The lights....half the garland is the lit...the other half I threw another strand on. So....when the timer goes off half of it lights. The other half I have to plug in. It works....of course the remotes battery died, so I ordered more. It's a nutty one crazy thing after another thing! I just wanted to get 1 thing done.....but I have many partial things kind of done....frustrating, but not the end of the world.