3 ways for smart Christmas lights in your home

Ethan Gilliam
By Ethan Gilliam
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3 ways for smart Christmas lights in your home

At Christmas we transform our living room into a cozy winter theme. A Christmas tree with garlands and other fun decorations is indispensable. Smarthome fans can also let themselves go completely with smart Christmas lights. We give you three ideas for smart lights.

1. Twinkly Christmas Lights

Let’s start with the lights in your tree first. Twinkly is one of the best-known brands that focuses on smart light cords that you can control in the app. For each individual LED of the Twinkly String you can change the color on your phone. In addition, there are fixed animated color patterns that you can choose from.

Another nice feature of String are the playlists. You can use this to alternate the different patterns in a self-chosen order. You can easily set how long each effect should last before Twinkly switches to the next light effect. Twinky also works with an optional USB microphone accessory. It listens to music in your living room and then creates light effects to the beat of the music.

Finally, Twinkly String also supports the Google Assistant, although the complex color combinations of the app are a bit too complicated for Google. So you can only ask for specific colors, adjust the brightness, or just turn your lights on or off.

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Twinkly Sting is available in three variants. One with RGB colors and different shades of white light, one with only RGB and one with only shades of white.

2. Smart Plugs

Still, you can’t ignore the fact that Twinkly doesn’t exactly make the cheapest Christmas lights. And if you’ve only just bought a cord, chances are you’ll want to use it for a few more years. There are many other ways to look at smart Christmas lights, because a smart plug can also provide great added value.

You plug such a smart plug into a socket and then you connect your light cord. You can then control your lights remotely with your phone. You can also set time programs that automatically switch the Christmas lights on and off. Below are some examples of smart plugs that work with the Google Assistant.

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3 ways for smart Christmas lights in your home

3. Other smart lighting

Of course, Christmas atmosphere doesn’t just have to come from the lights in your tree. With a set of colored smart lamps you quickly create a nice atmosphere in your home. Especially when you start working with color combinations or animated light scenes.

Recently we were able to test the Philips Hue Gradient Lightstrip on Androidworld. This light strip enables color transitions in your home for even more atmosphere in the living room. You can discover how the Hue Gradient Lightstrip works in the YouTube Short video below.

Philips Hue recently gained another trump card, because you can now have your colored lamps respond to the music from Spotify. Unlike Twinkly, this works without an extra microphone in the house, but you are limited to using the Spotify app. Still, it’s ideal for when you’re playing a Christmas playlist.

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Of course, there are plenty of ways to brighten up Christmas with smart lighting. There is a huge range of colored lamps from different manufacturers. We would therefore like to hear how you are getting into the Christmas spirit at home with your smart lamps. Let us know in the comments at the bottom of this article.

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