Magic-Lantern 4+

Like most I have this app as a companion to my outdoor, permanent lighting. The lights were advertised as something you could leave up year round and use for various holidays like Christmas, July 4th, Halloween… while there are a lot of different setting and combinations, they’ve missed some serious marks. There is NO way to make any custom pattern which really hurts the value of the lights because they have ONE pattern of Red/Green, NOTHING in red/white/blue, NOTHING in purple/orange. I don’t understand why these would be missing but I really hope they add these or build in some kind of customization of colors. I’m going to need to return these lights now and let the manufacturer know why. Such a shame.

I got these LED lights specifically for the app-controlled aspect. I wanted to be able to change them seasonally and customize them. This app has tons of color choices and motion settings, but is missing a few things that I would really like to see; things that would be very easy to implement for the developers. First, season-specific color ways. I’m using YCP flush open for spring but I don’t see anything that would work perfectly for Thanksgiving (orange, red, yellow, brown), Halloween (orange, purple, off/black), Pride (ROYGBIV), July 4th (RWB), etc. Adding a list of holidays/seasons would be easy and solve this perfectly. Second, there’s no way to customize beyond picking a single color. I don’t see why we can’t pick multiple colors and motions. I’d love to do something like a firework (motion from the middle of the set out) or a glitter type of motion pattern - with whatever colors I pick.

I really hope the developer of this app implements these ideas very soon because YCP flush open only works through May. I want to leave the up year round and more options would allow me to do so. Thanks, dev team!

I honestly have no clue why there’s so many bad reviews. Maybe those that left said reviews were expecting something much different but I can’t see why. I have an iPhone and it connects to Bluetooth just fine without issue. I’m not experiencing any color shifting as well. The only thing I would’ve liked to see is some customizable options for patterns and direction but for the money I’m totally satisfied. Also, it doesn’t connect to my Apple Music but I don’t care. With the microphone feature it is able to somewhat sync with music but not great. Other than those issues it is everything it said it was and everything I expected. Maybe some people don’t have the aptitude for electronics or are just used to things being idiot proof... although this app’s interface is so predictable that elementary aged children could have a grasp of it.