Is there any benefit to including the String's original Twinkly_xxxxxx designation in the name? I've done it with and without. Wonder what troubleshooting etc. might require it.

@@ronaldtaylor8509 not that I’ve been able to tell. I think renaming them makes life way easier. You can always reset to factory settings if you need to.

What light set did you use on the gutters?! It looks amazing and how did you attach then?!

Thanks, I try to keep up with the questions. I also just posted another twinkly video. Added a few more lights. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ebxlqNWnya20dpc.html

Glad to hear that. Did you get a chance to do your yard yet?

@@jasonduvall1 I wasn't able to find enough Gen II to be totally happy but I did. I need to get a video. I haven't mapped it all.

@@atx0025 watch for the sales after Christmas. Last year I found some great deals on Twinkly lights on targets website. I watched throughout the year. Got a few good deals on Amazon (returned ones at Amazon warehouse).

@@atx0025 I put up a few more. See attached video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ebxlqNWnya20dpc.html

Thanks

Great info guy. Thanks!

I bought them on Amazon a few months ago. I had some Gen I last year so I watched all year and bought gen IIs as I saw them on sale. You can map each individually and tile them together but I think that’s the hard way. I mapped these as 1 big scene. If you read some of my other responses you will see my notes about staying connected to WiFi and trying to stand far enough back to map it all together.

@@jasonduvall1 roger that! Thanks!

I just uploaded a new video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ebxlqNWnya20dpc.html with 4,600 lights on the front of the house now. I also have about 1,200 inside the house. I do not have a dedicated router and I am now starting to get some crashes and errors. I think I am pushing my router to its limit and may need to go the dedicated path. I’ve been lucky with 2d mapping, I can get out far enough into the street to map everything at once. There are a few spots out of site that are not in sync as much as I would like. I have not tried tiling individual mapped lights yet. May try that this weekend.

Just to make sure we are on the same page I dont have the twinkly pros I have the regular gen 2s. The only difference in what I have done in programming vs programming a single set is creating a group in the twinkly app then selecting large scene. After that you run through the mapping just like normal in the app on your phone. Note that 3D mapping isn’t an option when selecting large scene. Hope this help, let me know if you have more questions. Will try to help if I can.

@@jasonduvall1 r these the rgb or rgbw?

and how do you program the sides, when you capture the image from the front

@@ccruzzzin__ these are RBG. The RBG do have a blueish white though, not a warm white color.

"I would like to see how are you did ". SAY WHAT? If ur gonna comment learn English first

Multiple Rows (2 rows) at all the eves.

These are all Gen II 600 light RBG. My answer to the cost question is “not cheap”. I started picking up twinkly lights in Nov of 2019. Throughout the year I have been buying them on sale.

@@jasonduvall1 thanks for the tip. You have the BEST outdoor setup I've seen so far man. Well done. When do these tend to go on sale?

I used a hot glue gun

Not sure what you mean by ice lights but I have mainly the 600 strands of twinkly lights. The 600 are really long. I have 1 or 2 locations that all the lights run back to. I have a few extension cords but was able to hide most of them.

The roof line is roughly 70 feet. I ran an upper line and a lower line (straight lines). They are roughly 3 inches apart that’s why they have the clustered look. I used one set of 600 for the roof line.

@@jasonduvall1 Wow! You used one 600 for the whole roof? Wow that’s awesome! Thank you this helps tremendously.

@@jasonduvall1 I think I saw you said these are all RGB lights instead of RGBW. Correct?

@@Melissa-bl9we correct I have RBG not RBGW.

@@jasonduvall1 great thank you!

It says right in the description 5 sets of 600.

I bought each set of 600 for $199

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@@jasonduvall1 Thank you!

@@jasonduvall1 If I want to do a window only thats 8ft by 4ft and create a blanket effect so I can play video animation what should i do?

I'm curious too, especially how it's "stacked" around the gutter/roof line.

@@Griffology It looks like this person did a combo of strands, clusters and nets.

@@Griffology check my question he answered - he ran two straight lines about 3 in apart to created the clustered look in the eaves

I have gen 2 twinkly lights. Each strand has its own controller and you group them together from the twinkly app.

I'm in for next year just give all details ... showtime !

I have stucco eves and facia so I used a hot glue gun.

This video shows the twinkly pro lights not the typical residential ones

They are not pros. I have the regular gen 2s.

@@jasonduvall1 does the hot glue mess up your stucco or lift strands?

