Linkind Smart Solar Lights SL5 with Motion Sensor, Halloween Lights Outdoor

These little solar poweredlights worked great as uploading for trees in my front yard. I love that you can program them to different settings from your smart phone and that you don’t need to hardwire them. They work great and I’ve gotten many compliments on them. I’m surprised how inexpensive they were and how long they’ve lasted because I had somewhat low expectations, but I’ve been impressed with them.

These lights are awesome! They light up our house so well! I love that there are so many themes, too. They are so easy to operate from the app, also. They are bright every night so the solar powered battery works great! They are also water resistant. I would buy these again!

Great lights that are easy to set up and operate. You can group them and create cool lighting effects, set them to operate when is dark and turn them off during the day. They have motion sensing too, but I don't use that feature. They seem like a quality product with quality materials. I do not know yet if that will translate to longevity since I've only had them for a month, so time will tell. I didn't stay up all night to see how long they lasted, but it seemed like they lasted all night (for as long as I could tell). The only downside is that the firmware updates upon first setting them up took a while because you can only update 1 at a time. And I guess not a downside, more of a want, is that I wish I could control them via wifi instead of only Bluetooth since you have to be in proximity for Bluetooth to work. Hopefully, they can release like a bridge/hub that communicates via Bluetooth to the lights and can be controlled via wifi. Pros: -light output. Even at low they are plenty bright -easy to set up and control via the app -battery last Cons: -firmware update takes long -wish it had wifi Dont know yet: -longevity For now, they get a 4 stars but if they last and hopefully they add wifi via a bridge then I will update my rating to 5 stars. Update They do have a WiFi bridge which makes this perfection! New Update One of the lights stopped working because it got flooded. I reached out to their support via email and got a quick response and they gave me a credit for the unit that was damaged. So im happy to see that their support is very responsive and they are able and willing to make it right.

Don’t waste your money! I initially bought 1 set of these and set them up in my back yard as landscape spot lights and set the lights to run from 8:00 pm until 11:45 pm nightly. I loved them so much I bought 2 more sets. I used 2 additional lights in my back yard and was saving the rest of the 2nd set and the 3rd set for holiday lighting in my front yard (we have an HOA and cannot have colored lights in the front yard except during certain holidays). I loved these lights but in the last week 3 of the lights have stopped working one at a time. I removed the non working lights, cleaned the solar panels and put them in full sun to charge. I’m in central Arizona, sun is NOT an issue. They should be fully charged but nothing happens. Tried the 5 second long hold and nothing. Won’t turn on, won’t reset, won’t do anything. The first set I purchased early April 2025 and the other 2 sets I purchased in May so of course I’m outside the return window. I’m livid these lights have stopped working only 2 and 3 months after purchase. These lights are way too expensive to go out so quickly. I DO NOT recommend!! DO NOT BUY!

I bought this set of six lights right before Thanksgiving, and after about eight months of use, they've held up well overall. One of the lights stopped working within the first month and became completely unresponsive. I reached out to customer support and was impressed with how quickly they replied. After some back-and-forth testing, they confirmed it was a defective unit. They originally offered to send a replacement, but eventually issued a full refund for that unit. Great service! The remaining five lights have been working perfectly. The solar charging is reliable, and the ability to control the lights via smartphone is incredibly convenient. We especially love changing the light colors to match our mood or seasonal decorations—that's definitely our favorite feature! Highly recommended for anyone looking for smart, colorful, and hassle-free outdoor lighting.

Fantastic lights - They work perfectly with the app and can be programmed to light up at different times with different options. Good value for money. Thanks

I purchased several different lights before ultimately deciding on this one. The combination of brightness along with the ability to control the lights via my smartphone were what made these my final choice. I now have 36 of them throughout my 2.5 acre property and am more than impressed with this product. While you'll pay just a few dollars more for these, the ability for me to change them via a Bluetooth device was worth it. I spent hours of research and read over 100 reviews on various lights before making my selections, and I can tell you firsthand, that the power and ability of these lights goes under-advertised by the seller. The lights easily hold a charge throughout the entire night, deliver outstanding light, and this has even occurred during days where the sky was overcast and the sun wasn't shining at 100% for the solar panels to absorb. Additionally, the Bluetooth range is phenomenal. I have a 250' driveway, and I can easily control lights near the front of my driveway from inside my house. The app can be a little bit hit-or-miss when you first start using it, however, once you become familiar with it and learn how it works, it's really quite easy. Be aware that 'smart' does not mean WiFi, but rather, your phone/device's Bluetooth. When starting the app, you made need to wait a minute for all of your lights to appear as available. Again, once you understand this, the app is easy to use. Also, I found that controlling all lights at once with the app tended to be hit-or-miss, and I found it easier to simply control one light at a time. Overall, as I mentioned in my opening, I am pleased with my purchase. The curb appeal of my house has been dramatically improved and my trees really pop. The combination of quality and ability to have fun with the lights when decorating for the holidays, made this well worth the money.

