Philips Hue Lily White and Colour Ambiance LED Outdoor Smart Light [Base Kit – 3 Lily] , Requires Hue Bridge , Works with Alexa, Google Assistant and Apple Homekit.
| Weight: | 0.43 Kilograms |
| Dimensions: | 8.4 x 7 x 19.4 cm; 430 Grams |
| Model: | 915005630101 |
| Batteries Required: | No |
Excellent produc
Great product from Philips again, more than enough cable and the colour saturation is first class
Better than the XL versio
We’ve had a set of the larger Lily XL lights for over a year now but when I spotted the smaller version at almost half RRP on Amazon recently, I treated myself to a set. I have to say that they are more discrete and sleek than the XL version and though not as bright, are still plenty bright enough. I would probably choose these over the XL as the extra output isn’t worth the bulk in my opinion.
We have a whole house and garden full of hue kit and on the whole we are very happy with it. Yes it’s pricey, but you are paying for the build quality and reliabilityit all just works seamlessly.
Great Produc
Really impressed with the quality of this product. Installation was super easy and was easy to pair to hue bridge. Overall I am very impressed and would highly recommend
Nice addition to our Hue lights
I bought these during a Black Friday flash sale and they’re really good additions to what we already have.
In terms of installation they’re really simple to install once you get your head round the logic and technique of the cable and connectors. The way the lights themselves fit to the stakes is good. They’re very sturdy and nothing like the normal cheap lights you get which are solar powered, which can break easily.
The lights themselves are great and really add an ambience to the garden. Would defo recommend!
These lights are awesome!
The lights are perfect for a garden or outside the house. They are not very bright on color setting, but do the job in the dark.
The lights work with Hue app to set up and change color via Bluetooth – the wi-if hub is not actually required as the box says. But of course gives you more options and better range.
Cables are thick and sturdy, no issues being on the ground in heavy rain.
Will probably have to get a bunch more now!
Faultless great quality garden lighting system
This was our second set of lily lights that linked to the bridge without any issue.
Easy to connect to wifi
What a great product, connects instantly, great fun and makes my house look like a Christmas tree. Love it.
Philips Hue is just amazing ki
Easy to install – just plugged into an outdoor socket and ran the cables in some plastic Kopex which is like a flexible plastic tube that is used for protecting electrical cables. I had some knocking around from a previous job. Connected to my Hue bridge which took minutes and is so simple to do. Bingo I now have coloured outdoor lighting which has really impressed the neighbours. One star off as they are not as bright as I expected but they are still very good. I have room to add more lights on to the PSU if need be and could always go up to the XL version for a brighter light if I wanted to. Brilliant.
Great addition to my Hue set-up
I’ve wanted these hue outdoor lights for a while now. As with other Hue lights they are quick and easy to install and work flawlessly with Apple HomeKit. The brightness level is good, although some colours are brighter than others. I was concerned about them being outdoors (they are intended for this!) and so far appear to be holding up absolutely fine. As with other Hue lights, build quality is top-notch. Really enjoying the flexibility to control them remotely and come on when I am away from home.
Smart, good looking and colourful lights for garde
I’m already tied in to Philips Hue and so whenever I buy lighting I tend to look at Hue first. I bought these in particular to give our patio a warm and colourful feel in the evening and they really work, coupled with some outdoor led strips. Also good fun to play with different lighting options.
Value…. at 70 per spot, its quite a high price to pay. But, the housing is very smart and the integrated spot is smart. I would say the value is OK if its the look you are going for. Installation is simple enough but, I would like more flexibility on cable length and probably smaller connections (although I imagine that’s what makes them IP… rated)
Note that it’s cheaper to buy the 3 pack starter kit including a transformer than it is to buy a 3 pack extension kit. Consequently I have several transformers spare.
great lights, easy to install, no hassle connection to alexa/hub over wifi
As the title says, easy to install and plug in – connected fine from the bottom of the garden to our wifi and was up and running inside 30mins. look really nice – they make our ikea furniture look really great in the night time 😀
Loads of fu
Not as bright as you would hope. But still really good fu
Used as decking lights
I thought I would write this review in case anybody was thinking of doing something similar. I took the plunge buying these lights after months of dithering and glad I did!
I wanted to illuminate my decking area in my garden but didn’t fancy hard wiring lights and I have an outside socket that I could easily plug these into. I attached all three lights to a plinth (ie a piece of wood I managed to pinch from work and stain before bolting to the wall). They throw a decent amount of light onto the space and I love that they can be synced with my Spotify account! (Fairly shoddy video demonstrating – looks better in real life!)
