Three new Philips Hue lights have launched within the UK. From right now, a brand new, smaller bulb dimension is available for purchase, in addition to updates to the Surimu and Aurelle panels in contemporary sizes and styles.
Plus, new options are coming through software program updates later this 12 months to the Philips Hue Bridge and Hue app that’ll improve customisation and management over lighting.
Don’t overlook that to unlock all of the options of the lights, you’ll want a Hue Bridge ($59.99/ £49.99). The bridge will allow you to sync your lights, management them remotely, arrange automations and use voice management.
The sunshine panels received’t be out there within the US however the software program updates would possibly. We’ve requested for additional data however hadn’t heard again on the time of publishing this text.
Philips Hue E14 Luster bulb
The model’s most compact bulb is now out there in each White Ambiance and White and Color Ambiance. You probably have a mini gentle becoming or teeny tiny lamp you haven’t but been in a position so as to add to your sensible house setup, this could possibly be your likelihood.
The White Ambiance bulb has a variety of color temperatures, with 50,000 shades of pure white gentle, from heat to chill.
For extra temper lighting choices, the White and color Ambiance bulb gives tens of millions of colors throughout the spectrum.
- E14 Luster White Ambiance bulb – £29.99 (Philips)
- E14 Luster White and Color Ambiance bulb – £54.99 (Philips)
White and Color Ambiance Surimu panel
The Surimu is getting an replace as nicely. The Surimu is a colored panel that sits flush with the ceiling and emits a tender, subtle gentle extra appropriate for making a membership vibe than illuminating the desk whilst you’re engrossed in a very difficult puzzle.
It’s presently out there in a sq. 60 x 60cm and rectangular 120 x 30cm kind (every £294.99 from Philips) however now you can get a half-size sq. panel, in addition to a round mannequin.
Philips Hue
- White and Color Ambiance Surimu Panel 30 x 30cm – £209.99 (Philips)
- White and Color Ambiance Surimu Panel (spherical) 39.5cm diameter – £219.99 (Philips)
Philips Hue White Ambiance Aurelle panel
There are additions to the Aurelle vary as nicely. The 4 present fashions (see them at Philips) have a white body but when this doesn’t match your color inside palette, there’s excellent news. Or, at the least, it’s excellent news if black will match. The 4 new Aurelle panels are framed in a “premium black end”.
Philips Hue
Alas, when you’re hoping to gentle your private home like a John Wick struggle scene, the Aurelle just isn’t for you. It’s a White Ambiance gentle solely.
White Ambiance Aurelle with black body:
New brightness balancer and movement sensor replace
One of many points with grouped lights is that it’s exhausting to dim bulbs of differing brightness to the identical degree. However Philips Hue is launching a repair. Its brightness balancer will provide you with extra exact management of various lights that you simply’ve grouped collectively as your “Leisure space”.
In the event you’re listening to music, movie watching, or gaming, you may individually regulate the associated Hue lights to light up an space, or convey down higher-lumen bulbs to a suitably dim degree for popcorn munching and film viewing.
The replace will arrive through the app in Q3 (July – September) however be aware that this works just for lights you’ve particularly grouped collectively within the app within the Leisure space, which often means gentle bars, gentle strips, accents lights and extra.
A Hue Bridge replace that’s anticipated on the similar time may even massively improve the flexibleness of your movement sensor programming. At the moment, the movement sensors have two time slots – daytime and evening – so you might arrange a vivid gentle to come back on once you open your entrance door within the daytime and a low-level gentle at evening. This could possibly be a bit limiting when you’d like a special degree of brightness at, say, 10pm and 3am.
However the variety of time slots might be rising to 10, so you may customise your lighting to the time of day. This raises the fascinating chance of setting a sunny orange glow to accompany your early morning cornflakes or a vivid purple 10am gentle to warn you to your morning assembly.
The much less adventurous can use the Pure Mild scene to imitate the solar’s gentle because it adjustments all through the day, which could possibly be a boon on gray winter days the place there’s not a lot precise solar in any respect.
In the event you’re on this characteristic, take a look at our evaluation of the Dyson Solarcycle Morph, which has a pure daylight setting and see our round-up of one of the best gentle alarms we’ve examined, which is able to wake you up gently by slowly brightening the sunshine in your bed room.