Best Permanent Install Exterior LED Kit? Govee, Govee Pro, Eufy, Appeck, YPS, Novostella 

Small correction for anyone trying to use the Eufy lights with WLED: In LED preferences they need to be color order BRG with W and G swapped, I said W and B in the video. Full explanation of using WLED with Eufy/Govee here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-F7IhSKJ41rU.htmlsi=720loC0GEXehwGlS&t=332

Great video on permanent exterior lighting. I can't believe that you went to the trouble of buying all of the different types of lights, and actually hanging them on your own house. The side by side comparisons of all of the different lights puts your videos and your channel at the next level. Thanks again for all that you do.

You are a WILD MAN!!! Installing all those lights at the same time?!?!??? Wow. I'm super impressed. Super great review! A++++

Your review blows out of the water every single other review about permanent LED lights I have seen and | have watched a lot. A thousand thanks!

I can't imagine the money and especially the time you put into these videos. Hanging and re-hanging light strips on a two-story house has to be mind-numbing work! Excellent video, I hope it pays off many times over.

Perfectly timed video, I've been looking at these kits for a few days now. I just started the video but I'm confident that after this the decision will be a doddle after one of the insanely thorough comparos you do.

Awesome work! You never let us down with the in depth reviews. Keep it up!

Your work is impeccable man. Youve one of the best review channels. Your patience and indepth analysis is insane! Thanks!!

I did want to see every light kit lit up. Great vid and thanks for the hard work you did installing each kit, but mostly filming, and editing.

thanks for another awesome video. Just cut the cables and installed my Eufy on my Dig-quad. In case anyone else is trying to use WLED with the Eufy lights, I had to swap W & G to make it work rather than W & B. It was otherwise exactly as outlined. Great tutorial!

Dude! This is an awesome tutorial. Thank you for putting the time to make it happen. I went with the Govee non-pro version, and I'm glad I did. The app is fantastic, and I love that I can run them on WLED. It would be great if you could show us how to integrate some of the most compatible light kits into an X-lights Christmas show. Thanks again, bro.

I work with these lights a lot. Thanks for doing a side-by-side video! It was fun to see and your hard day's work and editing is appreciated!

Thank you TONS for putting so much effort in these. You have no idea

Greetings from Australia! Thank you so much for all the time, effort & money you put into these reviews. They are amazing. Especially renting the cherry picker lift must have been expensive & a pain but we really really appreciate it. Just don't go bankrupt with your reviewing addiction.

Now this is what a quality review/comparison looks like!

I've just started looking into these style lights and thought "I'll wait for The Hook Up to set me on the right path" - perfect timing, thanks!

Man, this video does not have the views it deserves!!!! Well done!!!

What a great video. This is exactly what I needed to see. Just today, I got a quote for $10k to have lights installed! The lights looked identical to the YPS puck tracks. I think I'll be doing a DIY install and saving myself some serious $.

Speaking as a very brand-new person discovering this stuff at 70-years old, I laughed out loud at your description of permanent lighting kits as 'a gateway drug'. Whee! Thank you so much for the comprehensive comparisons!

Really excellent job. Man you did a lot of work. Covered all aspects of outdoor lights. Thank you

Great video as always! I totally agree with you about needing to have a warm white. It's a non-starter for me for permanent install. Would be able to use year round with warn LEDe.

good timing for this video and very in depth as usual :)

This could not be more timely for me. I'm just not really ready/able to spend the time doing all the wiring/dealing with the power supply & electronics stuff which comes with doing a custom setup with RGBIW strips or whatever. Have recently been close to pulling the trigger on a Govee set so this is much appreciated!

Thank you! The detail of this review, as always, is amazing.

Wow! Thank you so much for doing this video! Happy new year!!! Will save this for the upcoming holidays.

Somehow you are always reviewing interesting things that I want!

Thanks so much. I’ve been looking up spotlights recently to add the “washed” look, and your demo of the YPS track has me sold. I’ll need to introduce 12V into my setup - it doesn’t seem like you needed power injection, which is nice.

