Govee's BEST Product That NO ONE is Talking About + WLED Conversion.
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wow good looks
I would like to see more applications using these.
put it on your desk! product review without actually testing the product for it's inteded purpose..... no one cares......
Definitely want a follow up video of more applications for this product!
just a note: please read the power specification of the PSU, put the current limit on it into WLED (instead of an arbitrary 2000mA) and set the voltage of the LEDs correctly (in the dropdown on the WLED LED settings page, select either 12V or 24V, I don't know which one they used) so that WLED can correctly calculate how bright it can drive the LEDs without tripping the PSU's overcurrent protection. I do not expect you to have any issues but by using a non-ideal value you may be artificially limiting how bright the strip can run. In the video, the strip looked brighter before your WLED conversion and it doesn't have to.
Would love another video of more applications of these!
Thanks for watching and for the feedback!
@ChrisMaherDIY I would love for you to make a follow up video as well! Thinking about remodeling our office and these lights have peaked my interest.
#MeToo - looking forward to seeing more uses for these lights.
Love your video content but please show us WHY I should watch each video. Preview the lights in action and say how wled or whatever makes it better, now here’s how to get that. I often find myself skipping your videos or fast forwarding to the end and then rewinding.
Thanks for watching and for the feedback. Appreciate it! I always go back and forth on showing a little of the end results at the beginning or saving everything for the end. My 2 most popular videos in terms of views didn't show anything at the beginning and saved everything for the end so I think that's why I've leaned towards saving everything until the end.
Same. Great comment
Fully agree. I think what you're referring to is called a hook (?, in writing at least). These are great, well planned and executed videos but adding a hook would make things much clearer what the point of the video actually is.
@@ChrisMaherDIYinteresting, though I’m not sure 2 cases is significant enough to assume that is a part in the videos being a success and the viewer retention for the videos/intros would probably be more telling than raw views. It would be cool if TH-cam would allow a/b testing for videos so you could compare how changes to the editing of the same content truly affects retention
@@E3_Kruger and your comment there is the “hook” unlike the original poster who didn’t quite explaining himself properly
I've been using Govee products for my setups for a long time, and only recently started getting into the world of microelectronics and wiring. It was really cool seeing these two things in one video, especially in a way that can increase the strip's functionality so much!
Thanks so much for watching! I 100% agree! I couldn't have said it better myself!
How about a parking guide in a garage? Guide and alignment and stop point based on sensor inputs that adjust light sequence, color, speed. Different colors to go left/right, different speed and color for distance remaining to go, some sort of color or pattern change for stopping. That could be fun.
Love the teardown, would love to see more on where you would use these vs your standard setup
Yes, please to a follow-up video showcasing the Top 5 ways to use these lights. 👍🏻🙏🏻
What is it about lighting that has me wrapped up?!? This channel has me worked up constantly! Lol. Your content is unmatched!!! Keep it coming brother! I’m especially excited to get the Nanoleaf ceiling panels after your video. My wife is down for it, so you know it’s going down!
Excellent video, going to be perfect for some ideas I am thinking of. Really appreciate you taking the time to show this!!
These are awesome! I ended up sticking the 6ft versiom between wood slats! Souch easier then buying the channel and diffuser band Light strip all seperate...Soo convenient and fit perfect luckily. And the fact it has 3 m ..means no drilling...added bonus
This just got added to my list for my next setup. great way to highlight the advantages of a product. While I probably won't do the conversion you did, I love that I could if I wanted to. lol
Absolutely awesome! Would love to see a follow up on more ideas!
Ive seen a few unbranded versions of these style, its pretty clever how the diffuser is used, there are various types depending what the use is for but look the same.
I think the ones you have, have a L or a V shape inside and the LEDS are pointing down which hides the 'spot'.
Nice video.
UPDATE: You cut it and its the mushroom shape one :D
I saw these at Best Buy when I was there yesterday. I had almost bought one but had the same thought when I saw the small profile. Looks like I'll be grabbing a few because I now regret not buying one!
Thanks for watching! Yeah I was very skeptical at first but I'm a believer now! lol.
