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Title: Automate your holiday lights with Siri and HomeKit!
Post by: HCK on December 05, 2016, 04:05:23 pm
Automate your holiday lights with Siri and HomeKit!

Bring your Christmas lights into this century with the help of Siri and HomeKit!

If you decorate your home for the holidays, you can make things a little more futuristic and a lot more interesting by adding some HomeKit enabled devices to the mix!



That way you can ask Siri to turn off your tree, power down your inflatable reindeer, and shut down the red and green yard lights.

Plug 'em in, plug 'em in

The easiest way to go about controlling your holiday display is by connecting your lights to a HomeKit-enabled switch. A HomeKit-enabled switch — at the very least — lets you turn on and off whatever's plugged in. Some take things a step further and feature a nightlight, let you monitor energy usage, etc.

There are loads of HomeKit-enabled switches on the market at this point (it's a pretty obvious HomeKit product), but there are a few that stand above the rest.

iDevices Switch



The iDevices Switch from — you guessed it — iDevices is one of my favorite HomeKit-enabled s...

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