I recently purchased some smart Christmas lights and despite having a local Home Assistant integration, infuriatingly, the app requires a user account and login before you can perform the initial setup and network connection. Therefore, as a point of principle, I wanted to try and set these up without ever touching the official app by using the XLED Python library along with the XLED Plus library to create custom animations.

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Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
00:22 - Story Time
07:17 - Hardware Tour
11:07 - Initial WiFi Connection
20:44 - Home Assistant Integration
24:36 - Demo
26:18 - Creating Effects using XLED Plus
32:45 - Conclusion

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