PHILIPS HUE WHITE AMBIANCE A19 HOW TO
PHILIPS HUE WHITE AMBIANCE A19 ANDROID
PHILIPS HUE WHITE AMBIANCE A19 BLUETOOTH

Get hands-free control of your lights and use your voice instead! Simple voice commands allow you to control multiple lights in a room or just a single lamp. Add up to 10 smart lights and control them all with just the touch of a button on your mobile device.

PHILIPS HUE WHITE AMBIANCE A19 BLUETOOTH

With the Hue Bluetooth app, you can control your Hue smart lights in a single room of your home. Neither one will work with HomeKit, but each one has a lot to offer in its own right, and deserves a look before buying in with Hue.Control up to 10 lights with the Bluetooth app In fact, it faces some fairly strong competition from the likes of Lifx and Stack, both of which offer comparably-priced color tunable bulbs that outperformed the Hue White Ambiance LEDs in my tests. And, if you want to splurge on something a little more feature rich, then the full-color, $200 kit that comes with a third bulb is probably worth your while.Īnd, of course, Hue isn't alone in the category - not with color-changing bulbs, and not with color tunable ones, either. If you just want the cheapest kit that comes with a Hue Bridge, then your best bet is to skip the color-tuning ambiance and go with the $80 Hue White kit. Still, the White Ambiance kits might be in a tricky spot. Philips wants that Hue Bridge in as many homes as possible, and putting out a variety of different starter kits with different feature sets and price points seems like the right strategy. The Philips Hue White Ambiance Starter Kit is yet another avenue into the larger Hue ecosystem, and that's probably the point. Starter kit includes Philips Hue Dimmer Switch Starter kit includes Apple HomeKit-compatible Philips Hue Bridge Philips Hue White and Color Ambiance Starter Kit On the Apple front, the company declined to comment. I asked Philips about this, and a company spokesperson told me that it's something they're working with Apple to fix. Still, that means you have to have a scene ready before the mood strikes to ask Siri to change up your lighting, which obviously isn't ideal. This includes those native Hue scenes, like the 'Concentrate' mode I mentioned before. Tell Siri to run one of those scenes, and she'll fire it off without incident, even if it includes color temperature changes. Maybe teaching Siri to recognize thousands of specific color temperatures is a bit much, but would it have been so hard to let her know what 'daylight' means? The color tunability and the Siri compatibility are the two top selling points here - why is there a wall between them?įortunately, there's a workaround: Hue's scenes. Philips Hue was an early and enthusiastic member of the HomeKit bandwagon, and that white light spectrum's been there from the beginning. If last year's debut of the second-gen Hue Bridge represented a marriage of sorts for Apple and Philips, then the new app reaffirms the vows. You can run HomeKit-esque lighting 'routines' for things like waking up and heading to bed. When you want to add a new room in the app, it asks if you'd like to import a room from your HomeKit setup.

PHILIPS HUE WHITE AMBIANCE A19 HOW TO

There's an expanded section in the settings that'll hand control of your bulbs and scenes over to Siri, complete with instructions on how to help Siri understand your lighting commands. More than anything, the new app seems to be optimized around Hue's integration with HomeKit. Aside from that, a lot of the differences are purely cosmetic - though to its credit, it is a better-looking app than before. It adds in new lighting scene presets for your bulbs, including white-spectrum-specific presets like 'Concentrate' and 'Relax.' It also borrows a page from the HomeKit playbook and lets you group bulbs by room.

PHILIPS HUE WHITE AMBIANCE A19 ANDROID

There is a new Philips Hue app, available for both Android and iOS devices. At $30 a piece, they're essentially taking the place of the soft-white-only Philips Hue Lux bulbs, which were phased out last year. The new bulbs look like the old ones, and the new white light spectrum controls have actually been a feature of the full-color Hue bulbs since the very beginning.

Philips hue white ambiance a19