TapoL900-5 LED Strip Light 5m, Multicolour Led Lights for TV Bedroom, Smart Lighting Controls, Hands-Free Voice Control with Alexa & Google, Flexible Installation, Packaging May Vary

I wanted to automate my home so went on the search for a setup that I could expand on. Other products where either too cheap or unknown and lacked compatibility and availability to other sensors or had some flaws. Tapo a brand made by TP Link is known for its vast product range.These LEDs are so bright I have set they to 20% down down the stair rails. You can set the color's of choice, and set up automations, With adding a Hub sold separately you can still setup a schedule, timer, away actions, effects, and react to sound. I use this with a Hub so Tapo sensors trigger them, and lights at certain times of the night or day. I also use the Tapo button to be a doorbell that changed the stair lights to another color so I can see someone is at the door.

This little light strip seems great for the price. I’ll be investing in some more for future projects and time will tell if they last like they claim. Easy to use and the length of cable is perfect. These will be used with our new staircase installation and were recommended by the fitter so he must get good feedback on the quality and durability. Also, the use with connecting to Alexa is perfect. Great little product.

Have four sets of these in the house and I think they are great. The general Tapo functionality (which I won’t review here) is very flexible and powerful (have a few other Tapo devices in the house).What I like, particularly:1) Choice of colours2) Ease of installation: adhesion is great whilst at same time allows relocation, and plenty of wire length either side of manual switch to allow ideal placement of the switch and lights.3) The manual switch is a handy function, eg makes it possible to use the product as a light in your bedroom instead of a bedside lamp.4) Brightness is good, and is of course variable.5) Away mode (good for home security).6) Cutable.7) Power efficiency8) Consistency of brightness and colour between units.9) Robustness and quality.10) The effects. Fun for the kids, especially.My one gripe:The interface for setting the colour is shown in the picture in this review. It’s a terrible piece of design. It is almost impossible to set the same colour across all units. When dragging your finger to the desired spot, it isn’t possible to see exactly where on the circle the choice is placed (the CAPS letters change as you move your finger, so you get some feedback) but then lifting your finger changes the setting. Infuriating! It takes many attempts and many minutes in a trial-and-error fashion to nail it. There are two simple solutions to this that TP Link should implement:1) make it possible to set the colour by typing into the CAPS letters field. In the picture you can see that I (after bl&&dy ages) managed to select FFFFFF (hexadecimal standard colour code for pure white) with the circle, but it would be MUCH easier to type in FFFFFF instead.2) A manual selection of colour, like my choice of FFFFFF, should be saved in the app and usable for all the units in the house, but it isn’t. Each unit has to be set up individually, in terms of customised colours. Saved customised effects across units are possible, so saving colours should also be.

These lights are amazing, I’ve been through two sets of the cheap ones you can buy, both of which I returned as the settings weren’t correlating with the remote, and the stick was adequate, but these are deffo worth the extra few pounds as they’re properly sticky and last, even in kitchen steam environments, and the lights are of good bright quality too.

Amazing LEDs. Connects to alrxa very easily. Very good app software. Leds are very strong and bright. Has hardly any heat emitting from. Amazing light diffusion. Overall recommend. Best leds I've ever got.

I bought this LED strip to put round my IKEA pegboard and am amazed with the results. It was super easy to set up and the software it comes with is super easy to use. I paired it with my amazon Alexa and all I need to say is "Alexa turn the pegboard on" and it does it instantly - it's awesome!

These have been great for our kitchen (above the cabinets) and bedroom (along the edge of a wardrobe) and the integration with Alexa is welcome & works well. I've had them installed for a couple of years and haven't had any issues at all. Having a manual button to turn them on/off is useful.

Generally, great value lights and lots of flexibility as smart lighting. Biggest problem is if you want more than one strip and want to set the same custom colour on each strip (in my case 3 strips in diffent zones in my kitchen).The app lets you define custom colours and allocate to a preset. However, this is implemented as a colour wheel you have to drag around with your finger making it virtually impossible to set the same colour code on multiple led strips. Tried to explain this to TP Link support but they don't seem to get it. Next to the colour wheel it even displays the RGB colour code (three 2-digit hexadecimal numbers i.e. 1-255 for each RGB channel). All they need to do is allow you to edit this colour code directly in the app... but as I say above, when contacted, tech support just doesn't seem to understand the usability issue. Shame as, otherwise, it's an excellent product.