Twinkly - Smart Light String 250 LED RGB Generation II

i started off with one set for my 7.5 ft tree.. it looked good, but I wanted to have enough lights to land a plane from space.. So, we got a 2nd set of 600... 1200 lights sounded like the perfect number, but i went with my gut and bought another 250 to put Clark W. Griswold to shame. The app is neat where you have a lot of different presets to add to your personal strands. There are more than just xmas-- you can do Halloween, Spring theme, or a US FREEDOM theme as well. Our favorite was the candycane dance theme.

I totally loved it. I created a Christmas tree on my wall with just the lights and a few decorations and it looked wonderful. I have a dog that loves getting under a real tree and he brings it down when he gets down, so this new faux tree was the best thing. It has different patterns and light. Could not get it to work on my phone, but it did work on my daughter's. Not sure if it is an Android/Apple issue

I love this brand lights!! The patterns they make with the app are amazing! This summer I added these outside in our trees and put them on a twinkle pattern , slowed it down to look like fire flies. I have several strands and the smart xmas-tree!! The packaging is awesome too.

Honestly one of the better purchases I made in awhile. Are they expensive, yes! But they work just as advertise, just make sure the follow the instruction and you will have no problem at all. The only thing that was a bit confusing was mapping the tree, once I realize you just take mapping pics (within the app) from every angle of the tree (the instruction don't really say to take pics of more than one angle), it was a piece of cake. These lights also don't get hot like traditional lights.

Love these lights!! We even keep them up year round to make it festive for other holidays. Would give a 5 if the app was more user friendly. Attaching a photo of our house in support of Ukraine.

I’ve never sent so many videos of my Christmas tree before. These things are amazing. Mapping was easy, the app is okay, Alexa integration is pretty terrible but easy enough to set a timer and just run it through the app as long as the strings don’t lose connectivity. Updating the firmware was kind of a pain because they kept losing their connection. Once I uninstalled and reinstalled them a few times all was well. I have 2 of these 600 light strands on an about 9.5’ tree, I could probably find room for a few hundred more but even with only 1200 it looks amazing.

I randomly ran across this line of “smart” lights last week and picked up a couple of the 100-light sets to mess around with. I’ll say up front that I’m very happy with them. Here’s a few random notes on my experience. The first thing I wondered was exactly how long the lighted portion of the string actually is. The specs for the 100-light set is 26.25 feet. I’ve attached a photo showing the distance between each light is 3 inches. With a 100-light set, there’s 99 spaces between each light, meaning your actual lighted length is 24.75 feet. Upon first plugging in the lights, I was very pleased with how bright they are. I don’t see an official listed brightness anywhere off a quick google search but they’re definitely sufficient. The colors are extremely vibrant and show very well in the dark. On an iPhone 13, I didn’t really have any issues getting them connected. On the first strand, I did have to try it a couple of times, then restart the app to get it to go, but I believe that’s because I had already launched the app and had it searching before I held down the button on the lights to put it into findable mode. The app doesn’t seem to like searching before there’s something to search for. On the second strand of lights, I first put the lights into findable mode and then launched the app, no problems. I was within a foot of the lights with my phone and they read each other fine. My two strands of lights are wrapped around the two small columns on my front porch so I really can’t comment on the scan. I did do a scan but since they’re just wrapped around, it seemed kind of pointless, so I deleted it. There’s more than enough patterns built-in and downloadable to keep me entertained and switching it up every night. A few of the patterns rely on a “curtain” of lights but a lot of them still look good just randomly wrapped around my porch columns. Of note is that by default, it considers the very last light on the string to be the “top”, so if you’re doing effects like falling snow, then you’ll want to mind how you hang your lights vertically. Lastly, there is a somewhat hidden “sync” option on the last tab of the app. Where I had two strings of lights, I couldn’t initially find a way to make them do the same thing at the same time. I set them both individually to the same pattern, which was changing through colors, but they were going through different colors. After I couldn’t find a way to link them, I instead starting trying to time when to turn the second string on so the colors would get close. I eventually found the small chain icon in the upper-right of the last tab of the app that lets you link strings together, which solved my problem. The only thing I wish was here was a way to control the lights when I’m away from the house. The only time the app works is when you’re on the same Wi-Fi network as the lights. This is completely understandable because there is no hub or software to be able to talk to over the internet, but it would be nice if it were an option in the future. I’ll come back and edit my review later if anything goes wrong, I’ve only had them for a week.

This is our 3rd set of Twinkly lights that we now own and could not be happier. We put these outside our house and paired them with a set of the 600 light strands. The way the app was able to map the lights was almost magic. I was so impressed how well the effects worked. Definitely will be expanding my Twinkly collection this year.