Smart lights may not solve many crucial problems in your life, but they do add a ton of convenience as the Indian market is beginning to find out. Smart home devices are one of the hottest selling categories on e-commerce platforms. India is seen as the biggest market for IoT or smart home devices, thanks to the already-existing mega smartphone market.
Our review unit came in a compact cardboard box with moulded cardboard holding the coiled-up light strip in plus on top. The lighting unit comes with separate cable power cable and is attached to a single-button remote via another cable. The LED Lightstrip Plus has a length of 2 meters, but it’s extendible to 10m in all with the adapter that you can purchase separately.
One complaint I have is the number of cables in the entire unit, which means everything gets tangled up very easily. Thankfully, you wouldn’t need to move the light too much after sticking it on a wall or a panel.
Even without a smartphone connected, the light strip glows on when you plug the adapter in to a power outlet. The accompanying control unit can be used to reset the lights or to sync it with a smartphone. The Yeelight Aurora Lightstrip Plus comes with a 2100mAh built-in battery for up to 8 hours of continuous use.
Besides the Yeelight app, you can use Google Assistant or Alexa to control the lights too. For Google Assistant, you have to add a new device and select Yeelight from the list of manufacturers to add the light strip. While we didn’t use the Lightstrip Plus with Alexa, the process is similar.
The quality of the individual LED light units is really good. It gets very bright, so much so that we had to turn it to a lower setting for the photos that you see here.
Yeelight Aurora Lightstrip Plus: Worth Buying?
Of course as with most smart ‘things’, this light strip is not as reasonably priced as one might expect.
