Magic Home Pro Reviews

This update (v1.8.2) has seemingly broken a number of my Magic Home shortcuts. Oddly, a few Magic Home shortcuts remain unaffected, and continue to work as normal, while others, ironically my favorite/most used Shortcuts just refuse to work anymore, even when I delete and totally rebuild them from scratch. I’ve attempted to rebuild them from the Magic Home app and within the Shortcuts app, but neither work. According to Siri/Shortcuts, the shortcut runs successfully, but the light doesn’t change.

•Shortcuts seem to work now with 1.8.3. Oddly enough, after updating MagicHomePro from 1.8.2 to 1.8.3, the Magic Home widget completely disappeared from my Today View (or whatever Apple calls it now). It even vanished from the list of available widgets. However, after a reboot, it magically reappeared. Initially the widget displayed a network error, but the scenes came back after opening MagicHomePro .

I have had two LED bulbs I got for Christmas about five years ago so I already had the Magic home app on my phone. Those bulbs are still working great.

I recently decided to order a set of four new bulbs to replace my family room and bedroom lights. I wanted to have the whole house setup with RGB LED lights and be able to control everything though Siri. I didn’t realize the ones I ordered also worked with the Magic home app which made me very happy.

Today I was able to setup all six bulbs. I have to say I’m very happy with the outcome. I enjoy having set groups for each room. I also love the ability to use shortcuts for Siri. I actually have 3 separate scenes for the family room. One to turn on full brightness, one for low lights when watching movies, and one that uses RGB for parties. I can even set up different patterns for each specific bulb.

I also use the timers function to turn on/off specific bulbs at different times at night when I’m out of town. This gives the appearance of someone being in the house.

Overall I’m very happy with the bulbs and the Magic home app. There are several new features that have been added over time. Plus they have great customer service if someone is having an issue.

I have 20 fixtures in my setup. There is a learning curve. This one is pretty simple and flexible, HOWEVER, it’s not perfect.

First, the WIFI options have been getting better with updates, but don’t always connect to the network until restarting my rounder. I’m controlling RGBW.

When programming scenes, the manufacturer need to update MagicHomePro so it can add the options to turn RGB and W or WW as On or Off as part of saved scenes. Currently, it’s limited to one parameter. For example if you program a scene with RGBW, but then go to another scene that should use only use RGB; the W value is unaffected. The scene changes and the W LED remains on. It’s due to only a single program selection options for scenes.

PLEASE ADD multi functionality protocols to saved scenes. That way the programmer of scenes, can properly turn on and off RBG / RGBW scenes combinations. Currently, if you have scenes programmed this way, you need to manually turn the “W” LED on/off between programs.

Default program values should be zero so programmers must affect a value to help less experienced programmers program scene changes, but allow advanced users flexibility to use the RGBWW capabilities!

The installer recently added a new controller to work with my lights and MagicHomePro, and so far it had improved stability and added some great new options. I’m disappointed, however that now the “use photo” option just reduces the color range of the photo to a few dominant colors. The thing I loved about the older “use photo” option was its ability to display hundreds of colors as the picture moved through the frame. It really showed off the capabilities of the lights! It seems it would work as well if you at least created the full range of colors from a slice of the photo to be used with the “running water” animation.

Update: Developer reached out and is trying to help us. Really appreciate that.

Super disappointed that the lights require a separate WiFi to work. Others have flagged this process as a scam and potential security threat. Our contractor has struggled since the day they were installed because of the separate WiFi and without it, MagicHomePro doesn’t work and therefore the lights don’t work. I don’t understand why it needs to connect to a separate network. I agree with the others now, this feels questionable. I wish I had listened to the other reviews and not gotten these lights.

I love MagicHomePro , my led connect really fast and changing colors on my LED strip is instant, I just wish it had better effect settings. Even though theres 300 of them some aren't that great or I cant change what colors are being used on the setting. I really like number 10 effect (7 Colors flow gradually, from start to end and return back) on my led strip but the colors aren't really good and I wish I could change them. The ability to change that on all effects would be great, at least in the custom tab. And some effects speed 100 isn’t fast enough, A higher speed setting would be great.

