Setting Up the Eve HomeKit Light Strip Kit

We recently had the opportunity to try out the Eve HomeKit light strip kit, and we were excited to see how it would work with our existing smart home setup. The first step was to unpack the kit and assemble it. We found that once you have all the pieces connected, it's secure and will not come apart when you don't need it to.

The next step was to set up the light strip. We plugged it in, fixed it to where we wanted it with the adhesive backing, and then opened the Eve or HomeKit app on our iPhone or iPad. We chose to add it directly to the Home app, but we really love the Eve app, so we went ahead and added it that way.

One of the features we were excited about was the Wi-Fi setup process, which normally can be a bit convoluted. But with this kit, it was very simple and painless. We were able to choose the room where we wanted to add the light strip, which in our case was the living room. We gave the light strip a name, chose an icon that corresponded with it, and were given a summary of how to control it.

Once we hit done, we were taken back to the room scene, where we could actually control the light strip directly from our phone using Siri or any other third-party app we use to control our home. We found that this thing was extremely responsive, more so than most of the other light strips we've used so far. Whether it's from COO, geek, Lifx, or Phillips Hue, changing the color was a breeze.

However, one thing to note is that you can't change the color using Siri - you have to phrase it up very specifically. We found that being very specific allowed us to achieve the exact shade of red we wanted. If we wanted to use Siri to set it to a certain shade, we could create a scene with the exact color palette that we wanted in the Eve app.

We also loved the flexibility of the Eve app. We had the option to choose between the full color palette or toggle between color and different shades of white. We could adjust what color the light was when it was turned back on - do we want it to come on as white or the last color used? These little extras make a big difference in how functional our smart home lighting is.

A unique feature of this kit is its brightness. It's incredibly bright at 1,800 lumens, which is significantly brighter than most other HomeKit LED light strips on the market. This makes a huge difference when it comes to functionality - we put this under our countertops in the kitchen and it makes a big difference between on and off.

One of the standout features of the Eve HomeKit Light Strip Kit is its responsiveness and brightness. Compared to other smart lighting options, this thing is incredibly bright and responsive. When you have the colors, it's a little bit dimmer, but when opting for white, it's much brighter. This level of brightness makes a big difference in our daily lives.

