My backyard made me a color-changing smart lighting convert
I'll admit it. I was wrong. Wildly colorful lighting is delightful for your smart home - well, outdoors, at least.
Smart lighting is one of my favorite features of the smart home - it combines convenience with ambiance, letting you change the entire look of your room with just a press of a button. But, other than the occasional pop of color, mostly in my kids' rooms and outdoors around the holidays, I've never found much use for color-changing lights. I prefer the subtler effects of tunable white light combined with dimming to set the scene indoors, and that preference also extended to outdoor lighting. Until this summer.
With an influx o …