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BRIGHTNESS: these lights have a massive brightness range. The slider goes from 1-100% and is easy to control; 1% is soft enough to fall asleep on and 100% is so bright it hurts my eyes at night. My room is small (pictured), but the brightness is never up past 40% even during the day. I have no doubt these could light up a room 4x the size of mine.
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CONTROLS: this might be my favorite part of the lights. First, the app connects via Bluetooth the moment I open it and stays that way; I have not had a connectivity issue once. The app itself is well-designed and not too long ago received an upgrade that makes it even better. Every color in the color wheel can be chosen, and with the update you can now choose a color for each segment of the lights (15 pairs of segments)!
In addition to the Music Sync and Scenes options (video of the Music Sync included), here’s also a DIY option that lets you pick colors from photos in your camera roll and design your own styles for both regular AND music, which is really fun and convenient.
There’s a timer tab as well (pictured) that allows you to set auto turn on/off times, a wakeup time, and a sleeping time. The wakeup one fades the light in over a customizable period of time, which the sleep one does the same thing in reverse.
My favorite is the warmth slider. The app offers a slider that allows you to adjust the warmth level of the white to whatever you prefer. I usually match mine to the same warmth as my desk lamp; this plus the brightness slider makes finding comfortable lighting a breeze.
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SUPPORT: I have not yet had to contact support since I haven’t had any issues. However, they do have a support button under ‘Device Settings’ that allows you to report issues or request replacement strings if the originals break or stop working. Also, I’ve emailed support a few times with questions relating to future products — I have gotten an email back from a real person within 48 hours every single time.
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OVERALL: I highly recommend these. I don’t have a light in my room (college apartment), so I use these in place of that. They’ve probably been on 12-18 hours a day every day since I got them and I’ve had no issues, plus they’re still as bright as the day I got them. This is the third brand of lights I’ve owned and my only regret is that I didn’t find these ones first. I took some pictures of the lights and added a video of the Music Sync option, hope this helps!
TL;DR: If I could give these more than 5 stars I would. They’re easy to use, the controls are simple, support is responsive, and the lights are built to last. Highly recommended.