I don’t have pros, what I can tell you is for my gen IIs when I am in the twinkly app I hit the devices button on the bottom right. In that section is a button that says create group.

@@jasonduvall1 thanks man appreciate it

I keep it simple. Picked east mapping, stood in almost the same location as where I took the video from to map it. I had to relocate my router to the front of the house so I wouldn’t loose my WiFi connection when standing in the street. Turned my phone horizontal and mapped it. Hopefully this helps. Reminder you need to keep your network connection when mapping.

Horizontal

@@jasonduvall1 Thanks for the reply.

I used a hot glue gun for most of the locations. I’ll try to get an edited video out in the next few days with some up close pictures of the light strings so you can see it.

@@jasonduvall1 Fantastic! Love your house..

@@jasonduvall1 we’re you ever able to post this video? As I’ve read in your comments, you used one run higher and one run lower. So that means 4x “lines”? Since the 600 runs in double line? Two up high and two down low

Yes they are gen 2. I do not the music dongle.

It’s kind of a blueish white, not a warm white.

I believe you can have 10 devices in a single group working together. I don’t think there’s a limit to how many groups you can have.

They are strings run a few inches apart

@@jasonduvall1 So, for example, one set running back and forth?

These are regular gen 2s, not pros. I will guess you are having the same issue I had mapping a large area. You have to be back far enough to get your set up in the view of your camera. I found a few times that I was to far from my router so I was dropping from my home WiFi and my phone was going to cellular data without me knowing it. When you lose your WiFi it will not map. I moved my router closer to the front of my house so my WiFi reached farther and I could stand in the street and still be connected to my WiFi. Hope this helps.

@@jasonduvall1 Yes we are having exactly the same problem! Thank you so much for the advice, really useful to us! We have the lights round 2 windows on the house so we will try mapping from further away. Did you map them in daylight or in the dark?

@@JillatHome Map just before full darkness. Brighter light gives poor contrast for detection. Dark produces confusing halos. Avoid reflections; even from wet surfaces.

I agree with Ronald

@@ronaldtaylor8509 That's great thanks for the advice! I will give it a try before dark and hopefully that will work. Thanks!

I think once you get the hang of it they are fairly easy to use. After you connect them to your router make sure you reconnect your phone to your router. The biggest problem I had when I first started was understanding that your phone has to be connected to your WiFi after your lights are connected to the WiFi. If you drop WiFi and switch to data it won’t work.

Glad someone picked up on that

I only have a few extension cords. I use the 600 light strands of the twinklys. They are really long so it cuts down on how many extension cords you have to use.

@@jasonduvall1 thanks man for all your speedy replies. Your insight has been very helpful

Yes, I like it. Really easy to set the playlist and duration of each one.

@@jasonduvall1 You mentioned you like to try different setups. When you want to alter a group, is it necessary to delete it? Then don't you lose the Playlist setup for it as well as any custom Effects you created while it was 'open'?

Will do my best to explain 1. The palm tree on the left has one set of 600 on it. 2. The bushes behind the palm tree have one set of 600. This includes the small bushes under the windows. 3. Starting from the left (behind the palm tree) the roof line has one set of 600. That set goes from the left all the way to the right and returns down the side of my house about 20 feet (can’t be seen in video) The one set of 600 was enough to run two lines. One upper and another about 3 inches lower. Basically half of the 600 was enough to go all the way across. Hope I explained this well enough. 4. The garage roof line is one set of 600. This goes from my entry door across the front (over the garages) and returns roughly 30 feet down my side yard that can’t be seen in the video. I also did two lines here. One upper and a second a few inches lower just like the upper roof line. 5. At the garage doors. One set of 600 again with two lines run. This set framed the garage doors and covered some of the bushes to the left of the garage. 6. One set of 600 to complete the bushes next to the garage. Hopefully this is helpful. Let me know if you have more questions.

@@jasonduvall1 how did you mount them On the roof line? Staple gun etc..

Hot glue gun. I have stucco eves/facia. I used a staple gun at the garage doors because I have wood there.

@Craig Cruz I have an upper string of lights and a lower string of lights on all the eves and at the garage doors. They are a few inches apart. Thats what makes each area look so full.

I think I will give the dongle a try this year

Once you delete the group you can make new groups or go back to single devices. You do not need to reset.

@@jasonduvall1 Ah, then it is simply remapped according to the type of new group. So, in order to assign a given String to a group, it can not already be a member of another different group? The other group has to be deleted just to reassign only one of its member strings? That' surprising since I've noticed all networked & powered Strings appear on the App's Create Group list whether they have been assigned to a group or not. I haven't tried to 'double assign' yet. Have you?

