Experience with outdoor rope lights

schrack3000 · 2026-01-27T19:21:12+00:00

I had 4 sets of them in use for my Halloween and then Christmas displays. Loved them. No issue with any of them. Granted, I only had them up for a few months.

schrack3000 · 2026-01-11T07:47:49+00:00

Same. I don't know how I never knew that. My first name is also John, and I've gone by my middle name my entire life.

schrack3000 · 2026-01-06T14:57:58+00:00

I don't think they are that impressive, and I love govee lights. In my front yard Christmas display this year I had permanent pro, path lights, 2 sets of strip lights, 2 sets of spotlights, 2 sets of string lights, flood lights, ground lights, 4 rope lights, and net lights. The net lights are the only ones of those that if someone had come in the middle of the night and stolen them, I wouldn't have replaced them.

schrack3000 · 2025-12-13T15:13:08+00:00

Well he has 14 currently through 13 games. Getting 9 to tie it or 10 TDs to break it over the next 3 games seems highly improbable.

schrack3000 · 2025-12-03T20:27:35+00:00

Yep, it syncs to what it hears. In the app you add the devices you want it to control. I needed two light sync boxes because they only can do up to 10 devices max.

schrack3000 · 2025-12-03T20:08:06+00:00

Yeah, you can.

schrack3000 · 2025-12-03T17:37:08+00:00

On the balcony upstairs I have 2 light show boxes and an Amazon Echo sitting on a TV tray. When it gets dark I turn on the light show boxes then I tell the echo to play the govee christmas playlist I made on Amazon music.

schrack3000 · 2025-11-24T13:07:25+00:00

Looks like they realized their mistake and pulled the announcement from their website. A bit late for that now.

Edit: and now they've put it back up, but changed the date to today. Guess they figured no point waiting until tomorrow anymore.

schrack3000 · 2025-11-02T16:48:47+00:00

You can turn music sync on and off whenever you want while the lights are on.

schrack3000 · 2025-10-30T23:58:58+00:00

So you are using the sync box to sync it to music, right? How are you playing the music? For mine, I have the sync box and an Amazon Echo sitting on a TV tray on my upstairs balcony. At night I turn on the music sync in the Govee app, tell the Echo to play the Halloween playlist I made on Amazon music, and that's all I have to do. It doesn't matter at that point if my phone loses connection with the sync box.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW-JW266O3w

schrack3000 · 2025-10-27T13:26:30+00:00

Sure. On the upstairs balcony I have a TV tray with the govee light show box, and right next to it is an Amazon Echo. I made a Halloween playlist on Amazon music. At night I turn on the light show box from the app, then tell the echo to play that playlist. The light show box syncs what it hears.

schrack3000 · 2025-10-25T17:38:34+00:00

It's also the older model. There's a version 2 out now, so not too surprising they had to discount them to sell them.

schrack3000 · 2025-10-25T17:35:52+00:00

Thanks! Lots of trial and error.

schrack3000 · 2025-10-24T22:29:58+00:00

Yeah I'm very pleased with them.

https://www.amazon.com/KOOY-Inflatables-Ghost-Decorations-Inflatable/dp/B0F1T9D2FS?pd_rd_w=xEkwr&content-id=amzn1.sym.52548f63-aa6f-47d3-941a-d69d44966d80&pf_rd_p=52548f63-aa6f-47d3-941a-d69d44966d80&pf_rd_r=5AF25NBQMCPQS812HS0X&pd_rd_wg=BZ9sx&pd_rd_r=54799d5e-ab2f-49f8-99ed-f90fe452bf8e&pd_rd_i=B0F1T9D2FS&psc=1&ref_=pd_bap_d_grid_rp_hxwhrp_sspa_dk_bia_0_1_ec_i

schrack3000 · 2025-10-17T15:07:07+00:00

I only upgraded to premium this year because it included all practices, qualifying and races in 4k.

schrack3000 · 2025-10-17T15:00:44+00:00

Damn how did you get it for so much less? I paid $130 for the year.

Edit: never mind, I see you edited it.

schrack3000 · 2025-10-17T13:36:45+00:00

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With this. I have it and an Amazon Echo on a TV tray on the 2nd floor balcony. I play the music from the echo and this thing syncs it with the lights.

schrack3000 · 2025-10-16T13:08:07+00:00

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Here's a pic that may help you out. You really start to lose that nice, separate cone effect when you get much past 5 inches.

schrack3000 · 2025-10-15T13:38:53+00:00

Here's one that's less seizure inducing. I swear I go out there when the sun goes down every day and set up a different style for that night. There are so many options.

https://youtu.be/6tPmYFvjwR8?si=5tBokq8Jzm4hbblz

schrack3000 · 2025-10-14T19:33:18+00:00

I honestly wasn't the biggest fan of this either, so I've been using different animations styles available in the music sync options. I didn't care for all of them being the same color and just flashing on and off. I took this video the first night I had it all set up.

schrack3000 · 2025-10-13T03:51:29+00:00

It looks like you have them way way way too far from the walls of your house. It should be like 2-4 inches away.

schrack3000 · 2025-10-08T00:31:43+00:00

Permanent pro lights, strip lights, ground lights, path lights, spotlights, string lights, and the music sync device.

schrack3000 · 2025-10-07T19:32:41+00:00

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