These full-color and tunable white lighting fixtures match below your cupboards and could be hardwired or plugged in to light up your counter tops. The Cync lights are Matter-enabled and work with Amazon Alexa, Google House, Apple House, and Samsung SmartThings for sensible residence integration. I first noticed a sneak peek of them at CES 2023 and was excited that this would possibly lastly present a superb resolution to the issue of sensible kitchen lighting.
In the event you’ve ever reworked a kitchen, you, too, might have been stymied by the dearth of a method to hardwire sensible lighting below your cupboards. This was my expertise a few years in the past after I needed to mild up my kitchen counter tops by placing sensible, tunable white mild that I may additionally dim below my cupboards.
There have been no hardwired choices for sensible LED lights that will work below cupboards. The one choices I discovered have been to wire a typical LED mild strip to a sensible change — which means no colour altering or dimming, however I may management them remotely and on a schedule — or use a plug-in sensible mild strip to get the consequences I needed however on the expense of taking over a number of shops in my kitchen and having chunky cables working all over the place.
Then, earlier this 12 months at CES, I noticed the Cync undercabinet lights arrange and dealing in a mock kitchen, they usually seemed spectacular. They’ve a large however slim profile, showing virtually invisible below the cupboard from most angles however giving off extra mild than a typical mild strip. Additionally they have a diffuse impact, which implies no harsh pinprick mild from the LEDs reflecting off your counter tops. I’ve some samples that I plan to check and could have a full assessment quickly.
Shade and tunable white mild makes a number of sense in a kitchen setting. It supplies process lighting when cooking or cleansing and might change to dimmable color-changing mild whenever you desire a extra ambient colourful glow throughout time for supper or when it’s time to calm down.
Cync’s new lights provide all these capabilities and work with the Cync app, powered by the Savant sensible residence system. This allows you to set the lights on a schedule and add them to scenes. They’re additionally appropriate with sensible residence platforms for voice management and different options and have bodily buttons for direct management.
The Cync Sensible Undercabinet Fixtures require 120V AC energy and work over 2.4GHz Wi-Fi. They arrive in 12-inch ($59.99), 18-inch ($64.99), and 24-inch ($69.99) edge-lit bars and three-inch diameter puck lights ($84.99). For bigger areas, you may join as much as 10 lights and energy all of them from one supply.