Review ID: 56859

Review Text: Potentially awesome - markedly challenging to use. I'm a tech and lighting dork. I've been designing lighting solutions and fixtures for quite some time. The relative inexpensiveness to fun and effectiveness of LED lighting has made it so much fun. Anyone can do some useful and creative things in their home with color-changing LED bulbs and light strips. The key thing is that is has to be simple to set-up and customize. So...Twinkly. Lovely packaging and opening experience. I really like the black plastic and rubber components because you want that to disappear in your install. The instructions need to be improved. I first went through the maddening process of connecting the system to WiFi...on 2.4 Ghz only (?!). Same process I used for a competitor nearly a decade ago. Most people would punt. I'm relentless. So I got that to work. I'll finish my disappointment - there are many, many ways to customize the colors and patterns - but I couldn't figure out most in the first week. Again- the average consumer will give up. Now the positives- there ARE many, many pre-programmed options for time and color (beautiful colors by the way). There are pulsing, crawling and other effects. Awesome. The ability to customize patterns by swiping over an image of the led strip, cool. I will keep working on learning the capabilities. I also like the end-to-end expansion capabilities- simple with a few integral pins on one end and receptors on the other. Just plug one strip to another. If they can improve the instruction manual, I think this would be a really fantastic product.

Gold Attribute: {'Brand': 'twinkly', 'Bulb Type Required': 'led'}

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