Light Up Your Patio for Fall Hosting With Hubspace and The Home Depot
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It’s getting darker earlier, the air is crisp, and a certain fan-favorite grocery store’s pumpkin items are back in stock — it’s fall. The shades of foliage have turned, and it’s a perfect time to soak up the last few months of the year when outdoor hosting is a possibility. Long, warm summer nights in the backyard are over, but patio season has just begun. With the right accessories, fall patio hosting can make for peak entertaining and no one is better for lighting the way than The Home Depot and Hubspace.
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In case you’re unfamiliar, Hubspace is The Home Depot’s smart app that syncs all smart home devices together in one spot. Smart speakers, smart blinds, smart lights, and even smart thermostats from compatible brands can all be controlled within Hubspace. It makes leveling up the functionality of your home, and outdoor space, much easier.
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Fall Patio Hosting 101: Lighting Is Key
Outdoor hosting during fall demands proper lighting. The sun is setting earlier, but that doesn’t mean everything has to move inside. String lights, flood lights, automated outdoor lights, and smart plugs can all assist in creating the perfect outdoor atmosphere for fall dinner parties, cocktail hours, book club meetings, and game nights.
The Home Depot has a wide selection of smart lights and plugs from top brands like Hampton Bay, Defiant, and others built to hold up against outdoor conditions while creating just the right atmosphere. To help you prepare your patio for fall and deliver the best possible experience for your guests, SPY’s editors have hand-picked their favorite options below.
All of these products can be controlled via your smartphone in the Hubspace app. There, you can set lighting schedules, augment light shades and brightness for certain products, turn lights on and off remotely, and get alerts when service is needed.
The Best Smart Lighting Accessories From The Home Depot
Hampton Bay Indoor/Outdoor Smart Plug-In LED String Lights Powered by Hubspace
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It’s not an outdoor patio without string lights, and these from Hampton Bay can be controlled wirelessly within the Hubspace App as well as with Google Home and Amazon Alexa voice control. Each bulb color and brightness level can be customized within the app, along with the lighting schedule and flashing speed. The bulbs are shatter-resistant, and you can link up to five sets to one controller for full patio coverage.
Hampton Bay 200 Watt Landscape Lighting Transformer Powered by Hubspace
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If each of your patio’s lighting accessories is a plane, this is the air traffic control tower. This transformer has three separate outputs so you can control three different lighting systems from one base, and it can all be automated within the Hubspace app. At 200 watts, it’s a low-voltage system that won’t rack up huge electric bills, and it’s designed to be easy to connect to your home’s router and mobile device via Bluetooth as well.
Defiant 15 Amp Smart WiFi Outdoor Plug Powered by Hubspace
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Outdoor smart plugs are crucial for entertaining any time of year, but especially during fall when lights should turn on as soon as the sun goes down. This plug from Defiant is built with a 120-volt capacity and syncs with the Hubspace app so you can schedule anything you plug into it to power up and down on a precise timetable. If the smart lights on this list don’t suit your design preferences, you can plug anything into this and automate it.
Hampton Bay 10-watt Outdoor Spotlight Powered by Hubspace
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Outdoor spotlights ensure your landscaping is still a part of your outdoor experience when natural light diminishes, and these smart spotlights can sync up with all of your other lighting elements in the Hubspace app. You can group lights together based on position or schedule and control them with your voice with Google and Alexa as well. They’re built with shades of white as well as multicolor options for festive holiday decorating as well.
Commercial Electric Indoor/Outdoor Smart Socket Powered by Hubspace
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This is a smart plug for light bulbs and can transform any light into a smart one that’s controlled within the Hubspace app. It’s compatible with a variety of E26 bulbs including LED options. It can be used indoors or outdoors and is something we highly recommend adding if you have screw-in light bulbs on a covered patio or deck area.
Entertaining is stressful, especially in a season like fall where temperature and weather can be unpredictable. Let Hubspace and The Home Depot’s compatible devices take a load off your plate by scheduling your lighting needs ahead of time. With their app, you can control all of your lights and electric devices from anywhere, and connect them to your Alexa or Google Assistant so you’ve got one destination to control them all.
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