![]() It becomes more appealing when you come to know that it can stand sideways taking the shape of a table lamp. Browse through all colors: Double press and hold the physical control buttonīowl as a shape is pretty interesting for a light.Change light effect: Single press the physical control button.If you wish to own a standalone ambient light, you don’t have to look away. They took it even one step further but adding a control button on the device itself. ![]() ![]() If you don’t have the bridge, you just download their Bluetooth version of the app and you are ready to go. The Hue Go v2 has both bridge and Bluetooth connectivity. So they offered a secondary solution that does not require a Philips Hue Bridge. People at Philips are smarter and didn’t want to let go of those target customers. Because it is an eco-system and not everybody is sure if they want all-in. Some people are a little intimidated by Philips Hue products. The brightness is around 520 lumen which is good for ambient lighting but may not be good enough for reading to some people. However, one thing to keep in mind is that it does not have a high-intensity bulb inside. The shape of the lamp allows you to spread the light over the entire room or just point it to one corner, thanks to the stand-alike ergonomic.įrom the dinner table to the garden lounge, this should keep you covered at night. When portability is not needed, plug the power adapter in and you can use it as a normal lamp in your house. Of course, you have the mobile app to extend its functionality but the basic functionalities are not tied to the app. It is equipped with a battery and an on-device control button so that you can take it with you anywhere. I just wish Philips Hue would consider letting users reduce the reset time from ~10s to 5s at least like the Eve Motion Sensor.As you can tell from the name, this lamp comes with the purpose to serve wherever is needed. The extra sensitivity helps make my automations more reliable in some rooms where I only move a bit at a time and the older sensor would normally consider such movement not enough to trigger. I didn’t think I just needed to crank up the sensitivity further for certain rooms that wasn’t possible previously with the older sensors. I have to say I appreciate the increased sensitivity controls. It’s only the Hue that’s always different. My Tado AC, QP AML, Eve Room, Eve Weather, and other accessories that are climate-related all report the same temperature. My dedicated temperature sensors in HomeKit are pretty consistent with each other and the Hue Motion Sensors have always been the outliers. The difference can vary between 1° to 3° depending on where or how you install them. ![]() They’re not the most accurate and if you have accessories that do temperature first and foremost, your Hue Motion Sensor will be the outlier, but if accuracy isn’t a requirement at all then its fine for what it is. In case anyone is still curious about the temperature sensors in these things: I’ve been using the new Indoor and Outdoor Motion Sensors for several months now and comparing them with my older models they have more or less retained the same temperature reading. In Hue Labs, the new motion detector, which is also declared as SML003 in the Hue app, cannot be selected. But when it comes to accurate temperature measurement for the smart home, I would go for a device specialised for that anyway.Īt the moment, users who want to use the motion detector in Hue Labs, for example for the formulas “Three times is a charm” or “Sunlight as a switch”, have a problem. The new sensor shows it almost three degrees more, which is absolutely not matching. New Hue motion sensor not yet compatible with Hue LabsĪnother difference is the measured temperature, which can be viewed via Hue Labs or third-party apps such as iConnectHue or HomeKit. However, I did notice that the new motion sensor from Philips Hue already reacts to smaller movements at the maximum level. We are certainly not talking about a difference of two metres. In addition, it was very difficult for me to move at a distance where the new sensor was already triggered, but the old motion sensor was not. But here we are really talking about a fraction of a second. I placed both sensors directly next to each other and when I walked directly towards them, the new sensor always switched on the paired lamp a little earlier.
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