# Alexa... Turn on Christmas (Neopixels) \<\< revisited

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-turn-on-christmas-neopixels-revisited/15786>\
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**Created:** [22 September 2019 17:07 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-turn-on-christmas-neopixels-revisited/15786 "2019-09-22T17:07:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [22 September 2019 17:07 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-turn-on-christmas-neopixels-revisited/15786/1 "2019-09-22T17:07:26Z")

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One of my IoT students has been working on controlling a strip of Neopixels using Alexa.  
It basically takes some parts from the projects:

- _Controlling a Neopixel strip_
- _Alexa... turn on Christmas_

Then joins them together to create a new project.

The objective is to control a strip of Neopixels using three sliders on the dashboard and from Alexa with commands like...

_"Alexa, set Neopixels to red"_  
_"Alexa, set Neopixels to green"_  
_"Alexa, set Neopixels to 50"_

The student has updated the project so when you give Alexa a command to set a colour, the UI sliders move 'automagically' to the correct position - try it out, it's great fun.

Here's a link to the tutorial guide and the Node-Red flow (in json format)  
[Tutorial Guide](http://resources-area.co.uk/node-red-flows/alexa_turn_on_christmas_revisited.pdf)  
[Node-Red flow](http://resources-area.co.uk/node-red-flows/alexa_turn_on_christmas_revisited.json)