Philips Hue is getting an AI-powered lighting assistant

Philips Hue customers will quickly be capable of create their very own AI-powered lighting scenes, the corporate introduced on Tuesday.

Philips Hue’s new generative AI lighting assistant lets customers create customized lighting scenes based mostly once in a while, temper, or fashion. They’ll accomplish that by typing instructions like “Give me a scene for a backyard celebration” into the Hue app and likewise through the use of their voice. The assistant will then both advocate scenes from the present Philips Hue gallery or create a brand new one fully. Along with creating scenes, the AI assistant may also be used to regulate the settings of current lights, together with brightness ranges and colour.

The information comes after Hueblog reported that Philips Hue was engaged on a generative AI characteristic in October. Based on Hueblog, the “AI Playground” lets customers create lighting scenes based mostly on typed textual content like “Create a scene for a youngsters’s party,” however there was no point out of voice instructions.

Philips Hue isn’t the primary to supply an AI-powered lighting assistant. Govee’s AI Lighting Bot generates comparable dynamic lighting results and likewise responds to voice prompts. In the meantime, Nanoleaf’s “Magic Scenes” characteristic creates comparable scenes, too, however solely responds to typed quick phrases like “tropical paradise.”

Philips Hue says the AI assistant will likely be appropriate with all of its lights. The corporate hasn’t divulged particulars about its actual availability, however acknowledged it’ll begin rolling out within the first quarter of 2025.

The AI-powered lighting assistant isn’t the one piece of reports Philips Hue introduced on Tuesday. The Philips Hue Sync TV app now helps LG TVs, whereas the color-changing Philips Hue Datura ceiling gentle is now obtainable within the US beginning at $299.99. The frameless ceiling panel gives a pair of individually controllable lights and customizable colour results.

Philips Hue additionally introduced new sensible dwelling safety features, together with smoke alarm sound detection and the power to stream dwell digital camera feeds to Amazon Alexa and the Google Nest Hub. Customers may now take a look at dwell digital camera views or schedule system settings straight from their units.