Linkind Solar Pathway Lights SP6 review: Ground control with full color
At a glance
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Benefits
- Powerful lighting effects
- Long-lasting batteries keep them running all night
- Reasonable price
Disadvantages
- The app can be confusing
- Initial lens selection can be confusing
- The material is not the most attractive during the day
Our verdict
These Bluetooth landscape lights will make a colorful statement on your property, no wires or disposable batteries needed.
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Solar-powered pathway lights get a bad reputation for good reason: Most of them look like garbage, with weak bulbs that cast a dim glow after hours. With its Solar Pathway Lights SP6, Linkind is beautifying this space for the second time, building on the success of its smart landscape lighting product launched earlier this year.
Features
Like the Solar Spotlight SL5C that I reviewed in April 2025, Linkind’s SP6 lights are completely self-contained and designed to be powered by the sun. Four path lights come in a box, each including a six-inch square main unit as well as a bulbous shade and three-piece ground stake. Made entirely of plastic, all parts assemble without tools and the unit measures 14 inches tall when planted in the ground.
Linkind SP6 solar lights are bright, dramatic and much more impressive than commercially available hardware store lighting.
There is no other way to secure the product other than via the ground stake, so it is not a good solution for landscaping or patio installations. Each light features an IP67 waterproof rating. TechHive’s IP code guide states that this means the path lights cannot be disabled by particles entering the interior and can withstand submersion in one meter of water for up to 30 minutes.
Linkind SP6 solar lights come packaged in pairs or fours in a box with copious amounts of plastic.
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The top of each main unit has a 1.8W solar panel that charges an 1,800mAh battery underneath. Flip the main unit over and you’ll see what is probably the SP6’s most unusual feature: not one LED but four, arranged in a grid. Each LED offers a maximum of 60 lumens of brightness but note that only one LED can be used at a time.
The idea is that each LED is covered with a plastic lens that creates a different light pattern on the ground: concentric circles, shimmering ripples, a swirl effect, etc. With four LEDs but five lens options, it’s up to you which four effects you prefer. Each RGBTW (temperature adjustable red, green, blue and white) LED supports 16 million colors and white temperatures ranging from a warm 2700K to a very cool 6500K.
Assembling these floor lamps can be tedious, as each fixture has nine parts.
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You’ll want to charge the projectors via a USB-C cable for a few hours before first use, or you can park them in the sun for two days to prepare them for initial deployment. Linkind says a full charge will provide 12 to 14 hours of battery life depending on your brightness settings.
As with the SL5C, the SP6 lights connect to the AiDot app on your smart phone via Bluetooth mesh. You will need to be close to one of the lights to control one of them. Linkind says the lights have a maximum range of 98 feet, unobstructed, between the controlling phone and each other. (In case of obstructions, I managed a range of about 25 feet.) Up to 8 groups of 32 lights can be managed in the app. Linkind offers a $40 Bluetooth to Wi-Fi bridge if you prefer to connect up to 32 lights to your Wi-Fi network (2.4 GHz only).
Installation and configuration
Assembling the lighting units is the most tedious part of the installation, with each lamp involving nine components that you must assemble. Figuring out which lenses is the hardest part, because it’s not easy to see which one is which at a glance, and there’s no way to truly understand what each lighting effect will look like until you try it. You should plan to test with just one of the lights to finalize your lens selection before gathering the rest and driving the stakes into the ground where you want them.
Integrating with the AiDot app is as simple as pressing the power button on each head unit and waiting for the app to automatically discover it via Bluetooth. This is actually a one-step process that couldn’t have gone faster in my testing.
Using Linkind SP6 solar lights
The user interface of the AiDot app used by Linkind needs updating.
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To be honest, there’s not much to the rather dated AiDot app. Each light appears alone and can be grouped for mass control.
Individual management is limited to changing the brightness with one slider, choosing the temperature or white color from another slider and selecting which of the four lens effects you want to use. Choosing a different lens does not change the rest of the lighting settings; Whatever color or effect was applied when the “diamond” lens was active will be copied to the “triangle” lens once you select it.
In other words, you can’t set up four different effects, one for each lens, and then cycle through them that way. You can, however, configure each light to cycle through the four available lens patterns, shifting them every 30 seconds (this time limit cannot be adjusted). You will simply get the same color or effect through a different lens.
Various preset effects are also available, with a range of holiday and seasonal themes on offer. If that doesn’t work, you can use the DIY editor to choose up to eight colors to cycle through, as well as set how they flow through and at what speed. A music mode can make the lights dance via the lamp’s built-in microphone or your phone’s microphone. Finally, if you want to see what other people have done, you can check out AiDot’s “Light Lab”; However, I was unable to import any of the publicly available settings into my SP6 installation, even from other SP6 users.
These lenses must be installed on the four LEDs of each street light. Only one LED is active at a time, its beam shaped by the pattern of its lens.
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Groups are a more useful way to control lights in bulk, and managing groups adds a new mode called Light Show, which allows lights to work in teams. “Christmas Cheer” switches the lights to different colors so that they all flash at once, while “Spellbound Specter” creates a shimmering effect that flows from one light to the next as if they were strung together.
The unfortunate problem with groups is that they can’t do everything and many adjustments must be applied light by light. This includes power-saving features like the auto power off setting, which defaults to 30 seconds, and any timers you set. As with the SL5C, you can link a schedule to the ambient light level or time of day, but only in the individual lighting management system. There is, however, a shortcut workaround: using the “Copy Working Mode” function found in the gear icon menu, you can take the settings of one light and pass them on to others. (Also note that these lights do not work with AiDot’s more complex automation system.)
Linkind SP6 solar lights can also project white light in different color temperatures.
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Again, just like the SL5C, the lights are bright, dramatic, and much more impressive than standard hardware store lighting. Lowered, the lights create a four-foot diameter circle, allowing you to quickly cover a large area with just a handful of units. For what it’s worth, I found the SP6’s downlight to be more impressive than the SL5C’s uplight. On the downside, the SP6 hardware isn’t much to look at when it’s turned off, as it feels a bit cheap. Remember that you will be examining the equipment during the day when it is asleep as well as at night when it is on.
Should you buy Linkind SP6 solar lights?
At a street price of $100 for four lights, the Linkind SP6 is an affordable price, especially if you want to make a colorful splash on your driveway or sidewalk. Users who only need white light for safety reasons can probably get by with dimmable bulbs. But those who want to make a seasonal statement with their lighting will find it an impressive and flexible alternative.
I actually keep a few over the holidays to see if they deserve a permanent home in my backyard.