This is such an incredible and simple walk through of a moderate level modification to a good product. I might be sold on these strips for my bedroom. Would love to see your suggested uses video that was mentioned at the end there.
Thanks so much for this video! I have a similar situation with two segments of led strip and was just trying to figure out how to make them work together and BAM! Your video shows up on my feed. Awesome
Excellent video, ever sence I saw your rest led build I wanted d to do something just like that but felt extremely uncomfortable and I felt it was really complicated. I’m sure I could to it with enough patients but I have to say these look like the perfect tool to cover a lot really quickly. I was hoping to know if it’s possible to soder two strips together to make them seamlessly fit and flow together. That way if you wanted to cover a lard area like the top of your room it would look perfect.
Thanks for the awesome videos you have been inspiring me for a long time and I hope you have a blessed day!
Thanks so much for watching and for the kind words! That is definitely something I want to try doing. Being that these are 24v, i think power wise they would look just fine having 1 injection point at the beginning of the 10 meter run. Hopefully I will be able to include that in a follow up video!
@@ChrisMaherDIYdefinitely look forward to that!
Jump in. You'd be surprised at how approachable it is and regardless of how much money you make/have you'll appreciate the crazy amount of savings. Also, you don't necessarily need to solder. Clip on connectors will solve for 90% of all joining solutions and the newer ones provide a close to seamless connection. You'd need a magnifying glass to tell. And if you didn't want to mess around with power supplys there are quality ready made solutions out there for even powering a single tiny strip all the way up to 16ft (depending on 30/60/120 of course. And you'll still see a 50% savings over Govee after buying diffusers and channels.
Yes I would like a video on different uses
Getting that white light is just awesome. Have been looking for a kit like this, too bad it doesnt come with white out of the box
Please for the love of the Gods stay consistent with wiring practices! Especially if you have colours that are already being used in the application, if you don't have black that's fine but use green, blue or brown for the negative/ground connection.
Yes, I would love to see a follow up video on what other interesting uses for around the house 😊
I'm building a new house and I hate that this showed up on my feed, now I have too many ideas of where to use these! BUT THIS IS SO COOL!
Not sure if you are aware. However govee have just released on pre order the neon wall lining rope light ( this was released in the last 24hrs) so they have started to show other ways of using the rope lights around the house.
Would this work with an ESP82 instead of an ESP32? 3:19
Would love to see a follow up and possible ways to integrate this into triggered events... maybe like a Arduino with motion sensor... so you walk into a room or up to your desk then these lights come on, or any other ideas and tutorials would be great!
Finally an English speaker who speaks out WAGO correctly
Hey Chris, another great video!!! Thanks for showing us this light strip. I’m interested in more ways to use this strip around the house video when you can get around to it 😊
Yes, would definitely like to see a follow up video
I have had 2 of these already and I made sure to be careful with them. However they are not very durable. After about 1 week of usage the same half of the light strip stopped working completely.
I have a question! Finally you made work just connecting just the LED JUST by self?
Great video. Would be awesome to see how you’d use these to light up hot toy and statue displays.
Shelving units that collector use can be 48x72 and they use two of them; so getting a continuous string of led to work with shelving would be cool to see. That way each part of the shelf could be isolated into a specific color that matches their setup. Cheers.
Thanks for watching! At some point I do want to do a epic display case lighting video. If done right, it can often time be the main attraction in a room. Its on my long list of projects I want to do!
@@ChrisMaherDIYI for one would like to see a video about that. Thanks. 🙏🏻
I would really like to see a followup to this video
It's a shame they're so expensive, looks like a nice set of lights
Sometimes, you really get what you pay for. Tons if “cheap” leds out there, this is not cheap.
Govee’s products are all overpriced
I think these lights are fantastic. I have just started to move away from HUE. And slowly changing everything out.
One thing I would love to see you do is a video on the outdoor Neons. They look great as well but I need a 15m run but they only come in 10 and 20. So would love to see if something could be done with these.
You trust random Chinese company over Philips? Good luck.
