Hue Personal Wireless Lighting Starter Pack

Hue Personal Wireless Lighting Starter Pack

Hue Personal Wireless Lighting Starter Pack

Hue is your personal wireless lighting. It enables you to create and control light using your smartphone or tablet. Bringing endless possibilities to help you get creative and help you personalize your lighting to suit your and your family’s lifestyle.

Hue Personal Wireless Lighting Starter Pack Specification:

Concentrate Tested in schools to a tone and brightness that’ll keep you focused and alert
Bulbs E26 contact medium screw base fitting, 9 watts; A19 form factor; 15,000 hours of lifetime use
Light output 16 million colors; all shades of white; dimming via RF to 5 percent (no external dimmer)
Lumen output 600 lm @ 4000K; 510 lm @ 3000K; 360 lm @ 2000K; 550 lm @ 6500K; 60 lm/W luminous efficacy @ 4000K
Bridge Supports 50 bulbs per bridge; ZigBee LightLink Protocol 1.0; 2400 – 2483.5 MHz frequency band; desktop or wall mount; measures 3.93 inches in diameter and 0.98 inches tall
Startup Less than 2 seconds from AC power; less than 0.5 seconds from standby
iOS support iPhone (3GS, 4, 4S, 5); iPad (1, 2, 3rd generation, 4th generation); iPad mini; iPod touch (4th generation, 5th generation)
Android support Tested on Galaxy S2, Galaxy S3, Galaxy Note, Galaxy Note 2, Galaxy Ace 2, Galaxy Tablet 8.9, Galaxy Tablet 10.1, Sony Xperia X, HTC One X, Kindle Fire, Kindle Fire HD, Kindle Fire HD 8.9
Warranty 2 years

The Brains of the Operation

The hue bridge provides the communication platform between your bulbs and your smartphone or tablet app, and it can link up to 50 bulbs at a time. To connect your bridge, first power up the bridge and then connect it to the back of your wireless router, using the network cables provided. The blue lights will turn on one by one. When all four lights stay on continuously, you’re ready for action.

Power in the Palm of Your Hands

Smart lights need a smart controller, and you can control hue bulbs through free apps available for iOS devices and Android devices. To get started, just download the free app to your smartphone or tablet. The first time it opens it’ll search for your bridge and connect to the lights. Once that’s done, you can use the app to control your wireless bulbs. Additionally, after signing up for a hue account, you’ll be able to access your wireless lamps from anywhere in the world through a Web browser.

The Technology Behind hue

LED lights offer far more flexibility in lighting than fluorescent, halogen and incandescent light bulbs. With LEDs, lighting can be digitized and integrated into electronic circuitry, which enables them to deliver unique light outputs on the command of electrical signals.

Each bulb has a unique Web address and hue uses the ZigBee LightLink standard, enabling bulbs to communicate with each other through the bridge. The standard also allows the system to use significantly less stand-by power than traditional Wi-Fi systems. The hue system is based on open standards and can be easily integrated with other ZigBee-based systems, such as motion sensors and home thermostats, for additional home automation.

What’s in the Box

Three hue light bulbs; wireless bridge; power adapter; 2-meter Ethernet network cable; quick start guide