Elgato Light Strip Pro review

pcgamer.com:

Look, I didn't say this but I've heard you're not even a real PC gamer without some RGB strip lighting illuminating your setup. It's no surprise gamer brands are keen to agree and push out ever-more RGB-laden products. Elgato among them, which has just released a line of two-metre RGB light strips, marketed to gamers.

Known as the Light Strip Pro, it aims at becoming the top choice among streamers with features like programmable scenes and camera-ready diodes. And in a lot of ways it makes some really good points.

Inside the box you'll find one spooled light strip connected to a controller box, cables, power supply, manual, and even a few strip connectors. There's minimal packaging or fanfare to the packaging, which is great for keeping the environmental footprint minimal while still giving you everything you need. Getting the strips going is as easy as plugging them into power and using Elgato's Control Center app on either your phone or computer (Mac included, if you must).

Control Center lets you change the colour and brightness of your lights. There are a handful of premade scenes to run through with some pretty basic animations. Some of these will have extra options to set colours, speed, or direction of the movement, but a fair few don't.

Length: 2 m
Connectivity: 2.4 GHz Wi Fi
Colours: RGB
Control: Mobile and desktop apps.
Customise: Lots of cut points. Max 2 metre length
Features: Magnetic, scripting
Price (2M): $50 | £50 | $95 AUD

For anything more specific you need to download Elgato's Javascript Scenes Builder tool, and get to coding.

Elgato has tried to make this as friendly as possible, especially if you're not familiar with Javascript. It's also limited to scenes and just to the lights themselves—this means you can't do things like set midi inputs from your electric drumkit to give responses. Thankfully, there's a readme file as well as a few examples, and you can test your code on the site. It's probably a good idea to test what you had in mind