Govee would like to make your smart holiday lights Matter

At IFA 2024, Govee revealed motorboat dates for a veritable rat king of Matter-enabled decorative lighting. These see astute drawstring lights, curtain lights, and Govee’s archetypal icicle-style astute lights. The institution besides has 2 sets of portion lights to travel up its M1 Matter strip, and... listen, it’s a batch of lights.

‘Tis (sort of, almost) the season, truthful let’s commencement with Govee’s caller vacation lights. The institution says each are IP65 waterproof-rated, truthful should beryllium bully for indoor oregon outdoor installation, and they’re each Matter-compatible, meaning you tin usage them with immoderate astute location ecosystem that uses the one astute location modular to regularisation them all. All are coming to the US and the EU.

Coming archetypal are the Govee Curtain Lights 2 connected September 20th. Govee says these volition beryllium brighter than the erstwhile version, and that customized effects specified arsenic user-provided animated GIFs oregon those picked from Govee’s room person been improved. They besides athletics Govee’s “AI Lighting Bot,” which lets you make effects by describing them either successful substance oregon with your voice. You volition beryllium capable to prime them up successful packs of 1 ($149.99), 2 ($259.99), oregon 3 ($399.99).

Govee is besides releasing a follow-up to our past year’s prime for cheap astute vacation drawstring lights. The institution says its Christmas String Lights 2 usage RGBW beads and travel with a caller “Smart Mapping” diagnostic for mounting up effects. They volition commencement astatine $99.99 for a 20-meter drawstring going up to $399.99 for 100 meters, and volition beryllium released September 25th.

Govee is besides releasing caller Icicle-style lights successful 10-meter ($139.99) and 20-meter ($249.99) versions. These are a caller benignant for the company, and volition beryllium disposable connected September 29th.

Govee Strip Lights

Govee is besides releasing 2 caller portion lights, pursuing the company’s M1 LED portion airy that The Verge’s Jennifer Tuohy found to beryllium bright, colorful, and broadly compatible, acknowledgment to its Matter support. The caller Strip Light 2 Pro and COB Strip Light Pro besides enactment with the caller astute location standard. The Strip Light 2 Pro uses RGBWW LEDs and gets a caller spot that offers much colour depth. It costs $59.99 for two-meter strips, $99.99 for 5 meters, and $149.99 for 10 meters.

The COB Strip Light Pro uses a chip-on-board LED plan encased successful silicon to diffuse the light, which ought to marque airy transitions on the portion smoother — much gradient, little evidently idiosyncratic diodes. The COB Strip Light Pro volition beryllium $99.99 for 3 meters and $149.99 for a five-meter version. Both portion lights are retired connected September 10th.

Govee’s different intros

Okay, truthful it’s not each string-shaped. Govee besides announced its Star Light Projector (Aurora) and AI Sync Box 2. The $79.99 Aurora beams 16-million-color “customizable aurora effects” onto surfaces up to 650 quadrate inches, and features a built-in Bluetooth talker that’s besides got 18 achromatic sound sounds.

And finally, connected October 14th, Govee volition merchandise the AI Sync Box Kit 2. This 1 is the latest ambient TV backlighting gadget that the institution has been playing astir with for a fewer years. (See our Govee Immersion review from 2021.) Announced astatine CES this year, the caller Sync Box uses HDMI 2.1 passthrough to nutrient AI-generated effects for things similar video games. It tin walk up to 8K solution astatine 60Hz oregon 4K astatine 120Hz — a measurement up from the 4K-limited HDMI 2.0 of the erstwhile AI Sync Box Kit.