Govee RGBIC TV LED Backlight H6168

I am really enjoying this led backlight. It has many customized light color options in the app. You can customize it to fit your mood, scene, etc. This light can be controlled via the app or alexa. It was easy to set up and in no time I was connected. You can also turn off/on via physical button, however I use app or alexa to do that for me. Love it, functions well. Great vibrant colors and great quality.

Well, this is my first Govee light. In the past I hesitated for only one reason - compatibility with Home Assistant. When researching a light strip for my TV, I noticed there is now an integration for Govee on HA, so I decided to give this RGBIC LED strip a try for my 65 inch LG OLED C5. Overall, I'm very impressed! Here are some highlights: * Love the braided cable on each corner. If you have worked with standard LED light strips, you know what a pain corners can be. This light strip made the corners easy. It is important to measure things out and ensure you get the correct light set and center each section. * The 3M tape seems good compared to other cheap products. And, the LEDs is coated with a thicker plastic, which is help. * If integrating with Home Assistant, set up simple, but I had one hiccup. Simply add the light to the Govee app. In the settings there is an option to enable Local Control. I was unable to enable this option at first. I unplugged the device and waited a while, but no change. I then turned the unit off and on with the power switch and the option was now available. After enabling, all you have to do is add the Govee integration in HA and it will automatically see the light strip. Time will tell how the lights do and the 3M tape.

Overall, these lights are terrific. They light up the living space with vibrant colors and bright effects. The RGBIC feature was something I didn't know I wanted, but now I can't live without. Especially in combination with other Govee lights, these strips bring some amazing ambiance and life to a room. The strips themselves, as others have mentioned, are overall good, but have some flaws. First, the good: I love that the strips are black so they don't clash with the color of the TV. Also the dedicated corner wires make it so you don't have to deal with the confusion on how to twist the strip around corners without breaking them, so that's a big plus. I have a 55in TV and these fit around the back rim perfectly. The major flaw comes in the adhesive. This can really be hit or miss. For example, 3/4's of my strip had good ahesive that has stayed secure for months now. However, out of the package, the last 1/4th of the strip had very little to no adhesive at all and could not hold itself up. Fortunately, Govee rectifies this by including some dedicated mounting brackets, so I was able to use them to finish mounting the strip. It would be better if the mounting brackets were colored black instead of white so the colors don't clash, but functionally they get the job done where the adhesive fails. Despite that, the lights and the many patterns are great. The app itself to control the lights can be finicky, but after taking a few minutes to walk through the app, you'll find the basic functions. I wish that there was a way to slow down some of the light patterns, as some of them are extremely fast moving. Overall, I would highly recommend these lights. They are affordable, versatile, and have a wide variety of features. The adhesive can be hit or miss, but regardless, these lights are terrific.

I'm a moderate fan of Govee lights and other accessories. I think they offer a good bang for the buck, but there are certain things I wish were normalized across their product line. Some have remotes, some use apps, some integrate better with automation platforms like Matter. I think at times they have too many products, but I get they're trying to cater to just about everybody at various price points. In terms of the kit I purchased, I installed it on an 85" Sony TV. Installing it is easy, but I will give you a couple of tips if you plan to install lights on the back of multiple TVs. I have not had the best of luck with the adhesive always holding the LED strips onto the TV, and also the small plastic retainers they give to hold the cables in the corners of the TV, along with the other wires you must route behind the TV. What I have done is purchase black hot glue sticks, and use that in place of the white clips they provide, and you can also put a dab of hot clud under the light strips at each end to prevent peel back. Removing is simple with rubbing alcohol down the road if you want to release the hot glue. Functionality wise, these seem to work best at a very slow animation rate, or in static form. WIth faster animations, they don't present what I would call smooth transitions, and that's likely due to the limited number of LEDs on the strips. I also tried setting up the camera on my 85" TV and no matter what I tried, the app would also jumble up the display on calibration. I tried with the room bright, dark, moving the orange calibration squares, using a YouTube calibration video, etc. So that mode is pretty much a non-starter, tho I have a similar kit on a smaller TV that works okay. For my settings, I pretty much just use the scene mode, and allow it to very slowly transition colors. It so slow that you have to really pay attention to see the colors slowly transition, and I like that. It provides good accent lightling and that's all I was really after. So for me, I'm taking a star away for the camera/calibration issues, along with the animations not being very smooth at faster rates. I also wish it had a much better auto off function, since you must run it in the VIdeo mode for that to work, but even when I did that, the lights remained on all night. At this point I just run them 24x7, but it would be nice if it had audio or video pickup regardless of mode, so you could set a sleep timer based on audio or video. Would I buy these again? I'm not sure. I'd do my research since this industry seems to be ever evolving. I only use Hue and Govee for my lighting at this point, so I'd try to stick to those two brands on a future purchase. I have not had a Govee product fail, but I've also not had a Govee product really impress me. Cool, yes. Amazing in design and execution, no. I have not purchases all of their products though, but thus far, they're good, not great in my book.

Got this as a white elephant gift and it was a hit item!! I had one of these for my bedroom tv and I love it super simple to use with the app. Length is perfect for 65” TV and colors are super vibrant. I would avoid installing them to close to the outer edge of your TV otherwise the strip and lights will peak out. Overall, great quality and good gift idea for white elephant!

These look great and work flawlessly via the app which allows you to control it remotely and/or set it to a schedule. These are great for your eyes for when you’re watching TV or gaming in a darker room. My one and only complaint is the strength of the adhesive. Like most, if not all, TVs the back of my LG is textured, and after about a month and a half some of the light mounts are falling. The strips are double-sided but there are also mounts to help with keeping them up. But honestly this isn’t surprising considering TVs get warm and adhesives will only do so much against a warm textured surface.

I have bought these tv backlights for all of my TV’s! I love Govee in general. Their products are always on point and work great. Easy to install and the app isn’t complicated to understand.

Worked ok but not the effect I thought it would. Kept it because it’s already stuck up.