Very professional review ... Loved the use of the man lift ... Just ordered 3 Govee standard kits...(1 for Moms home)

Great review, as always! You have a great engineering mind and never leave a stone unturned, GOLD STAR 😀

Damn nice testing. Answered all of my questions.

Project Farm vibes are strong with this video. Great job 👍

Amazing review! Thanks for doing all that installing so we don't have to!

Incredible job - nobody else would go to all that trouble to review LED's - you are a MONSTER! 🙂

Very nice Job Sr.! Congrats and thank you so much for your hard work!!!

Thanks a ton for this video! I've been seeing a lot of Govee reviews lately, and I was considering them... but after your review, I'm leaning toward YPS. It just seems like a lot easier to get a "clean" install with those, and I'd really not have to climb up on a ladder in the dark to try adjusting individual bulbs. That, along with the higher density allowing for more flexibility, I'm really leaning that direction. Only downside is the Govee would be ready to go for the wife to start playing with, but YPS is gonna put a lot on my plate to get to the same place ;)

Thank you so much for putting this together!

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. This video helped me tremendously. Your hard work and head ache of work is greatly appreciated. 👏👏

Was very helpful think imngoing with the govee lights after your video. Thanks for taking the time to do the video

I want to use the Govee but have stucco soffits. The 3D printed mounts are a great idea. Now I think I can go ahead with my lights.

Very well put together video Rob. Thanks

Great timing!

Amazing tutorial. I would 100% pull the trigger on buying permanent lights. My only issue is that most likely every year they will continue to update them.

As always, great analysis and comparison Rob. I'd love to go the permeant route, but with a mid-century modern roofline, I don't have continuous soffits and my trim is not white. So any of these would stand out like a sore thumb in the off season. The quest continues ...

Great Video. Thanks for the info, it's just what I needed to help make my decision.

Great and timely video sir! For the Eufy lights, if you have and install more than 1 set, are they controlled interdependently well with the app? AND is it possible to add one segment to a set - having one set with 7 segments and the other with 5 segments? - my first floor has a bit more to cover than the 2nd floor.

Another awesome video, thank you so much!

You can make the Eufy lights warm white when making a color combination. Just click on it white (it’ll become pure white) then un click it and it becomes warm white. Worked for me.

Love the project farm vibe

Amazingly timely. I really want to buy a set, but I also really want to do WLED in the future. And after seeing the pictures I realize I need that separate warm white LED too. Sounds like Eufy is the way to go for me. This is amazingly helpful, thanks so much.

Great video! Thanks for all the info. Have you ever looked into the Twinkly lights? I’ve been wanting to splice and extend those.

Wow what a great video comparison! 😊

Phenomenal review. I picked up a set of the Govee Pro lights in white. The PSU on this does not say it is waterproof on the bottom or on the govee main site. I am not sure if you are US based or not. One thing I would incourage when doing reviews is to add feet/inches when mentioning sizes. Products here are always set to feet and inches, it one of the most annoying things about products coming from abroad like China/Govee. They do things in meters. But just a great and concise review. That light show rabbit hole is making me think twice about these pro govee lights. The eufy lights also had a feature which was unique. It could integrate into their camera's and security cams somehow. I know the govee pro have matter integration but that is still being hashed out to how well they play.

Great review. Thanks for all the great info. On the Eufy lights, if I wanted to cut and extend them the 10' you said worked, what kind of wire do I need. 3 wire or 4 wire? Thanks!

Great video I was lost on which to get till I saw it. I'm gonna go with Govee

Great review! Thanks for your hard work.

Thank you on this great video!

As always a very informative video, thanks

Bloody hell just saw your correction lol. Thanks for this. Not entirely sure why but on my string I had to swap W and G to get everything to work correctly

I like how Chris Maher was able to wire the Govee to WLED controller

Impressive detail and video editing.

So helpful!

I just did some Ray Wu RGBW TM1814's and their aluminum track, they look awesome (similar to the YPS but way brighter) and the warm white is excellent. No bleed through from the blue like you get with some LEDs. Pricey though. 30M of track, 14 strings (280 pixels) and meanwell power supply for about $650CAD to my door.

