After looking at a few options, I picked up Hue light strips. They are full color RGB and wifi based (you will need a hub in the house), but you don't have to make them cloud based, which is nice. I run them all internal (no cloud, except for allowing Siri to control them) for under kitchen cabinets. They are a little pricey, but you can find refurbs on eBay at a discount. They are Siri enabled now, as well as app controllable (local control.) I haven't really automated mine as we tend to turn them on demand using Siri mostly. They work with Alexa as well, although if you want full color and dimming you have to hook Alexa to the Philips cloud. On and off work without cloud connection enabled with Alexa. Oddly, Siri can do full color and dimming without hooking to the Philips cloud service.<br /><br />Just another option, in case you are second guessing the roll-your-own options.<br /><br />Oh, Philips is adding some local automation as well. They have some rules you can add to their hub. But it seems to be pretty simple so far. I tried their sunrise/sunset options just last week and found them not what I really wanted. I figured turning the cabinet counter lights on at sunset and off at sunrise would be a simple task, and Philips has sunset plus a delay... But their idea of sunset seems to be later then I would expect (it claims to be location corrected as well), so it comes on late, and the delay adjustment only makes it later, with no +- adjustment, just one direction. I suspect they'll make it more adjustable eventually, but I was unimpressed with their idea of automation.
