Innr Flex Light will add color to your smart home

Innr Flex Light is a cheap and pleasant alternative to Philips. Of course, it will not completely illuminate a dark room, but it will add a nice touch to your existing settings. It is perfect for adding some very important atmosphere to your home!

Suitable for any Zigbee bridge, including Philips Hue

You can use Alexa or Google Assistant for voice control

Not as bright as you see elsewhere

You can't extend it

Use separate RGB and white LEDs

Author Yasmine Crossland Posted on April 28th 21

To summarize this Inner Flex Light review: Although it may not be the most powerful smart light strip around, you can be sure that it is worth the money and can be used with your Philips Hue bridge. 

Using smart technology controlled by the app to illuminate your home no longer requires you to pay. The market is flooded with cheaper alternatives that make smart lighting easy to use and easy to use. If you want to furnish your entire home, check out T3's guide to the best smart light bulbs to find out which system is best for you. 

Using light strips to draw lines on walls or framed furniture, you can create the perfect atmosphere for any type of occasion-whether it's a movie night, a romantic night or a cocktail in the kitchen. So, how does Innr's light strips compete with competitors? Read this Innr Flex Light review to find out. 

The best place to get the Innr Flex Light is from Amazon. You can choose between a 2 meter long light strip or a 4 meter long light strip. The 2 million option is priced at 49.99 pounds in the United Kingdom and $39.99 in the United States. The 4 million Flex Light is priced at 69.99 pounds in the United Kingdom and $69.99 in the United States. 

In the UK, you can also choose to buy a 4m light strip without a wall socket, and there is no difference in cost. Instead, it comes with a 1m power cord with an LED driver directly connected to 230V.

Compared with Philips Hue, the biggest advantage of using Innr lights is the cost: 2 million Philips Hue Lightstrip Plus from Amazon sells for £63.99/US$79.26, which is a considerable difference. Philips Hue also does not have a 4m option, you need to buy a double or get a basic 2m kit with a 1m extension cord for 3m lights, the price is 82.18 GBP/104.94 USD. 

The real advantage of Innr Flex Light is that you can use it with any Zigbee bridge, including Innr’s bridge, although I have set it up with the Philips Hue bridge. 

Innr Flex Light illuminates the room with white and colored lights. There are 30 colored RGB and 30 white LEDs per meter. The 4m Flex Light has 240 LEDs in total! There are 16 million colors to choose from, and the temperature range is from 1800K to 6500K. 

It has a life span of 25,000 hours, which matches the life span of Philips Hue Lightstrip Plus. However, one area where Innr Flex Light will definitely drop is brightness. The 2m Innr strip has 600 lumens (1,200 in 4m), which is quite dim compared to Philips' 1,600 lumens. 

Since you can use these lights with any Zigbee bridge, you will be able to manage them using any application you normally use. If you have an Innr bridge, you can use the Innr app. Or, if you have a Philips bridge, you can use the Hue app. Flex Light can be easily connected to your smart home, can be grouped into a room and adjusted simultaneously with other lights. Compatible with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, you can also use smart speakers to control it. Please keep in mind that it does not apply to Apple HomeKit or Hue Entertainment features.

As you would expect, there is an adhesive strip on the back of the lamp to hold it in place. You can cut the light to the length you need, every 16.6 cm along the light strip. Think carefully about where you put it, because once it is cut, you will not be able to extend it again, and the sticky side will only really work once. 

Setting up Innr Flex Light with my current Philips Hue system is simple, just like adding any other Hue light, I plug it in and search for the new device in the Hue app. This took a few minutes. Once up and running, it works in the same way as other lights, with the same hue color wheel and preset scenes. 

At 10 mm wide, the Innr Flex Light is narrow enough to look discreet no matter where you need to place it. This makes it very suitable for use under the desktop or across shelves. 

Given that the Innr Flex Light uses completely separate LEDs for white and color, different white shades may seem a bit inconsistent. It creates these shadows by pairing white and colored lights, and you can see how this works in the image below. This means that sometimes it doesn't look right, and sometimes it uses too much blue light. This is a far cry from the seamless tones you get with Philips Lightstrip Plus. Once the light strip is hidden, it is less noticeable, and placing the LEDs so close does indeed produce a complete strip of light in a dark room, rather than placing individual lights along its length Light.  

When it comes to the color itself, I did not notice much difference between Innr Flex Light and Philips Lightstrip. Sometimes, I can see that it lacks vitality and looks a little dull in comparison, even though it is only in certain colors. Because it is very dim, Innr Flex Light is not suitable for independent room lighting. It is more suitable for mood lighting or together with other lights.

The transition between colors and scenes is smooth and instant. When I flicked between them, the Innr light strip was exactly the same as the Philips lights around the room.

We have previously reviewed Innr smart bulbs and concluded that they are "a basic and affordable smart lighting option, but you may find a better alternative." Like Innr bulbs, Inner Flex Light is a basic model, and it may not be the brightest or most dynamic choice. However, in addition to your other lights, this will be a great way to add some colorful mood lighting to the room. In addition, there are two lengths to choose from, which means that even if you can't extend them, you can find the best style for your home.

If you have invested in a Philips Hue lighting system and want to upgrade it, but don't want to empty your pockets to buy expensive new strip lights-Innr Flex Light is a cheap and pleasant solution.  

In this review, I mainly compared Inr Flex Light with Philips Hue's similar product Lightstrip Plus. But there are actually many other light strips worth considering. 

If you don't have a bridge yet, and you don't plan to decorate too many smart lights in your home, then it is best to consider using a Wifi-only light strip like TP-Link KL430. It not only provides you with high-quality lighting and some additional interesting effects, such as rainbow or candy cane lights, but also avoids fiddling with overly complicated bridge settings. This is just a case of plugging it in, downloading the Kasa application and starting to use it. 

Want to use Philips lights outdoors? Find your choice in T3's list of the best Philips Hue outdoor lights.

T3's review writer Yasmine started writing reviews in 2019 and always has an in-depth understanding of the latest technology products. When it comes to the most exciting and innovative technology, she will pay close attention to the pulse and will be happy to tell you exactly what she thinks about it. In her free time, you will find that she is taking care of her plants and planning her next big trip. 

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