Usual Philips Hue quality and unfortunately that means usual Philips Hue price tag! I think it’s worth it. Eventually I will tidy up the cables
Brought our nighttime garden alive.
I have been extremely impressed with these lights. They have transformed our garden at night. Very easy to control through the bridge/app and the different scene modes are brilliant. Particularly love being able to import a photograph to the app and have the lights then match the colours of the photo. I bought 2 more lights within a week of the first set to complete a string of 5 and would buy more if I thought I could get away with it. Outstanding!
Garden Lights
Was not as bright as I had expected, can create nice lighting in the garden but realize will need a few more, the only put off is the price.
Great product, but pricey when not on offe
Easy to set up and install like most things with Philip Hue, and I got a “used, like new set” for 145 they where brand new and still in shrink wrap so
Usual Hue standard
Used for garden lighting, excellent product and if the usual Hue standard, easy to add to existing light network
Just what I was after for ambient lighting in the garden.
Pricey bit of kit, but worth the extra expense when compared to some of the other lighting I’ve purchased. Definitely worth playing with some of the Lab stuff in the hue app, opens up some cool features.
Awesome effects, transforms any space
Bit pricey but have changed our garden to a special place to relax in in the evening. Highly recommended
Expensive but probably worth i
Not cheap. But very very good. And very well made
Expensive but very good.
I’m a big Hue fan so knew what to expect with these lights. They are not the cheapest but work straight out of the box and give my garden a great look in the evening. Easily paired with Alexa I can turn them on and change colours to highlight my Japanese Acer trees with simple voice commands. Expensive but for me do the job and like all of the other Hue lights I have at home, haven’t let me down yet. Remember these are not flood or spot lights as such although when set to white with s high luminance setting do throw out some good light.
Fantastic produc
Love these, makes the garden when used with apps really magical, the only downside is the ridiculous price
Easy install and set-up
I am a big fan of the Philips Hue Lights and have a number of indoor lights and an outdoor strip light. Having completed the build of a new patio I was keen to add some mood lighting with these Lily Lights. First off… they are expensive, much cheaper alternatives are available but I firmly believe you (kind of) get what you pay for.
In the patio area I added a couple of outdoor sockets, I thin plugged in these lights, ran the cable under some wall copings which then runs through the brick work on to a raised brick flower bed, I was initially concerned about the length of the cable, but 5 metres between each light is plenty. I positioned the lights in the soil, you also have an option to screw them to a wall. Once in place come the easy bit, add them to the Philips Hue app, unfortunately, my bridge was at the other side of the house, so I have had to move the bridge to an upstairs bedroom, this worked a treat and we now have mood lighting outside.
They are not super bright, but they are not spot-lights they are simply for mood lighting so perfectly adequate for what I bought them for. Would recommend!
Quality and easy to set up garden lights
These are expensive but they look expensive too. Very sturdy cabling. Like the fact you can extend them. the limitation on white is excellent although the colours are considerably less bright. Worker with Alexa very easily. I hesitated to spend so much on three garden lights but it is worth it.
Not thay bright with colours but the effect is amazing and really sets off a modern garden and makes it so easy to turn on the garden lights with Alexa. If you have issues pairing just turn them on and off and have them near the hub to start with then move them to where uou need them. Have ownes for 9 months and not had any issues. It is expensive but you do get what you pay for.
Expensive but Great Lights
Amazing build quality, great colour range. Only downside is that they don’t get very bright, especially when change a different colour.
I’ve relied on solar lights for my garden for years. They’re great in summer, but worthless in winter when you really want that dark space lighting up. I’d started investing in Hue Smart Lights in the house, so the move to installing them outdoors was a natural progression. We took a deep breath and spent a decent lump of money on 6 spotlights bought as two seperate base units (see later) and two extension pedestals, . They were dead easy to instal. We followed the advice of others and set them up on the Hue app simply by plugging them all together indoors (and thus making sure they all worked). We created 2 seperate “zones” to put them in (ie 3 spots and 1 pedestal in each). Then, we just disconnnected them and reconnected them outside. Now spread around the garden, they look fabulous at night and the option to create different colours on a “per bulb” basis is just a lovely addition. Cabling is simple to connect from our outdoor electric sockets. It now needs us to just move them around, over time, to highlight the different parts of our garden that we want to. We also bought an additional 5 meter extension cable, but this is unecessary. The spotlights come with 3 x 5metre lengths, so you have plenty of cable to work with. And, there is enough cable from the plug to the first light to ensure there is no need to buy extra cable.
