Picture this: it's game day, and with a few taps on your phone your roofline, your trees, and the walkway to your front door all switch to your team's colors. When the neighbors head home, you tap once more and everything fades back to a warm, classic white. No ladders, no rewiring, no digging out boxes of lights from the garage.

That's the idea behind the Novelty Lights Smart Series, our new smart outdoor lighting category. Every light in the series connects to the same free smart app and works with Alexa and Google Assistant, so your whole yard runs as one system. Install once, and change the mood whenever you like.

Here's how to build it, layer by layer.

Start at the top. Permanent outdoor eve lights install under your eaves and stay up year-round, so holiday lighting stops being an annual ladder ritual. The 50 ft kit includes 36 LED nodes on a discreet white wire, each one individually controllable, with both vivid RGB color and tunable white. They're IP68 rated, built to shrug off rain, snow, and everything in between.

Run warm white for everyday curb appeal, then switch to orange for Halloween, red and green for Christmas, or your team's colors for kickoff.

Next, add drama at eye level. Smart spot lights stake into the ground and cast focused beams up into trees, shrubs, and architectural features. You have two options here:

Both include ground stakes and surface mounts, so you can stake them in soil or mount them on decks and hardscapes. And both can link to a second set end-to-end for longer runs.

The newest addition to the Smart Series fills in the final layer: the ground itself. Smart ground lights are slim pucks, just 1.75" wide and 0.75" tall, that hug the ground along walkways, driveways, garden beds, decks, and patios. No snagged mower decks, no stubbed toes.

One 15-light kit covers 52 ft, enough for most front walkways in a single run, and each light can display its own color. Line the path in warm white for everyday elegance, or run a color chase down the walkway when it's time to celebrate. Like the rest of the series, they're IP65 weatherproof and run on safe low voltage power.

You don't need to build the whole ecosystem in a weekend. Plenty of customers start with a single walkway kit or one set of spot lights, fall in love with the app control, and add a layer each season. Because everything connects to the same app, your system grows with you.