As it turns out, the controller briefly shorts the LED strip’s supply voltage to generate data bits, similar to the way old pulse-dialing phones worked. A tiny chip integrated into each LED ...

Govee’s control box has adhesive backing similar ... go for the WiZ Smart RGBIC LED Light Strip. It’s the only one of our picks available in three sizes: 16.4 feet, 32.8 feet, and 65.6 feet.

While addressable LED strips are all the rage, [Mike] from [mikeselectricstuff] has been working on an installation using the more basic two-wire strips that are simply controlled via PWM dimming.