Note that these lights do need a Hue Bridge (connected via eternet cable to the wifi router) to make them work. Note also that you must purchase at least one “base” unit as that includes the plug and transformer. In the case of our purchase, the two pedestals were classed as “extensions” and, again, come with plenty of cabling but, as extensions, do not include the plug and transformer. I really like the fact that, once you’ve made the commitment, it is extremely easy to add lights to the maximum allowed “per cable from the plug” by Hue. That is 5 lights or 35 metres of cable. So, we’re nearly at the maximum unless we add more base units, but as it stands right now, I doubt we’ll need to worry. The lighting is bright enough to create good effects, although once you move into colours rather than white, the power of the light is definitely less. But, that is, I think, a good thing as surely use of colours is more for effect than you may use white light for?
I’m very happy to give these a 5 star rating. It’s unfair, as some have done, to mark them down because they’re expensive (which they undoubtedly are). As with everything, you get what you pay for and if these bulbs last for the expected 6 or 7 years, then I think the annual cost is quite acceptable.
Philips hue lighting
Good quality lighting. Easy to install and link to your phone. If there’s any criticism it would have been better if the colours were a little brighter.
These lights are brilliant. They offer complete colour change flexibility down to individual lights. The quality of materials used is first class. The only downside is the price. Even at Amazon Black Friday sale prices they are expensive. They say you get what you pay for though.
Good quality outdoor lighting
The lights are really easy to install (just remember to plug them in near your bridge and update before moving them outside!) and they come with decent length cabling between each light. The lights are great quality and they look like they are made to last. I’ve used them to light up part of my house, and although the light they give out isn’t the most powerful I feel like it’s enough to make them look affective. All in all great product but they are quite expensive (even for Hue) so I’d wait until they are on offer!
Great, but expensive.
These are super simple to install, look slick and just well work. They are however pricey and they don’t kick out a super bright light. Overall I am glad I bought them and they make the garden look great at night.
But with that said, they are bulletproof Philips quality and reliability. I know i could have probably looked elsewhere for cheaper, but with these i now have 48 bulbs so am pretty invested in the system. these coupled with a couple of light cubes i think look spot on. I use homeseer server to stagger the colour looping so they all slowly rotate through different colours and pretty much as the light cubes do. i love the effect in the garden. I also do think that these need to be much brighter. but i am pretty happy with the result, but i should be as it has nearly cost 1000 to light my garden. but as long as they last and are as reliable as my internal bulbs it is money well spent IMHO
Excellent product.
Even though these lights are expensive for what they are they are a great addition to the garden. Everyone comments about the quality and range of colors.
Too expensive for what they are
Lots of bulky wires and boxes, bright enough but not as bright as you would expect for nearly 300 quid overall I do like them but I don’t think they are value for money
Brilliant lights
Brilliant lights and very easy to set up and 5m wires make all the difference. Plenty bright enough and look fantastic in the border. A bit on pricey side but it’s philips hue so that’s to be expected
Great garden lights
These were really easy to install (we already have Hue bulbs inside the house) and although they are on the pricey side they are really well made. Being able to easily add them to our Hue routines and turn them on / off remotely is fab
Wonderful. Paint your garden with light!
Had my eye on these for a while, got a good deal on Prime Day and i am so impressed, easy to install, easy to setup, you get plenty of cable to spread around included. The lights are very bright, certain colors like dark blue or red and dimmer but to be expected. Another great product from Philips.
These was very easy to install if you have an outside socket reasonably close by…comes with plenty of cable so you can place them a decent distance apart if needed.
picture doesn’t do them justice being on in ice white with post lights on aswell… but there’s a fantastic amount of colours you can choose, you can also set individual colours for each spotlight too or use the scene option.
Easy to setup but could be brighte
Easy to setup up and install.
Nice quality light and good hue integration
A bit pricey though and I think they could do with being a bit brighte
great lights
Yet another high quality hue product. I’ve been using hue indoor lights and it’s good to see that the outdoor lights live up to the expectations and are also of very high quality. These are very easy to install and set up. You can then control them via the app or via your voice if you have any of the voice assistants. With the hub you can control these even if you’re not at home as long as you enable this option. The cables are 5m long which for me was enough, but I wish they came with longer cables. You can always join 2 together but for the price, the cables should be a bit longer.
