The Philips Hue Outdoor Motion Sensor: A Game-Changing Addition to Your Smart Home

The Philips Hue outdoor motion sensor is a game-changing addition to your smart home, offering unparalleled convenience and security features. This innovative sensor allows you to turn lights on and off remotely, even when you're away from home. With its advanced technology, it can detect motion up to 39 feet away, ensuring that you never miss a visitor or potential intruder.

One of the standout features of this sensor is its ease of installation. The mounting hardware is designed to be flexible, allowing you to mount it on various surfaces, including walls, ledges, and corners. This means you can place it wherever you need it most, whether that's near your front door or out in the garden. The adapter piece makes it even easier to mount at an angle, perfect for ledges or corners.

Mounting things outside is always a bit trickier than mounting stuff inside. Interior motion sensors are often simple and easy to install, but outdoor ones require more care and attention. That's why this sensor comes with a robust magnetic base that ensures it stays securely in place, even in windy or rainy conditions. This means you don't have to worry about it getting stolen or damaged, making it the perfect addition to your home.

Setting up the Philips Hue Outdoor Motion Sensor is a breeze. Simply press the setup button on the back of the sensor, and it will flash an amber light. Then, open the Hue app and add the accessory from the list, selecting the outdoor motion sensor as the device to be added. The app will guide you through the process, ensuring that everything is set up correctly.

One of the unique features of this sensor is its ability to detect not just motion, but also light and temperature. This means it can adjust your lights accordingly, turning them on or off based on the amount of light available. It's a clever feature that makes use of the sensor's multiple functions, ensuring that your home remains energy-efficient and comfortable.

The Philips Hue Outdoor Motion Sensor also integrates seamlessly with Apple HomeKit, allowing you to access its features through the Apple Home app. This means you can ask Siri questions like "What's the temperature outside?" or "Turn on the lights in my garden." You can even trigger lights on and off using voice commands, making it a convenient addition to your smart home.

With this sensor, you can automate your outdoor lighting with ease. Imagine walking up to your patio and the lights automatically turning on as you approach. It's a clever feature that not only welcomes you home but also deters potential intruders. The Philips Hue Outdoor Motion Sensor is the perfect solution for anyone looking to enhance their smart home experience.

In our setup, we've added the sensor to our patio and created a basic schedule to turn it on when motion is detected between certain hours of the day. We've also set it up to automatically turn off after 10 minutes of no motion, ensuring that energy consumption remains low. The possibilities for automation are endless with this device, making it an essential addition to any smart home.

