Spring is approaching (I promise soon). Philips Hue, a smart lighting company, offers some new products to help you prepare your outdoor space so you can spend more time outside as the ice melts.
Signify, which owns Philips Hue, has announced three new additions to its outdoor smart lighting line. All of these will arrive in the United States on March 1, 2022. In addition, two new lighting effects will arrive in the Hue app later this year to add functionality. To that indoor smart light bulb.
The Philips Hue Inara Wall Light ($ 99.99, released March 1st) is a vintage style outdoor wall light with filament bulbs. Filament bulbs, also known as Edison bulbs, feature “electric” filaments that are visible through the bulb, similar to the first incandescent bulbs designed by Thomas Edison.
This traditional look is popular with fixtures with exposed light bulbs and has been ubiquitous indoors for some time. This is the first outdoor version we’ve seen, but you can’t buy an outdoor light bulb alone and put it in an existing fixture. This is because it is only available within Inara’s black vintage style lanterns.
Inara does not have the option to change the color of Hue’s signature bulb. Instead, you can adjust the brightness of the filament bulb with an app, remote control (sold separately), or voice (compatible with Amazon Alexa), Apple’s Siri, and the Google Assistant’s voice assistant. )
For something more colorful and modern, the new Lucca Wall Light ($ 99.99, available March 1st) is an outdoor wall fixture with a round shape and a black band wrapped around it.
Lucca provides white or color changing light and is designed to be bold and bright, making it suitable for smart lighting in pouches and balcony spaces where you want to make sure you’re doing it.
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The third new product is the black Resonate wall light (available from March 1st for $ 159.99). This is a more atmospheric addition with a minimalist design that casts either white or colored light above and below the wall. This type of light is commonly used to emphasize architectural features.
All new luminaires work with the Philips Hue app and require the Philips Hue Bridge for automation such as turning on the lights when you get home. Hue offers an outdoor motion sensor that can be paired with any light for automatic activation. Hue products also work with Amazon Alexa, Google Home, Samsung SmartThings, and Apple HomeKit smart home platforms.
Signify also announced that the Philips Hue app will be updated in the first quarter of 2022. The company’s indoor bulbs have two new effects that allow you to configure Hue bulbs to mimic the glow of candlelights and fireplaces. fireplace.
Third-party apps have been providing these features to Hue bulbs for some time, and candlelights Hue’s Labs section of the appHowever, we are currently moving to the main app. The candle and fireplace effect works with all compatible Philips Hue lights (both hub-based Zigbee versions and stand-alone Bluetooth bulbs).
