The Best LED Strip Lights to Add a Little RGB to Your Life

The Philips Hue strip is an ideal place to start building out your rooms of smart lights. It comes coiled with a little more than 6.5 feet of adhesive-backed lights to work with, but that can be connected to additional Hue strips for up to 32 feet of lighting or cut down to size without ruining the circuit. This kit is great for pretty much any situation – wrapping around walls, attaching to a TV stand, under a table, etc. – and a special coating on the strip hides the individual bulbs, creating a single string of light.

Like other Hue products, the lights can be controlled from your smartphone, other smart home assistants like Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple HomeKit via Bluetooth, or a smart light switch. The pre-programmed color scenes were made to suit nearly any situation, from early morning wakeup calls to late-night parties, though they can easily be tweaked in-app. They look especially great when a good chunk of the provided strip is installed (and along with Hue products in other light sources in the room); when it’s cut short, the segments of light with four-color scenes look a little disjointed. These are expensive, but absolutely worth recommending.

For a super affordable light strip loaded with versatility and control, the Wyze Light Strip Pro is the way to go. It can automatically set color temperatures based on the time of day, has a microphone built-in to sync with your music, and offers a vacation mode to deter intruders. Best of all, this 16.4-foot strip costs under $40 and offers 16 customizable segments to display 16 of the 16 million RGB colors and tunable whites available simultaneously.

Installing the Wyze Light Strip takes adhesive and clips included in the kit. You can cut the epoxy-coated strip at specific points to fit for your desired location, though, unfortunately, you can’t (re-)connect strips. Set it up with the Wyze app and connect it toAmazon Alexa and Google Assistant, making the strip easy to adjust using your voice.

The Elgato Light Strip Pro is made for people who are into game streaming. When connected to Elgato’s Stream Deck, you have an easy-to-use central command for changing your lighting setup to fit the mood of whatever you’re doing or synchronize it to the action of your game. In addition to the Stream Deck, you can always make changes on your PC or your phone.

At over 6.5-feet long and extendable up to 32 ft, Elgato’s light strip offers 2,000 lumens of light in full RGB and white colors that are flicker-free. It’s also super thin, can be cut to size, and comes with a super sticky adhesive.

The latest version of Govee’s strip lights support Matter and can be extended up to 32.8 feet. The bright colors are incredibly immersive, whether you want to add additional lighting to your home or gaming setup. Using the Govee app, you can control the lights when you’re at home or away, and customize them with over 64+ scenes that sycn with other Govee lights in your home. The Govee RGBIC LED Strip Lights M1 feature 60 LEDs per meter, resulting in bright and colorful lights wherever you decide to put them.

While the Govee TV Backlight 3 Lite is an improvement over Govee’s T1 camera, it isn’t quite as good as the T2 kit. However, it is significantly cheaper. And for that reason, it offers better value for money for anyone looking to invest in a starter TV light set up. Using an upgraded fish-eye camera, the 3 Lite achieves accurate color matching, so your TV’s lights sync well with what you’re watching.

Still, Govee’s TV lights all come with the rather invasive camera that you must place on top of your TV. As long as you’re OK with this, the Govee TV Backlight 3 Lite offers a reasonably affordable way to enjoy a more immersive experience when you’re playing games, watching movies, or TV shows. Using the Govee app, you can customize the lighting and add up to seven sub devices.

Add custom lighting to your home easily and enjoy rhythmically immersive lights that are easy to put together with the Nanoleaf Shapes Triangles and Mini Triangles Smarter Kit (17 Pack). There are different shapes available, including hexagons and mixed shapes – whatever floats your boat.

The modular design means you can easily expand your Nanoleaf Shapes, mixing and matching with other kits. Once installed, you can customize the lights using the Nanoleaf app with as many color options as you could possibly imagine. Unlike some accent lighting, the Nanoleaf Shapes kit really does stick well with little issue, making setup simple and longevity basically guaranteed.

If you want to go all out and decorate your entire home in LED strip lights, the Govee Permanent Outdoor Lights Pro are the best available. They cost a small fortune, but they are worth it in every sense. These IP67-rated waterproof lights work with Alexa, Google Assistant, and Matter, and feature 75 scene modes so you can light up the street, no matter the weather or season.

With 100 feet(!) of lights, these LED lights can also be cut to fit your home perfectly. Use the included controller, your voice, or the Govee app to control the lights, set schedules, customize colors, and more.