hello everyone my name is Gael level and
you're watching my tech channel today we're going to be taking a look at those little rgb
wi-fi controllers now if you're like me and you know you started by buying very very cheap led
slide strips when i first moved in this apartment i couldn't afford anything else and to be honest
i wasn't really um educated when it comes to all the possibilities with rgb and home automation
and stuff so i really really went and bought so many of those cheap led strips they would go
from anything from eight euros up to i don't know 12 euros was the max that i would pay for them
sometimes with or without the little ac adapters and they are fairly simple to use and that's
what i loved about them it was super cheap and i didn't understand why people didn't buy those
more often turns out there's a bunch of things that are not necessarily wrong but you know if
it's cheap it's cheap for a reason anyways now about seven years later i have an amazon echo most
of my lights are automated and stuff like that and i was wondering do i have to throw away my old
rgb strips in order to have you know some smart rgb strips if i want to change the color and stuff
like that knowing that um the only thing that i had was normal controllers that you can control
with like a remote control like that how do i make it smart of course there are smart plugs and
stuff like that that help you turn it on and off using voice control or your phone but i really
wanted an rgb controller anyways i'm gonna stop babbling too much so i found this thing on amazon
that claims to be an rgb wi-fi controller and as you can see up here it has the four little
prongs that is often found on those cheap rgb strips this is the classic hand thing
there you go and um i think i have a converter or something like that and basically this
will help us through an app on our phone to control it and also make it compatible with
any home automation like uh google assistant or amazon echo so let's try it out it's my first
time uh opening it so this is what it looks like it comes with those little ziploc bags like those
oh here you have a little 3m adhesive back if you want to you know set it somewhere that's always
nice and actually there is that little adapter that i was talking about it's cool i won't have
to go and find one so that's great that's really awesome that they provide that okay then you have
the adapter itself here is where it will receive the 12 volts usually 12 volts um at ac dc adapter
sorry inside here you will find the setup step it's what it says oh no it's it's also inverted
oh my god there you go that makes more sense all right so first thing they say is download
the free app by scanning the bottom left qr code free install the device and switch on the power
open wi-fi setting on smartphone connect run magic home pro blah blah blah okay okay it's saying that
i need to connect to a specific wi-fi i don't like that i don't like the idea of having to connect
it to a specific wi-fi we'll see how that works out okay i have an android phone here this is
the samsung galaxy s20 fe which is fan edition it's brand new we shouldn't have any problems
with it and you can see the qr code they mentioned at the bottom here okay and the app is magic
home okay the thing with those controllers and you know um any of those cheaper smart home
compatible products is that they usually require an app now i do my best to try to
buy stuff that will work with the same app but sometimes you know you don't have a choice
and it's like the the the choice between the money and and a different app and stuff like that
you just don't have a choice so you buy something that will have a different app and that puts you
like in a weird position where you have three or four apps to control all of your different home
devices but once they're installed and they're connected i don't worry about them because i
activate them with my home automation system via my amazon echo i shouldn't call it home automation
it's just it's just through amazon it's fine okay and then from there i can just go ahead and scan
the qr code it is also on the product itself the qr code but that's always great so let me put it
up right and just scan it and it tells me to tap and it will bring me to a website i might already
have magic pro installed magic home let me check real quick some way that i try to cheat sometimes
is using my previous apps and trying to find those um those devices with my old apps
hoping that it works it only worked once i'm gonna go ahead and try to plug it in so i
have my little cable here and this is uh coming from a 12 volts and we'll see what happens when
i plug it in i'm guessing there's no leds on this it says 5 to 28 volts so that's always good does
it fit it does fit at least i should have done this before plugging it in so do not copy the
way i do it and make sure you plug everything in before but it's 12 volts okay it won't kill
me but still safety number one priority and you will see a little red thingy see that
red part make sure you find it also on this plug you will see a little arrow at the bottom
here there you go and you need to align them there you go okay so i'm getting a certain effect so that's a good sign right that this
is a controller and it controls the leds also my leds are working because we're getting
red green and blue i have some of my leds where i fried like a single color and stuff like that i
really really do not want to sign in on the magic home app magic home let's make an account on magic