@@ronaldtaylor8509 once they are in a group it will not give an option to add them to another group or add new ones to a current group (in the app) Really it only takes a few min to delete a group and start a new one then remap. For me it’s not a big deal. I like messing with them and trying new set ups anyway.

Yes you map the lights after you have them installed. I have all of them mapped as 1 group, really easy to do from the twinkly app on my iPhone.

Thanks! Also I noticed someone else had asked about extension cords. You only used 3? Could you let me know which ones you used? Appreciate your help, going to start setting the lights up this weekend!

@@jasonduvall1 Have you ever tried an Android phone with this setup? There is "warning" that 'features' are unavailable on Android app but not actually specified.

I have only used an iPhone.

I put them up in October and leave them until the second week of January. I use them for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. I have more recent videos than this one showing more lights I have added if you want to check them out. Will be adding my finished light video later this week.

There are 5 sets of the 600 twinkly lights.

Most of them came from amazon. Best Buy usually has them on sale on their website. Seems like September is the best time to buy, that’s when I notice them at the lowest price at various retailers.

@@jasonduvall1 how much did you buy it for in September?

It’s all the same Twinkly lights

Thanks

Just uploaded a new video with a few more twinkly lights kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ebxlqNWnya20dpc.html

I have way less extension cords than I did with my old school lights. With some quick planning I was able to run just about half of the lights from one location and the other half from a second location. I used to run a dozen or more extension cords with my old school lights. With the twinkly like set up I have here I have 3 extension cords.

On your roof line, let’s say the lower one, is that one set of lights? Is your controller in the center or to one side? I set up my lights but I can’t see one side of my house when I’m mapping. I’m trying to figure out how to work around it but I might have to ignore it. I have a 600 and 250 set and the controllers are on opposite sides of the house. I may have to reconfigure.

@@Cheddarbobm the upper roof line is 1 set of 600 and the lower roof line is 1 separate set of 600. On both I have the controller to one side (the left).

@@Cheddarbobm I have the same problem when trying to map the right side of the house, the section out of view of the camera

A lot. I’ve been buying a few sets every year for a couple years now.

Has to do with the angle of where you map from. I mapped from the same location that I shot the video from. From that location the phone is looking up at an angle at the house. Ideally you want to be as straight on and level as possible.

@@jasonduvall1 Ah, that's not mentioned in their many guides. I made a 2-shrub Sync group with the new multi-photo 3-D Mapping. They are only 3 foot high globes. I happened to map the first one standing up. I kneeled for the other. The first one displays what is supposed to be horizontal color bands at a 45 degree diagonal. Its Color Carousel effect converge point location is horribly different too. Also, possibly the location of the 'converge' point (visual location where some Effects rotate about or radiate to/from) is determined by where you aim the first Mapping shot on the object. I had only done a Join group until this year. Didn't expect a Sync group to be so finicky.

Each Twinkly strand of lights has its own controller. You can map them as a single strand or group multiple sets together. From the twinkly app.

I used a hot glue gun just about everywhere on the house except around the garage doors. At the garage doors I used a staple gun.

I ran two straight lines. An upper and lower. They are roughly 3 inches apart. That’s what gives it a clustered or beefy look. I used a hot glue gone because my facia is stucco. Hopefully this answers your question.

I meant to say hot glue gun

Super nice setup on the roofline #bossmode

The beefy look u speak about looks sssoooo awesome 👏 #bossmode

I have 5 sets of the 600s. Each set of 600 was $199.

@@jasonduvall1 is that all you need or is there a controller or device as well?

Amazon, Walmart’s website, targets website and a bunch of other places

Twinkly - TWS600STP 600 RGB Multicolor LED String Lights - App-Controlled LED Christmas Lights with Green Cable (157.5ft) - IoT & Razer Chroma Enabled - Indoor/Outdoor Party Decorations www.amazon.com/dp/B086XJ1RSY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_fabc_ANBVFb0Z3DE1D

@@jasonduvall1 thanks

The gen 2s I have are listed as IP weatherproof. Doing a quick internet search says that means “protected against solid objects that are bigger than 1mm and water splashing from all directions”. I have mine set up in a way that the controller is protected from direct rain or water. Other than that I would direct you to the twinkly web site for more info. www.twinkly.com

In my previous post I meant to say they are IP44 weatherproof. Sorry for the incomplete answer before.