@CrowdContr0l consider they build 99.5% of the stuff we take for granted, yeah! I would be more concered with mongs that supposedly lead us and are doing stuff for our interests. I mean, you could ask do I trust big tech like Google over China. Nope, they are both doing the same thing. Just that one is accepted over the other. Shame you cant post pictures on here. Hue is made in china 😂😂😂😂
So what looks better these govee rope lights or led diffuser channels with cob led lights and seperate power supply and controller?
This govee package comes in 5 meters in a plug and play setup so unless the diffuser channel looks much better in terms of light quality and spotless effect etc then doesn't it make sense just to buy these?
I just ordered the shallow V shape muzata channels with cob leds, athom controller and mean well power supplies but now im thinking this govee product is better and easier.
Brilliant. I love your channel you are so talented. I have this desk strip and the diffused look is fantastic.
Excellent video if I could buy these direct from you after you’ve done all the work, I would totally do it.
I would not recommend use of the GPIO 2 pin as it is a strapping pin that triggers the built in led 7:07
Thanks for the feedback!
What would you recommend?
The led on the controller board?
@@muchthump ESP32(s) have a built in led on GPIO 2
@@trigger9559 Try using google to lookup gpio pins, most between 14 & 30 work fine. I used GPIO 18 & 19 in a previous project, and that worked great!
Great video! Audio cuts out early during the outry and there's even a spot of your original mic noise sneaking in around 11:50. Easter egg? :-)
Hey Chris, awesome videos man! I really love quality of videos, as they inspired me for my own project. But I would like to ask for your guidance. And I think it would be helpful for other people as well
I have a standing desk and monitor raiser. I'm thinking to use one 16ft strip to light up the desk and monitor raiser
Question:
Can we cut this strip in the middle and resolder it back but extending it with cords, so there would be a gap in the middle? I'm trying to light up 2 separate pieces of the desk and make it seamless
Thank you in advance!
@@bohdantkachenko9505 thanks for the kind words! I have not personally tried it with this kit but my guess would be that you can. I think the solder points are close to 2 feet apart so that might be an issue though if things don't line up nicely.
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Thank you for the prompt reply! If I'm lucky enough and the soldering point is close to the place where I need to cut it, how can I find it?
I had another idea just to cut out the silicone diffuser and use the actual strip facing the desk to make it somehow seamless but the result won't be the best as with cutting and extending with wires
As always, I enjoy watching all of your videos. Could you make a follow up on the Govee desk LED’s showing how to cut and extend, or if this is even possible?
For sure want to see a follow up on what you would do with these!
Would love to see another video on these!
You're right in my head with all your lighting. I love accent/architectural lighting and you are right in my wheelhouse. I use WLED a lot, but there are times when I'd like some Govee sequences as well. I've been thinking, if there was a way to have a diode on the data line maybe, so you could leave both the ESP and Govee pieces connected full time and not have to physically switch between the 2, if that makes sense. Obviously both can be powered down in their respective apps, so maybe it could work?
Hahaha... I just bought this strip a couple days ago and definitely did not plan for it to go around my desk. I was a little confused that that's what the marketing was centered around, but figured it's just an led strip, right? I just put it on my wall as a decoration, but now kinda regret not doing something more unique, like wrapping it around an object (don't want to deal with ripping it off the wall now, the adhesive seems pretty strong).
I want to use this product as a trim on my arcade now
Yes! I love this episode. I would love to use something like this on my bike or car. Do you think it’s possible???
All your videos are super appreciated and very informative/professional/thought provoking! You have taught me a lot. Have you ever tried this same process with any of the other Govee RGBIC products other than the Permanent Outdoor Lights? I attempted the same with one of their Neon Rope Lights and so far have only been able to get the first few LEDs to light up, but when I tried it on an M1, things seemed to work fine.
Thx Chris, absolutely love the Govee products! Please do a follow up on other applications for these. 👍🏻
Thanks so much for watching and thanks for the feedback!!
Your videos have been instrumental when I designed my lights and LEDs for my new house. Thank you so much, you have taught me so much!
Would be dope to put this around the inside of a giant car moonroof. Like my ‘23 F150, I would love to put this setup inside the headliner, framing the giant panoramic moonroof.
Yes please make another video. Also how much does it cost to do all that to the gocee lights. Buying the chips and such along with the price of the lights.
