An understanding of these three things is crucial when purchasing LEDs for your commercial or residential project to match the desired outcome. Be sure that your strip’s adapter has a high power-rating so it can support adding another strip.īrightness: LEDs come in a variety of wattages, lengths, and brightnesses. Multiple Strip Connection: When you do not have enough space to cover, the solution is connecting two strips. Plus, strips are easy to cut down with scissors if necessary. Led Length: LED strips are available in different lengths and, surprisingly, the more expensive options (like Philips Hue) tend to be shorter. One of the best things, about the Philips Hue lights, is the colors: they have a wide range of shades to cater to every mood. Once connected to the hub, you can place timers, schedules, and scenes to personalize your light strip.
#PHILIPS HUE LIGHT STRIP INSTALL#
You can also install them around furniture and under cabinets for some added accent lighting.
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The Philip Hue Plus is a super popular led strip that has many features that will enhance your entertainment systems. While you would not get all the features, the Plus provides they will still give you a light show. At least they work as advertised.If you are looking for a LED strip that will work with your Hue Hub then you have come to the right place. Maybe it's secure in the knowledge that for adhesive-backed strips of color-changing, programmable LED lighting, these LightStrips are at present the only product of its kind. Given the likely enthusiast-level buyers, Philips could also have sweetened the deal by adding more advanced programming behaviors. They're an even larger novelty than the core Hue bulbs, with all the highs and lows that entails, and at $90, those lows won't sit so well. If you already count yourself among the Hue faithful, Philips Hue LightStrips will give you yet another tool in your home lighting toolbox. If the standard Hue bulbs or other connected LEDs haven't already drawn you to the category, I don't suspect LightStrips will sway you either, but existing converts will certainly appreciate them. Given the growing flood of generalist home automation products, Philips is smart to extend its Hue line along the specific category of home lighting. If you don't need all six feet of the LightStrip itself, you can physically trim it at fixed, four-inch intervals (with three LED clusters per four inches), although anything you cut off also separates from the power supply and control circuitry, and is thus unusable. That gives you decent flexibility between the power outlet and the eventual installation point, but it also means you wind up with a lot of cord to hide. The six-foot, 3M adhesive-backed strip comes with 12-feet of power cable. You can also create new LightStrips-dedicated lighting schemes (aka "Scenes") or integrate them into existing schemes that use other Hue light sources.īeyond its lighting characteristics, Philips' LightStrips are a fairly self-explanatory product. You can dim the LightStrips, change their color, and set them to go off at certain times, or in response to certain triggers (such as your proximity to home, or an IFTTT recipe.). Philips' Hue app, available for both iOS and Android, lets you tweak the LightStrips almost as much as you can customize Philips' core Connected Bulbs. The good news is that the LightStrips' interactivity works pretty well. If all you want is unobtrusive under-cabinet lighting, you can find a strip of dumb LEDs that's twice as long as the 2-meter LightStrip kit for $69 at Home Depot. Interactivity is by far the main selling point of Philips' LightStrips. Few others will find this product useful. I can recommend them if you have either or both of those enthusiasms.
#PHILIPS HUE LIGHT STRIP FULL#
Thus not only do you need to be a Hue owner to use these lights to full effect, as a niche product within a niche product category LightStrips are really aimed at Hue owners who are also particularly committed to either decorative lighting or home automation. Intended as a companion light to go with the Philips Hue Connected Bulb Starter Pack, the LightStrips require that kit, specifically the puck-shaped networking hub that comes with it, if you want to control and customize them through your mobile device and over the Web. The Friends of Hue, at the moment comprising two accessory products, so far stay rooted in the world of LED illumination.Īmong Hue's new Friends are the Bloom LED spotlight, and these $89 LightStrips, an adhesive-backed strip of tiny, programmable, LED accent lights. Hue, of course, is Philips' connected LED light bulb line that debuted last year.
Rather than expanding into the galaxy of home automation component devices, Philips is taking a focused approach with its Friends of Hue product line.