home add device i really really hope i don't um i don't already have an account user
already exists i already have an account i am losing my mind apparently i already have an
account okay then we have the normal permission request you need to access your location in
order to scan for wi-fi and blah blah blah if you tap ok allow only while using the app okay
you don't need to know where i'm at at all times does it make sense we didn't find your device um
okay manual connection let's try a rescan first oh there you go it found something happens
if i tap on it next we'll take android wi-fi setting from here please stop on and i'll show oh
never mind okay it will take me there and led net okay so i'm connected well it's connecting
you didn't get ip address oh no come on nope connecting again connected
let's try going back to the app not this one oh i'm still on the app checking
the quality of your internet connection internet may not be available come on now if
you stay connected with this wi-fi network your phone will also stay connected whenever you use
this network and yeah yeah keep wi-fi connection for now just bring me back to the app connected
without internet okay so it basically connected me out of my wifi try to get back to the app so i
went back to the app and it's showing me a wi-fi list again without me being in my phone settings
right indeed so now i can tap uh i need to i can tap on my actual wi-fi and uh now i need to type
my wi-fi password okay so i typed in my wi-fi password let's hit confirm controller 84 yeah
i'll probably delete it later on because i need to install it on other stuff like this um this
shelf right there this is where i'm gonna put this although i could name it right now i'm gonna
name it shelflight all right okay so it's here in my list i can group it or whatever and i can
tap on it and as you can see here it's on green okay it's annoying because like the brightness
is too the brightness is too high let me try to do something about the brightness so
you guys can really see the color change and the middle supposed to be white
but i'm getting very very very blue lights okay cool thing is that it works there is a
mic setting at the bottom of the app there is a mic setting as you can see in the middle
here and it's using my mic to react to my voice apparently that's the thing those those cheap
um those cheap apps usually do which is so cool all right there's also music but you would have to
play the music from your phone and stuff like that functions seven color crossfade i have a
list of functions i only have part of this lighting up actually half of it is not
even on just realized oh there you go is it's like a bad connection somewhere okay so this
is supposed to be a seven color crossfade but it's like the slowest crossfade you've ever seen
that's cool strobe flash seven color strobe flash and at the bottom here you
actually have a speed ramp oh this is horrible okay this is what they mean
by actual strobe flash green strobe flash that's that's not good red blue cross cross
fade let's put green blue cross fade there's so much there's so much and then
there's custom where you can create your own stuff anyways i think that's uh that's enough
okay now how do i connect it to my actual um echo i'm gonna tap on the menu here and
here it says third party services and here's going to bring me to the screen and i'm
going to have all the options there's ifttt ifttt yeah there's google assistant and then
there's the alexa there's huge who shall not be named okay let's tap on it okay and then you have
to sign in with your alexa account or your amazon account and then you just follow the instructions
and apparently that's it we're gonna test it out i have the color shift right now this is not normal
this is just because my connection is weak but i'm gonna i'm not gonna use those those actual
um led strips so oh never mind it's actually already added since i authorized the app to use my
account it already added it so i can turn it off and turn it on now i can say turn off shelf life 2.
I mispronounced that okay i said life instead of
lights but she she recognized it so that works so turn on shelf lights too there you go it's a
little slow there but okay and uh let's try some colors then so set shelf life 2 to blue works that
works i can't say shelf lights for for to save my life for some reason but uh she understands
so that's what matters what's gonna happen now is that i'm gonna be able to control this light i
have another it's right there i'm gonna be able to control this one and the other one right behind me
thanks to those things because i actually bought a second one all right so if i manage to find it on
the us store because i live in france so i bought it from amazon friends if i manage to buy it if i
manage to find it on the us store or the uk store there will be links in the description um it may
not be the exact same one but it's gonna go with the same principle uh if it's an amazon link
and it's from the us or the uk it's gonna be an affiliate link so if you decide to buy them uh
and you buy them using my link i will get a little bit of commission with no additional cost to you
you know i made this channel because i really love tech and i'm always buying tech so there it is
i i really want to share my passion with you and um hope hopefully you guys enjoy it okay i still
don't have an outro for this um for this channel but it's been a pleasure and um i will see
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