Color – this is mainly what the Hue adverts show, and the bulbs allow you to choose from 16 million colors.Philips’ own website list these at around $22.49 per bulb right now. This is similar to the idea of smartphones which increasingly have a ‘night time’ mode that emits less blue light. For example you might want bluer tones to simulate daytime light, or more yellow tones to help you relax and unwind. White Ambiance – this adds blue and yellow light capability, allowing you to adjust them to more accurately suit the time of day.These currently retail for as little as $12.49 per bulb (if you buy a 4 pack of A19s). You can also use these as wake up alarms, setting them to automatically get brighter as you get nearer your desired wake up time. This means that you can still use them to (sort of) set the mood in the evening, albeit with harsher white light than soften colors. White – these are like the normal bulbs in your house, but you can dim them.In general, Philips Hue bulbs come in three groups of color:
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Plus if you pick up the bulbs in sales, the overall cost works out fairly reasonable. The Hue ecosystem offers lots of different bulb types, making it one of the most verstaile and powerful smart lighting platforms. So fast forwarding to today, why did I order four Hue bulbs and a starter kit? What changed? And more importantly: do I still think they’re over priced?
Hence I soon gave up on the idea of having 12 smart GU10s in my kitchen-diner! This compares to around £18 ($22.50) in total for dumb GU10 spotlights which I can get for £1.50/$1.88 each. I priced this up and since I had 12 spotlights, I’d be looking at £480/$600 (since each Hue GU10 spotlight were priced at £40/$50). Then a few months back I thought that it’d be cool to have smart spotlights in my kitchen-diner, which I could potentially sync up with some music. Uhm, so basically $65 per bulb? I mean, it’s cool they can change color and provide a natural wake-up alarm, but at 50x the price of standard ‘dumb’ bulbs, I wasn’t convinced.
He was saying how awesome they were, and that it had only cost $130 including the bridge. Why? Well, I remember having a conversation with someone 6 years ago who had just bought a couple of Hue bulbs. To be honest, I was almost annoyed at myself for ordering them because I’ve been wary about smart lights for years. This morning I ordered some Philips Hue bulbs (four White Ambiance E14s, a size sometimes called ‘decorative candles’) and a starter kit including the hub/bridge.
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