![]() ![]() Image Credit (Trusted Reviews)ĭynamic scenes are available, where the lights slowly shift colour. Hue has a wide range of preset scenes, including some cool Christmas-related ones, plus it’s easy enough to create your own. Via the Hue app, the Festavia (and any lights in the same room or zone) can have scenes applied. My Balsam Hill tree with Twinkly lights has a control box with a button that lets me cycle through scenes without needing an app or wireless control. This certainly goes some way to make up for the lack of onboard controls. ![]() With the right set of controls, such as the Philips Hue Tap Dial, it’s easy to make the Festavia lights cycle through different zones, or simply to adjust their brightness. That’s quite a cool trick: I put my Festavia lights into the Kitchen room, so when I turn on my kitchen lights, the Christmas tree lights up and matches the same scene as the rest of the room. For the full experience and range of control, the Festavia lights work best when connected to a Hue Bridge, which is what I did.Īs with all Hue lights, the Festavia set can be added to a room or an area along with regular Hue lights. They can work over Bluetooth, which could be helpful if you plan to have only these lights and no other Hue ones. Once wired up and turned on, the lights are added via the Hue app. However, it’s important to remember that the Festavia lights are for indoor use only. There’s a 40W power supply (although the lights draw only 15W when on full brightness) on this model, and it uses a similar connector to the Hue outdoor lights. It’s important not to work up and then down, as this can ruin any gradient light effects you may want to use. Philips recommends working from the bottom up – so the power supply remains in an ideal position – and finishing at the top of the tree. Also, Twinkly lights can even come prewired with the Balsam Hill Twinkly trees.įor setup purposes, the Festavia lights are like any other Christmas lights that need to be manually wrapped around a tree. Twinkly has the advantage here, as its smart string lights can be bought in various lengths with 250, 400 and 600 LED versions and in several wire colours. If you have a smaller one, the lights need to be wrapped around it multiple times. That’s a considerable amount of lights, and it should be enough to cover even the biggest tree. The Philips Hue Festavia String Lights are 20m long and have 250 individual colour-changing LEDs. Yet, despite its quality, the Festavia set doesn’t have the full range of effects one would expect from Christmas tree lights, so choosing the best lights is more difficult than you might think. Integrating fully with the Hue ecosystem, including the app and wireless controls, these smart lights have an advantage over Twinkly. Now, there’s a contender: the Philips Hue Festavia String Lights. The choice used to be simple if you wanted smart Christmas tree lights: you could buy the Twinkly lights. ![]()
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