Not sure if you can do this with the light strips shown here, but I used 2 govee m1 strips in my kitchen and was able to get govee to treat it as one long strip. Just had to solder on the 2nd strip to the end of the 1st, then power it up and refresh the length of the strip on the app
wow - very informative and definately do the 5 wyas to use it video!
As normal excellent video..... The only issue I have is that the Govee lights are just too expensive, but heck yes make another video with these!!! :)
YES for the follow up video! I bought one of these strips just because it was "cheap", and I don't even have a gaming setup, lol!
How man strips could you get connected. Two strips won't cover the distance that I need.
What’s the point in making a separate controller? Seems like a lot of extra work considering you can just plug and play with the app. Yes there’s certain niche cases like you said, but in most cases just get a longer set if you want a larger portion to be “seamless”.
TLDR: unless you have a niche diy need, the regular software works fine. It doesn’t do certain very specific effects and it has a few limitations but not any that most won’t be fine with.
100% agree. Govee does very well because they make good products and their app is full of features. However, WLED software has a huge following and is in my opinion the best.
Because you’re limited to whatever the longest they provide is. The controller is preset to handle the amount of LED’s the regular rgb strip has and nothing more. If you want more than 16.4 ft, you have to go with WLED.
Definitely wish to see another video
Interested how many can be linked end to end. Looking for a solution to put lights under the eaves of the front of my house. Low profile lights up all year for all holidays is nice.
Are there any plans for a video on non-addressable LED strips for a 'down to earth' room lighting setups, substituting traditional lights where raves aren't a nightly occurrence?
Hmm, now I’m curious if you could get a similar effect with a generic diffuser and LED strip with a similar downward-facing trick for that seamless diffusion-but at a lower cost 🤔
Chris - could you connect 3 16 foot strips together and use wled? Would there be a power injection issue? Curious if you tried that yet.
Thanks for watching! I have not tried it but for sure something I want to. I hope to do a follow up video with creative ways these can be used around the house.
With 50ft and only 2A, you're definitely going to need injection. Maybe if you keep the brightness really low.
Would it be possible to run these in a car application with 12v?
I was wondering the same thing, stepping the voltage up or down wouldn't be hard. I am curious how it would hold up to the conditions.
Did you know that esp32 have linear voltage regulator on it, just use the vin to power it with 12v supply
Bro, I absolutely love your videos, but please could you make a video about how to run LEDs over cat6 or POE?
Being able to string them together is interesting...wonder how long they'd survive outside. Hmmm.......
They should add more options in their app
Can I connect my M1 strip with this neon rope ? And use it as one strip with the govee controller ? 😊 thank you so much
The method of reversing the strip in the diffusion must reduce the light output by a lot...maybe as much as 90%. What do you think? Is product only suitable for accent designs or could it be used for some general illumination, albeit in a limited way?
Great video as always, appreciate the breakdown. However I am confused what's the difference between the two WLED boards shown? Was it just a choice?
These companies need to stop relegating their hardware to their own atrocious software suites and release them with open-source control options like WLED. Govee, Yeelight, you name it.
You realize that is the point of selling cheap electronics to the world, to get their apps installed on personal phones, right? I wonder why they would want to do that.
@@CrowdContr0l Yeelight is anything but cheap. Sorry. If you want to get into that ecosystem, it's gonna cost you hundreds, if not thousands of dollars just to get started.
Govee has atrocious app ? Clearly you don't own any of their products.
@@Xanderman Bro, I have Chinese reps from Shenzhen on my Facebook friend's list. The same company who makes Govee also has a factory that makes s3x toys. They send me everything from massive spools of LEDs to vibrators with rabbit ears on them. Edit: For free. I used to chat with the company owner on Whatsapp before China blocked it, when Govee was still small time back in 2017. Now we use Wechat.
Another Great video. I would be interested to see how you can use these in other areas.
If they made this same light strip like for a bedroom like 60ft I would buy right now but 16ft not long enough !!!!!!!!!!
