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Meross Smart LED Strip Light 5m (Google, Apple Compatible) $34.99 + Del ($0 with Prime/ $59 Spend) @ Meross Direct via Amazon AU

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Return of a great equal ATL deal on a quality 5m Homekit compatible LED strip.

You can use them as backlights for the TV and also for lighting various surfaces such as the Kitchen/Bedrooms around the home. If you haven't heard of bias lighting these are great mounted behind a TV or monitor and can be triggered to turn on with different colours depending on the time of day.

Also great in bedrooms to set some mood lighting or turn off/on with alarms or to provide some softer lighting over a lamp. This is the Apple Homekit version which means they work offline without the need for internet access.

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  • Papag on 25/11/2023 - 15:43

    How does the tv lighting actually work?

    • JSONBourne on 25/11/2023 - 15:44
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      This is a good article that explains it. Essentially with a soft light behind the border of the TV, it helps prime your eyes in medium-low light environments for your TV brightness. This helps reduce eye glare and improve colour and contrast perception on the TV.

      It's why you see a lot of setups nowadays with these LED strips. Apart from it looking good depending on the setup it actually helps improve eye fatigue and perceived image.

  • tony2shanks on 25/11/2023 - 16:02
    +1

    The 10m one is going for $41.99 too

    https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B092YQKPJF?ref_=cm_sw_r_apan_dp…

  • jaydisc on 25/11/2023 - 16:14
    +1

    Does anyone have these working in Home Assistant?

  • Donask on 25/11/2023 - 16:21
    +1

    The recent sale for xiomai strip lights for $25 is better. I am using it behind the TV and its great

    • OZBsince2018 on 25/11/2023 - 16:30

      Link please?

    • smokenmirraz on 25/11/2023 - 16:40

      Thanks for the tip. As the led step is 10m, how did you arrange that behind your TV?

      • Donask on 25/11/2023 - 16:43
        +1

        It has glue at the back. It will stick behind the tv. For 85 inch tv, it will cover twice. Easy..google, alexa and even samsumg smart thing supported. Just set it to turn on and off when samsung tv turns on and off from smart things. No issue so for.

    • JSONBourne on 25/11/2023 - 21:02

      It’s not HomeKit compatible though right? That’s why these are more expensive.

      • djz on 25/11/2023 - 21:09
        +1

        They too are HomeKit compatible. I own several of the yeelight ones. Work perfectly with HomeKit but compared to my Hue ones they’re not as bright.

  • AyTrain on 25/11/2023 - 18:15
    +1

    This vs Phillips hue strip?

    • narji on 25/11/2023 - 22:04
      +4

      These are awful compared to the hue strip.

      I actually bought these awhile back to replace some hue strips as i needed more length but never ended up installing them as the brightness is roughly only 25% of what Hue is capable of.

      Not to mention the actual LED strip is worse than some cheapo $4 LED Strips i bought of AliExpress.

      In the end, I only ended up using the controller from this item with a different LED Strip.

      • AyTrain on 26/11/2023 - 00:00

        Thanks for the heads up

      • deadpoet on 29/11/2023 - 23:14

        Thanks for your warning narji, you're absolutely spot-on. I decided to buy this Meross LED strip anyway to try it out (MSL320CR) and it is everything you described. Pathetically low-powered — the box says it is rated at 18W max, but the full 5 metres of light strip achieves only 15.31W of power draw at max brightness at max cool daylight temperature (I assume that's 6500K, but I could be wrong). At low colour temperatures like 3300K, it is only 9.55W of power consumption at max brightness.

        It's essentially only usable for dim ambient/mood lighting, you will never be able to achieve any kind of normal room lighting with this, even if you used several power bricks + LED strips together. I have no idea what the max lumen rating is, but to my eye it looks like something around the 300-350 lumen mark.

        Once I cut down the light strip to 1.6 metres, the power consumption dropped to a meagre 3.75W at roughly 4000K colour temperature (it didn't get any brighter when cut down, of course). For now, I've mounted this short strip under my kitchen cabinet to serve as a night light (triggered by a Hue motion sensor, all controlled via Home Assistant).

        Oh and the colour rendering is fairly atrocious (particularly for the "warm whites", they look really off-putting and uncanny — the colours themselves aren't too bad), and the gradations aren't very smooth, so the colours tend to "jump" and snap to discrete values in real time as you pan around and select different shades. Feels super cheap, so you definitely get what you pay for. (Update: aha, I read in a review that this strip doesn't have any dedicated white LEDs, so that makes sense — it only has RGB)

        As narji said, this works perfectly with the Meross integration for HACS in Home Assistant, I had zero trouble setting it up, and the device itself is quite snappy and fairly responsive, so that's a plus. Power consumption is on the average/high end at 0.60W when off — I was hoping for something closer to 0.40W, but it is what it is (for comparison, a Kasa smart bulb hovers around 0.35W when off and standing by).

        All in all, pretty meh. This Meross MSL320CR light strip is fairly cheap, but even when on sale it's not cheap enough for what it does. I think narji is right, I'm most likely going to buy the Hue light strip instead. It costs around 4x the price, but you know what you're getting.

        BTW, I bought this Meross smart lamp a few months ago and the LED colour performance for that is similarly pretty bad, so it seems this is a trend with Meross lights:
        https://www.amazon.com.au/meross-Dimmable-Assistant-SmartThi…

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