Govee Flood Lights Outdoor 4 Pack, 2200-6500K Dimmable RGBIC Warm White and Daylight, Smart WiFi APP Control, Work with Alexa, IP66 for Garden Lawn

It’s not bright as expected

I have been a fan of Govee products forever so when it came to holiday/landscape lights, I naturally started with them. I was looking for RGB lights that were easy to install, used a familiar app and could be controlled using smart home assistants. These fit the bill! The colors are bright, pairing to the Govee app is flawless and most importantly, the pre existing scenes are just perfect! I was up and running right in time for the holiday season. While the lights are fantastic, the customer service is where Govee takes it to the next level. Outside of Govee’s control, I had an issue with one of the wires and I reached out to them for advice. I was hoping to get some tips on resolving the issue which made the lights inoperable. Govee asked for some details, and immediate shipped a replacement box within 2-3 business days! WOW! I was just blown away. They were courteous, sympathetic towards my issue and very responsive. Special shoutout to Melinda from the Govee support team who handled my case. This is truly amazing - in spite of this being an issue that wasn’t caused by their product, they helped make it right. And in turn, gained a more loyal customer for life. I will always default to Govee when considering my lighting needs in the future. If you are looking for fantastic holiday lights or any kind of RGB lights, start with Govee. You can buy a light anywhere - consider who will stand behind their products if/when it fails. That is the differentiator with this company!!

These are the lights of the future. Everyone will have these. No putting up string lights on hooks only to take them down again. These I wasn’t sure if they’d work in cold weather. It’s -42°C tonight & I switched from white to the Xmas pattern and lights are working. I bought 2 boxes in case anything goes wrong. So far so good. Were a hit at Halloween too! So nice to go to the app and choose from scores of patterns!

Sonas others have said these are not really "flood" lights. If you are expecting them to light up a large area look elsewhere. I bought them for Halloween to light up a path, with some haloween colour, and they did that job great. Actually so good I've left then there and it's now winter with snow. Still doing a good job. Going to see how they cope in the whole winter. Expect will be fine, the power adaptor and button are in a box and under shelter outside. With the Amazon coupon the price is good too. Cheaper than an outdoor lamp! One minus: for some reason has trouble once a week connecting to wifi, only thing I have that does and I have a lot of stuff like this including other govee. Hope this gets fixed in an update. Has Bluetooth too so if it fails can turn them on and off with the phone.

The TLDR is for the price it is hard to beat, the software is janky and a few dumb design decisions really limit the product's potential. Update 1 month of use: One of the lights filled with water (see pictures). The whole light is glued together and the front translucent window that the light shines through leaked. I don't know if I broke the adhesive by squeezing the front face adjusting the light or if it was a factory defect but I had a spare from a second set. There are cheap lights so be careful handling them. The Good: - The price point is great for these units. The build quality seems decent and the light output quality is good. The Bad: The app is janky, here is why - The prebuilt scenes don't have an effects speed or effects fade setting. The majority of the scenes have abrupt color changes that are very distracting on the eyes. If you want to use this for ambient lighting in an outdoor space you are stuck making a custom "DIY" scene - If you want to set the lights to a predefined color with no effects there is a relative brightness slider that does not make sense as there are two sliders. A "brightness" slider and "relative brightness" slider - The color wheel selection does not let you enter a RGB value or a hex value. This would be a welcome addition - The app has an Govee advertisements all over the place which makes it feel "cheap" as very made in China The Stupid: - The lights and cable are weather proof but the power adapter and controller are not. I would rather they charge a few bucks more and the power adapter and controller be weatherproof. I had to buy an outdoor weatherproof box to put them in. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09NLW5HMX - The lights are on waterproof connectors but no extension cables are sold by Groove and the connectors are not an easy standard to find to make your own. If you want to place a light further than the cord length well you are screwed. This is particularly frustrating as often the wall outlet does not line up in the beginning of the chain. It would be such an easy fix for Groove to sell an extension cable as an accessory. I cut the wire on a light and soldered in a 22AWG 4 conductor extension cable. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B945PQ34 There is a max signal length between the LEDs as they use a WS2811 chip serial driver before signal integrity issues become a problem so that may be why they do not sell extension cables. Either way extending the cable about 6 feet was not an issue for me. Other Data: - You can order a larger set with more lights than needed and disconnect lights you don't need at the end of the set. It works fine if you disconnect the lights starting at the end of the set only. If you disconnect the lights at the beginning of the set it does not work. Each light has a data signal in and out signal so you must only remove lights starting at the end of the chain. - The lights use WS2811 driver chips which is a standard driver chip for RGB LED strips and it was a good idea by Govee to use low cost "off the shelf" parts. They are using this driver for the warm and cool white LEDs as well so you wouldn't be able to easily drive these lights with a standard WS2811 controller if you wanted to as the Govve controller knows the location of each white LED in the chain to correctly command the color.