I have to say that with the latest update, the Magic Home app has gotten better. I still have connection issues sometime but resetting the connection is a lot smoother now. My main issue is that in my home I’m using both 2.4 and 5 GHz wireless bands. I think MagicHomePro only works with the 2.4 GHz and sometimes my phone switches to the 5 GHz and then I’ll lose connectivity. I might check if MagicHomePro can work on the 5 GHz band also, but for now, I don’t want to mess with success. Overall, MagicHomePro is less buggy than before and therefore more useful.

I put my LEDS up yesterday and ever since then I’ve been trying to connect the WiFi to my phone. All of the “support” option have not helped me. To fix this problem they should actually do the work so that we don’t have to. By this I mean that they are the coders and designers, and we are clearly not. Please make it to where it is easy to connect, and I’m able to use these easily. Lastly, when I opened the box, it did not include a led controller. There is instructions for it, but no controller. MagicHomePro has much potential, but there’s to much blank space for the costumer to be left with. If someone could write on here and explain how they got theres to work that would be great.

After the last update, the LED lights controlled by MagicHomePro have a mind of the their own. They appear to follow the schedule I put in, but then they also randomly change to a different color (generally blue), randomly turn off and randomly turn on. I’ve reset everything to factory and started over but that hasn’t helped. Whenever I try to go into device settings, I get the error message that the controller is offline, make sure the phone and controller are on the same WiFi network (they are). I can control the lights through MagicHomePro so obviously the controller is online. What a mess.

This is my second year with my lights . All is working for me as it should . My router is inside my closet in the middle of the house. Sometimes when it does not connect , I realize that I have 2 close doors causing the signal to maybe be marginal . I open doors , and iam able to control lights they my app.

I don’t want to bother getting a WiFi extender for a stronger signal just for those lights outside , but may help others .

Since I’ve had these lights they just randomly turn on all hours of the day and night, which is so annoying when I’m trying to sleep. They also change color or start flashing different colors randomly and unprompted. They also randomly disconnect from my app and stop responding to my prompts through the application. Ive had to reconnect one or all of the lights at least once a day since purchasing. I’ve reached out for support via the in-app support feature but not received any response or feedback. I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND THESE LIGHTS. Spend a little bit more money and get some that actually work!!

The only issue I have is sometimes I need to close MagicHomePro after it has been open for a very long time or the controls don’t respond, but it only takes a couple of seconds so it’s really not an issue. I appreciate the developer taking the time to create MagicHomePro, I have used it daily for going on three years now to control the lights in my bedroom!

Had my lights for quite some time now and they’ve always worked great. Until the other day when I got home they were disconnected. When I tried to connect them it wouldn’t work. So I tried to reset the and they’re not resetting. I’ve tried all the options and nothing has changed. And if I try making them into a new device it never loads. I just want my lights to work again.

I’ve had these LED light strips for half a year now, I keep trying to connect them to MagicHomePro , but they never seem to work. I’ve searched so many ways to help and I can’t seem to get them to connect. I can’t find them in wifi or Bluetooth. I would like guidance on how to fix this. Even is there isn’t even a problem and I just don’t understand the instructions.

I order these light because I saw them on Tiktok. I was very excited to revive them and put them up in my room. They where easy to set up and they looked amazing but after a couple months they stop working. I’ve tried to reset them but they won’t work they just keep flashing on and off. I’ve sent an email asking for help but they never responded. I love these lights but I don’t feel like paying another $50 for them

I have been unable to reconnect my devices to google home after having to reset them through the magic home app. They randomly quit working and it took a couple of weeks before they’d actually connect to MagicHomePro again. Like I said, now they won’t connect to google home. It’s very frustrating

I did the most recent update right before resetting an RGBic LED strip smh. The update has a huge bug in it. Once you connect the led strip to wifi it takes you to a page called “settings on Led strip type”. Once you get on the page there is no way off of it besides closing MagicHomePro and then you have to go right back to the page once you open MagicHomePro and try to change colors of the strip smh. Bad UI experience and lack of testing before release!!

I think MagicHomePro is great. I like making custom functions and all of the new features that get added. And of course messing around with color. But I can never get my phone to connect the wifi it puts out. I can only ever get it to work if I factory reset the lights. And I can only get it to work the first time I try it after I reset. If I disconnect after that first time. It never works again till I reset it…

I love my other 2, they are great. So I bought a 3rd one and for some reason, even after resetting it multiple times, I will not show up in my Wi-Fi. It continues to blink, sometimes rapidly and sometimes with 4 seconds in between. I’ve looked all through the FAQ, and have done everything you said to do. Please help!

