If you enjoy illuminating your home with decorative lighting for the holidays, but dread climbing up and down a ladder and dealing with tangled strings of lights several times a year, take a look at the latest entry in Jasco’s Enbrighten line of smart lighting products: Eternity Lights.
Enbrighten Eternity Lights are permanently mounted in your home’s eaves, on a pergola, balcony, or other outdoor structure and then connected to your home’s Wi-Fi network. You’ll need to have a weatherized outdoor outlet to plug them into, unless you want to drill a hole in your home’s wall to run a power cable through, but this lighting system comes with 20 feet of lead wire, a 10-foot extension cable, and an 18-inch cord attached to its power supply brick.
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Eternity Lights come in 16.5-foot strands with 12 RGBWIC LEDs per strand. That acronym means each LED in the strand has red, green, blue, and white diodes, and that each LED can be controlled independently. In addition to changing the color of light the LEDs produce, you can also tune each LEDs’ white color temperature, from a very warm 2200 Kelvin to a daylight-equivalent 6500K. Each LED is rated to produce 33 lumens of brightness at 2200K.
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Once connected to your 2.4GHz Wi-Fi network, you can program and control Eternity Lights with Jasco’s Enbrighten app for Android or iOS. In addition to changing colors, you can create animation and chase sequences, fades, and similar effects with individual lights or groups of lights. You can also control the lights with Alexa or Google Home voice commands, but they’re not Matter or HomeKit compatible at this time.
Jasco is selling a 50-foot kit (three 16.5-foot strands, 36 lights, 1,188 total lumens) for $159.99, and a 100-foot kit (six 16.5-foot strands, 72 lights, 2,376 total lumens) for $249.99. You can purchase additional 16.5-foot strands at $49.99 each to extend a single run up to 200 feet with 144 lights on the one power supply, although Jasco discloses that going beyond 150 feet will reduce the total lumen output.
Strands can be trimmed to fit, provided the strand has at least four pucks remaining, and the cut end of the strand can’t be in a location where water might accumulate. Once cut, a strand cannot be patched back together.
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Speaking of water, Jasco has assigned an IP65 weatherization rating for its Eternity Lights’ power supply, meaning it is impervious to dust ingress and can withstand water jets coming from any direction (short of a pressure washer). The light strands are rated IP67 end to end, although trimming the end of one will reduce that protection. (We have another article that will tell you everything you need to know about IP codes).
Jasco’s Enbrighten Eternity Lights and extension kits are available for purchase now with white or black cords. We reviewed Jasco’s Enbrighten Wi-Fi Café Lights in the spring of 2022, and they remain our favorite in that category. We have an Eternity Lights sample in house now, and you can look for our in-depth review soon.
