Philips Hue Announces New Smart Lights for Every Room

2022-05-21 10:08:49 By : Ms. Freya Zhou

Smart lights are the cheapest, easiest way to get started with a smart home. Philips Hue, one of the most popular smart light markers, just took the wraps off a whole new lineup of smart lighting for various rooms in your house, along with built-in Spotify integration within the Hue app to make it all sing and light up together.

The new products consist of four gradient-enabled lights and new ceiling lights. There are also white ambiance filament bulbs and two brighter smart bulbs included in the lineup. Here’s the full breakdown:

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Sound like a lot? That’s because it is.

Even if you don’t plan on upgrading your smart lights, Philips Hue is adding a Spotify integration to the Hue app that “intertwines light and music” to create an “immersive entertainment experience.” It’s similar to the effect you get through the Hue Sync Lightbox, except instead of the lights paired with visuals, it’s following the beat, genre, and general “mood” of the Spotify track playing in the background. The Hue app can analyze the metadata for each Spotify song in real time.

This feature has started rolling out globally as part of the early access program for Philips Hue app users. It will be released to everyone else beginning in October. The company confirmed that the syncing feature would work for both free and paid Spotify users.

Jasper Vervoort, the business leader for Philips Hue at Signify, told the press more information about the company’s plans for Matter , the smart home standard that’s supposed to make it easier for the smart bulbs to pair with other ecosystems. In addition to continued Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant support, Vervoort mentioned the Philips Hue bridge would be updated to support the Matter standard, as it is “the heart of the Philips Hue system.” Vervoort added that “all Philips Hue products you have bought or will buy today will be compatible with Matter.” The compatibility update is expected sometime in 2022 when the Matter standard is expected to launch officially.