Excellent comparison video. I bought the GoVee permanent outdoor lights, non-pro version back in July and just got them installed over the last few weeks. I’m very happy with the way it looks. I had made a cardboard template to keep the light nodes 3 inches from the wall for installation without having to keep pulling out a tape measure or ruler. So that was a useful thing. If I were to do it again, I would probably bring the lights 4 inches out from the wall. I don’t see any advantage to the Govee pro other than the warm white lights and it’s not really something I would be using very often. Plus, I’d rather have the brightness and more lights than the Govee Pro array gives. I have thought about running a separate string, just for warm white, if such a thing exists, but I would only be using that for security, or perhaps non-holiday accent lighting, but I don’t know. It’s still not worth it to me to get the Govee pro at this time. I took my time spacing the light nodes over the center of large windows, and other features of the house, so that worked out fairly well, and I think the wired system as opposed to a track system provides more flexibility for this. The wires are not really visible at all from the front of my house unless you get right underneath the eaves. So that doesn’t concern me very much. I definitely recommend buying more clips though that’s essential I think.

Thanks for the comparison,very detailed

Such a great video and super impressed with all of that effort. One question; Would you ever consider running COB led lights over these? Im not a huge fan of the scalloped look and I have been searching for a COB LED that would work based on your other video with COB lights.

Love the video, I am sorry I couldn't help but think "Make your neighbors, hate you with this one simple trick... hang 6 different LED lights up at once!"

So much works for that video maannnnn😂🎉nice work

Thanks for the video. Any chance you have a dedicated Holiday Lights update video in the works? I'm curious to see how your Holiday setup has evolved since your last video. :)

I really appreciate all of your videos and how much you test everything out for us! But I must wonder what your neighbors think? Lol, always changing lights and I imagine you were up and down on the roof constantly just making this video. If you were my neighbor I think we'd be best friends lol.

Great video comparison. Thank you for doing this..

Thanks for the very informative video! I bought some of the Eufy lights and have installed them on the lower story of my house and they're great so far. I have a bit of a longer gap between strands, and I'm hoping to be able to bridge that gap without soldering. Do you have any experience finding a longer extension cord for the Eufy lights, or stringing two together? I see you could do around 10 feet in the middle of a strand, but I'm wondering if extending between strands could go longer than the included 12 foot extension cord.

Great breakdown, I’m very interested in this product category but I don’t have soffits just 5 inch rain gutters so I’m not sure it’s possible for my home built around 1960.

You are blowing my mind right now. How did you review all these in the time it took me to make one video? Aslo, I can put the Eufy in WLED!?! I had a similar track to the YPS 10 installed at my house but it has warm white. I paid a ton for the install. Amazing video!

My go to now is tru-tone bulbs. They use the old school c7 and c9 connections (the best of all Christianmas lights ever) and they use the warm white long LED filaments with a colored glass giving them the most authentic non-flickering incandescent look you can get!

Just finished installing the Govee's a few days ago, and after seeing this I feel pretty good about my choice. The price point was awesome ( they were on sale for Prime Day 2 ) so factoring that in they are great for the money. Now I kind of want to mess with WLED though...

Impressive review!

Wow thanks for this. Was trying to decide between Govee non pro or the YPS pixels. I think I’ll go Govee because I have some other of their products in my house and one app to control them all sounds good, but I love the idea of a WLED controller in the future. Any way to do a data repeater on the Govee? I’m going to have to jump about 10 feet from lower to upper level and hope to keep it working right.