The lights are bright, not the brightest but they’re not dim either. The colors are great as expected, not washed out or anything. I’ve had these outside for a few months now and they’re still going strong. Had absolutely no issues since I’ve set them up.
Overall, great outdoor lights. A bit pricey but very high quality and work perfectly.
This set took a while to set up. A couple of hours in total. The lights were easy to install in various positions outside, and once power was established, all that remained was to get the lights talking to my Philips bridge.
The lights are very attractive, offering a range of different colours – perfect for summer nights entertaining guests, or just enjoying your outdoors space. The design is excellent, as the black blends in perfectly outdoors, and the lights have no problem with the constant British rain and wind.
One thing to keep in mind is that this does not come with a network bridge, you must buy that separately.
Great lights
I’ve used these to highlight my little Japanese garden. I can’t use solar lighting as in the rest of the garden area because the sun only reaches around the garage at certain times of the day. Limiting the switch on times with an app routine.
Very good quality and easy to install, this is my fourth set of Philips hue Lily lights and my garden has been transformed .
Great additions or new install
This is a kit of 3 garden spot lights and a Hue hub to get you started. I actually already have a Hue hub so have no need for the hub. However if you have a large garden, and your existing hub is too far from it, then you may want to set up a second hub to make sure the bulbs can pick up the signal. It may be worth pointing out that hue bulbs form a mesh network between them to ensure the best signal coverage, that is, each bulb will relay the signal back to the hub if a nearby bulb is too far.
Registering the lights are the same as any hue bulb or lights, just power on one light at a time, search for it in the Hue app on a smart phone, and that should be it. You can now control the light remotely. You can group them so they come on and off together, or control them totally independently.
The lights come with heavy duty cables that ends on a standard UK 3 pin plug, so you can plug it into a normal waterproof socket outside. You also have two mounting options, either screw them on a wall or fence, or swap the base with the spikes provided in the box.
The lights themselves are built very sturdily, made out of heavy steel, which is a unlike most cheaper lights which are often made out of plastic that degrade quickly in the weather. These I expect will last a good many years.
LOVELY GARDEN FEATURE
The Philips outdoor lighting system is great addition to the garden. The package comes with 3 lights with a stand for fixing via a screw or stakes for driving into the ground. It also comes with 4 x 5m extension cords which are fully waterproof. The set up is easy once you plug in Hue hub to your network – it leads to the only drawback as far as I can see in that the Hue hub has to be connected via wired LAN connection to your router. This forced me to place the hub in a different room and use up a valuable ethernet port. However the zigbee signal is strong enough to reach 30m away through a number of solid walls.
The lights are highly customisable and add a lovely feature to the garden.
I already have several Hue products and they are very versatile and excellent quality. The external lights are no exception to this and although very expensive for what you get they deliver magnificently.
You get three lights and a hub (not required if you already use Hue) as well as a spike (for the ground) and a mount (for walls) to use the lights anywhere. There is plenty of cable and it’s easy to wire up and get running – it took me about 30 minutes to get connected and up from opening the box.
The lights are fully configurable from your phone or the Hue app and you can set timers, light themes and so on – I have these set above a pond and it looks really good. Very impressed.
Sadly the price is the only bad thing about these, but they are by far the best outdoor lights I’ve ever seen – highly recommended.
Nice well made lights and very expensive, easily set up and works well with the amazon Alexa , strangely enough Siri sometimes can’t find 1 of the three lights yet amazon Alexa can ! My only complaint is the length of the cables 5 meters , if I want to buy another light I don’t want to be restricted to the length of the attached cable to the light which looks line about a foot , so I would need to buy another 5 meter cable 14 Why can’t tbey make a cable say 3 meters for example as trying to hide a 5 meter cable can be a bit tricky in a small area of my flower bed . Overall I love them and will get more Lily’s tho iam looking into maybe buying two callas instead
This is a great addition to any hue set up, it is amazing how much these little lights transform the back garden and it looks so magical just with the three units. It is really easy to set up and install – just need to ensure you have a power source and you are good to go. You only need one power outlet as these connect together in a chain on the one power source.
I found them to be really bright and not sure on some of the other reviews…they add accent lighting and do this really well, when on the full bright white they do throw off a lot of light and much more than i was expecting based upon some of the reviews.
