Twinkly Strings Review - HomeKit meets Christmas - Tree smart lights

Its that time of year and we start to decorate our houses ready for the festive period and lights are a big feature. While many of us will stick with the tradtional Christmas lights. You can go all out with the Twinkly Strings smart Christmas lights.
 
Twinkly’s LED Christmas lights are not a new product and been around a few years. But recently Twinkly updated its Generation 2 products to support HomeKit. So naturally I had to give them a try and I went out and bought the Twinkly Strings 600 LED colour pack for this review.

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Intro 0:00
Design 1:06
Setup 2:23
Twinkly app 4:54
HomeKit 7:05
Summary 8:11

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[ShaneCreates]

Hey Jon, great video! And thanks for the mention. I hope you and your family are having a good Christmas and New Years!

These are pricey for sure, but I do love my Twinkly lights! 😊 I've been slowly adding more over the past few years. They have almost become a part our holiday tradition. I was very happy, and surprised, by the update to support HomeKit this year. I've been waiting for a few years for that. Hopefully they'll find a way to add the effects to HomeKit as a custom attribute or something like that, so we can create scenes with different effects. That would be really cool.

[rodriguescharonoaq]

Nu nog hangende (ijspegel achtig in kleur voor aan de dakgoot of schutting buiten zou mooi zijn

[MChristopherJohnson]

Bought the tree this year. Love it. Kids love switching up the lights every night.

[Guyana]

Thanks for the content will you be doing a review on the twinkly festoon?

[michaelgallagher]

DUDE WHEN I TURN INTO 19 YAER'S OLD I WOULD BUY A load of string lights FROM STORE TO TO DECORATE MY INTIRE ROOM WHEN I CALL IT MY NEW HOUSE WITH STRING SO IT WILL LOOK AN ART

[chi_guy]

Agreed. The HomeKit support was a bit disappointing for me as well. Without being able to apple the light scenes it’s not possible to use the HomeKit app.

[SamButlerUK]

Considering these this year; if you set a scene with the Twinkly app but manipulated brightness or turn off and then on again in HK, will the scene/animation resume?

[michaelthompson]

Great video, also love your oak dining table!

[TimDeWaele]

Can you adjust the speed of the different color profiles? They go too fast for me when the Christmas tree is in the living room in the corner of my eye blinking like a discotheque.

[Brad.W]

Do yourself a favor especially when it comes to these lights if for example my tree recommends a minimum of 800 bulbs but you definitely wanna triple that number and do 2400 (even Twinkly recommends doing so otherwise the complex patterns look like hot garbage). You can thank me later.

[Dr_Cole]

Most HK reviews end up either positively endorsing an item or giving the “it depends” rating. I suspect this is because (1) reviews take time via extensive testing and (2) reviewers are far more likely to invest their time on items they really enjoy using. This is why I really value your review on this product. The visuals of these lights are just stunning, but the inability to create and port scenes is a massive miss. I also like your comment on the dollar value per day of use concept. This is a great way of thinking about any of the SmartHome products, but is even more important for holiday related items.

We’ll done, John.