As always .. very informative video.. great effort … hats off to you… I’m planning to use yps.. can you pls advise which controller and power supply to use which is great and reliable

Great info! Wish you had a shot with all of them on at the same time 😂

I just installed the Oelo permanent lighting system a few days ago, and my neighbors thought I was crazy with the 45 foot man lift LOL. You installed 5 different systems! Your neighbors must think you’re absolutely insane. Great video. Oelo is a 36V system that comes in aluminum tracks, kind of like the YPS tracks you showed here. The Oelo is expensive, but it comes with everything you need and it’s 36V, which I really wanted because I had some extremely long runs and I didn’t want to deal with power injection. I looked at YPS, but I didn’t want to have to figure out my own power supply, controller, weatherproof box, etc. I paid about $2500 after taxes and shipping for 150 linear feet of the Oelo system in aluminum, which comes out to roughly 200 lights (I estimated a YPS system would have been in the high $1000s after I added all the other stuff I would need). And that Oelo price I paid is after a 25% discount, otherwise I probably wouldn’t have done it. Expensive, but like it said came with everything and all the components are very high quality. Except for the app - the app is pretty weak, but it does the job. Great customer service though, and I found out they’re working on a new controller/app that’s coming out in 2024.

My soffits look just like yours. I've been a little nervous screwing in to them, but I know the 3M won't last very long where I live (hot summers). What type and length screw did you use? I saw somewhere #8 3/4 inch? I also read self tapping? thank you and great video. I got 2 150FT Govee the other day and after watching your video it looks like I made a good choice.

Great comparison review once again. Love these vids. Question: If budget wasn’t an issue, are there higher end products out there? What would a pro use?

Awesome video and I so appreciate all the trouble you went through! I have a question, how would I know what power supply is needed for the YPS system? Thank you!

I saw in the video for the Eufy lights that you could not use the warm white light in combination with another color currently or individually adress the warm lights on or off. Do you know if Eufy plans to fix that in the application so i can set a candie cane (red/warm white) pattern ? Currently it looks like it only uses the white from RGB led and not the dedicated warm white. Or would i have to go with a WLED controller? Awesome video and i appreciate it.

I prefer the scalloped designs for festive lights, but prefer the YPS for a more year round usable light.

Hi I’m looking into adding permanent lights on my house this year. Have you ever used or heard of enbrighten eternity lights? I’d love to see your opinion on them. There isn’t much out there about them but they seem to have a lot of really nice features and a lifetime warranty.

The neatness and inconspicuous YPS would interest me the most but I’m put off by there not being an included power supply or controller. Is there off the shelf ones you would recommend?

Great review! I think Eufy's future doesn't look very promising if they continue with their fully closed ecosystem. Personally, after 5 years, I'm getting rid of their cameras and sensors. I got tired of waiting for a good integration with smart hubs.

What would be the better choice as far as non holiday season security lighting and farthest distance output for when set you white lighting?

So, I'm thinking the standard Govee lights are what I'm leaning towards for my house. Question, if I need 10 or 12 more feet does Govee sell a single strand that I can just screw in? Also, if so will that extra string add onto the app like plug and play?

Which ones would be better for weather with lots of snow? I would be concern with snow hanging from the soffit and getting into the lights.

Amazing video dude. This made making the choice so easy. Could you hit us with the link for the clips you used for these? Any advantages to different types of clips?

What about some wiremold plastic channels between each pucks to have nice straight hidden cables?

Nicely done comparison.

In all the installs that I've seen, the lights are mounted 3-6 inches from the house. I've got a gabled 2-3 foot overhang around my house. The flat surface is at the end of that overhang, so the lights would be mounted 2-3 feet from the house. Would that still create a good effect? Also, If I did mount them closer to the house they would be sloped like the overhang is. Would that affect the way the lights illuminated the house?

Thanks for posting this! Is there a total length where you think it would be best to DIY your own set? I’m new and the design of my house has quite a few smaller peaks I’d have to splice and run blank spots for.

Awesome comparison

I was wondering if the ones there selling on the Govee Canadian site ,the same as the non pro kits ? they look the same but different boxing , I am waiting for them to arrive ,thanks awesome video!

What a review!

@TheHookUp fantastic video! Thank you for showing the YPS 5 and 10 puck density. Which do you prefer? I am thinking of going with 10 and then I can always program it to appear like the 5 if I like that better. I also want to do an Xlights show in the future. Edit: I typed my comment before listening to the end!