fit together about every foot and a half or so, they're encased in soft, clear gel plastic. The back has a high quality 3M tape. Problems with the tape not sticking even though I was working on a clean surface. Once installed and turned on, the light was exactly what I wanted. Just light up the shelves and I use them all the time with different brightness at different times. The charts are fun, but I don't use them often. Kasa promises to eventually allow custom templates. I love that you can adjust the white from warm white to cool white and there are lots of fun colors to choose from. I added some brightness shots taken late at night when it was dark. I have two bookshelves each with a 6.6" light strip and 3 extensions (although the last extension is cut in half to fit snugly). My camera sort of automatically adjusted the brightness, but I think you can tell they're very bright. At 100% brightness, they practically light up my (relatively small) living room. My bookshelves accidentally have a light track to hide the LED strip so I can't see the strip itself unless I'm looking at the bookshelves from the side. . Measuring less than 0.5 inches wide, they illuminate subjects well without being noticeable. The cable from the controller to the lightstrip is 6'10"1/8" in diameter. The light strip is 0.18" thick at the block terminals on the strip, but only 0.11" for the LEDs. So if you're trying to get through the sides of the shelves in the bookshelf, the strip was thin enough that I could stick it between the side panel and the shelf and hide the LEDs. The bandwidth is 0.48 inches. All in all, if you like accent lighting and are willing to pay more for a handy and stable mobile app and the ability to control everything with your voice, these are amazing lights. I hope these lanes will be more flexible, adapters will be provided to rotate the lane. On the other hand, if you never want to change the color or brightness of the lights, just turn them on or off with your voice. d will probably save some money by getting a smart electrical plug (Kasa and others make them) and using a regular, much cheaper LED strip (although professional installation will mitigate those savings if needed).