A Zigbee cove strip that joins the same hub as your Aqara switches and spots, rather than living in its own app.
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Supplied, fitted and configured by our own Dubai team. We check compatibility with your property before you commit to anything.
The T1 is the strip to specify when the rest of the house is Aqara and you want the cove lighting on the same hub as everything else. That single fact is most of its value. A Wi-Fi strip works fine on its own and then sits outside your scenes, needing a second app and a cloud round trip to join a majlis evening setting. This one is Zigbee, pairs to the Aqara hub already in the property, and appears in the same scene as the wall switches, the spots and the motion sensors. It is segmented for colour, so a run can show more than one colour along its length, and it does tunable white, which is what a ceiling cove is normally doing on an ordinary Tuesday. Extension sections take it to longer runs. Two practical points. It needs its driver within reach of the strip, which is trivial while a gypsum cove is open and expensive once it is closed and painted, so settle the driver position at design stage. And in a cove, dimming behaviour at the bottom of the range matters more than headline brightness, so ask to see it running low before committing a whole floor.
Joins the same scenes as your Aqara switches and sensors
Tunable white for daily use, colour for occasions
Extendable to the length of a cove runRuns locally on the hub without an internet connectionModel LED Strip T1
| Protocol | Zigbee 3.0 |
| Hub requirement | Aqara hub required |
| Colour | Segmented colour plus tunable white |
| Length | Base run extendable with additional sections |
| Power | Mains driver required at the strip |
| Mounting | Adhesive backing, suits gypsum coves and joinery |
| Voltage | 220-240V, 50Hz supply to the driver |
| Works with | Apple Home, Alexa, Google Home, Aqara Home |
Dropped gypsum ceilings and cove details are standard in Dubai villa and apartment interiors, and this is the fitting that goes into them. Plan the driver position while the cove is open, because retrofitting a power supply into a painted gypsum detail means cutting and making good, which is usually the largest line on a retrofit quote. Adhesive backing holds well on clean plaster, though summer heat inside a closed cove works against it over time, so we clip longer runs at intervals rather than trusting tape alone. In a majlis this is where colour genuinely earns its place: warm white most evenings, a colour wash for a gathering.
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