this is the govee lyra floor lamp and it is bloody brilliant
so guys sit back relax whilst i introduce you to this sexy bit of smart lighting
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so the lovely people at govee have sent me this
smart floor lamp but it's not just any ordinary lamp it does
this i have to say i am massively impressed it's an rgb icw lamp and it is capable of
so many different settings routines animations so when govee got in touch and asked me to review it
i was like yes please and part of the reason is because i know govee are awesome i bought
some strip lights from them in the past and they were brilliant no no not strip lights strip lights
don't think i'm ready to do that on the internet yet now first the setup now the box
arrived and it was surprisingly tiny and that's because it does require some assembly yourself
there's little screws the pieces have to go together
in the right order and the actual light strip is a bit of a pain to get inside
the metal frame now it's not hard but it does take a little bit of time and it is a bit faffy
now my first impressions the lamp has a really good quality to it
the base is really heavy and the aluminium around it
makes it feel really high quality i'm really glad it's not made of plastic and when the lights
turned on the lights are bright the colors are vivid so first impressions are really top-notch
next to functionality now you can control the lights in a few ways the first is the remote on
the remote you have some of the main functionality of the light so you can switch between on and off
warm and cool you can change the brightness
and you can change the color you can also turn on the music mode
the remote is a really good addition because on a lot of govi's lights and a lot of other
people's lights you don't get one now the remote looks okay it's easy to use
and there is this mount that you can clip onto the light which the remote will magnetically
attach to now you can also control the lamp with google home and alexa the functionality is simple
but effective alexa turn on office lamp alexa turn office blue
and same with the remote if you have a really nice animation that you really like
and you turn it off and turn it back on again it will remember that and keep that for when the next
time you turn it on now the most in-depth way of controlling the lyra is using the govi app here
you can do everything you can change the colors and the brightness of individual sections of the
lamp you can turn on music mode and pick the exact animation you want for that you can also
choose from tons of different scenes made by govee themselves some of my favorites are ocean rainbow
movie
jungle fireworks and you can also create your own scenes in the diy mode look i've made a candy cane
now what should you actually do with this lamp so it's best in the corner of the room or against a
wall and when you have it shining at the wall it creates this really nice effect now it doesn't
look bad if you have it facing out into the room and there are some circumstances where that might
be ideal but for the most part really you'll want it facing the wall now these are great in any room
they also add a really nice touch to any office or workspace now govi have also sent me their glide
wall light i've set them both up in my office and when you pair the two lights on a similar scene it
really does look awesome any issues so yeah the setup was a bit fluffy but really the only other
thing that bothered me was this the light has been designed to face the wall and shine at the wall
but it's as if that memo didn't get passed across to everyone at the govee team now the logo that's
meant to be on the front of the base is on the side that would then face the wall and the wire
that you'd hope would go into the back of it would be on the side that would face the
room so i think there's been a little bit of a miscommunication there in the design
or they already made the light realized it looks better when you face it the other way
against the wall but it was a bit too late and the design had already been finalized
and the other thing is there's a couple of little screw holes on that back side
that when it's facing out into the room slightly spoils that clean look and i'll be honest these
things are very very minor and i actually don't care i'm just trying to paint you a picture and
i have to tell you all the details now the price the govi lyra on amazon costs 149.99
which is about 110 pounds and 12 pence in the uk now the lyra isn't actually available on the uk
amazon store it's only in the us but it's not necessarily the end of the world you can purchase
it from the us store and just pay the slightly inflated shipping costs it's about 15 quid
but do bear in mind the light will arrive ready for you to plug into a us wall socket
so you might need to get an adapter if you're going to use it in the uk
now guys i hope i've painted a really good picture of this light for you
i am super impressed by it i really love it it's going to be something that stays with me for a
really long time but what do you guys think let me know if you like the govi lyra and whether
you might consider one for one of your rooms i've attached links below if you're interested so click
on them and i will be back soon looking at govi's wall light the glide see in the next one you