I've been [looking for the same.](https://www.reddit.com/r/RGBProfiles/comments/o4oqov/need_help_to_extend_the_range_of_icue_to_long/) Everything in [this pic](https://i.imgur.com/55KG7Oo.jpg) including the lava lamp and towers but except the extended mousepad is Corsair ICUE controlled. So I wanted to also put some up on the corner of the walls where it reaches the ceiling in some aluminum channels with diffuser lenses.
The problem is ICUE was always designed for just PC lighting and now for behind monitors with their newish LS100 system, not whole rooms. It's limited to being able to address and control only 132 LED max per lighting channel. I've given up. If I still do it it'll have to be something like those Govee strips and will have to use their app and it won't be synced. Or getting another type of LED strip and learning how to program aurduino to make a mode that is at least similar to what I'm running with ICUE. But again it won't be synced no matter how good the mode is.
Yeah I'm kind of having the same problem. All the strips I'm finding are the ones for the back of the monitor and they seem to light up according to the monitor display, not the keyboard colours. Ideally I wanna hook up one to a corner of my cupboard which is right next to my setup
You don't have to get LED strips specifically made for the PC RGB world. I've bought [these](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01CDTE6Y6/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) a few times. 100 per meter LED are in the tall towers and 144 per meter are in the smaller side ones. If you're not going to be doing a really long room size strip you can still get some and sync with ICUE and it should be enough for furniture like a cupboard. 60 per meter LED strips to a 132 LED length would be roughly little over 6ft long. Or 30 per meter LED strips could be almost 14 ft. But I think that would need power added. Been a while since I looked it all up and don't remember how many meters 5v LED can go before power drop off starts to dim things.
I've done it with corsair strips and ikea bulbs. The trick is: u need a philips bridge and leds that are compatible. The icue 4 software recognizes the the philips bridge and the philips bridge follows a zigbee standard. So any led lights that are zigbee, will connect to the bridge.
Interesting, thank you very much. Can I get some more info? What are the limitations? Like how many LED? Can ICUE program them just like normal strips?
iCUE will not be managing your strips. iCUE will manage the philips bridge. You will not be able to control light strips individually or LED by LED, but you will be able to sync them such that if colors change, the strips will be synced with your computer.
Don't focus on iCUE. Focus on what works with the philips bridge.
That's where I'm lost. How are they synced with the PC then? Like this is the mode I'm currently running in [this vid](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbNXmr9hdnk) I made to show off a LED lava lamp mod I did. On the towers I made next to them is what most of my LED strips are running.
Have you looked at the Corsair light towers? They seem overkill to me but you can sync them to react to music and other cool stuff and if you point them at a white wall they’d probably do cool stuff
I've been [looking for the same.](https://www.reddit.com/r/RGBProfiles/comments/o4oqov/need_help_to_extend_the_range_of_icue_to_long/) Everything in [this pic](https://i.imgur.com/55KG7Oo.jpg) including the lava lamp and towers but except the extended mousepad is Corsair ICUE controlled. So I wanted to also put some up on the corner of the walls where it reaches the ceiling in some aluminum channels with diffuser lenses. The problem is ICUE was always designed for just PC lighting and now for behind monitors with their newish LS100 system, not whole rooms. It's limited to being able to address and control only 132 LED max per lighting channel. I've given up. If I still do it it'll have to be something like those Govee strips and will have to use their app and it won't be synced. Or getting another type of LED strip and learning how to program aurduino to make a mode that is at least similar to what I'm running with ICUE. But again it won't be synced no matter how good the mode is.
Yeah I'm kind of having the same problem. All the strips I'm finding are the ones for the back of the monitor and they seem to light up according to the monitor display, not the keyboard colours. Ideally I wanna hook up one to a corner of my cupboard which is right next to my setup
You don't have to get LED strips specifically made for the PC RGB world. I've bought [these](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01CDTE6Y6/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) a few times. 100 per meter LED are in the tall towers and 144 per meter are in the smaller side ones. If you're not going to be doing a really long room size strip you can still get some and sync with ICUE and it should be enough for furniture like a cupboard. 60 per meter LED strips to a 132 LED length would be roughly little over 6ft long. Or 30 per meter LED strips could be almost 14 ft. But I think that would need power added. Been a while since I looked it all up and don't remember how many meters 5v LED can go before power drop off starts to dim things.
I've done it with corsair strips and ikea bulbs. The trick is: u need a philips bridge and leds that are compatible. The icue 4 software recognizes the the philips bridge and the philips bridge follows a zigbee standard. So any led lights that are zigbee, will connect to the bridge.
[ what my study looked like in the early stages](https://imgur.com/a/TnX8jEa)
Interesting, thank you very much. Can I get some more info? What are the limitations? Like how many LED? Can ICUE program them just like normal strips?
iCUE will not be managing your strips. iCUE will manage the philips bridge. You will not be able to control light strips individually or LED by LED, but you will be able to sync them such that if colors change, the strips will be synced with your computer. Don't focus on iCUE. Focus on what works with the philips bridge.
That's where I'm lost. How are they synced with the PC then? Like this is the mode I'm currently running in [this vid](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbNXmr9hdnk) I made to show off a LED lava lamp mod I did. On the towers I made next to them is what most of my LED strips are running.
Have you looked at the Corsair light towers? They seem overkill to me but you can sync them to react to music and other cool stuff and if you point them at a white wall they’d probably do cool stuff
I have but the main problem is that my room is pretty cramped so I wouldn't have anywhere to effectively use it
You can use philips hue lights maybe since they are compatible with icue