If there is one thing we have plenty of choice these days, it is smart light strips, although for the most part you are stuck with a standard strip of two meters plus extensions. Now ZemiSmart has released something that lets you buy any dumb LED strip of your choice, at any length, and control it from your smart home Via Matter. How? Well, it's all thanks to their new LED Strip Controller, which allows you to connect a standard non-smart LED strip, making it smart. This new controller allows you to connect standard RGB LED strips, or even strips suitable for RBG and the white spectrum, commonly called RGBCW strips. Essentially, you connect the individual wires from the strip to the controller's ports, then connect a suitable power source (this is not included) and you can proceed to connecting the controller to Apple Home, Amazon Alexa, SmartThings, or Google Home using the included Matter QR code. Having Matter enabled means that even though the controller can work with strips that can use cool to warm white tones, Adaptive Lighting will not work with the controller in Apple Home, as Adaptive Lighting is an exclusive Apple HomeKit feature. The controller also uses Matter over WiFi, so while you'll need a Matter Controller for your preferred ecosystem, you don't need to worry about a Thread Border Router being available as it doesn't use Thread. LED controllers are not a new product, although they are not as common as the pre-packaged controllers you can buy from companies like Hue, Aqara, and Nanoleaf, to name a few. However, it is certainly one of the first Matter-compatible controllers on the market. Back to the power supply, and since LED strips are relatively low voltage devices, the controller typically uses a transformer to step the voltage down from 100~240V AC (depending on your location) to 12/24V DC. Since each country has different legal and safety requirements for transformers, this is probably why none are included, even though they are cheap enough to buy. The controller itself is currently being sold on the company's own website for just US$16.50 (plus shipping), but of course you'd still have to buy a light strip and the aforementioned transformer.