Up your Halloween decorating game this year by using smart home lighting and sounds to spook your neighbors and trick-or-treaters.
Smart home technology has expanded dramatically over the past few years, and there’s no shortage of cool tech available to help you with your holiday decorations. Halloween is a particularly great one for smart home gadgets to help with, as you’ll find a variety of products available that create unique lighting and sounds — as well as a few ways to tweak them to create a spooky atmosphere.
The $75 Sylvania Smart LED ZigBee RGBW Outdoor Accent Kit includes a 14-foot run of nine external RGB lights and an outdoor, wet-rated power supply. Keep in mind these lights require a ZigBee hub to get working properly. For the porch, greet trick-or-treaters with the portable Philips Hue Go, a rechargeable battery-powered RGB lamp supporting 16 million colors or tunable white light. The three-hour battery life is reasonably short but will get you through the peak candy hours of the evening.Now it’s time to sync the lights with your smart home controller. Sylvania’s Lightify app isn’t the slickest smart home software but supports basic power controls, dimming, and an RGB color picker.
Alternatively, a White and Color Ambiance Starter Kit packs the Zigbee-powered Hue bridge and four E26 RGB bulbs. It’s certainly not the cheapest smart lighting system available but includes everything you need to create fantastic effects around the home.
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