![]() You’ll quickly learn how to adjust brightness, select lighting scenes or presets, toggle speed, create routines, and more. Speaking of the app, Govee Home is pretty intuitive and easy to navigate and use. The same can be said for voice commands, which are executed almost immediately (as long as you’re not experiencing network issues). That’s whether you’re switching colors, changing lighting effects, or adjusting the settings. The Govee Glide Hexa Light Panels are very quick to respond to changes you make on the Govee Home app too. Combine that with the lights’ audio-reactive feature, and you can really go psychedelic. You can create a kind of tie-dye scene if you’re feeling groovy, or have a gradient effect if you’re patient enough to create it. Our favorite functionality, however, is that each panel can display up to six colors at once, so you can really have some fun. The backlighting has a pretty narrow field of coverage, but it is noticeable and effective. Instead, they're lifted a few millimeters off the wall in order to get that soft backlighting effect you won’t see on its rival. If you were to use these for reading, you best be next to or right underneath where the panels are mounted, otherwise, you’re not being kind to your eyes.Īs we mentioned earlier, one cool thing about these panels is they are not flush with the wall. At 100%, they are bright enough to fill a small room so you can see everything, and that’s plenty for gaming or watching a movie. At 50% brightness, the panels are already very bright – as far as light panels are concerned, that is. The Govee Glide Hexa Light Panels’ performance ain’t too shabby either. App is extensive but not the easiest for DIY scenes. ![]() Very responsive to voice commands and app adjustments.Lighting is bright but not bright enough to completely light up a room.(Image credit: Future / Michelle Rae Uy) Govee Glide Hexa Light Panels: Performance We mention this again because we’ve tested most of Nanoleaf’s products and know for a fact that its adhesives do not work as well on textured surfaces. The panels feel solid and robust, and as we mentioned before, the adhesive stickers for adhering them to the wall have a lot of hold on them. As for the floating design, it not only makes it slightly easier to remove each panel, but it also provides a smidge of backlighting (more on that later) that does add to the panels' appeal. Not only does the size make these panels easier to manage during setup, but it also lets you create a more intricate design without taking up the entirety of the wall it’s on. These panels look very similar to the hexagon Nanoleaf Shapes, except they're smaller and have a floating design, both of which we appreciate. Adhesive works impressively well even on textured wallsĪs the name suggests, the Govee Glide Hexa Light Panels are made up of individual hexagonal panels that are highly modular, thanks to the six slots each have in the back that accommodates the tip of a specialized connector that transmits power and data from one panel to the next.(Image credit: Future / Michelle Rae Uy) Govee Glide Hexa Light Panels: Design Govee designed them to be long – our guess is so you can space out the panels if you want to without breaking the connection – so if you’re putting the panels side by side, you have to fold them and tuck them in. Really, the most annoying part of the assembly process is the connectors themselves. That might seem like a lengthy process, but the app tells you how to integrate with your smart assistant, so it shouldn’t take long if you follow the instructions closely. You have to connect the panels to the app and then connect the app and panels to your smart assistant of choice (we used Alexa). There are quite a few connections you have to establish. That means you do have to put in your design first, though that isn’t hard as you simply drag and drop the tiny on-screen versions of your actual panels. Luckily, the Govee app has a built-in step-by-step guide that will walk you through the entire assembly process based on your design. Of course, you can set it all up on your own, but since the modularity of these panels isn’t the most intuitive, it’ll require a little more effort and time. That’s because the correct slots for inserting the ends of the connectors are highly dependent on your design. Unlike Nanoleaf Shapes, the Govee Glide Hexa Light Panels require a bit of precision assembly. How connectors are slotted is very dependent on your design.(Image credit: Future / Michelle Rae Uy) Govee Glide Hexa Light Panels: Assembly
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |