Govee Curtain Lights 2 Review: These Curtain Lights Offered Me All Sorts of Colors and Images

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For those looking to move past simple LED light strips, Govee's Curtain Lights 2 provide a wall of LED lights for both static images and animations. Improvements have been made for better visual delivery, including a more stable Bluetooth chip with an upgraded algorithm and increased frame rate compared to the original curtain lights. Plus, the Curtain Lights 2 are Govee's first product to feature AI-generated lighting effects based on the user's prompts.

With a plethora of content via over 200 different scene modes and the option to create more, these curtain lights offer an ever-changing, customizable visual scene for your inner and outer walls. Those looking to design and tailor for almost any purpose with these lights will find plenty to explore and capitalize on if they overlook a few minor inconveniences.

Govee's Curtain Lights 2 offers an assortment of flexible lighting features to cover a wall space with rich colors and visuals using its 520, 1040, or 1560 lamp beads. Whether keeping it indoors or taking it outside, the adjustable, color-changing options along with its IP65 rating allow for a wide variety of uses for its many canvas scenes and animations. Whether custom creating content, using the new AI generated lighting effects, or pulling from numerous preset scene modes and 8 music modes, there's an endless variety of content.

The Govee Curtain Lights 2 are available to order on Govee's website and Amazon in three size options: 520, 1040, and 1560 LEDs. The 520 LED (4.9 x 6.6 feet) option costs $149.99, the 1040 LED (9.8 x 6.6 feet) costs $259.99, and the 1560 LED (14.8 x 6.6 feet) costs $399.99.

When choosing between the three LED packages for the curtain lights, having the required space is a given. The two and three-packs have a substantial jump in width, scaling from 9.8 to 14.8 feet. Similarly, if you're looking to practice your own light art creation, you want to weigh the purchase cost in the same way you would a physical canvas when first learning.

In addition to physical space requirements, you'll also want to consider placement options. Depending on the lighting effects and your brightness settings, the curtain lights can easily complement a projector or TV and coordinate well with other Govee lights under different modes.

While this is less of an issue for those already used to Govee's upgrades and creating a full smart lighting ecosystem in their home, new users don't want to unintentionally overlight an area or not get the most out of their effective viewing space when different visual effects can stretch the full length of the LED curtains.

One of the strong points of most of Govee's smart lighting products is the ease of installation. Adhesive hanging hooks, plastic straps, and more are included to securely keep the curtain body in place. But minimal use of them can also help prevent the need to use adhesives on the larger component pieces if you're looking to move the curtain lights between indoors and outdoors throughout the year.

Regardless of your intention, the lights are quite lightweight and can be draped without extensive use of the accessories for those wanting to be extra mindful of their walls and any paint stripping. While the Govee Home app doesn't guide the set-up as heavily as some of their other lights, you can get a general idea of the correct placement by lining up their preset visuals to ensure everything looks correct.

The Govee Home app (available for Android and iPhone) serves as the brain of the curtain lights. It offers access to various scenes, music modes, and AI lighting effect generation. As an alternative, major commands such as powering the lights or adjusting the brightness can be handled quickly via voice commands. Those opting to use Matter, Alexa, or Google Assistant can follow guides under the curtain light's settings and take advantage of linking Govee Home for quick device recognition.

Beyond changing color, using Govee Home grants access to over 200 preset scene modes spread across the Scenes and Gallery sub-menus. As you play around, you can get a visual idea for the 40 x 26 pixel arrangement and 200KB resolution compatibility for GIF output. Effects can also be synthesized from the gallery's assets with the option to either randomly select multiple base materials or purpose select from the list to create your own multiple-piece DIY to preview, tweak, and save for later.

For those looking to go beyond presets, both the finger sketch and DIY areas of the app allow for customization. While the finger sketch area is quite straightforward, the DIY area does require a bit more experimentation, especially when looking to create multiple layers and different patterns.

The lack of more prompted guidance here or modifiable preset multi-layer projects to learn from and edit raises the learning curve slightly, but it also rewards those willing to self-start and see how it works step-by-step.

After poking around the major categories, you'll spend most of your time creating or optimizing the implementation of your favorite colors and images across your best wall or curtain. In all cases, adding more LEDs will increase the size of your canvas and grant a better look at the majority of the effects and animations. From there, you can move away from purely manual interaction with the curtain lights by tweaking the app's settings.

Whether you're watching moving scenes or picking up sounds via the device's microphone or your phone, activation can be honed in by different controls, such as setting timers or adjusting sensitivity where appropriate. For further tweaking and automation, lists can be created with multiple lighting effects and then played randomly or sequentially before ending with the light pausing, turning off, or repeating after completion.

Whether you want a simple or more complex visual, the presets and created lighting images and effects are the tip of the curtain light's content options when paired with the plethora of customization options.

These upgraded curtain lights mark the first Govee product to offer AI-generated visualized lighting effects. As is more typical for this type of AI generation, initial guidance suggestions mostly come in the form of simple keyword combinations. Govee's in-app lighting bot walks you through the basics, but you can try requesting more complex results via either voice or keyboard from the start.

Generated results can be saved quickly to the DIY portion of the app, and you can opt to select the edit option if you want to give a quick look at the generated pixel patterns. If you're looking to create a baseline for a new DIY project, this can work well, especially when first working with different layers.

If you do happen to suggest or select an already used keyword from Govee's many preset scene categories, the AI does seem to gravitate towards what's already established and recommended from its categorized scenes. For those looking to jump straight into testing the AI features, this can save a few minutes of in-app browsing, but you won't get the option to save these to DIY and edit them.

While asking to regenerate can move you away from preset options, these typically result in much simpler designs. While working with different prompts and keywords can produce some surprising results, many users may find the AI portion best for a simple baseline more than anything.

When considering the Govee Curtain Lights 2, you'll want to weigh both spacing and needs. These lights are great because they can be used indoors and outdoors. They can also transform wide wall space into a living canvas with an assortment of in-app presets and your imagination.

Those willing to work with the Govee app's DIY mode can further create unique displays for nearly every scenario. Additionally, the introduction of the AI lighting bot allows for a more carefree approach if you want to see lighting effects you can generate on the fly.

As an option, these curtain lights offer nearly limitless colors and images, whether a Govee veteran or newcomer. It won't keep everyone entertained forever, but it's a great creative light show for your home if you're willing to overlook some minor demerits.

Govee's Curtain Lights 2 offers an assortment of flexible lighting features to cover a wall space with rich colors and visuals using its 520, 1040, or 1560 lamp beads. Whether keeping it indoors or taking it outside, the adjustable, color-changing options along with its IP65 rating allow for a wide variety of uses for its many canvas scenes and animations. Whether custom creating content, using the new AI generated lighting effects, or pulling from numerous preset scene modes and 8 music modes, there's an endless variety of content.

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