To get your hands on the Eve HomeKit Light Strip Kit, be sure to check out the link below in the description. We'd love to hear from you - which smart home lighting option is your favorite? Let us know in the comments. If you enjoyed this video, like it and hit that subscribe button. Also, check out our price guide, which makes it extremely easy to find the best deals on Apple products updated daily. Be sure to follow us on social media for more videos and updates.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enEve's latest home kit accessory the light strip tries to tackle a competitive market by being the brightest one yet welcome everyone it is Andrew here from Apple Insider and we are going hands-on with the Eve light strip which we first previewed earlier this year during CES it is of course apple homekit enabled like all of Eve's products unlike all of other Eve's home get products to date it's the first one that is actually going to be using Wi-Fi instead of Bluetooth when asked why he says it's because they see this as not just an accent lighting but an actual functional lighting piece so it needs to be fast and responsive and it is just that thanks to Wi-Fi instead of Bluetooth which also has range issues within the home don't worry though Eve is sticking with bluetooth for most of their other upcoming products since this is always plugged in they don't have to worry about battery issues either inside the box you're gonna find pretty much what you'd expect based on just the fact that it's a light strip and that it's an Eve product on the left-hand side of the opening you have the getting started guide which has the home kit pairing code printed on the back it's always nice to be able to save these in one spot or you can add it to the handy app home pass which stores all of your home kit pairing codes can be good solution if you get a lot of home hit accessories going on then you have the light strip the power cord and the little controller that plugs it from the light strip to the power cord itself and there's also one extra little adhesive here used to affixed that controller to the wall or near the actual power cord so it's not just pulling on it and adding a strain to the cable and the adhesive on the back of the light strip the controller is fairly small it's one of the smaller ones we've seen though it's still not tiny you do have to account for this when you are mounting the light strip there is an extra home kit pairing code on the sign so if you ever do lose that instruction manual you're fine and then you can see the connections on either and barrel connector for the power cord and the other for the light strip itself the light strip is really similar to a lot of the other ones that you see out there it comes in at 6.6 feet or around 3 meters it can be extended using extensions and actually a lot of ones on the market already will even extend this it can be cut into predetermined length saying thanks to that little scissor designator on the light strip itself though once it's cut it cannot be added to you again you're gonna cut this thing be sure that's the exact length that you want it it also still has el gato printing on this night before Eve was spun off into its own separate company like all the other light strips that are out there it has that adhesive back used to fix it to the wall works pretty much how's you'd expect and in our testing it has held up very well we didn't have anything falling off you can also just pick up some new adhesive and reapply this if you ever need to if you move you want to change the spots definitely doable though it's kind of annoying to have to run it down the entire length of the light strip so while one end has those connectors to extend the light strip to be even longer roughly 33 feet it can get 2 in length the other hand has the connector that's going to go into the controller that converts it into the power this is also where the other components are housed such as the Wi-Fi module now when you do connect this you got to make sure it's in all the way when you're connecting the light strip to this controller it feels like it may be in but if you add a little bit more pressure it will securely stay into place when we connected these together it kept kind of popping out and we realized it was not going in far enough so once you do have these connected it'll be secure and it's not going to come apart when you don't need it to getting this thing setup is easy like any other home kit product you simply plug it in a fix it to wherever you want to with that adhesive backing and then get out your iPhone or your iPad and open the eve or the home kit app you can add this directly to the home app but we really love the eve app so we're gonna go ahead and add it this way there's also a few different things you can do by using the evap now they've really also simplified that Wi-Fi process normally it can be a little bit convoluted when you're trying to add Wi-Fi accessories but using this it was very simple and painless and see just like any other Bluetooth accessory we're gonna go ahead and choose the room that we want to add this to which in our case is going to be the living room you can give the light strip a name whenever you want it to be choose an icon to correspond with it it will then give you a little summary in some tips on how to control this once you hit done you're taken back to the room scene where you can actually control the light trip directly from your phone through Siri whatever you want to do like most other lights out there you can turn on and off adjust the brightness and change the color or it's very easy from here from a series from the home app or any other third-party application you use to control your home even using Siri this thing was extremely responsive more responsive than most of the other light strips that we've used so far whether it's from COO geek lifx or Phillips hue you can't change the color using Siri you just have to make sure you phrase up the right way you have to be very specific so you can't really say a certain shade of red that you want to do but if you do want to use Siri to set it to a certain shade you can create a scene that has the exact color palette that you want in the eve app you can choose a variety of different favorites to make it easier to access so if there's ones that you really like to go to all the time you can set those favorite colors here in the Eve app open the evap and jump to those colors really fast instead of having to use the color wheel to find them each time you have the option to choose between the full color palette or at the top you can toggle between color or different shades of white maybe you want a cooler white during the day and a warmer white in the mornings and evenings or you can go directly down the center go with a straight Sun light a few of the extra benefits of the Eve app you can get to by using that little top down button and happening on the gear you can update the firmware which adds additional features and stability all those kind of fun things you can change the transition so do you want to be slow quick whatever you want that transition to be between colors or scenes we can also adjust what color the light is when it's turned back on so it loses power coming back on do you want to come on as white or do you want it to come on as the last color that was used here you can see we have it mounted behind our desk those little strobes like you can see the very arcs of the lights those are not nearly as present in real light as they are on camera simply put this thing looks way better in person than it does when we're trying to film it what really sets the version of the light ship apart from pretty much all the others is a how responsive it is and B how bright it is this thing is insanely bright at 1,800 lumens if you look at hue it's only 1600 lifx is 700 Sylvania 400 qu gig is 500 vocal Inc is 1100 and I hate is only 480 so this is by far the brightest homekit LED light strip that is out there on the market so far and it makes a big difference because it is more of a functional light we put this underneath our countertops in the kitchen it is a huge difference between off and on and I don't know how England without it when you have the colors it's a little bit dimmer but it's much brighter when you're opting for the white now if you want to grab this for yourself you can find the link below in the description and let us know what you think or which is your favorite home kit light down in the