Another review notes that you can not control this from outside the home which is incorrect – as with all the hue products, if you have you hub enabled for out of home control you can control these lights when away from you wifi network – i can confirm that this works and works the same way as all other Hue lighting.
Another quick tip, you can connect a maximum of 5 of these light units into the one power source…any more than this and you need to get a new base set with the power supply. This was confirmed to me by Hue and in the instructions – it is to do with the low power and the long cables used.
The set contains everything you need to get started with a 5m cable per light and the power source too – word of warning, once you get these you will want more! They are great and transform the outdoor space!
Great design and sturdy
Well designed product. Study and typical of the hue design.
Essential (though expensive) purchase for he Hue fan.
You may be interested to know that you can use the T connector as a splitter so as to send your string of lights in two different directions from the mains plug. Hue advise keeping mains power switches off until all the connections are made properly.
A ground spike and wall bracket is included.
The light effects are great. Hue website pictures are accurate.
I initially commenced a trial of the Philips Hue system over Christmas 2017, by replacing the six halogen GU10 bulbs in my lounge with Philips Hue LED White and Colour Ambience equivalents. Without going into huge amounts of detail, I was so impressed with the features (dimming, colour changing ability, voice control, independent control of bulbs, remote operation etc) that within a month, I had replaced every bulb in my house with Philips Hue bulbs (a total of 39 bulbs)! Accordingly, it’s probably fair to say that I’m a huge fan of Philips Hue…
Until very recently, the Philips Hue system was aimed at indoor use only however, this changed during the middle of 2018, when a range of outdoor Hue lights were announced, including this particular Colour Lily Base kit.
In respect of the light fittings themselves, they are actually very similar in design to regular garden spotlights however, that it where the similarities end (as outlined in further details below)! They are reasonably easy to fit and there are two options for doing so – by screwing the base plate directly into a wall or other solid object or alternatively, by using the included spike to anchor them into the ground. The wiring is also incredibly easy as all the cables simply plug and screw together.
In respect of the smart features, these are normally part of the bulb rather than the light fitting however, given that the kit is low voltage and the bulbs are an integral part of the fitting i.e. not replaceable, it is technically the light fittings themselves which are smart in this case. In order to use the smart features of this bulb, you will also need a Philips Hue Bridge , which needs to be purchased separately. Without the bridge, the lights will simply operate as any other normal garden spotlights i.e. turn on and off in white light only, which would then defeat the purpose of purchasing this kit!
The lights are very easy to connect into the Philips Hue system – download the Philips Hue app (if you don’t already have it) on any iOS or Android phone, search for new Philips Hue bulbs and the system will do the rest. Once they are connected, the smart features are ready to use (this literally took no more than 2 minutes to complete in my case). With this set, the available smart features are in abundance, ranging from the ability to change the colour of each and all of the lights (16 million different possible colours, it is claimed), the ability for them to turn on automatically, when you arrive home, the ability to dim the lights using your phone (or Google Home/Alexa), set routines for the light to turn on and off at certain times of the day or set a timer for the lights to turn off after a certain period of time.
In terms of the maximum brightness, I think this is perfectly adequate, with each light being rated at 640 lumens. To put this into context, this would be equivalent to approximately a 50W incandescent bulb (if you could get such a thing), which in my opinion, is more than adequate for what will ultimately mood lighting or gentle illumination of the garden. I guess the functionality will ultimately depend on exactly where they are positioned i.e. under a shrub will probably hide most of the light, but on the wall of the house, will probably give maximum benefit.
Overall, I love this kit – both the style and the smart features, so why not give them a try? I appreciate that the Philips Hue system might be very expensive however, in my opinion, the smart features are invaluable and I wouldn’t consider going back to basic bulbs.
I’ve always been really pleased with any of the Philips Hue range of devices. These are no exception!
The only downside I can find with them is that the cables are all black and quite think, and the colour settings are less bright then when in white or white hue setting. For example if I change from white to Red or Pale Blue they dim quite a bit.
I’d like to see the cables come in a light or dark selection as when I installed these on our rendered house that has a cream finish the cables stood out like a sore thumb, in the end I have tucked the cables neatly behind the soffit boards and are compleltely hidden. The connectors allow you to wire to your own liking and you’ll soon find the best / optimum way to install and light up your outdoor area.
