Philips Hue’s Festavia string lights are sparkly, colorful, and expensive
With pumpkins being put out to pasture and turkeys starting to gobble, it’s time to think about decorating your home for the winter holidays. Be it Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, or Solstice, any celebration can be glammed up with some smart lighting, and Philips Hue’s new Festavia string lights look like a good option for a little extra wow.
The $159.99 string of smart lights features 250 mini color-changing smart LEDs along a 66-foot / 20-meter cord. These indoor lights are suitable for swirling around your Christmas tree, stringing up your staircase, or draping over your mantlepiece to bring a touch of holiday magic to your home. They’re available to order now at philips-hue.com.
In my house, we tend to get a 6-foot tree, and the general recommendation is 100 lights per foot, which means we’d ideally need three of these strings to decorate. That’s quite the output financially. But factor in that we wouldn’t have to replace them every year as we used to with cheap holiday lights and it starts to make a bit more sense.
Plus, being smart, the Festavia strip can do a lot more than your bog-standard holiday lights. Using the Hue app, you can set the Zigbee/Bluetooth powered lights to turn on and off on a schedule, based on sunrise or sunset, using a motion sensor, or with one of Hue’s remote controls. Much