If you want to take advantage of the Light Strip Pro’s multicolor abilities, you long-press the light strip’s icon doing so summons a grid representing the strip’s 16 color zones. ![]() Just select one or more zones, then adjust the color using the color wheel. You can change the colors of the Light Strip Pro’s various color zones by summoning a color grid in the Wyze app. Just below the color wheel is a series of one-tap color swatches, while a brightness slider sits near the top of the screen. The Design tab offers your basic color wheel along with a white color temperature (which lets you adjust the color temperature from a very warm 1,800 Kelvin to a cool daylight 6,500K). Similar to Wyze’s other smart lights, the Light Strip Pro doesn’t depend on a hub, but it can connect only to 2.4GHz Wi-Fi networks. Rather than trying to break all that down, I’ll just tell you that the Light Strip Pro is approximately as bright as competing light strips I’ve tested, which is to say that it’s bright enough for mood lighting but not suitable for lighting up a workspace or illuminating a room on its own. ![]() As I just mentioned, the Wyze Light Strip can only glow in one solid color.Īs far as lumens go, Wyze’s specs go into great detail how many lumens the blue, red, and green LEDs emit per meter. The LEDs on the Light Strip Pro can glow in up to 16 million colors and offer tunable white options, and unlike the step-down Wyze Light Strip, the Light Strip Pro comes with 16 customizable color zones that allow the trip to emit up to 16 different colors simultaneously. You can trim the Wyze Light Strip Pro to fit, but only if you snip in precisely the right spot (the three narrow gold stripes). Unlike the Lightstrip Plus, which comes with connectors that let you reattach cut sections, any trimmings you cut from the Light Strip Pro can’t be reused. As with the Hue Lightstrip Plus and its ilk, the Light Strip Pro can be snipped with a regular pair of scissors, provided you cut them at specific points roughly about a foot apart cut the strip in the wrong spot, and you could damage its electronics. While you can’t combine multiple Light Strip Pros by yourself, you can cut them to fit. īesides the Light Strip Pro, Wyze also sells the less expensive Light Strip ($20 for the five-meter model, or $36 for 10 meters), a similar LED color light strip that lacks the Pro’s ability to shine in multiple colors at once. Competing light strips, such as the Philips Hue Lightstrip Plus, do let you add extensions to make the original one longer. According to Wyze, however, you can’t create a 10-meter Light Strip Pro yourself by purchasing two of the five-meter strips and trying to connect them together, nor can you connect additional light strips to the 10-meter model in other words, it’s either five meters or 10, and that’s it. ![]() The Wyze Light Strip Pro comes in two lengths: five meters (16.4 feet, $28) and 10 meters (32.8 feet, $41), with the 10-meter version consisting of two five-meter strips connected by a central controller. This review is part of TechHive’s coverage of the best smart light bulbs, where you’ll find reviews of competing products, plus a buyer’s guide to the features you should consider when shopping this category.
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