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Smart Christmas lighting: festive control with Shelly 

With smart Christmas lighting, your home becomes festive and modern at the same time. Control indoor and outdoor lights conveniently via app or voice control.

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What is  smart Christmas lighting?

Smart Christmas lighting makes your festive décor truly clever. Instead of switching each string of lights on and off individually, you control everything conveniently via app or voice control. With a smart plug you can activate your lights indoors or outdoors automatically on a schedule, for example when it gets dark.

Your Christmas tree lighting also reacts at the push of a button or follows your preset scenes. Gentle colour changes, warm whites or blinking light effects, you decide what lights up when. That makes your Christmas lighting not only atmospheric but comfortable and energy-saving. 

Frauenhände halten Lichterkette, Shelly Weihnachtsdeko per App aktivieren und Strom sparen

Save electricity with smart Christmas lighting 

Smart Christmas lighting doesn’t just create a festive mood–it can seriously save energy. Thanks to automatic scheduling, lights are only on when needed–e.g., from dusk until shortly before bedtime. Outdoors, you avoid unnecessary overnight consumption.

Modern LED fairy lights are efficient anyway, but with smart control you unlock their full potential. Best of all, you keep track of consumption and can decorate festively without soaring electricity costs.

Smartphone mit Shelly App zeigt Szene, die Lichterkette smart im Innenbereich steuert

Benefits of Smart Home for holiday lighting

A Smart Home makes your Christmas lighting not only prettier but also more comfortable and efficient. Everything adapts to your day, whether a cosy evening glow or a mini light show for the celebration. The biggest advantages are: 

  • COMFORT AT THE PUSH OF A BUTTON: control your festive lighting via app or voice control 
  • AUTOMATIC SCHEDULING: lights switch on exactly when you want – no manual switching 
  • INDIVIDUAL SCENES: create custom light effects and atmospheric combinations for indoors and outdoors 
  • ENERGY SAVING MADE EASY: smart control prevents lights from being left on unnecessarily 
  • MORE SECURITY: switch lighting on from anywhere – your home looks occupied 
Anstoßen mit Champagner, festlich beleuchteter Raum dank Shelly Smart-Home-Lichtsteuerung

Control fairy lights and décor via app 

With the Shelly Smart Control app you tailor fairy lights, starsor figures individually. Decide when the outdoor lighting switches on automatically, or activate décor with one tap. Especially handy: the Shelly Power Strip 4 Gen4 with four individually controllable sockets lets you switch several elements separately – ideal for window lights, treelightingand festive figures.

For single light sources use the compact Shelly Plug S Gen3. It turns any socket into a smart outlet controllable via app or voiceand also measures power consumption, so you always know what’s running.

Products:
Shelly Power Strip 4 Gen4 List
Shelly Power Strip 4 Gen4 List
59,90 €
The Shelly Plug S MTR Gen3 White is a Matter-compatible smart plug with a sleek cylindrical design, two metal prongs, and a translucent rim—ideal for seamless integration into your smart home.
Shelly Plug S Gen3
23,68 €
Shelly App auf Smartphone mit Lichterketten-Szene, Weihnachtsbeleuchtung mit Zeitsteuerung steuern

Automatic schedules for your lighting 

With Shelly Smart Control your lighting becomes fully automated and aligned to your routine. Set fixed times – e.g., 17:00–23:00 – or use the Premium (paid) sunrise/sunset function.

The app recognises your location and switches lights at dawn/dusk. You can even create complete scenes, e.g., “After-work mode”: as soon as the sun sets, the tree glows warm white, window lights change colour softly, and the outdoor lights switch on. Enjoy a festive mood without lifting a finger, and save energy, too. 

 More information on smart lighting control can be found here. 

 How to control not only brightness but also colour while dimming LEDs is explained here. 

Lichterkette auf Holzfußboden, smarte Lichtshow für stimmungsvolle Atmosphäre im Innenbereich

Festive scenes for Christmas

With Shelly Smart Control you not only control Christmas lighting, but you create scenes: cosy, festive or spectacular. Here are some ideas: 

  • Cosy evening: warm-white tree lights, gently dimmed window lights, golden shimmer in the background 
  • Christmas-movie mode: outdoor lights off; soft red light inside – couch time 
  • Festive welcome: fairy lights on; décor lights brightly as soon as you arrive home 
  • Christmas party: colourful effects change to the rhythm – almost like a mini light show 

Ways to trigger scenes: 

  1. By schedule: let lighting turn on at dusk and off late at night – create a scene in the Shelly app 
  2. At the push of a button: hard-to-reach plugs (e.g., behind the tree) can be switched via app or with a Shelly BLU Button Tough 1 
  3. With motion/presence: with Shelly BLU Motion the lights turn on as someone enters.
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Control outdoor Christmas lighting smartly

Outdoors should sparkle, too–smartly and safely. With Shelly Outdoor Plug S Gen3 you control outdoor lights via app or voice. The weather-resistantI P44 socket withstands rain and snow and suits fairy lights, light-upreindeerand other décor.

Add it to Shelly Smart Control, set schedules or scenes that trigger at dusk – and enjoy indoor-level flexibility outside.

Product:
Shelly Outdoor Plug S Gen3
Shelly Outdoor Plug S Gen3
30,82 €
Terrasse mit Lichterkette, Außenbeleuchtung wetterfest und über Shelly Outdoor Plug S Gen3 steuerbar

Christmas lighting with voice control 

More convenient is hardly possible: with voice control you switch lights on by a simple phrase. Shelly Smart Control links with Alexa, Google Assistant or Siri–“Alexa, turn on the Christmas lights” is all it takes. Control single devices, whole scenesor your entire festive lighting–indoors and outdoors–hands-free.

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FAQs: Smart Christmas lighting

Are LED fairy lights power guzzlers?

No, quite the opposite. LED fairy lights consumevery little electricity. With Shelly devices and the app,you save even more because lights only shine when you want.

How can I connect my fairy lights with Alexa?

Add them via a Shelly Plug (e.g., Plug S Gen3 or Outdoor Plug S Gen3) or the PowerStrip 4 Gen4 to the app, then link with Alexa and control by voice.

Can Shelly be used as a timer?

Yes. In the app you can set precise schedules so the lights switch on and offautomatically–no manual switching.

How does intelligent Christmas lighting work?

Shelly devices connect via Wi-Fi to Shelly Smart Control. You then control strings of lights flexibly by app, voice command or automatic schedule.