Philips Hue Line Gains Bridge Pro, New Bulbs, Updated Outdoor Lights and More

Signify contiguous announced a scope of caller products that are coming retired this fall, including an updated bridge, caller airy strips and bulbs, updated outdoor airy options, and immoderate caller Hue Secure devices.


The Hue Bridge Pro is an updated mentation of the Hue Bridge that enables enactment for up to 150 lights and 50 accessories, expanding the 50 airy bounds from the prior-generation Bridge. The Hue Bridge Pro has a processor that's 5 times much almighty and has 15 times much memory, truthful it besides supports faster effect times and up to 500 customized lighting scenes.


Most notably, it enables Motion Aware, a diagnostic that turns Hue Lights into question sensors. Motion Aware is capable to activate lights successful a country erstwhile question is detected, and the diagnostic works by detecting changes successful the Zigbee awesome betwixt bulbs. Three Hue lights successful a country are required, and the diagnostic works with bulbs and fixtures manufactured aft 2014 (excluding portable devices and the Hue astute plugs). Hue customers who person an existing span tin upgrade to the caller exemplary with conscionable a fewer clicks, according to Signify.

As for lights, determination are aggregate caller options. The Philips Hue Essential enactment includes A19 and BR30 bulbs that are disposable astatine a much affordable terms constituent for those caller to the Hue ecosystem. The bulbs tally connected the aforesaid bundle arsenic the main Hue enactment and tin beryllium controlled via Bluetooth, with other functionality enabled done the Hue Bridge. Essential lights bash not dim arsenic low, enactment a little spectrum of achromatic colors, and bash not connection "Chromasync" exertion for premium colour prime and close matching.


Updated A19 bulbs are disposable with amended daylight replication, updated dimming, and 40 percent amended efficiency. The latest Essential and A19 bulbs connection autochthonal Matter implicit Thread connectivity on with Zigbee and Bluetooth.


New OmniGlow LED airy strips are coming successful the future, featuring a spot-free plan with diffused airy and up to 4500 lumens of brightness. The airy portion does not request to beryllium located underneath furnishings oregon cabinetry owed to the diffusion.


The Philips Hue Festavia outdoor lighting lineup is gaining imperishable drawstring lights that tin beryllium attached to a location and utilized each twelvemonth long, on with lightguide-style globe drawstring lights for patios, balconies, and more. Both of the caller outdoor lighting options are IP65 and tin beryllium near up.


Hue Secure is getting a video doorbell enactment that tin alert users erstwhile idiosyncratic is astatine the door, portion besides turning connected Hue lights automatically. There's besides a Hue Smart Chime that provides dependable alerts erstwhile idiosyncratic presses the doorbell. While Hue lights and accessories are HomeKit compatible, the Hue Secure enactment is not. Hue Secure products tin lone beryllium controlled with the Hue app.


Signify is updating Hue Secure with further bundle features. 24-hour video past volition beryllium escaped for each users starting aboriginal this year, and it volition nary longer necessitate a Secure subscription. Cameras are capable to admit fume alarm signals and respond with lights, and successful 2026, an AI-powered facial designation diagnostic volition trim mendacious alerts.

Finally, Hue is partnering with Sonos for integrated airy and dependable experiences. Sonos Voice Control users volition beryllium capable to run Philips Hue lights with dependable commands.

The Hue Bridge Pro is disposable starting now, and it is priced astatine $98.99. The Essential scope bulbs are besides disposable and are priced starting astatine $24.99, with a airy portion enactment coming successful December. Signify is launching caller Hue White, White Ambiance and White and Color Ambiance bulbs ranging from 60W to 100W, with availability starting contiguous astatine prices starting astatine $54.99.

The OmniGlow portion lights are priced astatine $139.99 for 40 meters, and volition motorboat successful October, portion the Festavia Permanent String Lights and Globe String lights are disposable now. The Permanent lights are priced starting astatine $399.99 for 27 meters, and the Globe lights commencement astatine $175.99 for a 7 metre length.

The Hue Secure Video Doorbell is priced astatine $169.99, portion the Hue Secure Smart Chime is priced astatine $60. Both devices are launching successful September 2025.

More accusation connected the caller Hue devices can beryllium recovered connected the Philips Hue website.
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