Whether you're looking to upgrade your outdoor lighting or simply want to add a new layer of security to your home, the Philips Hue Outdoor Motion Sensor is an excellent choice. Its ease of installation, advanced features, and seamless integration with Apple HomeKit make it a must-have for anyone serious about creating a smart home.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthe hue outdoor sensor allows you to automate your outdoor smart lights welcome everyone it is Andrew here from Apple Insider and after debuting at CES 2019 the philips hue outdoor sensor is finally available this little sensor not only allows you to automate your lights via motion but it gives you an outdoor temperature sensor and an outdoor light sensor the use cases here are pretty endless whether you use them with existing hue lights like the lily spotlight or outdoor light strip or if you use them to automate your home kit lights that are tied to an eye devices outdoor switch or the eye home outdoor outlet other possibilities include turning inside lights on or off we never lose outdoor motion and you're away from home that way it's kind of a determine if anyone is kind of lurking around your home including the boxer and finding the motion sensor itself as well as a bit of mounting hardware different mounts for different positions and some screws to attach this into whatever surface it's going to mount on since this is for outside it does have an increased range catching motion up to 39 feet away much more than the interior motion sensor that he would already released so here is the sensor itself it is a little bit larger than the interior one but it has a more outside aesthetic but that dome covering the actual motion sensor itself in that black to kind of blend in with whatever exteriors are going on or especially in the night this here is the basic mount it gets attached to a wall or a flat surface and then it slides into place and you tighten the screw on the bottom very easy to fix if it's going on to a flat surface however that's not always going to be the case you may want to mount it on a Ledge up towards the top or on a corner that's where this adapter comes into play it's an additional plastic piece that you use whenever mounting to some sort of right angle whether that's going to be on a Ledge or on a corner it just attaches to the back of the motion sensor itself here it could be a rating on the corner of your house or if you flip it 90 degrees to the side it'll now work on a ledge either angling up or angling down depending on where it's mounted mounting things outside is always going to be a bit trickier than mounting stuff inside the interior one has just a simple little magnetic mount that go on a fridge or easily to a wall but outside you need to make sure it's secure and not easily going to get stolen luckily this thing will be screwed into place so that's not going to happen unless someone's prepared with a screwdriver and really really once that hew motion sensor set up is easy and painless simply press the setup button on the back and will flash a little amber light just on the bottom there go into the hue app and add accessory from the list you choose the hue outdoor sensor it's not just a motion sensor because it has a light sensor and a temperature sensor as well the app then walks you through removing that mounting plate and pressing that setup button on the back once you've done so again it'll flash that amber color and you can continue the setup here in the app it will discover pretty quickly and then you can go through actually adding scenes and automations to this device in our case we're gonna add it to our patio and we're gonna use it to automate our lights that are there turning them on or off when it's nighttime here you can see is our basic schedule so during the day it'll automatically turn on when it detects motion between certain hours to the bright setting and after 10 minutes of no motion it'll turn off similarly at night it'll turn on but this time to the dimmed mode there are other options such as different scenes and other ones that you can choose from and then after detection of motion it'll turn off you can change the light sensitivity and the motion sensitivity to get them dialed in to exactly what you're looking for now as I mentioned before this does work with apple homekit so once we've added it here to the actual Philips hue app it'll be available inside of our home kit at home we're going to switch from the hue app to Apple's home app this gives us access to a motion sensor a light sensor and the temperature sensor so you can do all sorts of things with those you can ask Siri what the temperature it is outside out on your patio or you can trigger lights on and off based on brightness once that aren't within the hue ecosystem but are within homekit maybe you have an outdoor light that is controlled by a wall switch inside and you've replaced that with a home kit wall switch this motion sensor could turn those lights on or maybe you have an outdoor light strip like the hue outdoor light strip then whenever someone walks up your patio this lei will automatically turn on it's a huge convenience for you when you're leaving convenience for someone else who's arriving and a way to ward off burglars because mere they walk up and also the lights come on they think someone may be home this is the first home kit outdoor sensor and it opens a ton of possibilities for automating your home if you want to grab one there's a link down below in the description enjoy that video click like' and press on that subscribe button be sure to check out the Apple Insider price guide that has the best deals on Apple devices and is updated daily follow us on social media and we'll see you guys in the next videothe hue outdoor sensor allows you to automate your outdoor smart lights welcome everyone it is Andrew here from Apple Insider and after debuting at CES 2019 the philips hue outdoor sensor is finally available this little sensor not only allows you to automate your lights via motion but it gives you an outdoor temperature sensor and an outdoor light sensor the use cases here are pretty endless whether you use them with existing hue lights like the lily spotlight or outdoor light strip or if you use them to automate your home kit lights that are tied to an eye devices outdoor switch or the eye home outdoor outlet other possibilities include turning inside lights on or off we never lose outdoor motion and you're away from home that way it's kind of a determine if anyone is kind of lurking around your home including the boxer and finding the motion sensor itself as well as a bit of mounting hardware different mounts for different positions and some screws to attach this into whatever surface it's going to mount on since this is for outside it does have an increased range catching motion up to 39 feet away much more than the interior motion sensor that he would already released so here is the sensor itself it is a little bit larger than the interior one but it has a more outside aesthetic but that dome covering the actual motion sensor itself in that black to kind of blend in with whatever exteriors are going on or especially in the night this here is the basic mount it gets attached to a wall or a flat surface and then it slides into place and you tighten the screw on the bottom very easy to fix if it's going on to a flat surface however that's not always going to be the case you may want to mount it on a Ledge up towards the top or on a corner that's where this adapter comes into play it's an additional plastic piece that you use whenever mounting to some sort of right angle whether that's going to be on a Ledge or on a corner it just attaches to the back of the motion sensor itself here it could be a rating on the corner of your house or if you flip it 90 degrees to the side it'll now work on a ledge either angling up or angling down depending on where it's mounted mounting things outside is always going to be a bit trickier than mounting stuff inside the interior one has just a simple little magnetic mount that go on a fridge or easily to a wall but outside you need to make sure it's secure and not easily going to get stolen luckily this thing will be screwed into place so that's not going to happen unless someone's prepared with a screwdriver and really really once that hew motion sensor set up is easy and painless simply press the setup button on the back and will flash a little amber light just on the bottom there go into the hue app and add accessory from the list you choose the hue outdoor sensor it's not just a motion sensor because it has a light sensor and a temperature sensor as well the app then walks you through removing that mounting plate and pressing that setup button on the back once you've done so again it'll flash that amber color and you can continue the setup here in the app it will discover pretty quickly and then you can go through actually adding scenes and automations to this device in our case we're gonna add it to our patio and we're gonna use it to automate our lights that are there turning them on or off when it's nighttime here you can see is our basic schedule so during the day it'll automatically turn on when it detects motion between certain hours to the bright setting and after 10 minutes of no motion it'll turn off similarly at night it'll turn on but this time to the dimmed mode there are other options such as different scenes and other ones that you can choose from and then after detection of motion it'll turn off you can change the light sensitivity and the motion sensitivity to get them dialed in to exactly what you're looking for now as I mentioned before this does work with apple homekit so once we've added it here to the actual Philips hue app it'll be available inside of our home kit at home we're going to switch from the hue app to Apple's home app this gives us access to a motion sensor a light sensor and the temperature sensor so you can do all sorts of things with those you can ask Siri what the temperature it is outside out on your patio or you can trigger lights on and off based on brightness once that aren't within the hue ecosystem but are within homekit maybe you have an outdoor light that is controlled by a wall switch inside and you've replaced that with a home kit wall switch this motion sensor could turn those lights on or maybe you have an outdoor light strip like the hue outdoor light strip then whenever someone walks up your patio this lei will automatically turn on it's a huge convenience for you when you're leaving convenience for someone else who's arriving and a way to ward off burglars because mere they walk up and also the lights come on they think someone may be home this is the first home kit outdoor sensor and it opens a ton of possibilities for automating your home if you want to grab one there's a link down below in the description enjoy that video click like' and press on that subscribe button be sure to check out the Apple Insider price guide that has the best deals on Apple devices and is updated daily follow us on social media and we'll see you guys in the next video\n"