➤REVIEW: Philips Hue GU10 smart dichroic lamp brings refinement to your home 🕹

Colors, many colors
Instalação
Design
Usando a Philips Hue GU10
What is a smart light bulb?
What is a dichroic lamp?
Conclusion
Price and availability
Philips Hue GU10 Technical Specifications

Smart lamps are, in recent years, objects of desire for most people involved with technology. The great advantage of this model is being able to control them through artificial intelligences, such as Alexa, or via smartphone. The smart dichroic lamp Philips Hue GU10 is one of the options available on the market, and today we are going to know a little more about this beauty from Philips.

Colors, many colors

One of the main features of Philips Hue GU10 is being able to choose between the 16 million possible colors. It is possible to control its intensity via the mobile app and create different settings, all according to the user's wishes. For those who don't have time to assemble their own selection, there are a number of options in predefined patterns.

A Philips Hue GU10 has six sets of options, ranging from the standard, with a lighting most used in day-to-day, to more exotic ones, such as Seasons, which has a huge color variant, such as green, blue, orange and purple. Then we have the option to Sun light, with colors such as pink, beige and others. Finally we have three more patterns, the Cozy, in a party mood and the Serenity, all with variations of the colors mentioned above.

REVIEW: Philips Hue GU10 smart dichroic lamp brings refinement to your home — The Philips Hue GU10 has several different color options and intensities ready for users to choose from.

A nice thing is being able to choose the intensity of the light, if we want to leave only a background light, to watch a movie or play video games, or to light the whole place. It all depends on the user's choice. THE Philips Hue GU10 it's a kind of light bulb Spot, that is, it leaves the center extremely illuminated, while the outside receives less illumination. I tested it by doing some lives, and it worked perfectly for me leaving it above me, much better than the common LED lamp I used before.

Instalação

Its installation is extremely simple: if the mouthpiece model in your house is old, you connect it to an adapter, and then screw it in the desired location. The box has a QR Code that should send the user directly to the store on their smartphone to download the app. Philips Hue GU10, but during testing, the QR Code did not work.

So off I went looking for the right app, and there are a number of models, but once I found the right one, installing, detecting and controlling the lamp was very simple. The Philips Hue GU10 app is the Philips HueBluetooth, which is available for Android users and one for iOS, iPhone owners. Its design is extremely simple and elegant, in addition to being in Spanish, which makes it very easy to use.

Design

A Philips Hue GU10 is small compared to ordinary light bulbs. LED and extremely discreet. It can produce a brightness ranging from 2000 to 6500 points on the Kelvin scale, and has 400 lumens. Its duration capacity is up to 15.000 hours, with a consumption of 6 watts. Despite its more compact size, you might be surprised at its capacity.

It is worth remembering that it uses the GU10 lamp socket (hence its name), serving to replace common dichroic lamps — that is, it is not compatible with the E27 screw-in socket, typical of common lamps.

Usando a Philips Hue GU10

the lamp of Philips It's great for creating routines. If you find it easy to wake up to the light, it has the option of acting as an alarm clock, gradually increasing the brightness of the room. To do so, simply select the desired time, and choose how long it will remain active. The same goes for bedtime, only now it gradually fades, until it is completely extinguished.

Another interesting use is as a stopwatch. For example, you put something in the pressure cooker in the kitchen but you need to stay in the room working or while playing, so just select the chosen time and the Philips Hue GU10 will flash, turn on, off or else change to a color according to the user's wishes. Add all of the above to everyday use, for whatever purpose the user wants. Whether to create a mood, relax or even time your activities.

What is a smart light bulb?

Roughly speaking, a smart lamp is a type of lighting that can be controlled by the user with the cell phone or with voice commands. However, it goes much further than that. One of the main functions of a smart lamp is energy saving, as it is possible to control how long it will stay on, ending that story of going on a weekend trip and leaving everything on for three days in a row.

There are currently several types of smart light bulbs available on the market. Some are aimed at home security, with cameras that can be checked in real time from a cell phone or computer, and there are also those that make up environments, such as the Philips Hue GU10 smart dichroic lamp.

A smart light bulb can be controlled by voice, through some artificial intelligence, such as Alexa, or via a mobile app. Its use is generally simple and easy, adapting to the user's wishes.

What is a dichroic lamp?

Basically, one of the main features of a dichroic lamp is to illuminate according to different angles, which vary from model to model. In addition, as it has an internal reflector, it heats up less than a traditional lamp. This makes them used with objects vulnerable to common lighting, such as plants, paintings, food products, such as certain types of wines, in addition to other recommendations. The installation of a dichroic lamp is generally geared towards the composition of an environment, and thanks to the intelligent dichroic lamp Philips Hue GU10, this can be controlled by your application, giving the composition desired by the user.

Dichroic lamps benefit from the very low consumption of electrical energy, and this also guarantees a long life. THE Philips Hue GU10 it can, according to the manufacturer, be on for 15.000 straight hours, which gives 625 straight days, or a little over a year and a half. That is, it will last a long time, making it a very safe investment.

Conclusion

The smart dichroic lamp Philips Hue GU10 it's great at what it sets out to do, but because it has more focused lighting, it doesn't look perfect in a slightly larger room. Over time, you can get used to it. Its many colors can be used in different ways, just leave your creativity as your routine. I also take my hat off to her other functions that help with bedtime, waking up and timing, making her a good day-to-day partner.