Can’t say enough positive things about my first experience with govee. My wife wanted permanent lights like our neighbors gemstone lights. After seeing the cost of those I found Govee on Amazon and did quite a lot of researching reviews and watching YouTube installs. I didn’t feel comfortable cutting and splicing so I planned accordingly and ordered 100ft to place around the front of my house with the plan to expand to my garage peak once I learned more about splicing.

Install day went smooth, however I would stress to plan very well before installing anything. I laid out lights, measured everything numerous times and ended up getting about 6ft wrap on both sides of house. This way the install is even and looks really professional. As for the install process I ordered a pack of similar wire clips from Amazon and I secured each light with adhesive and a clip held in place with a screw into my aluminum soffit. It’s been a month and I’ve had no issues with the adhesive (and shouldn’t due to all the clips). I ended up placing lights as far away from the house as I could (~16 inches) as we liked the diffused look better, but it’s all personal preference.

As for the wire, I have blue soffits and I really do plan on eventually covering with a piece of blue j trim or something similar. In saying that in the month I’ve had them installed, the wire has not bothered me as I thought it would. I notice it because I’m looking, but even my neighbor with gemstone lights admitted she’d rather have spent the much lower price and have the wire showing. Possibly next year I’ll see about covering it up.

As for the app, it is quite intimidating at first and I found trying to create my own patterns confusing and honestly overwhelming with all the options. However, I watched a few YouTube videos and now I’ve created a few different sports themes and a feature spot light using individual lights. A few weeks using the app has me quite comfortable using it and super impressed with the unlimited options. The best part so far is my kids picking the ready to use light themes in the app and they run out to the front yard to check their choice out.

For the price I really cannot find one negative thing to say, very happy. With canadian winter approaching quick I’m hopeful they stand up to the cold, but have no reason to think they won’t.

I wanted to try these cause I was tired of putting lights up every year. These worked for me all winter in Canada and we hit -47 below for over a week and never once had an issue. The app is easy to use and I really like that you can control each led individually. The one small complaint I have is that the clips that comes with the kit there isn't enough of them. I ended up purchasing some 10mm RGB clips and I put them on every other light. The 3m sticks very well just be sure to clean the area with rubbing alcohol before wanting to stick them to the soffit. The kit I purchased I ended up cutting the strands in a few places and soldered the wires together and never had any issues. The colors and combinations are endless. Everyone liked these light so much all of my neighbors have purchased kits and are just waiting on nicer weather to get theirs installed. I don't have enough good things to say about these lights.

I managed to get two 100ft strands and just finished getting them up and running yesterday. The app installation process and setup was super easy. I installed each strand one at a time and the app automatically set them up in a group. Alexa integration was very easy. The lights simply put look incredible, and are very bright. I have them set at 40% at night which lights up the entire side of my house.

The Govee app needs some work. I tried setting up a schedule in the app which wouldn't work. Also, when I select the lighting group (which combines both strands) and pick a preinstalled pattern like Valentines Day, the light colors change to Valentines Day colors but just stay at static colors. I have to select each strand individually and apply the lighting effects to each strand in order for the lights to change colors and brightness according to the selected pattern/effect. I can do this in Alexa Routines however, so it works but this is a quirk. Routines however in Alexa work very well, and once I did the Alexa pairing, the controls work better than using the app alone. I have found that even though Alexa allows you to set up a routine that is supposed to set the lighting plan as well as the brightness at the same time that the brightness doesn't change. I had to set two Alexa Routines - one to change the pattern to solid soft white at 10pm for night lights, and a second Routine at 10:01pm to change the brightness to 10% (so I don't bother my neighbors at night).

I want to set up my lights after 10pm using segmenting so that only certain lights would be on, but I haven't figured out a way yet to do that and have it work with Alexa.

It would be helpful if there was documentation on how to set up plans and Alexa integrations. You have to just play around to see what works. Also, I would say Govee should have molded tabs with screw holes into the light bases to make it easier to screw them up if desired instead of just relying on the tape. The tape is excellent 3m tape, but it isn't going to work in all situations, and when my feet are 12ft up on a ladder in the tallest eve on my house putting these up, I don't want to be back up there again in case tape fails. I screwed each light up of the two 100ft strands individually using led clips, but molded tabs with screw holes in the bases would have greatly simplified this job. Also, I had to contact support to verify that the two strands needed to be installed in the same direction, i.e. control/lights, control/lights, or lights/control, lights/control in order for patterns to work correctly. Their documentation does not specify this anywhere I can find. Their support replied very quickly.

All being said, I am extremely pleased with these, and they are well worth the money. I can't stress enough how fantastic the patterns look, and they function excellently for security lighting also. They do come with a 3 yr warranty per the included documentation (also asked Govee support for clarification on this), not 1 yr like the Govee website says. I installed mine so that at a later date when they start selling extensions, I can easily expand my two 100ft strands so I can light the back of my house also since each controller can handle 150ft. Two 100ft strands was enough to light the front and both sides of my house skipping one 12ft section that doesn't need light. I am so glad I spent the money on these to get the RGBIC and Alexa integration vs just a basic set of LED strips.

These are great lights. fairly easy to install. We have metal soffit so they stuck well.I did wipe the surface with clean rag and alcohol to clean. About every 4 th light ended up on a joint or a v in the soffit, so double clipped these ones. Next day went back over and double clipped all the lights. The screws for the clips could use a self tapper end. I did find out after a bit if you lined up the clips in line with the little slots in the soffit the screws started easier. The only other problem is not sure how to make the lights a solid color. We are not much for the flashing lights. In the App there is a theme called Working, the lights stay solid white We do like this,I just think in the App the first thing you see should be all the colors available and be able to choose the color you want. All the themes on the app with the fancy names are just not for us except the special occasions