Keep the holiday spirit going all year round with help from GE Lighting’s new permanent outdoor lights, which are designed to weather the elements and work with both Alexa and Google Home.
Savant-owned GE Lighting is also unwrapping an updated version of its colored-enabled outdoor light strips, which now boast more flexible tubing that should allow for more creative designs.
Available now for $142.99, GE Lighting’s permanent outdoor lights—known officially as the Cync Dynamic Effects Outdoor Smart Eave Lights—come in a 100-foot string, with a total of 60 lights embedded onto square-shaped pucks that can be permanently screwed into place or affixed with the included 3M adhesive tape.
GE Lighting’s Smart Eave Lights come in a 100-foot string, with a total of 60 lights embedded onto square-shaped pucks.
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Arriving with an IP65 weatherization rating (meaning they’re dust-tight and can withstand jet of water sprayed from any direction), the Smart Eave Lights can be cut to fit, and they’re also extendable to up to 150 feet.
Meanwhile, GE Lighting’s revamped Dynamic Effects Outdoor Smart Light Strip comes in two lengths: 16 feet for $79.99 (Amazon appears to be selling the 16-foot version for half-off right now), and 32 feet for $129.99.
GE Lighting says the new, more flexible light strip is now better suited to “line pathways and decks,” as well as “bend into shape-creating festive lawn and wall art.”
Like the permanent outdoor lights, the Dynamic Effects Outdoor Smart Light Strip can be cut to fit, and its weatherproof design means it can stay outdoors during inclement weather. (GE Lighting didn’t supply specifics about the light strip’s IP rating.)
Both the Cync Dynamic Effects Outdoor Smart Eave Lights and the Dynamic Effects Outdoor Smart Light Strip can glow in up to 16 million different colors as well as white-color temperatures ranging from a warm 2,000 Kelvin to a cool 7,000K, while the permanent outdoor lights have a top brightness of 2,700 lumens.
GE Lighting’s updated outdoor light strip boasts a more flexible design, making it easier to bend the strip into creative shapes.
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The lights connect directly to 2.4GHz Wi-Fi networks and can be controlled with GE Lighting’s Cync app, which lets you set schedules, adjust the brightness, or select different multicolor animations (or create your own). You can even make the lights sync with nearby music sources, perfect for festive color light shows that pulse to the beat.
Both of the new GE Lighting products work with Amazon Alexa and Google Home, meaning you can control the lights with voice commands. That said, GE Lighting makes no mention of Matter, the new smart home standard that acts as the glue between the Alexa, Google Home, Apple HomeKit, and Samsung SmartThings ecosystems.
This article is part of TechHive’s in-depth coverage of the best smart lights.
