Govee Glide Hexagon Light Panels Ultra Review: The ultimate wall lights

Verdict

The Govee Glide Hexagon Gentle Panels Extremely may very nicely be one of the best wall-mounted ambient lights. AR performance may make the set up course of just a little simpler, and some lacking options from the competitors is disappointing at this excessive value, however they’re straightforward to make use of and look phenomenal.

Introduction

Only one brief 12 months in the past, Govee put out its finest effort to compete towards the favored Nanoleaf Shapes line with its Glide Hexa mild panels – 10 uniform lighting panels designed so as to add a little bit of ambient flare to your wall in a sample of your selecting.

Already, it was among the many better of the bunch, providing comparatively straightforward set up and nice color choices at a aggressive value. The Govee Glide Hexagon Gentle Panels Extremely makes final 12 months’s mannequin appear to be an affordable imitation.

With much more lighting zones per panel and an intuitive set up course of, there’s lots to like on this costly package deal. It’s far and away one of the best of the bunch, however the value actually will likely be onerous to swallow particularly in case you want multiple set.

Design and set up

• Panels hyperlink up effortlessly
• Non-compulsory and upgraded handbook controls
• Stable construct high quality

Similar to the Govee Glide Hexa, you get 10 Govee Glide Hexagon Gentle Panels Extremely per pack, with the choice to hyperlink two extra up with out utilizing one other energy socket, or a collection of 20 complete in case you don’t thoughts the additional cable (and value).

Every panel is constructed nicely and trumps Govee’s now cheaper providing by utilizing three smaller and strategically positioned adhesive backing strips as a substitute of 1. This could imply a decrease probability of a panel coming unfastened from the wall over time. Off-the-shelf strips will doubtless suffice for repositioning the entire set too, do you have to resolve to redecorate down the road.

The ten panels are stacked in teams of 5 within the foam packaging contained in the field with the cables in a pair plastic baggage — so not the best to recycle. Every panel is protected by an identical cardboard stencil that you simply’re inspired to make use of to plot your design on the wall. You’ll want to produce your personal tape in case you go that route.

When you’ve settled in your area, you utilize the Govee app to position every of the ten panels into the app’s grid. The app then makes use of this design to intuitively instruct which of the numbered cable slots on every panel you’ll use to appropriately line all of them up. These go in with a satisfying snap and could be pulled right down to nestle behind the sides of the 2 linked panels for a seamless end. Rinse and repeat, and also you’re carried out in a matter of minutes.

It’s completely foolproof. Virtually. Although you may visualize your plotted design within the app towards some pre-rendered backgrounds, there’s a missed alternative to make use of AR to superimpose your completed design in your personal room and toy with the lighting results earlier than set up.

You may additionally should wrestle with the ability cable placement to get it coming straight down from essentially the most logical level to your energy sockets. I needed to rotate the entire design within the app to get the cable to originate from the best facet of the primary panel closest to my outlet. By default, the app needed it to attach on the left and go down behind one other panel. There’s definitely just a little work to be carried out there, nevertheless it’s doubtless solely a software program replace away.

Options

• Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant assist
• Virtually infinite lighting prospects
• Reacts to music

When you’ve adopted the customized step-by-step directions after designing your sample within the app, you’re just about all set. Simply join the lights to a 2.4GHz Wi-Fi community by way of the app and all the pieces fires up robotically.

My design didn’t sync up appropriately the primary time, with the fourth panel within the sequence refusing to comply with the remainder. Rapidly etching out the design once more and dashing by way of the in-app course of fastened it with none want to tear panels off the partitions. I’ll admit it was a scary state of affairs, however the repair was only a reboot away fairly than an RMA.

By the app, you might have entry to a bunch of various lighting modes in a format you’ll acknowledge in case you’ve used any Govee merchandise within the final 12 months or so.

From stable colors through a wheel to dozens of preset scenes, there’s loads to select from. You may even tweak the color and brightness of every panel. In traditional Govee trend, many of the named themes don’t actually make a whole lot of sense, however the Life ones like Night time Gentle, Film, and Leisure are all easy sufficient to vibe with.

Anything is a maddening rainbow that solely serves to point out the infinite lighting prospects every panel’s huge array of zones can accommodate, however they may simply turn into the favorite of a chaotic child’s recreation room for a time.

Whether or not or not you’re connecting to a sensible house service like Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant, you may flip the Govee Glide Hexagon Gentle Panels Extremely on or off through the Govee app and even set timers to activate, off, or dim. What you may’t seem to do is ready timers to automate switching between totally different lighting modes all through the day, nevertheless it’s a deep and complex app and there’s each probability I simply haven’t managed to seek out that individual choice simply but.

The microphone constructed into the upgraded in-line distant means the Govee Glide Hexagon Gentle Panels Extremely can jam alongside to your music, and you may join them to the Govee desktop app and even Razer Chroma to allow reactive lighting just like Nanoleaf and Philips Hue merchandise. Proper now, I’ve them altering to match movies on my secondary show whereas my Govee AI Gaming Sync Field package reacts to video games on my fundamental show.

Efficiency

• Splendidly vivid
• 5 lighting zones per panel
• Intense color

The Govee Glide Hexagon Gentle Panels Extremely enhance on Govee’s cheaper fashions by successfully splitting every panel’s lighting zones into extra sections containing a complete of 129 LEDs per panel. The design of every permits them to sport a 3D cuboid look with the best setting, serving to them actually pop on the wall.

The place the earlier mannequin may solely show a gradient throughout its complete floor space, the Extremely panels have distinctive a lighting path working by way of the centre, splitting every panel’s already spectacular RGBIC lighting array into 5 distinct areas. This finally provides you much more management over the colors and patterns your completed design can show.

As somebody who has by no means actually understood the enchantment of this area of interest new summary part of sensible lighting options, I’ll admit that the Govee Glide Hexagon Gentle Panels Extremely modified my thoughts the second the completed design sprang to life. It’s vivid sufficient to be daring and delightful at any time of day, and might get dim sufficient to wind down with because the solar units, as a nifty nightlight, and even one thing to get up to slowly.

My accomplice has decked out his personal area with cheap and generic off-the-shelf lighting merchandise for years and virtually shed a tear as quickly as all the pieces synced up. To him, it was little doubt a shocking realization of what you may get for, admittedly, fairly much more cash in comparison with normal LED string lights and low-cost neon signage.

Are they just a little further? Completely. I’d nonetheless by no means be capable to justify spending this sort of money on such a product. They’re an pointless luxurious for me proper now. However in case you’re out there to spruce up your area like a lavish YouTuber, they’re onerous to beat.

Given Govee is usually seen as the corporate that gives comparable merchandise for a fraction of the price of the competitors, it’s a slight disgrace to see these value as a lot as they do. Taking a look at its rival’s choices, although, there’s little doubt in my thoughts that these are the head of consumer-grade ambient lighting. Govee is long gone the times of undercutting the market. They’re starting to guide it.

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