Permanent LED Roofline Lights on Long Island: The Alternative to Jellyfish & Govee

If you want permanent, app-controlled roofline lights on your Long Island home, you really have three paths: install DIY adhesive strip lights like Govee yourself, hire a dealer for a permanent brand like Jellyfish, Trimlight, or Gemstone, or have a local company install a professional permanent LED roofline system. Yule Love Lights sits in that third lane. We’re a family-owned, CLIPA-certified, fully insured Long Island installer, and this guide lays out honestly where each option fits so you can pick the right one for your house, not just the one with the loudest ad.

The three ways to light your roofline year-round

“Permanent lighting” has become a catch-all term, but the options behind it are genuinely different products with different installers, price points, and outcomes. Here’s the plain-English version.

1. DIY adhesive strip lights (Govee and similar)

Govee is a well-known name in do-it-yourself outdoor LED strip lighting. These are adhesive RGB strip lights you buy online, run along your eaves yourself, and control from a phone app. The appeal is obvious: low upfront cost and you can put them up on a Saturday. The trade-off is that you’re the installer, the ladder crew, and the warranty department all at once. Adhesive mounting and consumer-grade strips live a hard life through Long Island’s freeze-thaw winters, coastal damp, and summer heat, and when a section fails, climbing back up to fix it is on you.

2. Dealer-installed permanent brands (Jellyfish, Trimlight, Gemstone)

Jellyfish, Trimlight, and Gemstone are professionally-installed permanent track-LED brands sold through local dealers. These are a real step up from DIY: a crew mounts a rigid track, hides the wiring, and you get app control. The thing to understand is that you’re buying two things from two companies, the product from the brand and the install from a separate local dealer. Your day-to-day service experience, and who answers when a section goes dark in January, depends on that local dealer.

3. A professionally-installed permanent LED system from Yule Love Lights

This is what we do. We design, install, and stand behind permanent app-controlled LED roofline lighting ourselves, with our own insured crews, across Nassau County, Suffolk County, and all of Long Island. One local company handles design, install, and service, so there’s no manufacturer-versus-dealer finger-pointing when you need help.

What our permanent system actually is

Specifics matter more than marketing, so here’s exactly what we install. Our system uses individually addressable LEDs seated in a 40-inch, color-matched aluminum track that mounts beneath the fascia, flush with the soffit, with no holes drilled in your gutters. Each bulb carries dual diodes, an RGB diode for color and a separate 3000K warm-white diode, so you get true warm white for everyday curb appeal and full color for the holidays, not a fake “warm” mixed from colored LEDs.

The hardware is built to live outside on Long Island. It’s UL- and ETL-certified and IP67 waterproof, meaning fully sealed against dust and protected against water immersion, not just splashes. Power is injected every 75 bulbs so brightness and color stay consistent across a long roofline. The whole system runs low-voltage, with a transformer plugged into an outdoor GFI outlet, and you control everything over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth through a cloud app, setting colors, zones, schedules, and scenes from your phone.

How the three options compare

Here’s an honest, side-by-side look. We’ve kept the competitor columns to widely-true category facts, because no one should invent specs about another company’s product, and you shouldn’t trust a comparison that does.

The honest case for each path

DIY strips like Govee genuinely make sense if your budget is tight, you’re comfortable on a ladder, and you treat the lights as a fun project you don’t mind re-doing. A dealer-installed brand makes sense if you’ve found a strong, well-reviewed local dealer you trust to be around for years. And a pro install from us makes sense if you want one accountable Long Island company from design through service, never want to climb a ladder for your lights, and want a system spec’d and warrantied for our weather.

We back our work with a limited lifetime product warranty, and an optional Glow365 plan that covers product, labor, and repairs with a 48-hour response. Our Stay-Lit Guarantee means if something fails, we fix it fast, within 48 hours. That’s the difference between buying a product and hiring a company that stays responsible for it.