I put up these holiday lights last year—and they’re not coming down
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Holiday lights are no longer just for the winter season; these days, you can decorate your home with full-color lighting and celebrate every occasion all year long. What’s even better, with permanent installations like the Enbrighten Eternity Lights, you need only clamber up a ladder once.
Lots of companies offer permanent holiday lights these days, and I’ve evaluated many of them, but Enbrighten’s product remains my favorite. For starters, they’re the easiest to install, needing just one screw per light. And that screw gets hidden when you pop each LED puck into its socket. And during Prime Day, you can grab a 100-foot string for 24% off MSRP or $189. Amazon is also offering slightly smaller discounts on the 50-foot string (19% off, or $130) and the 150-foot string (16% off, or $294).
Enbrighten uses RGBWIC LEDs, meaning each puck on the cable has red, green, blue, and white diodes capable of glowing in 16 million colors, plus white light that you can tune to specific color temperatures, ranging from a warm 2200 Kelvin to a daylight equivalent 6500K.
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Enbrighten’s app has lots of preset lighting scenes, including Christmas, Fall, Halloween, July 4th, Mardi Gras, Rainbow, Spring, St. Patrick Day, and Valentine’s Day. These are all fully customizable and you can create your own with self-explanatory visual effects settings such as Solid, Twinkle, Strobe, Pulse, Wave Chase, Chase, Wave, Fade, Lightning, Flame, and Stacking. I had a lot of fun with the Lightning effect during Halloween, which randomly flashes one or a few of the pucks a blueish-white to resemble a lightning strike.
You can (of course) also create schedules to turn the lights on and off. Enbrighten Eternity Lights connect to your 2.4GHz Wi-Fi network, and they can be controlled with Amazon Alexa or Google Home voice commands, but they are not HomeKit or Matter compatible.
Don’t let these excellent Prime Day deals on Enbrighten Eternity Lights pass you by. You’ll celebrate your savings every night. PCWorld’s editors have found lots of other great tech deals, too, so be sure to check those out as well.
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This story is part of TechHive’s in-depth coverage of the best smart lighting.
Author: Michael Brown, Executive Editor, TechHive
Michael is TechHive’s lead editor, with 30+ years of experience covering smart homes, home networking, and home audio/home theater. He holds a BA in Multimedia Journalism, authored the book Desktop Video Production, and was awarded Best Online Review by the Computer Press Association. Michael built a smart home in 2007 and used it as a real-world product-testing lab. Now living in the Pacific Northwest, he is converting his 1890 Victorian bungalow into a modern smart home. Michael has worked at CNET, PCWorld, Electronic Musician, and Maximum PC. As a freelancer, he contributed to New Media, Camcorder, MacWeek, and more.
