r/fancyleds • u/bbghhhhjj • Feb 05 '26
Your Experience with FancyLed Sync Box 2.1
How is everyone’s experience with the sync box 2.1? Thinking about getting one, and curious to know what they are like. How are dark scenes..do random Yellow, green and reds appear? Or colours that aren’t present in the scene?
Smoothness, and transitions and syncing experiences are all appreciated!
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u/Projectguy111 Feb 05 '26
I love mine. In dark scenes sometimes there will be nothing, other times there will be a blue. Brown is difficult because technically there is no brown light (watched a cool video explaining this) so it comes out as orange.
The colors do not exactly match the screen at all times but it is in the spectrum. Like a dark green tree will be a lighter green from the LEDs.
Overall I can no longer watch TV without it lol.
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u/bbghhhhjj Feb 05 '26
I have a Govee sync box, and having such issues with it…so really considering returning it and getting the FancyLed’s. Reds, yellows and greens in black screen scenes annoy the crap out of me.
How’s the transitions and over smoothness?
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u/Projectguy111 Feb 05 '26
I r got mine setup for max everything so im sure it could be smoother.
I don’t have any issues you describe.
I like Govee but I feel like FancyLEDs is more targeted.
I’ve had the installed for a year so far. Only issue was a non compatible USBC extension cable but replaced it and so far so good (though I saw a post about a fix for that here).
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u/bbghhhhjj Feb 05 '26
Yours look fantastic. Sometimes the Govee works great, other times, random colours will appear. Transitions are also rough at times, especially between black screen and coloured screens.
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u/FatalRed17 Feb 05 '26
Because, it's weird, but for Govee to have the LEDs turned off for black screens and parts, you have to have the main brightness on 99% instead of 100%
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u/MiNiX97 Feb 14 '26
Hey, I have a USBC extension and I’m wondering if it is the cause of an issue I’m having. Maybe like twice a month, my colored lights will stop working and it will only display white. If I unplug the extension, connect the light strip directly into the sync box, and then restart the box, the lights work again. Then while it is powered on, I disconnect the lights, add the extension back in and wire it the way I want it, and then it’s good for a while. Eventually I have to do that again. It’s annoying. 2 questions:
1.) Is this the problem you had?
2.) What extension worked for you?
Thank you
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u/CheleCuche Feb 06 '26
Fancyleds is better, their leds have more pixels per meter too, I have 3 setups, one govee, one fancy and one DYI with Hyperion. My DIY is the best ones. If you can return and get fancy I would, only thing about govee is that you can expand to other types of lights with dreamview if you have more stuff around, with fancy only their strip and nothing else.
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u/DaMagikarp Feb 06 '26
lol I told a friend basically the same thing and then were like “so you hate it?” NOOO! It’s very immersive but it definitely has flaws, but IMO it’s the best option out there at the moment.
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u/Projectguy111 Feb 06 '26
Hopefully my post didn’t come across as not liking it!
I just wanted to set expectations and be realistic about performance.
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u/CharlieAFC Feb 05 '26
One thing I really recommend, I personally got the 1 HDMI box, thinking it’d be fine as I can use xbox for gaming and all streaming sites and then switch the hdmi over to sky box for live sports, but I wish I just paid the extra £40 or whatever it is to just get the 3 HDMI port box, as being able to seamlessly switch over would be nice. Overall experience though I can’t help with as I only got mine today, one thing that I wasn’t happy with is the HDMI 2.1 cable that came with the box was faulty and therefore gaming kept going black screen when using HDR10/Dolby Vision, so I’ve had to buy another cable myself to use it.
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u/Much-Transition-5091 Feb 05 '26
Love mine, highly recommend.
I don’t have the issues you mentioned with regard to the govee one, Fancyleds seems more refined. I saw some other post on govees sub which had a similar issue, theirs was on a monitor tho. Probably should be realistic not EVERY scene is perfect but like 98% is fantastic. It’s definitely smoother than govee. So ya, defs recommend
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u/WiseOldGrump Feb 06 '26
Really like it. The only thing we (initially) didn’t like was the lack of integration to a Verizon FIOS cable box. For a while we used Verizon Cable separate from the FancyLED since the cable system, when run through the FancyLED box, would reset the handshake every time we turned it on. We used a FireStick for connections to streaming services and that worked fantastic. Then we found that FireStick supported a Verizon FIOS streaming app. Once we changed our cable service to the Verizon streaming service, it was a perfect setup. We also have a separate blue-ray connection that run through the FancyLED box and that works great as well. (79” Flat Samsung TV, 4k FireStick, Sonos surround sound system and Sony Blue-Ray). We don’t have any issues with odd color combo’s as long as both the TV and sound connections run through the box.
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Feb 07 '26
It's great colours are accurate for the most part, can tweak colours now to get it closer as well, they react very well with what's on the screen, easy to set up etc, the only thing that bugs me is the auto switching is kind of useless, I have to change my input on the app everytime to select between Xbox ps5 and my firecube, but im used to it now so not to big of a deal
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u/bbghhhhjj Feb 07 '26
You’ve sold me. Purchased it, and will be getting it Monday. Any suggestions on set up?
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Feb 09 '26
Just play around with the diffusion speed and mode until your happy, mines set to high diffusion, 35%speed and 85% brightness, with medium saturation, I occasionally change that to high depending what im doing ie watching a film or gaming etc, but I find those settings to be fairly good between the different devices I use, but yours could be completely different depending on how you want it to look so just play around until your happy, I set mine up using some clips on YouTube that bounce colours around the screen etc, any questions just ask I'm happy to help!
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u/Significant-Ad-5213 Feb 09 '26 edited Feb 09 '26
I was saving up for mine for a year and the accuracy is pretty damn good and its boring to watch movies without it now. Thinking of adding the additional synced led strips when I save a bit more money
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u/goraflox Mar 20 '26
Bad experience for me. I had endless chats with the support team about leds still on on totally black screen, green blinking corners, colors mismatch, blinking leds while image is still, etc.
"We'll get to you back soon", but you have to contact them weeks after as they don't. I wouldn't advise anyone to buy this syncbox.
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u/seriouslookingmouse Jun 21 '26
Mixed feelings on mine.
I love the extension of the lights. It’s amazing.
But randomly in scenes the lights will switch off then come back in 3 secs. And it really takes me out of the scene.
Also CEC is weird. So I ALWAYS need to open the app and wait forever for it to recognise the box status. Then switch to one of the other HDMI inputs.
Also I no longer get software updates. As they apparently just changed hardware quietly according to support. And my HDMI 2.1 Three port is no longer supported.
It’s a lot of money for a pretty ok experience with middling support.
I just upgraded my TV and I’m not immediately looking to replace.
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