Aqara LED Strip T1,6.5 FT RGBIC Cuttable LED Strip Lights,16 Million Colors/Tunable White/Gradient Effects,Supports Apple Homekit,Alexa,Matter Over Bridge,Requires Zigbee 3.0 Hub

This light strip is awesome. Super easy to install and pairs up with the Aqara app in seconds. I have it set to backlight my computer monitors and automatically turn on when I enter my office. So damn cool. Highly recommend.

I really love the Aqara LED strip light—it’s vibrant, responsive, and fits well into the Aqara ecosystem. However, since it only supports Matter over Bridge, I really wish it had native Matter support for more direct integration with other platforms. Still a solid product overall.

The tape is not strong enough to hold both the strip and the heavy controller it is attached to. It is also not very bright. However, it is reliable and has never been unresponsive. The colors are also spot on for an affordable light strip.

The 3M tape doesn’t stick so it fell down after a couple weeks so I don’t use it anymore. Aqura reached out to me, I didn’t contact them, And offered a replacement. I have other aqura products, and will purchase from this company again, just because of their customer service.

Aqara's products have been rock solid for me, especially since I have the M3 hub. Setup was easy for the main kit. I bought extensions, too, and that's where I'd say the app on-boarding could use better instructions. I thought something was wrong or defective with each of the extensions (3). I tried one by one and none of them would light up. I was about to give up but decided to poke around in Aqara's app and the main accessory settings. I discovered that I needed to adjust a setting for the length of my lights. Once I did that the extensions finally lit up. So none of them were defective, it just was not intuitive to set the line length before/during setup.

I love Aqara products! This isn’t one of them. I believe, that an LED strip is an item that all smart home companies feel like they have to have to be relevant and I disagree with this. If you are an Apple Home enthusiast such as myself you find that Aqara is second to none when it comes to door contact sensors, smart plugs, motion sensors and of course, my favorites, the FP1 and FP2 presence detection devices. The T1 LED strip, not so much. Sadly, I am a Phillips Hue fan boy that wants to jump to Govee but shy about committing. I figured I’d give these a try since I love other Aqara devices and these are way cheaper. I will tell you what made these a no for me, despite more LEDs per strip compared to the basic hue strip. The whites are disappointingly dim on the Aqara compared to the hue. If you like bright color, the Aqara beats the hue. However, I’m also not a child so the strobing disco effects, something Hue doesn’t even offer are novelty at best. Adaptive lighting is an Apple Home option that can be applied to certain products that are compatible. Both the Aqara and Hue LED strips check this box which is another reason why I chose to try the T1 and yet, another miss. The Aqara T1 is hardly adaptive, there are two light settings that it will change to based on the time of day. Cold light for during the day and warm white for night, that’s it. Hue, on the other hand, will adjust the variation from cold white to warm with brightness levels incrementally as the day transitions to night in a way that just feels natural and not cheap like the Aqara T1. So yeah, skip this. Hue, while more expensive, is the superior LED strip. Also, hue is hard to beat when the ecosystem is so much more when it comes to lighting.

I like the lights. I think they work great with the Aqara App and hubs. I think the light strip is on the expensive side. The quality is there. The brightness is there. The colors are there. I just think the Govee lights come it at a cheaper price and they would work with my Google Home app. If the light strip is a repeater or has some other feature that I am missing, that would be great to know. I had to buy 3 light extensions for my pantry application so that made it even more expensive. I should have considered a slightly different application like a place it could be seen more often than just occasionally opening and closing the pantry door.

The media could not be loaded. Easy to set up, easy to mount, comes complete with power supply. I set a few strands up a month or so ago and have 0 issues with disconnects or any issues for the matter. Would highly recommend.