For the fact these are low voltage there’s no risk of the water getting into the shielded connectors and blowing the mains fuses. A really well designed and thought out product! Installed them all in under an hour and setting up in the Hue App and with Alexa is seamless! Aside from my bathroom and dining room my entire house is Hue enabled (to my wifes hate at times) – from a security point of view and automation with IFTTT or Stringify these are superb.
It’s been superb weather this week and since installing these we’ve been sat in our back garden patio area and having these on has created a wonmderful atmosphere and allowed us to stay out until the early hours entertaining guests!
The only other gripe I have is the connectors from a point of view that I had to create a hole large enough through a wooden door frame in the garage to get the first connector through, the plug / transformer could be a meter or so longer to the first connector too.
These are typical of Hue’s high quality and worked flawlessly first time. Each extension cable is 5m long and it just carries 24v of power (no signalling) so you join two (or more) together to get a 10m length. The cables are proprietary (see attached photos) and I haven’t found anything that matches at the time or writing so if you want to extend them you’ll have to do it yourself (and void the cable warranty). I used some low voltage cable and some IP68 couplers (B072R5KY4C).
My single criticism (and it is significant) is that they just aren’t very bright, especially if you use colours (but see update below). This is possibly a limitation of the low voltage. I wanted to use one to illuminate a 4m Japanese Cherry tree from the bottom but it barely lit beyond 1.5m (in the attached photo you can’t even see it against the tree lights). I have Hue bulbs in the outdoor lights attached to the house and porch which are much brighter and illuminate a wider area. I can see why Philips have done it – it avoids high voltages in the garden which on balance is probably the better option. As such, these should be viewed as accent lighting rather than fill or flood.
UPDATE: since buying, I’ve had one with water ingress which shorted it. I may have been unfortunate but would be interesting to know the failure rate. I’ve also bought three more for the front and these do appear brighter especially with colours so could be a ‘version two’.
Philips have really excelled themselves with their home lighting products, and this set of three outdoor spotlights is no exception.
In the box you get the three spotlights, small but well designed and don’t take up too much space. They are finished in black matte effect and look and feel very high quality. They are able to be positioned st different angles by a simple unscrewing motion, then screw back in place to secure in the desired position. Inside the box you get a sturdy feeling mains power adaptor, three connecting cables – all feel very solid and will withstand the elements well. You also get two connecting units so the cables all plug together easily. The spotlights also come with handy spikes which you can use to place them in the ground, or just screw them into a wall if preferred. If you want to do this, you will need to purchase screws and screw in yourself – so bear this in mind. I do think bearing in mind the price of this product, a few screws could have been thrown into the box. Similarly, the power adaptor unit will need to be screwed into a wall or the floor if you want it all looking neat, although you don’t have to do this.
Once all the outside work is done and your lights are set up and all connected, you now need to set up the Philips Hue Hub. This is a fantastic piece of kit, it’s a small plastic box which you connect to your router and plug in to the mains. This allows you to control the lights through the Philips Hue app. This is a free app on the app or android store, and allows you to turn the lights on an off, select colours etc through the app. If you other Philips Hue products you can also connect and control these through the app. It’s all very advanced and the app is easy to use. The only downside of all this is that there is no other way to control the products. There’s no manual override and everything MUST be controlled through the app. In addition you can only control when your phone is connected to WiFi. So you can’t turn them on when out and about, but you can set them on a timer. If this doesn’t bother you, it’s a great system. One thing to bear in mind is that the maximum distance between any of the lights and the control unit outdoors is 20m. In addition the max distance between the internal Hue hub and the outdoor unit is 10m. Please bear this in mind, if you live in a mansion it may be an issue, and even so if your Hue hub is going to be positioned at the other end of your house from the external control box.
Yes, this is all very technical and set-up took some time. It took me just under an hour from opening the box to successful operation. Also, the instructions are all pictures and no text. This is a Philips trait and I find it quite annoying really.
Now onto the results. Amazing! I have quite a small garden and it looks fantastic. The can select are beautiful can toggle between a claimed 16million colours. A few technical details: bulb life is 25 years or 25000hrs; the spotlights are 8w and 640lumens, more than powerful enough in my opinion. On the app you can control the lights manually – selecting colours and brightness, and there are also several themes to choose from.
Overall this is an absolutely brilliant set. Very very well made and really makes your garden or outdoor feature look beautiful. It is expensive and there are flaws, but this will last years and the quality of the products is really good. Photo shows the Hue hub and one spotlight, with a lighter for size reference