okay i was looking to get some smart led strip lights for my um desk and i found these online
on amazon they were 15.99 what i liked about them is you get three of these spools
and you get a controller
and power adapter of course
and a remote and it also has an app that you can download so i'm going to be downloading the app
um i'm a little surprised i've seen three spools and i thought that the connector or the this this
receiver would be able to handle all three but it only can install two at a time you could extend
one of them another 16 feet each one of these is 16 feet you could extend one of them
but you can only pretty much have two connected this is an infrared sensor for this remote
so i'm going to test it out and let you guys know how it goes it's only 15.99
okay this is 16 feet this is really long and there's two more of these guys
so 16 feet is extremely long we'll give it a shot
all right the remote has a pretty good feel to sight so this infrared doesn't have to
really be pointed directly at the um sensor see i'm not even pointing at it right now
and it's able to change the color so that's pretty good
there's a lot more features and they give you a little instruction manual fade jump
and it's got a lot of different colors it's got a timer so you could tell to turn on and
turn off for 30 sec turning 30 minutes or so i'm not sure what this b plus and minus does
music it can sense sound i think on this remote right here there's a there's a mic and it could
send sound and and turn on and off by sound so if you have music playing it will pretty much
um control those here's a shot of the manual if i can get it it's a pretty good manual it looks like
has a lot of information you could cut these and make them smaller but then you have
pieces you can't use unless you have like a special connector
and he uses this app i don't know
it doesn't really go over all the keys on the keypad either
it might on the app i guess i'll download the app
android and ios and the app is called magic strip at least on ios so when you install
the app at least on the iphone it says hey i want to connect to your bluetooth
so after you allow it to have bluetooth access there's a button on the left top
call like here the three lines hit that and you select your cool strip mic i guess
kind of weird but then you can control the lights
and you got like multiple different millions of colors it looks like like a whole bunch of
different selections you can store these selections and make it like a permanent um
color i think too see i'm changing the colors and you could i guess dim it from here too brighten it
so the app works pretty good then there's a music thing i guess if you played music
um it wants access to your music library which i'm not going to let it because
i don't want to get copyright stuff on my phone
and microphone i guess you can enable the microphone on and off
the leds themselves they look like they're at least um two inches away from each other so i
don't know how that's gonna look i'm gonna be having it behind my um computer monitor
so we'll see all right so there it is i used a 16.4 foot cable and i got the entire thing lit up
um it actually lights up the bottom of the floor a little bit as well which is pretty cool
you may not be able to see much in this video because it's kind of dark and
all that blue is the light and i'll switch it to red
i like red and blue actually so
red red red there's your red it's really hard to see maybe in the um in the video
let me see if i do this one maybe you could see a little bit better that way
but it looks pretty good in person i mean
and it's a lot cleaner so i think it's worth doing this way
spool is 16.4 feet you can use all three spools on this one controller
you can actually um put them in series or there's two that you could put like in parallel
i don't see a reason to have the other two um spools except for backups in case the other ones
burn out or something but they're supposed to last like a hundred thousand hours or something but it
looks like they're working the app works really well i'm pretty impressed with the app actually
um usually the apps on these things aren't the greatest but this magic strip app you
can do all kinds of cool stuff with it but the app is really good here's the here's the app
and you can put time and have it go towards music i don't know about the music part
it has a built-in mic so that it could sense music
but i think for 15 dollars you can't really go wrong i'll i'll have amazon links into this
and for the um wood dogs that i use to put into the wall without having to pre-drill
so if you want to get either of those there be in the description links for that for amazon
L8Star Smart LED Strip LIght Review