SmartDawn

As others have said, the app is very bad. Thankfully, I have these hung up above my bed so I never experience problems with wifi or disconnecting. The app is very janky. You get 53 effects, number 47 does not work. It freezes and resets the pattern cycle, which is unfortunate because it never finishes unless you manually skip that one. You can edit the colors of some effects, but to manually enter it is horrible. It glitches out and makes it very hard. I tried to make a playlist with all except the one that glitches it but you can only have so many in a playlist. The lights themselves are absolutely incredible and the effects are extraordinary. It’s a shame, it’s an amazing product that is held back by a confusing, glitchy, and practically broken app. I would buy these type of lights from a different brand and save yourself the trouble.

If I had known in advance how bad this app was, I would have never purchased the product. If you’re reading this and have an opportunity to return the lights, please do it. You can create a playlist of preprogrammed animations, but there’s no way to loop it so you just end up getting fed back into animations from all seasons. Scheduled tasks are limited to off/on and do not consistently work. Grouping lights doesn’t work well at all. This may be the only app review I’ll ever leave, but my god, this is a terrible application.

The SmartDawn app does not work well with the permanently mounted LED lights. The Effects list cannot be edited and saved. The Doodle grid is for the curtain lights. It is poorly designed for the string lights. There grid does not allow a program for all the lights to light in an endless sequence loop without any lights being off. It’s just not possible. The slider bar from 1-4 is not defined. The rotation choices in the Layout adjustment just don’t make sense for a string light. This could be a useful app with some good programming. It needs an update.