The lights work fine when they actually show up in MagicHomePro but I constantly have to reinstall them cuz MagicHomePro can’t find them. I’m not sure why this is a constant issue. Once Install the bulb into MagicHomePro , it should stay there forever. Every other day I have to completely reinstall the bulbs and even then, connecting them to MagicHomePro is extremely hard and takes multiple attempts to even get it to connect.

We currently have one light strip that uses the magic home app. To begin it was extremely difficult to connect to the WiFi- made it extremely aggravating to set up. We have had off an on problems with this one strip. Many times the light strip goes offline and is unable to connect. We have this light strip connected through our google mini. When it goes offline it flashes 3 obnoxious colors of red, blue, green. Once we reset the light strip it will work for either a few months or a few days and it goes back to the same issue of “being offline”. MagicHomePro shows the strip in MagicHomePro but it’s identified as “offline”. The past 3 days it has worked on and off. I know when MagicHomePro is about to crash or say fail because the first thing the strip does is turn on and off. If the color doesn’t get changed quick it goes to the flashing 3 colors I mentioned previously.
I know the strip we have isn’t the issue because the strip runs down my staircase on the wall where nobody can touch it. It seems to be MagicHomePro malfunction. I really wish there could be an app update. I will never again purchase a light strip that connects to MagicHomePro. I highly recommend the “Smart Life APP”

MagicHomePro to control smart bulbs need more thorough usability testing. For example, on iPhone in the Music dialog for a verified, active device, once in the selection of music, after selecting a song, there is no way to navigate back to the device’s page. Needs better UX engineering.

Also, the Light On or Off labels on the Home > Devices screen often do not show the correct state. I have two of my four smart bulbs OFF, but MagicHomePro indicates they are ON. This bug makes it impossible to reliably use MagicHomePro and smart bulbs when I am traveling on business. “Is the light really on? Is it really off?” I won’t be able to tell. Frustrating!

Finally, your app support link in the AppStore goes to a Chinese language only page. I cannot provide feedback on bugs on the page.

I tried setting this up and when it failed to connect to my home WiFi on the initial try, I couldn’t redo the set up option as the Ledxxxx WiFi no long showed up as an option (a first step necessary for connecting it to home WiFi).
I tried re-reading the manuals and tried turning on and off with the remote control four times to no avail. Then I just decided to plug and unplug the “rounded plug” that connects between the power adapter to the unit and the WiFi dongle four times. And lo and behold, the LEDs started strobing as it was supposed to when factory reset. Then I relaunched MagicHomePro and sure enough the ledxxxx WiFi showed up again. Now I have it connected to home WiFi and I love how i can use Alexa to not only control the on and off function of the lights, but also the colors as well. I haven’t tried setting the intensity using Alexa but that’ll be my next step.

These lights have a lot of potential and some of the colors look amazing and my room looks wayy nicer than it used to. The biggest problem i have with these lights is that you can only play them with itunes music, and they dont change to the colors of the music quite right. I would absolutely loveee these lights if they changed on time to the beat and more towards the sounds of the songs. They do look amazing in my room, but MagicHomePro is sort of unintuitive and a bit bland. They need to change quicker to the sounds of the music and you need to have settings for brightness, just overall MagicHomePro needs more creativity and a sleeker look in addition to everything in MagicHomePro needing improvement. However, the lights still look really cool and im really excited to have them 🤩

So far I have enjoyed the LED light strip. The wifi set up is easy if you can follow directions. It has some hiccups (like taking forever to actually connect to the wifi) but it will work. Once I got everything all hooked up, I had access to the microphone feature, and the automatic camera feature. Now, neither of these options are available to me. I've tried to reset the lights, re-download MagicHomePro , look up anything that may help me, but I can't figure out what happened to it. Will update stars if I get a reply on how to fix this issue.

Want to pay your hard earned money so your private data can be mined? Do you feel a need to sign in to a global server so that you can turn on a light in your children’s bedroom? Are you a total moron who doesn’t care about your family’s social and sleeping habits being tracked by strangers who monitor the room names associated with these lightbulbs and sell that private information to third parties? If you’ve said yes to these questions then you should waste your time attempting to get this garbage product to work as promised!! It won’t work as promised, but you can still waste your time and money trying to get it too!! I gave up after trying over ten times each with two different bulbs. Not going to bother with the third. If these super cheap manufacturers were honest then we’d all be out of a job. Thank god there isn’t an honest bone in there bodies.

