#PHILIPS HUE WHITE AMBIANCE FULL#
#PHILIPS HUE WHITE AMBIANCE TV#

But your mileage may vary.Īnd that just about wraps up today’s video. This is especially true if you’re putting the bulb in a part of your house where you probably won’t want bright pink or green lighting! I actually find that I prefer White Ambiance the best overall: being able to tweak the color to match the time of day is really nice, and they’re half the price of the Hue Color bulbs. Therefore if you can afford Hue Color you may want to just buy that, but if you have a budget, you might be better off buying the White Ambiance bulbs – or even just the Hue White ones. This does of course vary depending on how many you buy, whether there are offers on, and whether you buy a starter kit or not, BUT the main thing to note is that Hue Color is often double the price of White Ambiance. To be more precise though, Hue White typically costs $15 each, White Ambiance is often $22.50 each and Hue Color is usually around $45 each.

Hue Color costs more than Hue White Ambiance, which costs more than Hue White. The other key difference, of course, is price. So the main difference of these is the color they produce, and whether you can control that color or not. You can also use third party integrations, such as using Alexa routines and voice commands to control them. You can use the Philips Hue app, or a Hue accessory such as a Dimmer Switch or Motion Sensor. Before I talk about the other key difference of each – the price – I wanted to mention that all 3 types can be controlled in the same ways. So that wraps up the functional differences between each. Certainly, Hue Color bulbs are the most fun in that sense.

#PHILIPS HUE WHITE AMBIANCE TV#

With this, you can change between 16 million different color combinations via the color wheel within the Hue app, and you can also use some fun lighting effects that rotate between colors – or even mirror what’s showing on your TV screen.

#PHILIPS HUE WHITE AMBIANCE FULL#

The official name is “White And Color Ambiance”, but it’s also sometimes called a ‘full RGB’ bulb – meaning that you have full control over the colors it produces. In practical terms, this means that you can have your smart lights pump out a color that naturally reflects the time of day and ultimately the sunlight.įinally, Philips Hue offers Color bulbs. Therefore Philips Hue offer White Ambiance, which allows you to change between warm white and cool white – in other words, to change between the main parts of the Kelvin light scale. What this means is that during the middle of the day, having loads of lights stuck at ‘warm white’ can start to feel a bit odd – as though it’s evening time. This puts it at the right of the Kelvin light scale. But as the day goes on, the sunlight becomes more blue – also known as cool white. This puts it at the left of the Kelvin light scale. During sunrise and sunset, the light is fairly yellow – or sometimes even red. If you think of sunlight, due to atmospheric scattering effects, the color of the light changes throughout the day. Many non-smart bulbs are also set to ‘warm white’, which is around 2700K on the Kelvin light scale, so you may not have considered that there are natural bulb colors beyond ‘warm white’.īut whilst this might sound like a boring topic, this IS actually worth understanding – due to what Hue White Ambiance offers. This is the sort of color that you see in the evenings – during sunset. You can’t change its color – it just pumps out a fixed ‘warm white’. This smart bulb can be smartly turned on and off, and also dimmed. Okay, so let’s take the easiest case: Hue White. Before I talk about the differences, it’s worth quickly pointing out that my White Ambiance bulb is a small candle bulb, whereas my other two are standard ceiling bulbs, but the three Hue bulb types (white, white ambiance and color) exist in many different bulb formats. So here I have those three types: Hue White, Hue White Ambiance, and Hue Color (although it’s official name is “White and Color Ambiance”). Right, whilst I won’t talk about Zigbee or RGB-CCT in this video, I will talk about what you definitely need to know: the difference between the 3 Hue bulb types, and when to buy each of them. Is WiFi or ZigBee better? Should the light be RGB, RGBWW, RGBW… or RGB-CCT?! Should I care? And when I finally settled on Philips Hue (which is Zigbee and RGB-CCT, by the way), I was then confused as to whether I should buy “white”, “white ambiance” or “white and color ambiance”. I’ll openly admit that when I bought my first smart light, I got confused by all the different terms. Hello, I’m Tristan from Smart Home Point.

2:45 Philips Hue White and Color Ambiance.

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