ALITOVE 16.4FT WS2815 LED Strip Individually Addressable 300LEDs 12V IP65

The LED strips are bright and colorful, but I didn't care to add another app to my phone, especially if it did not have Alexa control. Since all of my existing LED strips are controlled by the Magic Home app, which accepts on/off commands from Alexa, I did a modification as shown. I purchased a generic WS2812b controller (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09G66L6L1?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details), removed the dual three pin interface cable and replaced it with the four pin cable that is attached to the end of the LED strips. Also, the yellow wire, BI, is connected to GND. Bottom line, excellent LED strips but for me, not so desirable controller.

Always compute the power requirements before purchasing the equivalent power supply. Don't ignore the AWG limitations for the maximum ampere throughput of the power supply wires. Nomenclature gets messy here with WS2812B, WS12813 and WS2815 but if you know your LED strips (or have access to Wikipedia) you can make this 300 LED strip work flawlessly especially if you are programming each RGB LED individually! ;)

Love the lights. Exactly what I was looking for. Although the adhesive backing is poor quality and has had problems sticking to a clean, smooth, prepped surface.

Purchased 3 waterproof 300 pixel strips. 2 of the three have long sections of garbled pixels. Great form factor and connectors but basically useless due to the broken pixels. Bummer.

Really like these lights

Works great

Looked great at first. These new WS2815 LEDs are big improvement due to redundant data transmission. But it's not infallible. As photos show my pristine strip (it's never been cut), developed multiple bad LEDs near the beginning and end of strip. Despite being set to a green color, I'm getting completely random pixel colors that flash and change constantly. Yes I could repair by removing bad pixels, but once you stick the strip to something, that's not easy. And after only about 1000hrs of use is just unacceptable. The strip was installed outdoors, in aluminum channel, but under awning, so never got directly wet. I am using WLED on a ESPPixelStick. I have it running at reduced power, to limit total current and voltage drop. It has only seen winter temps before pixels failed. This was a beta test for a plan to outfit my entire house with permanent LEDs. I've abandoned the plan and will probably switch to flood lights. I've tried multiple brands of flexible led strips and they're just not reliable.

Functions great. Unfortunately it is almost $30 more than other brands.