Huge Hue update: Brand new Hue smart light range goes live
Smart lighting specialist Signify has announced an exciting new range of Philips Hue smart lighting products.
Most notable is the new Philips Hue Perifo track lighting, which let you chop and choose the styles and sizes of your Hue smart lighting.
You choose the length and layout of the rails (both horizontal and vertical mounting is possible) for a fully customisable finish that can be attached to your walls or ceiling.
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Once it’s set up, click your choice of lights into the track and position them as you wish – choose from color-capable spotlights, pendants, light bars and lights tubes, all of which can be combined into a single track.
Perifo rails go on sale later this summer, in black and white, and start at £44.99. Compatible Perifo lights are available from £99.99.
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For a more portable smart lighting solution, the new Philips Hue Go table lamp (£129.99 / $159.99) is designed for both indoor and outdoor use so can be moved around your home as needed.
The Go offers up to 48 hours of battery life with a silicone grip to make it easy to carry, and you can cycle through a range of present light scenes to best light up the different parts of your home.
If you’ve been getting bored with the various light effects in your Hue products, you’ll be pleased to hear about the new Sunrise effect wake-up style.
This offers a colorful transition from blue to soft orange light, mimicking the sunrise, and can be customized for your preferred duration and time.
The new style can be found in the Philips Hue app under the Wake-up Automations tab for Hue Bridge users and the Routines tab for Bluetooth users. If you’ve been using the existing Fade to Bright wake-up style you can upgrade to Sunrise in the edit screen.
Sunrise is particularly suited to gradient lamps, and launches alongside the new Philips Hue Signe gradient lamp in oak.
The Signe is available as a table (£199.99) or floor (£299.99) lamp, and combines a slim profile with a wood-look base.
The final new product is the Philips Hue Tap dial switch (£44.99), which comes with four buttons that can be individually set to control smart lights around the home.
The Tap also comes with an intuitive dimming control, meaning that the faster or slower you turn it, the faster or slower your light brightness will change.
It can be used unmounted as a remote control, or attached magnetically to metal surfaces.
Finally, if you’re intrigued by the Hue range but aren’t quite sure what would work for you, check out the new Demo mode in the Philips Hue app, which now offers a range of “virtual experiences” to demonstrate various themes as well as showing how the smart lighting can work around the home.
