Philips Hue and WiZ Launch Sports Live Feature for the 2026 World Cup

Signify has launched Sports Live, a caller diagnostic for Philips Hue and WiZ astute lighting products that synchronizes lighting effects with unrecorded shot lucifer information successful existent clip (via Hue Blog).


The diagnostic is rolling retired present for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Sports Live uses unrecorded lucifer information to trigger lighting changes astatine cardinal in-game moments, including goals, yellowish cards, and reddish cards, with the purpose of making at-home viewing consciousness much immersive.

Unlike accepted TV sync systems that trust connected HDMI-based hardware to analyse on-screen content, Sports Live connects straight to unrecorded lucifer information and responds to events arsenic they occur, eliminating the request for further synchronization hardware. During quieter periods, lights accommodate to bespeak a favourite team's colors, the starring team's colors, oregon a neutral achromatic erstwhile the people is tied.

Setup is handled done either the Philips Hue oregon WiZ mobile app. In the Hue app, the diagnostic is recovered nether the Sync tab, wherever users prime a country oregon zone, which indispensable see astatine slightest 1 color-capable light, and optionally take favourite teams to person lucifer suggestions.

Current games look straight successful the Sync tab, with a abstracted database disposable for upcoming fixtures. Sports Live automatically starts 15 minutes earlier kickoff erstwhile a lucifer is selected, and a hold accommodation instrumentality lets viewers sync lighting effects to their circumstantial broadcast.

After setup, users tin inactive customize the default scene, brightness, and room. Any lights paired with Hue Sync Box instrumentality precedence and volition not beryllium utilized for Sports Live. WiZ users tin entree the diagnostic done the company's Wi-Fi level without requiring a hub.

The Philips Hue 5.69 app update that delivers Sports Live besides introduces a caller Bridge zone, which consolidates each devices and automations crossed an full Hue Bridge into a azygous radical connected the location dashboard, with options to make scenes and fell oregon rearrange groups. The portion appears successful the "Hidden" conception by default and indispensable beryllium manually surfaced.

Sports Live is compatible with existing Hue and WiZ amusement features, including Hue Sync and WiZ Sync with TV, with the 2026 FIFA World Cup present underway successful Mexico, Canada, and the U.S.
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