Easy to set up WiFi controller with strip lights. Using in 2 separate locations, 200 miles apart, & can control lights remotely. Like the timer function. Would like more functionality with timer where you could set either one of the functions or custom settings to turn on rather than just a static light. Also the DIY buttons need more customization. The music function seems to work OK also. Allow me to have holiday music & dancing lights!
But so far they do what I need.
They work best if you use a 5A power supply though a 2A works as well. One set up I have runs 1 string of lights cut into 2’ sections on my bridge & the 2nd set up, I’m running 2 sets of lights in a retail location.

The alexa integration is great so you can control the bulbs (or whatever product you have) by voice or through MagicHomePro . The scheduling feature is good. It allows you to automatically turn the bulbs on and off at set times. One thing that would make that feature better however is to allow you to disable the schedule on major holidays. For example, I have the lights in my room set to turn on early in the morning Monday-Friday. It would be nice to allow it to set so on days like Christmas, Thanksgiving, etc, the schedule is off without having to go into MagicHomePro and turn it off then back on.

As great as MagicHomePro is, it has 2 major problems keeping it from getting a 5 star from me:

1. it likes to default the light settings to 7 color fade when it's first turned in after a while or if you exit MagicHomePro . This makes it impractical to simply turn on the lights in a house with a single button, instead you have to go through and physically pick each color

2. no widget. MagicHomePro needs a big ol button you can press on your home screen to turn on the lights. As it is, a light switch is more practical

Very happy with MagicHomePro so far. I think there is lots of room for new features and functions though. I would like to be able to manually create a light show. For example, blue for 5 seconds, quick fade to green, then 12 seconds later blink from red to white to blue...you get the idea. I hope the developer will consider making functionality like this available. Would make for amazing potential with the LED lights. I would love to create cool light shows that sync to music.

I’ve had the LED strip light product that uses magic home for operation. It’s been two weeks and have resorted to controlling the led with the remote it comes with as my only option. After working once out of the box, app does not want to connect to my home WiFi after I connect to the WiFi Controller. This issue is rather frustrating. In addition, to circumnavigate this issue I have tried to connect to my google home but MagicHomePro crashes even when I try to add it under home control. The issue must be MagicHomePro itself.

Good concept, but the Tuya app for control of smart devices has you miles beat. A seamless alternative.

Editing my review because a recent update broke previous functionality. Saying “set light white” used to set them to “warm white” but now the default is “cool white.” Could you put the default white to warm, or allow a toggle in the settings?

It would also be super useful to allow the lights to reset to a default color after they are turned on. For example, if the lights are red at night but need to be white in the morning, it would be convenient for them to reset automatically to white.

I have had a bulb for 5 months, no problems have ever arisen. Recently, my remote setting decided to crap out on me and not transmit to my Alexa. I have disconnected and reconnected, taken the bulb out, etc. None of that has worked. The update that MagicHomePro just went through didn’t fix the problem. I got the bulb so I could have it paired to my Alexa and not have to flip the switch. I also got it for the brightness control. Now I can’t use my Alexa to turn on/off my bulb, nor can I control the brightness from my Alexa. I’m 12 and my parents got this for me because it was parable with Alexa. I would recommend any other brand but this “Magic Home” brand for lights.

The new app is nice, but there’s a huge flaw in the calculation for Color Temperature Control. The prior app let you set WW and CW to 100%. The current setup in MagicHomePro doesn’t allow for that. At 2700k the WW channel is set to 100%, and at 6500k the CW channel is set to 100%, but at 4600k, both channels are capped to 50%—even when the brightness is set to 100%.

While this may make sense for Color Temps, individual channel control would be a vast improvement for this situation. Even individual sliders for WW and CW would be wonderful. I’d just like to be able to max out the brightness of both channels for when I need it.

Aside from that, MagicHomePro behaves really well, and I’m really liking it.

I tried most of the features, it’s working great. I also connected with Google home and able to control by voice commands. However I was not able to play music. Once I tap on “Select Music”, it takes me to music library within MagicHomePro - from where there is no option to go back to the main app screen. I reached out to the seller and they fixed it. Now I am able to play music and see the colors changing by the beats.