Philips Illuminate

Seasonal Specialties LLC

About this app

Create your own light show using the Illuminate™ customizable lighting system. Control your lights from your smart phone or tablet using the Illuminate™ app. The easy to use app allows you to adjust the color, brightness or function of your Illuminate™ lights. Synchronize your lights to music or make your own customized light show. For a more robust display, network several starter kits together and use add on sets.

The Illuminate™ starter kit includes one control box and one 25 light string. Connect up to 12 Illuminate™ lights strings (300 lights) to one control box for a fully synchronized light show using the Illuminate™ add on light sets. Only Illuminate™ features Continuous Motion™ technology, ensuring that the functions will travel through the length of all connected strings, keeping your light show perfectly coordinated.

Customize your light show:
• Choose a color from color wheel or select preset buttons for warm white, cool white or multi lights.
• Make colors brighter or dimmer
• Choose from 21 pre made functions for a variety of effects, or create your own functions/colors
• Choose the speed of the function
• Select music from your own device and the lights automatically flash and change colors.

Network your light sets:
• Using your home WiFi router, network several starter kits together to create a whole house light show.
• Each starter kit can be set for a different effect, or set your entire light display to one function.
• Continuous Motion™ technology synchronizes colors and functions throughout all connected light strings.

Ratings and reviews

Great when it works. The app decided to no longer connect with the control box the other day. I've tried scanning, resetting the Wi-Fi, unplugging and plugging them back in over and over... nothing I do will reset the lights, so now we have lights on the house that no longer light up. This feels like a huge waste of money.

Lights are expensive, but there aren't many options for app controlled RGB LED Christmas lights. If you're looking for lights that let you pick custom colors these are great. The lights can display up to 5 custom colors at once. There aren't many functions available for custom colors though. I have not had any connection issues. Colors are bright and vivid. Hoping to pick up more strands on sale. You can connect up to 12 on one controller box. App can control multiple boxes.

Half baked product...and as another said, probably a cash grab. PRO: Good colors & warm whites for LEDs, No broken or malfunctioning lights out of the box, app provides custom display capabilities (albeit limited) CON: App to control lights is half baked, very clunky UI, and doesn't play well with all mobile devices / routers. WiFi sync capability is DOA, the software devs are aware of the issues and do not have plans to resolve them, can't adjust color brightness AND function / pattern at the same time, SUPER expensive for a product that misses it BIG on how it's advertised I DO NOT recommend this product at it's current price point. I thought most poor reviews were user error, but was wrong. It's a slightly more capable set of lights than the "In Motion" ones that come with a limited set of programmed functions & a remote, but at a MUCH higher price point. I'd give this product a higher rating if the cost were just slightly above the "In Motion" Philips LEDs, or if the companion app were bug free and provided more user controls.

What's new

Updates for Android 10 and bug fixes.