These full-color, adjustable white light fixtures fit under your cabinets and can be plugged in or plugged in to illuminate your countertops. Cync lights are qualified for the subject and work with amazon Alexa, Google Home, Apple Home and Samsung SmartThings for smart home integration. I first saw them at CES 2023 and was excited that they could finally provide a good solution to the smart kitchen lighting problem.
If you've ever remodeled a kitchen, you too may have been hampered by the lack of a way to connect smart lighting under your cabinets. This was my experience a couple years ago when I wanted to brighten my kitchen counters by placing a smart, dimmable white light that I could also dim under my cabinets.
There were no hardwired options for smart LED lights that worked under cabinets. The only options I found were to connect a standard LED light strip to a smart switch, which means no color changing or dimming, but you could control them remotely and on a schedule, or use a plug-in smart light strip to get the effects I wanted, but at the cost of taking up several outlets in my kitchen and having thick cables everywhere.
Then earlier this year at CES, I saw the Cync under-cabinet lights installed and working in a mock kitchen, and they looked impressive. They have a wide but slim profile, and appear almost invisible under the cabinet from most angles, but they emit more light than a standard strip light. They also have a diffused effect, which means that the intense light from the LEDs does not reflect off the countertops. I have a few samples I plan to try and will have a full review soon.
Color and dimmable white light make a lot of sense in the kitchen. It provides task lighting when cooking or cleaning and can switch to a dimmable, color-changing light when you want a more colorful, ambient glow during dinner time or when it's time to relax.
The new Cync lights offer all of these features and work with the Cync app, powered by Savant smart home system. This allows you to set the lights on a schedule and add them to scenes. They are also compatible with smart home platforms for voice control and other functions and have physical buttons for direct control.
Cync Smart Undercabinet fixtures require 120V AC power and operate on 2.4GHz Wi-Fi. They come in 12-inch ($59.99), 18-inch ($64.99), and 24-inch edge-lit bars ( $69.99) and three-inch diameter puck lights ($84.99). For larger spaces, you can connect up to 10 lights and power them all from a single source.
