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Best LED strips for DIY lighting? (hexbear.net)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Looking for something with warm hues (should be available with any rgb right?) and a long lifetime. I dont want to ever replace light fixtures again. Any help / suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Geeni makes a Walmart specific brand that does alright as a Hue replacement. I had a few Hue lights but after we moved into our house I wanted to get more lights for all rooms and saw them and tested one out in my kid's room for a while and it worked so I swapped them all out and offloaded my Hue lights at a garage sale we had a while after.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How are they holding up? Ive heard that the bulb based solutions degrade over time due to heat dissipation issues. Strip lighting is more attractive to me because i can replace a single LED if it goes bad, as opposed to throwing away a whole bulbs worth plus the power supply, SoC and wifi

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I picked them up like 3 years ago and not a single one has failed l. The real issue is that the app isn't great and it can be finicky trying to get a bulb on your network. The app also has telephony and it their servers are down they don't work.

I actually want them to fail so I can eventually replace them with regular ones. Trying to do home automation is starting to be more of a hassle than I care about. I can still see the appeal of it though.