comments if you enjoyed this video like it and hit that subscribe button also check out a price guide which makes it extremely easy to find the best deals and Apple products updated daily be sure to follow us on social media and we'll see you in the next videoEve's latest home kit accessory the light strip tries to tackle a competitive market by being the brightest one yet welcome everyone it is Andrew here from Apple Insider and we are going hands-on with the Eve light strip which we first previewed earlier this year during CES it is of course apple homekit enabled like all of Eve's products unlike all of other Eve's home get products to date it's the first one that is actually going to be using Wi-Fi instead of Bluetooth when asked why he says it's because they see this as not just an accent lighting but an actual functional lighting piece so it needs to be fast and responsive and it is just that thanks to Wi-Fi instead of Bluetooth which also has range issues within the home don't worry though Eve is sticking with bluetooth for most of their other upcoming products since this is always plugged in they don't have to worry about battery issues either inside the box you're gonna find pretty much what you'd expect based on just the fact that it's a light strip and that it's an Eve product on the left-hand side of the opening you have the getting started guide which has the home kit pairing code printed on the back it's always nice to be able to save these in one spot or you can add it to the handy app home pass which stores all of your home kit pairing codes can be good solution if you get a lot of home hit accessories going on then you have the light strip the power cord and the little controller that plugs it from the light strip to the power cord itself and there's also one extra little adhesive here used to affixed that controller to the wall or near the actual power cord so it's not just pulling on it and adding a strain to the cable and the adhesive on the back of the light strip the controller is fairly small it's one of the smaller ones we've seen though it's still not tiny you do have to account for this when you are mounting the light strip there is an extra home kit pairing code on the sign so if you ever do lose that instruction manual you're fine and then you can see the connections on either and barrel connector for the power cord and the other for the light strip itself the light strip is really similar to a lot of the other ones that you see out there it comes in at 6.6 feet or around 3 meters it can be extended using extensions and actually a lot of ones on the market already will even extend this it can be cut into predetermined length saying thanks to that little scissor designator on the light strip itself though once it's cut it cannot be added to you again you're gonna cut this thing be sure that's the exact length that you want it it also still has el gato printing on this night before Eve was spun off into its own separate company like all the other light strips that are out there it has that adhesive back used to fix it to the wall works pretty much how's you'd expect and in our testing it has held up very well we didn't have anything falling off you can also just pick up some new adhesive and reapply this if you ever need to if you move you want to change the spots definitely doable though it's kind of annoying to have to run it down the entire length of the light strip so while one end has those connectors to extend the light strip to be even longer roughly 33 feet it can get 2 in length the other hand has the connector that's going to go into the controller that converts it into the power this is also where the other components are housed such as the Wi-Fi module now when you do connect this you got to make sure it's in all the way when you're connecting the light strip to this controller it feels like it may be in but if you add a little bit more pressure it will securely stay into place when we connected these together it kept kind of popping out and we realized it was not going in far enough so once you do have these connected it'll be secure and it's not going to come apart when you don't need it to getting this thing setup is easy like any other home kit product you simply plug it in a fix it to wherever you want to with that adhesive backing and then get out your iPhone or your iPad and open the eve or the home kit app you can add this directly to the home app but we really love the eve app so we're gonna go ahead and add it this way there's also a few different things you can do by using the evap now they've really also simplified that Wi-Fi process normally it can be a little bit convoluted when you're trying to add Wi-Fi accessories but using this it was very simple and painless and see just like any other Bluetooth accessory we're gonna go ahead and choose the room that we want to add this to which in our case is going to be the living room you can give the light strip a name whenever you want it to be choose an icon to correspond with it it will then give you a little summary in some tips on how to control this once you hit done you're taken back to the room scene where you can actually control the light trip directly from your phone through Siri whatever you want to do like most other lights out there you can turn on and off adjust the brightness and change the color or it's very easy from here from a series from the home app or any other third-party application you use to control your home even using Siri this thing was extremely responsive more responsive than most of the other light strips that we've used so far whether it's from COO geek lifx or Phillips hue you can't change the color using Siri you just have to make sure you phrase up the right way you have to be very specific so you can't really say a certain shade of red that you want to do but if you do want to use Siri to set it to a certain shade you can create a scene that has the exact color palette that you want in the eve app you can choose a variety of different favorites to make it easier to access so if there's ones that you really like to go to all the time you can set those favorite colors here in the Eve app open the evap and jump to those colors really fast instead of having to use the color wheel to find them each time you have the option to choose between the full color palette or at the top you can toggle between color or different shades of white maybe you want a cooler white during the day and a warmer white in the mornings and evenings or you can go directly down the center go with a straight Sun light a few of the extra benefits of the Eve app you can get to by using that little top down button and happening on the gear you can update the firmware which adds additional features and stability all those kind of fun things you can change the transition so do you want to be slow quick whatever you want that transition to be between colors or scenes we can also adjust what color the light is when it's turned back on so it loses power coming back on do you want to come on as white or do you want it to come on as the last color that was used here you can see we have it mounted behind our desk those little strobes like you can see the very arcs of the lights those are not nearly as present in real light as they are on camera simply put this thing looks way better in person than it does when we're trying to film it what really sets the version of the light ship apart from pretty much all the others is a how responsive it is and B how bright it is this thing is insanely bright at 1,800 lumens if you look at hue it's only 1600 lifx is 700 Sylvania 400 qu gig is 500 vocal Inc is 1100 and I hate is only 480 so this is by far the brightest homekit LED light strip that is out there on the market so far and it makes a big difference because it is more of a functional light we put this underneath our countertops in the kitchen it is a huge difference between off and on and I don't know how England without it when you have the colors it's a little bit dimmer but it's much brighter when you're opting for the white now if you want to grab this for yourself you can find the link below in the description and let us know what you think or which is your favorite home kit light down in the comments if you enjoyed this video like it and hit that subscribe button also check out a price guide which makes it extremely easy to find the best deals and Apple products updated daily be sure to follow us on social media and we'll see you in the next video\n"