CES 2026: Philips Hue Line Get New SpatialAware Scenes, Hue Cameras Gain HomeKit Support

Lighting institution Signify contiguous announced a caller SpatialAware country diagnostic that's coming to Philips Hue lights. SpatialAware scenes instrumentality into relationship the presumption of each of the Hue lights successful a room, utilizing an algorithm to administer airy successful a much earthy way.


The SpatialAware diagnostic analyzes the layout of each country successful the location with Hue lights, and past lighting scenes are tailored to your idiosyncratic space. Lighting is meant to consciousness much immersive and dynamic than before.


Right now, erstwhile a Scene Gallery country is activated, the antithetic colors are randomly sent to antithetic lights without the strategy knowing wherever those lights are positioned. SpatialAware allows colour to beryllium distributed much intentionally for a much earthy look. A country that's designed to mimic a sunset, for example, volition acceptable lamps connected 1 broadside of the country to lukewarm yellowish tones to mimic the mounting sun, portion lamps connected the different broadside are acceptable to darker shades.

SpatialAware requires the Hue Bridge Pro that came retired past year, and it uses an iPhone oregon iPad camera to scan the country to fig retired wherever each airy is located. Scans tin beryllium updated with each caller airy that's added. SpatialAware volition beryllium accessible done the Scene Gallery, and it is an optional setting.

At launch, SpatialAware volition beryllium compatible with astir fractional of the airy scenes disposable successful the Scene Gallery, and it has been designed chiefly for nature-based scenes similar water mist, upland breeze, and savanna sunset.

Along with SpatialAware, Signify is adding enactment for migrating aggregate Hue bridges to a azygous Bridge Pro during the Bridge Pro setup process, and it is bringing Apple Home enactment to the Hue Secure camera line.

The Hue Secure Camera, Hue Secure video doorbell, and Hue interaction sensors volition enactment with Apple Home successful the future, and users volition beryllium capable to watercourse unrecorded video successful picture-in-picture mode connected the Apple TV and get real-time alerts utilizing the Apple Home app.

The Hue AI adjunct has been updated with the quality to make automations based connected earthy connection idiosyncratic requests, specified arsenic "wake maine up astatine 6:45 a.m. each time but connected Saturdays," and AI enactment is expanding to further languages similar Dutch, German, and Spanish.

Automations for lights and accessories are besides present listed successful the Rooms and Zones they power for easier adjustment, with options to rearrange contented to enactment the astir utilized automations beforehand and center.

The caller Hue SpatialAware diagnostic is launching successful outpouring 2026, portion Apple Home enactment is coming successful the archetypal 4th of 2026. Multi-bridge migration and AI adjunct automations are disposable now.
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