While every season is a good season for smart lighting control, holiday time is an especially perfect time to install or try out new automated lighting control products. With a home automation system, you can control your home lights, string lights, wireless dimmers or smart light bulbs. Wifi-connected systems make turning lights on or dimming them easier than ever. Here are four great ways to use smart lighting for the holidays:
Party Lights: If holiday time means party time, automated lighting systems can add a lot of fun to your seasonal activities. Either with custom colored LED lights or standard white lights, you can dim, brighten and adjust your lights to create the perfect holiday party mood. Many of the new color-changing LED bulbs, like the Philips Hue bulbs, can be tailored to add any color combination to your room, and then turned to bright white when it’s cleanup time.
Outdoor Lights: This time of year the weather can be cold, making turning on outdoor decorative lights, especially outdoor string lights, difficult or uncomfortable. Wireless outlet plug-in modules or whole-house lighting systems make that task easy and keep you out of the cold.
Indoor Decorative Lights: Some families like to go all out with decorative lighting for the holidays, but walking around the house each day, and then again at bedtime, flipping switches or unplugging lights, can take up a lot of time. It’s also easy to forget a light or two. A light accidentally left on all night is a light that’s wasting energy. With a smart lighting control system, you can program one button to turn on or off all your holiday lights.
Electric Fireplaces: If you use an electric fireplace, either for ambience or warmth, you’ll get a lot more use out of it if it’s easier to operate. By integrating your fireplace with a smart home system, you can create scenes that automatically include the fireplace, and even build in timers and if/then rules to turn the fireplace on or off based on other conditions. For instance, activating your smart home’s away mode can turn off the fireplace while switching off most of the house lights and arming the security system.
You can add smart lighting to your home in a variety of ways, including DIY home automation products, wireless or WiFi light bulbs, smart light switches, smartphone apps and professionally installed lighting automation systems.
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