Customer Reviews
Gave these as a gift and they are really neat! As compared to other high price lights, these are really good for the price! The lighting is bright and smooth, and it is easy to connect together. The only downside is the app used to program and control the lights. It is not super user friendly when it comes to making your own designs and adds limitations such as having a limit on how many sequences you can add to a custom light design. The pre-made designs are cool but making your own design is time consuming and sometimes the Bluetooth takes a few minutes to connect.
Super awesome and easy to setup, but YOU NEED A 2.4 band wifi, it won't work on a 5!
Set up is a little tedious, you need location, Bluetooth, and 2.4 wifi on at the same time.
Also make sure your phone doesn't randomize your MAC or IP.
If you mess up the wifi info it will store it regardless, I had to delete and re-download the app to setup because I keep my randomized.
Aside of the difficult setup, once you're in the presets and custom mapping is pretty easy and fun.
I don't know what some reviewers are talking about. These panels are easy to set up, put together, and mount on your wall. They're really vibrant, can get incredibly bright, and the combinations you can put the tiles in are endless.
I set up the app and had it paired to my Alexa in minutes. Maybe some reviewers didn't read the instructions and don't realize that this will not work with 5ghz wifi, like nearly every smart switch/lightbulb.
My only complaint is that they tend to be a little difficult to keep together while moving. Using the additional clips that don't transmit power can help with his.
I'd highly recommend these lights to anyone who wants to try out this kind of thing, but don't want to drop $200 on a Nanoleaf set up. I'll update the review if anything ever goes wrong. But for now these are exactly as I expect them to be!
I have about $700 invested in Nanoleaf and this was the best/cheapest alternative I've found.
Compared to Nanoleaf, the app is pretty bad. But it does the job and there's a lot of customization available.
I think the lights themselves are pretty good and have a wide range of effects. The lights are very bright when used at 100%. I'll probably never use mine over 25%. It works with Alexa but the alexa skill and the native app are named differently and I never saw it documented anywhere. The Alexa skill is called lifesmart....saved you a google click.
I got the lamp with 10 modules and I probably wouldn't get any set that was smaller.
In reading the last few comments before I purchased 2 of these, there was a comment about the packaging being excessive. Then the next guy was like, 'really, buddy?!'. I kinda felt the same way until it got here. Let's just say I spent more time unpackaging and cleaning up than I did setting up the lamp. All the boxes are folded origami style so you can flatten them all or a relatively small size, but you're talking at least 20 individual boxes and dividers for ONE lamp. No fear of these lights being damaged in transit whatsoever, but it was a bit of overkill.
I like the lights and I think they're a great value. The item is as described. The touch sensor is about useless, (you have to fumble around behind the lamp to find it with blinding LEDs in your eye but this is not a feature I care about). The app isn't the best UI/UX but I'm not here for the app. Once I get the presets the way I want, I'll probably always use Alexa exclusively to control this device.
