Soffit Lights Recommendation

Obviously for Pride month baw

I would like just white lights but the wife wants the multicolor for holidays (red/green for Christmas, etc)

The trashiest (no pics)

If you have any on your single wide, recommendations are welcome.

ETA: You bought your wife a used Honda Pilot. I apologize for bullying you on the single wide.

Where did you get the lights lining your roof? Wife has been nagging me to start doing this

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what you want is 4” wafer lights.

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I think this is a good choice with a few caveats.


Have nothing there now and want to do something? Above is a great option.
Currently building? Lots of options.
You should be able to find both 12v systems and 120v systems. Some people feel more comfortable throwing in an LV transformer and wiring it up themselves. If that’s the case, there are some wafer lights like that that work, you can also use something like MR16 (bipin bad, 5.3mm) and get something like GLEDOPTO’s mr16 zigbee bulbs.

If you have a bunch of or don’t mind installing cans, Philips makes both 4” and 5/6” can retrofits (with standard e26 base but they have “tabs” and don’t actually screw into cans. So you could almost just put lamp receptacles near a junction box, but I wouldn’t advise it) in their Wiz (wifi, no hub) and Hue (more expensive, generally going to cause less trouble because of the way they talk to each other) options.

Hue is a bit overpriced. There are a lot of Zigbee bulbs that look just as nice. If you want individually addressable static colors, you’re pretty much wasting your money with them. But if you want access to their dynamic scenes library (really nice slow-color-changing coordinated stuff. Check them out on YouTube. I really like the Halloween ones for my porch (6 columns with standard white lighting but 5 hue down lights peeking between them). I don’t care for their Christmas ones as much). Hue also makes a GU10 socket downlight that should probably do fine in a soffit if you have these sockets elsewhere and want to stick with them. There are some zigbee GU10 bulbs as well.


Alternative is, of course, uplighting. Hue is again expensive but has a few advantages (24v instead of 5 or 12 means less voltage drop. You can use standard DC power supplies and, again, coordinated scenes pre-done between your up/downlighting).

Alternatively, you can get down the rabbit hole and get into [link=(US $14.50 | Smart 10W LED Flood Light WS2811 Controlled IP66 Waterproof With Raywu/Paulzhang/Xconnect connectors https://a.aliexpress.com/_ms0osL8)]RGB pixel lighting[/link] like these which are very close to $10/light if you look hard enough. You need a transformer, controller, and a bundle of connector wire. There are 10 and 30w versions and probably easier to DIY than soffit downlighting.

I have 16” soffits and the 4” ones look good. I think 6” would look too big.