Chris you are one of my favorite content creators thanks for what you share on TH-cam. I got a govee outdoor neon rope light 10meter strip. And I'm hoping to buy 2 more as I can afford them. I was thinking wled is a good way to control all 3 strips as one. I plan to line the rim of my pool with them. Too bad there isn't a single govee 30 meter strip. Anyways I don't wanna disect my light strip and I can't see how many leds are in the rope lights for the input on the wleds software... this is probably a newb question but I hope you can hook me up. Thanks
Since you mentioned you’re from Minnesota. Every time k am driving and I see house with govee I think of yours lol. Cool stuff brother thx
I wish I was on this level 😢 need to be able to wire them together to do anything cool
yup defiantly a pool!
I’d like to see what ideas you have for their use. Also what about the Govee Neon strip lights? I would like to see what WLED can do with that one.
So we can "hack" any consumer led system just like that, like any led strip that come with a more rigid setup and the like? We don't need to diy the all diffusion system!
Just find out your channel and this is amaising!
Can these be used outside like around a Hot tub? are they water proof?
I have a few smart LED lights in our house all work fine apart from Govee, they drop off the network & refuse to rejoin, it’s hard to trace their ip,address but when I did & assigned it a fixed address for 2.5ghz the bloody thing still looses connection. I’ve given up now & we switch them manually as are simply too unreliable, their support is useless. Maybe I can hack them with WLED? I will never use Govee again!
odd question but the govee M1 strips have 4 connection points...... I have many left ove M1 strips from cutting. The govee cobtroller only has 3 wires,... red,white, black. do you know which wire goes to the M1 pads? thanks in advance. love the videos
Main am I'm love with this one . But I wish I kmow how to install lol .. U r genius man
Couldn’t you just use the your motherboard’s 4 pin to control the lights?
How can you upgrade WLED on the Domestic Automation board w/o a usb connector?
Thanks for watching! Lol ironically I just did this yesterday! I downloaded the .bin file from wleds github page. Then loaded up the web interface for wled on the domestic automation board. Go to config and down to security and updates, click manual ota update, choose the .bin file you downloaded and click update. This is how I update all my esp devices around the room. Hope that helps!
I agree these are amazing and yes 5 ideas pls
awesome!!! I didn't know Govee made these and to use it l.ike that I can think of where I would use it.
Thanks so much for watching! Yeah unless you were looking specifically for desk lights, these would not even be on anyone's radar!
WAGO needs to sponsor this channel
Lol I really wish they would! Wagos are not cheap!!
Just bought three using your link for a shed to office conversion. Going to put them behind crown moulding. I’m assuming WLED will work with three strips?
Also - what are you thoughts about how bright the strip is? I couldn’t find data around output. My plan is for this to replace can lights (in combination with floor lamps and task lighting)
I want to know how to put multiple strips of these to use as Christmas lights without brightness degradation. I can only hook up two to each other before having negative effects.
Ughh the fact that Govee is yet to update the API is such a buzzkill. I actually did some projects such as this but went with Cololight. Their app used to be spot on but, they updated and I didn't like it. So, the 4 ESP32s W/ mic became WLED aware. Well, that turned into the 4x(300LED) 5V strips becoming sacrificial tributes to 40x(30LED) 5V strips to make a 5V-1200LED Matrix Panel for Visuals when DJing.
TL;DR - ISO a way to crack the 12V Govee controllers I have for science reasons ;)
Enjoyed the vid, hope to catch some more ideas you have and maybe even be able to toss some ideas around for future usecases.
Hi Chris, thank you for informative videos. And keep doing great work!
One request is how can I make this strip motion activated.
I want to make it so when me or wife wakes up in the middle of the night, the strip dimly lites up the path way to the kitchen or restroom. Want to make sure that it is not so bright as to wake up the baby. Thanks again!
Know of any places to get more inner corner mounts? I bought these to run around the inside of my game table. Govee only supplies 1 inner corner mount and doesn't sell them separately
Please make a follow up.
Excellent video Chris, thank you for sharing 🙏
Are these als 60 per meter as the m1? Looks like they have afair amount of pixel per meter
Thank you Chris.
Hope you’re doing well my friend?
Thanks as always buddy! My family and I are doing great! How are you doing!?
Can these be used outdoors?