ALITOVE WS2812B WS2811 WS2801 LED WiFi Controller, iOS Android App Wireless Remote Control DC 5V~24V SP108E for SK6812 SK6812-RGBW WS2812 WS2813 WS2815 AL2815 Digital Addressable RGB LED Pixels Strip

I purchased an ALITOVE SP105E controller with the ALITOVE 5m WS2812B Individually Addressable LED Strip Light and ALITOVE 5V 10A AC to DC Power Supply - as a surprise for my daughter's 6th birthday. She wanted rainbow lights for her room...the first mode on the SP105E is a very nice rainbow color design that animates across the strip. The SP105E remembers the last mode it was set to (using the iPhone app) - so I set it to the rainbow mode and on her b-day she went into her room to try it for the first time - and the wall lit up with rainbow colors. She was SO excited...and everyone was impressed! She also enjoys the other patterns and static color options - changing them over time and with the holidays. And with the brightness set at 50% overnight, it also serves as her night light (and the entire strip uses about 12 watts of power at that setting).The SP105E controller includes 200 different patterns and a customizable static color mode (some examples are in the attached pictures).. With the app you can also control the speed of any modes that include animation and the brightness of the LEDs. It works over Bluetooth from your mobile device to control/configure the effects. I also now have a SP108E controller - which works over WiFi either directly with the controller or over your home network...and includes additional effects for your LED strip. Having either of these controllers makes it easy to get the most out of a digital LED light strip.ALITOVE stands behind their products - and provided excellent and responsive customer service! A few months into using the initially ordered setup, the LED lighting effects became unstable. I wrote ALITOVE and they replied quickly with an apology, some troubleshooting suggestions and then sent a replacement unit to try. After it arrived, I unhooked the original one and installed the replacement - but the unstable problem persisted. I reached out again with details and pictures - and ALITOVE continued to work to resolve the issue - suggesting additional troubleshooting and guidance to validate the power requirements for my installation. It turns out my LED strip installation is 213 LEDs (cut from the 300 LED strip I purchased) - which could draw up to 63.9 watts of power at full brightness and fully lit. The 10A (50 watt) power supply I initially purchased for this setup did not have enough power to cover all use cases. I proceeded to order the ALITOVE 15A (75 watt) power supply - and the controller works perfectly again with the 213 LED light strip.When ordering - make sure you purchase a power supply with enough amps for your requirements. For the above WS2812B light strip, multiple the number of LEDs expected in your final strip by .3 (to give you the upper limit on watts required) - then choose the next power supply larger than that. For mine, 213 * .3 = 63.9 watts - making the 15A (75 watt) power supply an ample choice for stable operation. Naturally, not having enough amps from your power supply can cause unexpected behaviors with the controller and strip.Likes: easy to use, controls each individual LED (color and brightness) in a digitally individually addressable LED strip, both the SP105E (Bluetooth) and SP108E (WiFi) have apps with features that produce nice patterns and ability to choose a single custom color for the strip, very easy to use once configured, remembers prior setting after powered off, all tools and adapters included, relatively small footprint (I have mine tucked in behind crown molding), excellent customer service and supportDislike: instructions on initial installation are better sourced online versus what is included; in static custom color mode the SP105E will not remember the prior color selected after powered off (SP108E does)

I used these for an undercabinet lighting project in a very small area, directly next to my wifi router.Connecting the LED strip to the power supply and this controller was straightforward and easy. I didn't have any trouble connecting directly to the controller from the mobile app; changing the number of addressable LED's in the strip (when the strip came, only a continuous portion of the strip lit up, and some past that point did not, that was easily resolved by telling the controller how many LED's to address).The hard part came in the form of well over an hour plugging in and then unplugging the unit and attempting to get the mobile app to complete configuration of the controller. It was really just trial and error on plugging the unit back in, and entering the wifi network password and hoping it would take, eventually it did and I could control it from the mobile app while being on my home network.Now for the sadness. My use case requires the controller to be on my home network, so that I can tie IFTTT/Smartthings routines to it; so far, the controller has been unable to hold a configuration (while being powered continuously) for more than 48 hours. Somehow, it looses connectivity (despite being less than 12 inches from the wifi router) regularly; and it feels like this product is going to be a great novelty and a useless utility.I suspect I'll eventually give up and just build my own Arduino or Pi controller and cable it into the network.UPDATE: The folks at ALITOVE sent a replacement unit; after noting that it shouldn't work the way I noted in my review. The new unit DOES hold the configuration; AND DOES stay connected to the local network (though it sometimes takes a couple of "refreshes" in the app to pick it up - my router logs show a consistent connection). I'm upping this to five stars because of excellent customer service and the device working as expected.

The media could not be loaded. This LED controller works well and was easy to install. It is controlling almost 750 lights (5x ALITOVE WS2811 LED Strip RGB Addressable LED Rope Light 12V 5m 150 LEDs) with no problems. The device connects to WiFi with no problems, and is easily controlled from the app as long as you are in WiFi range. My only issue with this controller is that the app is clunky and not very customizable. Yes, there are 180 preset 'shows', but most of those are repetitive, and not very interesting or creative. I will eventually upgrade to a controller that uses WLED or something similar, but for now, this works well to get the show going.FYI, here is a list of shows that I found useful out of the 180 choices. Some of them are useable for holidays, but I wish I had more say in programming the show:1-9 - Rainbow fades10-41 - Single color chases42 - multi color chase45 - green/white47 - red/white48-54 - reverse chase, single color55-61 - 2 color fades72 - green/white74, 80, 126, 129, 167 - red/green89, 95, 101, 120, 130 – white/red109 – green chase114, 115, 125, 128, 160, 161 – red/blue123 – multi color chase145 – red blink147 – green blink