AiDot and Linkind SL5 Make Easy Work of Smart Outdoor Lighting for Your Haunted House
October 8, 2024
With Halloween only a few weeks away I’m sure some of you out there are already planning your yard decorations and effects. I’ve seen some pretty creative layouts from graveyards to haunted pumpkin patches. One of the major elements to pulling off a layout that’ll scare or delight even the most hardcore trick-or-treaters is lighting and effects. It can make or break your Halloween decorating.
Last year before Halloween I posted ‘Turn Your Smart Home Into A Haunted House For Halloween’ with ideas about how to transform your home into the Halloween envy of the neighborhood. It’s easy to transform the outside of your home to add to the spooky ambience. Smart home lighting can change colors to match your Halloween decor and set the mood to take your home’s spook factor to the next level. With the touch of a button, you can transform into a variety of Halloween shades like green, purple or orange. While dark and spooky is a Halloween staple, turning up your smart lighting to the brightest white can also create a startling effect and backdrop for your Halloween setup to give the effective of lightning.
If you want to recreate some of the scary movie special effects, try backlighting your Halloween decor. Start by placing smart lighting behind the decorations you already have placed and choose different colors to illuminate your monsters, skeletons and witches. Spooky backlighting can be done easily outside your home. This works best if the area around the decorations is dark. The shadows and light will transform your regular Halloween decor into glowing creatures and leave a frightening effect.
Linkind reached out to me about their Smart Solar Outdoor Lights SL5. In full transparency, they sent me a set of them to test. They were interested in my opinion regarding their color changing solar spotlights specifically for Halloween decorating but the lights could be used for other holidays due to their flexibility or for year-round outdoor lighting.
The Linkind Smart Solar Spotlight SL5 is the first wireless outdoor solar spotlight with app functionality and hubless group control. Using Bluetooth and the AiDot app, you can control up to 32 lights in 8 groups within a 98 ft range, adjusting color, white temperature, and brightness. Features include music sync, motion detection (which triggers group-wide lighting effects and app alerts) and customizable lighting scenes. It offers 16 million color options and multiple lighting modes. The spotlights are IP65 water-resistant, solar-powered, and can be set on the ground or wall-mounted with 360° horizontal and 180° vertical adjustability. They are ideal for enhancing outdoor spaces with personalized lighting effects.
With the AiDot app and Bluetooth I find these outdoor lights to be the perfect solution for anyone new to smart home technology and looking to up their Halloween decorating. The app has a ton of capabilities beyond just controlling the SL5’s to scare the neighbor kids. It could be a great beginner platform for integrating indoor and outdoor surveillance, lighting, appliances and sensors with Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, SmartThings and IFTTT. And with the SL5’s being solar powered it simplifies your setup and maintenance — no extension cords to worry about as long as the units get enough sunlight for charging.
The Linkind Smart Solar Lights Outdoor SL5 are currently available in a pack of 6 from Amazon. At the time of this writing the cost is $125.99 but with Prime Big Deal Days coming up on October 8–9 you may be able to get a great deal on these versatile outdoor lights to not only transform your Holiday decorations but add some significant ambience to your smart home yard throughout the year.
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