It turns out I’ve been using my Hue lights all wrong

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Author: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy

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SpatialAware lets Hue know where lights are in your room, so it can apply lighting scenes more effectively.

Color-changing lights are a lot of fun, but it can be hard to figure out how to best use them in your home. Most smart lighting companies offer pre-designed scenes to help you light your space, but the lights don't know where they are physically in your home, and the effect can get diluted. Philips Hue has a solution to this problem: SpatialAware.

SpatialAware knows your room's layout and the placement of your Hue lights, so it can determine the best way to distribute the scene's colors and effects across them.

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It gets the data when you scan your space with your smartphone in the Hue app. Using your phone's AR capabilities …

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