- Your Philips Hue bridge receives an update to correct a bug with motion sensors
- The bulbs have “forgotten” your parameters when activated by movement
- The update also improves the stability of the Twilight Philips Hue Twilight lamp
There is a new software update for the Philips Hue bridge which should solve a problem that makes your bulbs “forget” their previous parameters. The bug meant that the lights sometimes revive their default brightness and their color temperature when they are triggered by a motion sensor. It could be slightly boring or dazzling outright if it happened in the corridor when you made a trip at the end of the evening in the toilet.
As Fabian De Hueblog.com explains, the 1969060020 software version also provides general improvements to the reliability and stability of your shade configuration, and improves the operation of “certain models of sleep light and awakening of twilight “. However, official release notes do not apply what these changes are really.
The Twilight Philips Hue is one of the best waking fires we have examined, and we have not encountered any stability problems during our tests. For us, the only drawback was its list price of $ 279 / £ 249 (around $ 450 in), which easily makes the lamp at the most expensive sunrise that we have used. There do not seem to be any widely reported problems, so we are curious to know if we will notice differences in the coming days.
What else is new?
There are also no details on the more general system updates, although a commentator on hueblog.com has noticed a new feature when using a camera to trigger their smart lights, this which makes it a more useful alternative to a motion sensor.
“I suppose that movement detection by cameras also has something new,” wrote Davy Maekelberg reader. “NOW [you] Can adjust the time when the light should be deactivated again. As with movement detectors. “”
To make sure you get the latest software versions for your Philips Hue system as soon as possible, open the Hue application, go to Settings> Software update and make sure that the automatic update is switched.
Do you have motion sensors as part of your Philips shade configuration, and have you noticed changes in recent weeks? Let us know in the comments.
