Permanent roofline lighting is installed once and stays on the house all year. It glows warm white most nights and switches to red and green for Christmas from a phone app. Seasonal lights are hung in November and taken down in January, every year. The difference is how many times someone climbs the ladder.
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The nine things homeowners ask when they are deciding, side by side.
| Permanent roofline lighting | Lights hung each season | |
|---|---|---|
| Installed | Once, by Halo’s crew | Every November |
| Taken down | Never. It stays up | Every January |
| Ladder time for you | None, in December or any month | Every year, unless you hire it out |
| Color | 16 million colors; red and green is a saved scene in the app | Whatever colors the strands are |
| The other eleven months | Warm white on a schedule you set, or off | Stored in the garage |
| By daylight | Low-profile aluminum channel, color-matched to your soffit, close to invisible | Strands and clips on the roofline until they come down |
| Control | Halo app: schedules, scenes, individually addressable zones | Usually a plug-in timer or a switch |
| Warranty | Lifetime on the LEDs, 3 years on labor, 5 years on the Power Control Module | Depends on the product you buy |
| How the cost works | One project, quoted on site after we measure | A recurring job or your own weekend, every year |
The seasonal column describes the usual approach of hanging string lights each year. Specifics vary by product and installer.
Switching to Christmas is a tap in the Halo app. The same roofline that glows warm white in October runs red and green in December, then goes back to warm white in January. Nothing gets climbed, hung, or stored.
Because every light is individually addressable, colors can alternate along the run instead of washing the whole roofline in one tone.
Seasonal lights are a fine choice if you only want a December display, if you rent, or if you are not ready for a permanent system. Halo also installs and takes down string lights you already own, as a seasonal add-on priced separately from a permanent system.
Where permanent lighting wins is every year after the first: no ladder, no takedown, no storage, and a warm white roofline the rest of the year. If you hang lights every December, that is the trade worth weighing.
It does Christmas, but it is built to stay up all year. The same system that runs warm white most nights holds saved scenes, so red and green for December is a tap in the Halo app, and warm white returns in January.
No. The channel and lights stay mounted flush under the roofline edge. Nothing comes down in January and nothing goes in the garage.
Yes. As a seasonal add-on, Halo hangs and later takes down string lights you already own, priced separately from a permanent bluEmber system. Mention it when you request your quote.
A permanent system is one project, quoted after Halo measures your roofline, and it is installed once. Seasonal lights are a recurring job or a weekend of your own, every year. Halo quotes on site, so you can weigh the two for your house.
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