Govee’s accent lighting choices don’t cease at its enjoyable Lyra Flooring Lamp. Its lights will also be mounted to your wall within the type of the Govee Glide, a collection of six-foot-long tubes containing a complete of 57 impartial colour LED zones. The translucent, plastic tubes snap collectively simply and might be oriented as a single six-foot-long bar or organized with one 90-degree bend within the center, should you set up the optionally available nook piece someplace alongside the best way.
If this sounds acquainted, it’s since you’ve in all probability been studying about sensible lighting for years right here at TechHive. The product is almost similar to the LIFX Beam system, which even features a single nook unit together with its six rectangular tubes. LIFX’s mild bars are a bit thicker (and its system provides 61 colour zones as a substitute of Govee’s 57); in any other case, you’ll discover the 2 experiences remarkably related.
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In contrast to the considerably cumbersome Govee Lyra, the Glide is straightforward to assemble with none instruments required. A small breakout field attaches to 1 finish, and from there it plugs into {an electrical} outlet. Adhesive strips on the reverse of the sunshine bars permit it to be mounted semi-permanently to the wall.
As soon as put in, the system is ready up and managed identically to the Lyra. The Govee Dwelling app connects the sunshine bar to your Wi-Fi community (2.4GHz solely) and promptly offers you a zillion methods to configure the lighting results, starting from static colours to dozens of animated scene modes to 6 preconfigured music modes that permit the lighting results bounce round in time with ambient audio.
Christopher Null / IDGThe app splits the Glide into 18 segments which might be individually managed.
The Glide can also be cut up throughout the app into 18 zones, which might be configured individually—you possibly can actually put a special colour and a special brightness in every of them—although it’s a lot simpler to let a few of Govee’s preconfigured choices do the heavy lifting. The Govee Dwelling app isn’t the only to make use of, however you possibly can muddle your approach by most configuration efforts with solely a modicum of trial and error.
The Glide lacks a distant management just like the Lyra has, however it does preserve all the opposite options, together with a scheduling system, wake and sleep modes, and the power to attach the system to Alexa or Google Assistant. At $100—$50 lower than the LIFX Beam at current—it isn’t a very costly approach so as to add a pop of colour to any wall in the home. When you’re restricted to an extended line or an L form, it seems that’s sufficient to brighten up a variety of environments.