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Aqara has released a new Zigbee RGB smart light strip called the LED Strip T1<\/a>. It costs $49.99, requires an Aqara hub, and is compatible with Apple Home, Amazon Alexa, Google Home, and IFTTT. When paired with certain hubs, including the Aqara Hub M2<\/a>, the light strip is also compatible with the Matter smart home protocol. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n The T1 is one of the very few light strips that support Apple\u2019s Adaptive Lighting feature \u2014 and the only one that supports both Adaptive Lighting and<\/em> Matter. It doesn\u2019t support Adaptive Lighting through<\/em> Matter, unfortunately; nothing does. Still, it\u2019s nice to see new, Matter-compliant lighting come to market using the solid Zigbee standard. (Whatever happened to that Hue-to-Matter<\/a> bridge, I wonder?) <\/p>\n<\/div>\n The 6.6ft (2m)-long light strip\u2019s Adaptive Lighting support means you can set it to automatically tune its colors throughout the day to be warmer or cooler depending on the time. The only other light strips that support Apple\u2019s circadian lighting feature at the moment come from Hue and Eve (also the old Nanoleaf Essentials<\/a> strip, which doesn\u2019t, er, Matter).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n As I said though, connecting the Aqara Strip T1 to Apple Home using the Matter protocol instead of the old-fashioned way means you\u2019ll lose Adaptive Lighting, since the still-nascent \u201cuniversal\u201d smart home standard doesn\u2019t currently support it. The nice thing is that \u2014 unlike Nanoleaf\u2019s Matter Essentials strip<\/a>, which only<\/em> supports Apple Home through Matter and thus doesn\u2019t support Adaptive Lighting at all \u2014 Aqara\u2019s Apple HomeKit certification means you don\u2019t have to give that up.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The T1 is an RGBIC strip, meaning it can show multiple colors simultaneously (as opposed to older-style light strips that can only show one color at a time). Also, Aqara says each of its ten segments is addressable, so you can control them individually when changing colors, though that doesn\u2019t apply to the tunable white light portion of the LEDs, which applies to the entire strip at once.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Finally, like other colorful smart bulbs and light strips from companies like Govee<\/a>, you can set up custom effects within the Aqara app if you want to show off fun snaking gradients or flashing colors \u2014 it can even sync to music using a built-in microphone. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n The trimmable, IP44-rated Aqara T1 LED Strip costs $49.99, and a 1-meter extension kit costs $14.99. It\u2019s available at Amazon<\/a> in the US, Canada, and several European countries and at other retailers listed on its \u201cwhere to buy<\/a>\u201d page.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n