Philips Hue provides romantic lighting scenes simply in time for Valentine’s Day

Abstract

• Philips Hue’s new Valentine’s Day replace provides a “Romantic” class of scenes with golden, rosy, and ruby-red tones to set the right temper.
• The replace additionally permits customers of the Philips Hue Safe residence safety system to show off notifications whereas the system is armed.
• Philips Hue lights combine seamlessly with Alexa gadgets and may sync with TV colours, making them wonderful good residence additions.

Candles? Examine. Rose petals? Examine. Dinner for 2? Examine. There’s one last, crucial ingredient to an ideal Valentine’s Day night — and no, it is not a powerful ABV. It is ambiance, achieved with the assistance of Marvin Gaye and your Philips Hue good lights.

Philips Hue is a strong good mild ecosystem that gives all the things from good bulbs to trace lighting to, lately, safety lights. The gadgets sync to and are managed by the Hue app, the place you possibly can choose preloaded scenes or create your individual. The app presents themes that embody completely different areas, moods, holidays, and extra. It seems a brand new Hue-Cupid collab simply dropped, in response to the latest app replace’s changelog from Philips.

Hue’s “Romantic” class will now be featured on the app. It is chock-full of golden, rosy, and ruby-red tones, the right palette for V-Day. There are seven completely different schemes to select from: ruby romance, metropolis of affection, sundown attract, lovebirds, smitten, glitz and glam, and promise.

These scenes can be found in model 5.10.0 of the Android app, and also you simply must open any room’s lighting controls and choose Hue scene gallery to search out them forward of Valentine’s Day. Do not need to lose the temper? The Romantic class scenes will nonetheless be out there after February 14 — simply seek for them within the scene gallery.

The Valentine’s Day replace additionally brings a small change to Philips Hue Safe. Customers of the house safety system at the moment are in a position to flip off notifications from the system whereas it is armed. The system will nonetheless log movement detection and different vital occasions on its timeline, however will not ping your cellphone with notifications.

Philips Hue lights are wonderful good residence additions. They combine seamlessly with Alexa gadgets, and may even sync up with the colour schemes of your TV whilst you’re watching a film. Final August, the model introduced its foray into residence safety with the discharge of its Safe line. It contains a wired or wi-fi digicam, and entry sensors for doorways and home windows. Philips Hue has massive concepts in retailer for its ecosystems; for instance, its good lights may robotically come on when the entry sensor detects that the entrance door is opened. Nonetheless, Philips Hue’s producer, Signify, slashed its 2024 funds by a pair hundred million {dollars}, so we’re anxious to see which of those ambitions involves fruition.