Govee Lyra Smart Corner Floor Lamp

The Govee Lyra smart corner floor lamp is a slim column made to stand in the corner of a room and wash the two walls behind it in colour.

• Why the Govee Lyra smart corner floor lamp changes a room
• 1,500 lumens is real light
• Several colours at once, up its height
• The remote is also the microphone
• Setting it up

Why the Govee Lyra smart corner floor lamp changes a room

The Govee Lyra smart corner floor lamp stands 1.4 metres tall on a 137mm square base, so it occupies almost no floor and washes the two walls meeting behind it.

Light bounced off two walls fills a room far more evenly than a lamp pointed into it. That is why a corner uplighter changes how a sitting room feels in a way a table lamp cannot, and why this is usually the first thing people notice when they walk in.

1,500 lumens is real light

Most colour lamps are atmosphere at 300 or 400 lumens. This one puts out 1,500, which is enough to be the light you actually use in the evening rather than a decoration alongside the ceiling fitting.

The white range runs 2200K to 6500K, so the same lamp is low amber at night and bright neutral white for working. That is the RGBICWW part: colour and proper whites in one fitting, rather than colour LEDs pretending to make white.

Several colours at once, up its height

RGBIC means the lamp holds different colours at different points up the column rather than one flat colour.

So a gradient can run from warm at the bottom to cool at the top, or two colours can meet in the middle. On a 1.4 metre column that is a visible effect from across a room, not a subtle one.

The remote is also the microphone

A magnetic remote clips to the lamp itself, so it does not get lost down the side of a sofa, and it doubles as the microphone for the six music modes.

Putting the microphone in the remote rather than the lamp body means it can sit closer to the source. There are 64 scene modes as well, which is more than anybody works through, but the useful dozen are easy to find.

Setting it up

It slots together from a few parts with no tools. It runs on 2.4GHz Wi-Fi and Bluetooth through the Govee Home app, and answers to Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant.

Bear the height in mind against a low ceiling or a room with a fan in the corner. If a floor lamp is too much for the space, the Govee Aura table lamp gives you the same colour behaviour at table height and a fraction of the output. Govee list the range at govee.com.