Govee 100ft RGBIC LED Strip Lights, Work with Alexa and Google Assistant

Why it's worth it

A 100-foot RGBIC kit that ships as two 50-foot rolls, with segmented color control, an onboard mic for music sync, and Alexa and Google support. It's the entry point most people start with, and it covers a bedroom, a basement or a long bookcase run.

This is the product that made Govee a household name, and the reason is RGBIC. As RTINGS explains, RGBIC strips split the run into independently controlled segments instead of lighting the whole thing one color at a time. So you get gradients, chases and rainbows that travel down the strip. Standard RGB strips at similar prices can only do one color at once, and once you've seen the difference it's hard to go back.

A hundred feet is more than you think, and that's the point. It's enough to run cove lighting around a whole bedroom ceiling, line nine feet of bookcases, or wrap a basement office and still have slack. Owners doing big builds tend to praise how well it cuts and reconnects at the marked points, which lets you turn one long run into several shorter ones that follow the shape of a room.

From our review of 8 govee smart lights

What we like

• +This is the product that made Govee a household name, and the reason is RGBIC
• +A hundred feet is more than you think, and that's the point
• +The music sync uses a mic built into the control box rather than your phone, so it hears the room instead of whatever your…
• +Everything runs through the Govee Home app, which is genuinely good at the boring parts: grouping devices, scheduling, saving…

What to know

• –It's not waterproof. This is dry indoor surfaces only — no bathrooms with steamy showers, no covered patios, no garages that…
• –The adhesive is the weak link, as it is across most of the category
• –You get two 50-foot rolls, not one continuous 100-foot line