Love the lights. hate the app
The lights are pretty but the app is so poorly made that we won’t be using them going forward after this year. Govee makes incredible lights and their app is amazing.
Great idea, needed more work
When it worked it was great, but Philips must assume it never rains where these lights are used because I went through three different strands. Over the years.
App could use some work
Had these for 4-5 years now. Lights work great. I have a couple wishes for the app. First and foremost- setting a automatic on and off timer for the lights. Would prefer a color wheel a bit darker options specifically for the greens and blues. Wish you could do more with the customized colors than just the 3 functions it has.
The app is not intuitive or helpful. Example: nowhere is there an explanation for adding extended lights. I was just playing around in the app until I figured out that you have to go to settings and change the bulb count. (Each strand is 25 bulbs).
The app is not intuitive or helpful. Example: nowhere is there an explanation for adding extended lights. I was just playing around in the app until I figured out that you have to go to settings and change the bulb count. (Each strand is 25 bulbs).
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No Timer
Christmas lights that you cannot set an a timer are useless, I have had these lights for a number of years and it is frustrating that they do not have a timer in their app. The best I can do is remember to turn them on every night, and have a timer that cuts the power to them at a certain time.
Such a simple feature, there is definitely a reason they are not adding it, but they aren't sharing that.
Such a simple feature, there is definitely a reason they are not adding it, but they aren't sharing that.
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Waste of money
I bought the starter kit and with 3 strings of lights it worked fine. The system is supposed to be able to handle 12 strings of lights (25 per strand up to 300 lights) but it doesn’t. The startup kit and light strands are hella expensive. They’re also a brilliant idea: smart phone controlled LED lights that can go from cool white to warm white to colored lights to animated lights, presets or play to music. Definitely worth the money, if they worked. Now, after having invested a couple of hundred in lights I thought would last a few years, I’m back to $8 lights because these simply don’t work. The app has a stupid menu set up and after unplugging and replugging the control box (as recommended in the troubleshooting) the system no longer accepts the password and no matter how many times I tried to get the system to read just 5 light strands, it doesn’t.
Oh yeah, Philips didn’t even manufacture this and no longer supports it. They simply slapped their label on it and resold it.
Oh yeah, Philips didn’t even manufacture this and no longer supports it. They simply slapped their label on it and resold it.
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