Two lights for the prince of 1 and a half

Philips Hue is among the largest names in good lighting. The model sells a huge range of lighting products designed for use inside your own home, together with its extremely widespread smart bulbs, and a number of other that can be utilized open air, too.

Philips Hue lately launched a brand new addition to its lineup that is appropriate for each indoor and out of doors use. The Philips Hue Dymera is a wall mild that comprises two independently controllable white and shade lights, permitting you to set each to the identical shade, or select totally different colours for every to supply some spectacular lighting results.

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I put the Philips Hue Dymera by its paces to see how straightforward it’s to arrange, what options it presents, and to learn how nicely it integrates into my good house. This is what I came upon.

Philips Hue Dymera

The Philips Hue Dymera is a trendy wall mild that may be put in indoors or out. Two independently controllable lights could be set to any shade you would like, permitting you to create spectacular multicolored results. The sunshine additionally integrates simply into you good house supplied you personal a Hue Bridge.

Execs

• Independently controllable lights
• Trendy design
• Easy good house integration

Cons

• Not low-cost
• Just one accessible shade

Value, specs, and availability

Philips Hue launched the Dymera wall mild in February 2024. It is accessible from the corporate’s web site for $220. It is also accessible on Amazon on the identical worth.

Design

Basic Hue Model

Philips Hue merchandise are inclined to have a minimalist modern design and the Dymera is not any exception. In essence, it is only a rectangle you follow the wall, however the curved edges give it a trendy look that I believed may work each inside and out of doors my house. It jogs my memory a bit of the Artwork Deco wall lights you discover in previous film theaters. The one draw back with the design is that it is solely accessible in black.

There are two lights hidden away on the high and backside that shine immediately up and down from the Dymera. This illuminates the areas above and beneath the sunshine, leaving darker patches to the left and proper, making a putting look.

Set up

Take care when wiring

The Philips Hue Dymera could be put in indoors or out, however in each instances, it must be hardwired. There is not any battery choice, and no energy cable; you want to wire your energy on to the backplate.

This will have simply been an error in my explicit mannequin, however be sure you observe the instruction booklet to wire the Dymera accurately. I’ve reached out to Signify, the mum or dad firm of Philips Hue, for extra info.

The directions themselves are pretty easy to observe regardless of solely having photos with no accompanying textual content. Match the backplate, join the wires, screw the entrance of the sunshine into place, and also you’re good to go. You have to be conscious that there aren’t any fixings included, so you will want your individual {hardware} to repair the backplate to the wall.

As soon as the sunshine is in place and powered on, the lights will come on. You may then seek for the brand new mild within the Hue app. You may want a Philips Hue Bridge to regulate the Dymera by way of the app, and this is not included with the product. If you have already got different Hue lights, you most likely already personal one, nevertheless.

Efficiency

A world of shade

The Dymera options two separate lights with an output of 1,020 lumens at 4000K. The 2 lights are impartial of one another, so every could be set to its personal shade and brightness, and you’ll flip off every mild individually, too. You get an entire rainbow of vibrant colours to select from (16 million of them) and the whites are greater than vivid sufficient at normal temperatures of round 2,700K.

What units the Dymera aside is the 2 independently controllable lights, which open up an entire world of prospects in terms of shade combos. You may create some spectacular appears by setting every mild to a unique shade.

Options

Basic Philips Hue ease of use

Should you faucet the tile within the Hue App, the toggle splits in two, permitting you to toggle the facility or set the brightness for the highest mild and backside mild independently of one another.

The colour wheel reveals two icons, one for the underside mild and one for the highest mild. You may transfer these icons across the shade wheel to set a unique shade for every mild or select a unique temperature of white mild for every. You may choose the ‘Dreamy Nightfall’ scene to set the highest mild to a heat pink and the underside to a husky orange, mimicking the colours of the sundown. Faucet the Play icon on a scene, and the lights change into dynamic, rotating by the colours that make up that specific scene.

There are additionally three results accessible: Candle, Fire, and Prism. Candle makes lights flicker lighter and darker just like the flame of a candle. Fire does the identical, however with deeper oranges, mimicking the sunshine from a burning hearth. Prism scrolls by the colours of the rainbow. These results seemed nice open air, however are most likely extra suited to an indoor setting.

Good house integration

HomeKit-compatible

Integrating the Dymera into your good house is easy to do. In reality, in case you’ve already added different Hue lights to your good house, it could occur mechanically. I might already added Hue lights to the Apple Home app and to Alexa. It confirmed up mechanically in each the House app and in Alexa, permitting me to regulate it with my voice.

On Alexa, you’ll be able to set up the Hue app, which lets you connect Alexa to your Hue Bridge. Any lights you hook up with the Hue Bridge within the Hue app will then change into discoverable within the Alexa app, permitting you to regulate them within the app or along with your voice utilizing a appropriate Alexa gadget.

You may add the Dymera to your Apple House app over Matter, so long as you have got a tool that works as an Apple House hub, such because the Apple TV 4K or a HomePod. You hyperlink your Apple House app to Hue by way of the Hue app. As soon as paired, any lights that you simply hyperlink to your Hue Bridge will seem within the House app, the place you’ll be able to assign them to totally different rooms.

Verdict

The Dymera is an fascinating product. Philips Hue already presents some stylish outdoor wall lights, however that is the primary out of doors that has two independently controllable lights inside the identical product. It means that you can create some spectacular results, and offers the choice to show one or each lights on, relying in your wants. The design is trendy and appears good each indoors and open air, so long as you are proud of black.

The product is easy sufficient to put in, supplied that you’ve got energy within the location the place you wish to place it. In any other case, you might want to rent an electrician to make sure you have the suitable wiring accessible to hook up with your Dymera. Ensure you observe the directions reasonably than the labels on the gadget when wiring it up — as mine have been the incorrect means spherical.

Good house management is superb, with the sunshine showing in my good house apps with out me having to do a factor. Regardless of being attainable for a few years now, there’s nonetheless one thing magical about having the ability to management a light-weight with simply your voice.

Like all Philips Hue merchandise, it isn’t the most affordable choice in the marketplace, however as with most of its different good lighting gadgets, you are getting good high quality and reliability to your cash. If you wish to give the skin of your own home some extremely customizable splashes of shade or wish to create spectacular lighting scenes inside your own home, then the Philips Hue Dymera can actually make it easier to try this.