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 will achieve this by typing instructions like “Give me a scene for a backyard occasion” into the Hue app and likewise by utilizing their voice. The assistant will then both suggest scenes from the prevailing Philips Hue gallery or create a brand new one solely. Along with creating scenes, the AI assistant can be used to regulate the settings of present 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 kids’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 related dynamic lighting results and likewise responds to voice prompts. In the meantime, Nanoleaf’s “Magic Scenes” characteristic creates related scenes, too, however solely responds to typed brief phrases like “tropical paradise.”

Philips Hue says the AI assistant might be suitable with all of its lights. The corporate hasn’t divulged particulars about its precise availability, however said it’ll begin rolling out within the first quarter of 2025.

The AI-powered lighting assistant isn’t the one piece of stories 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 out there within the US beginning at $299.99. The frameless ceiling panel presents a pair of individually controllable lights and customizable colour results.

Philips Hue additionally introduced new sensible dwelling security measures, together with smoke alarm sound detection and the flexibility to stream dwell digicam feeds to Amazon Alexa and the Google Nest Hub. Customers also can now take a look at dwell digicam views or schedule system settings straight from their units.