In preparation for Halloween of 2023, I bought a 6-pack of "Linkind StarRay Solar Spot Lights". One was a lemon, as it never came on, no matter how long it (supposedly) charged in Florida sunlight. Annoying, but the other five were fine and did exactly what I wanted them to do - slowly cycle thru its programmed color palette at night for my driveway. The lights were almost idiot-proof, as all they had was the one button, and you could select a solid color or a color cycle with that single button. Fast-forward to my purchase of these lights, which are fairly potent upgrades. They even come with flashable firmware, which can be pushed to each individual light via the AiDot Android or iOS mobile app. When you receive these lights, odds are they'll ship with old firmware, which the AiDot app will recognize and ask if you want to push the newest code, which takes about a minute per light. The lights themselves are about as bright as the previous batch. They're definitely not floodlights and the marketing pics are, shall we say, generous in their illumination portrayal. You will need a more than a handful if you want to fully illuminate something like a long driveway for potential trick-or-treaters. These later-model lights now have a motion sensor, which is housed in a prominent bump in the center. This is nice if you don't want the lights to stay on continuously all night, so you can now jump-scare the bejeezus out of a passing squirrel or raccoon (or home invader if you live in a rough neighborhood). I did test the motion sensor capability and it works surprisingly well. The lights communicate with the AiDot app via Bluetooth, so you need to have Bluetooth services turned on before you can program them or push the aforementioned firmware updates. Note that the pairing process is done within the app, NOT in the Bluetooth settings on your phone. In fact, at least on my phone, the lights don't even appear on the list of Bluetooth devices in my phone's settings. This had me VERY confused for awhile and I feared the lights might've been defective, but just in case, I installed the AiDot app to see if it recognized them. And it did! They enumerate in the app as "Solar Landscape Spotlight_#", with said enumeration only taking a few seconds (provided there is enough of a charge). And I must admit that their Bluetooth range is actually pretty impressive. Oh, you might be thinking at this point that I'm burying the lead with my "irritating requirement" opinion, so here it is - IMNSHO, you should not have to rely on a mobile app to control these lights. It's annoying and overly complicates what should be a simple light package install. You can do some basic lighting without the app, but you canNOT do any color cycling without it. With the previous lights, you COULD do a light cycle with a few button presses, but not with these. So, why is relying on such an app a potential turnoff? For three main reasons: 1) AiDot REQUIRES you to provide an email address for the company to send you an activation code before the app can be used, so it's just another data harvester. 2) I have read scattershot complaints that the app is very invasive when it comes to permissions. TBF, I've looked on my phone and only permission I see allowed is nearby devices, so perhaps this has been fixed (using version 1.34.1). Still, it bears monitoring. And 3) At some point, this app will be deprecated, if not outright abandoned, which could render the lights useless. In fact, Linkind apparently had their own app which was "eaten" by AiDot, which isn't very inspiring in this day and age of corporate consolidations. As such, AiDot could, at any point, drop Linkind from its codebase to concentrate on more modern products and to minimize its install footprint. All that said, I will admit that the app is very intuitive and has a variety of color cycle modes that are easily accessible. I still think the whole process is too complicated for its own good, but if you're proficient at using these sort of phone apps, you'll probably find AiDot pleasant to use. Note that I do not have any longevity perspective on these lights, as I just received them. However, the previous batch of Linkind's are still going strong (minus the one dud), so hopefully these will be just as tough and reliable. So, the tl;dr is that they're nice lights requiring an Android or iOS app to fully utilize. If the phone app part of the equation is undesirable, then the previous "dumb" lights are still available as of this review.

So far so good, got them in today. They are very bright! 3 settings and the highest settings is soo bright. Pictures I posted are medium/low settings so very good!

Placed these under our large maple trees and they light up beautifully at night. Recommend.

Very bright and easy to use. Makes a big difference.

I just wanted to light up some dark steps. These lights are pefect. I put them up at 10am. Turned them on as soon as it got dark, and they were working pefect. I'm using the lowest setting.

They do not last over 2 hours on the lowest level even. I bought them because of the claim they would fully charge in low light conditions. They did not. I went to return them today but they say I can not. I got them oct 17 and can't return them nov 18.