Ikea's smart lights now offer one of Philips Hue's most compelling features

Date:
Thu, 05 Dec 2024 17:44:29 +0000

Description:
Dynamic adaptive lighting is here

FULL STORY ======================================================================Ikea's smart lights can now intelligently adjust throughout the day These aren't the first lights to do this, and Ikea is taking a page out of Philips Hue's book It remains to be seen if these intelligent features will be expanded on

While Ikeas smart lights bulbs, fixtures, and lamps are generally much less expensive than the likes of Philips Hue products, a new update sees the furniture giant taking a page out of the more expensive smart lighting
brand's book. Oh, and Apples, too.

The Ikea Home Smart app for iOS has added the ability for dynamic adaptive lighting, which means the various connected lights can intelligently change brightness and color throughout the day. Ikea succinctly sums up the feature as Its great for mind, body and soul. (Image credit: IKEA)

Like Apple Homes Adaptive Lighting or Philips Hue's Natural scene, Ikea Home Smart will adjust the bulbs to cooler temperatures during the day, and warmer hues towards the end of the day. Ikea notes that the adjustments will be automatic. Still, considering that you can manually set brightness, color,
and temperature, its likely that you'll be able to override the adaptive adjustments or potentially bake these into a custom routine.

Seeing that bulbs from Nanoleaf and Philips Hue integrate with Apple Homes
own adaptive lighting, whether Ikeas lineup will integrate with that standard remains to be seen. Remember, you have previously needed an extra hub to use Ikeas products within Apple Home.

The update containing dynamic and adaptive lighting first hit Apples App
Store on December 3, 2024 , with a subsequent bug-fixing focused on December 5, 2024. However, the Ikea Home Smart app for Android does show a new version on December 3, 2024 , but the Play Store doesnt detail the changes, as Notebook Check first pointed out .

Either way, considering how affordable Ikeas smart light lineup is, scoring a feature thats found on more expensive bulbs and ecosystems is a real win. It might just up the appeal of Ikeas lights if youre considering investing in
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