Philips Hue Go light review: creates atmosphere

Every year we have more and more oppor­tu­ni­ties to con­trol the light­ing of our own house or apart­ment. But smart lights usu­al­ly require a Wi-Fi con­nec­tion. But what if this is a veran­da where the sig­nal of the router does not reach? Or even a pic­nic in nature? For such cas­es, you can use bat­tery-pow­ered lamps — for exam­ple, Philips Hue Go, which has recent­ly appeared in the range of Sig­ni­fy light­ing solu­tions.

You can watch our short video to see for your­self how it all works.

Design and management

The lamp is made in the form of a hemi­sphere in a translu­cent hous­ing. The lamp is mount­ed in the direc­tion of a flat sur­face — the rest of the body is sim­ply illu­mi­nat­ed by reflect­ed light. It is easy to oper­ate the device — it has only one but­ton. To turn on Philips Hue Go, you just need to press it. With sub­se­quent clicks, you can go through all the oper­at­ing modes sequen­tial­ly (we will talk about them a lit­tle lat­er).

Anoth­er use­ful option is the selec­tion of the desired back­light col­or. Let’s say for dec­o­ra­tive light­ing you need a strict­ly defined shade. Then we press the but­ton twice and hold it — the col­or of the glow will change, just wait until the desired one appears and release the but­ton. An alter­na­tive option is to con­nect via Blue­tooth through the Philips Hue Blue­tooth app, every­thing is much more con­ve­nient there.

Philips Hue Go has a small stop on a semi-cir­cu­lar sur­face. So you can put it both on the back side (so that it shines on the ceil­ing), and on this stop — in this case, the light will hit the wall at an angle of about 45 °.

From illumination to illumination

Philips Hue Go can per­form var­i­ous func­tions. First of all, it is a full-fledged light source, and its shade can be cho­sen (all options from very warm to cold). The 12-watt LED lamp pro­vides up to 540 lumens of lumi­nous flux — enough to light up a room.

The device can be con­nect­ed to the net­work and used in sta­tion­ary mode. But it has a bat­tery, so Philips Hue Go can work as a portable lamp. For exam­ple, on the veran­da, where there is no gen­er­al light­ing. Just keep in mind that there is no pro­tec­tion against water here, so you can leave the device in the open only if rain is not promised.

Of course, it would be too banal to make just a portable lamp. Philips Hue Go has the abil­i­ty not only to change the shades of col­ors, but also to run dif­fer­ent light­ing sce­nar­ios. For exam­ple, “cozy can­dle­light” is a warm light that mim­ics the burn­ing of a can­dle. Such sce­nar­ios are not cre­at­ed for full-fledged light­ing, but for dec­o­ra­tive light­ing or sim­ply cre­at­ing a cer­tain mood (for exam­ple, dur­ing a roman­tic din­ner). Some are direct­ly in the device, oth­ers are avail­able through the appli­ca­tion. This is how, for exam­ple, the “Light of the Stars” looks.

In the same place, in the appli­ca­tion, you can con­fig­ure such sce­nar­ios as “Wak­ing up” or “Falling asleep”. In the first case, the device will grad­u­al­ly increase the bright­ness, imi­tat­ing the sun­rise, in the lat­ter, it will decrease.

An impor­tant fea­ture of work­ing with the appli­ca­tion is that you can not only use pre-installed sce­nar­ios in it, but also change the bright­ness of the glow (with the slid­er at the top of the screen). It is impos­si­ble to do this with but­tons (more pre­cise­ly, a but­ton) on the case. And, of course, switch­ing on / off from a smart­phone is also pro­vid­ed.

Like many oth­er devices, Philips Hue Go can work with­in an ecosys­tem. To do this, you will need to pur­chase a con­trol unit. But get the oppor­tu­ni­ty to con­trol all the smart light­ing fix­tures from the Philips Hue line: cre­ate sce­nar­ios, remote­ly turn on and off …

autonomy

When the device is used as a full-fledged lamp, the bat­tery lasts for 2.5 hours of oper­a­tion. If it per­forms the func­tion of dec­o­ra­tive light­ing, auton­o­my can be much high­er: in the most eco­nom­i­cal modes up to 18 hours. For charg­ing, you need to use the adapter from the kit — the con­nec­tor here is tra­di­tion­al, in the form of a cylin­der. If it were USB‑C, it would be much eas­i­er.

Bottom line: our Philips Hue Go experience

What we def­i­nite­ly like is the pres­ence of a bat­tery and a huge num­ber of pos­si­ble shades of light (to be more pre­cise — 16 mil­lion), not to men­tion dif­fer­ent light­ing sce­nar­ios. What was miss­ing was the abil­i­ty to charge the device with a more pop­u­lar adapter and adjust the bright­ness of the glow with the but­tons on the case. How­ev­er, this is anoth­er nice fix­ture from the Philips Hue fam­i­ly — if you like to exper­i­ment with light, you should like it.

Love smart devices? Then read our review of a ket­tle that can be con­trolled from a smart­phone and find out about a new series of lamps and sock­ets from… Sber­bank.

Anoth­er use­ful option is the selec­tion of the desired back­light col­or. Let’s say for dec­o­ra­tive light­ing you need a strict­ly defined shade. Then we press the but­ton twice and hold it — the col­or of the glow will change, just wait until the desired one appears and release the but­ton. An alter­na­tive option is to con­nect via Blue­tooth through the Philips Hue Blue­tooth app, every­thing is much more con­ve­nient there.

Philips Hue Go has a small stop on a semi-cir­cu­lar sur­face. So you can put it both on the back side (so that it shines on the ceil­ing), and on this stop — in this case, the light will hit the wall at an angle of about 45 °.

From illumination to illumination

Philips Hue Go can per­form var­i­ous func­tions. First of all, it is a full-fledged light source, and its shade can be cho­sen (all options from very warm to cold). The 12-watt LED lamp pro­vides up to 540 lumens of lumi­nous flux — enough to light up a room.

The device can be con­nect­ed to the net­work and used in sta­tion­ary mode. But it has a bat­tery, so Philips Hue Go can work as a portable lamp. For exam­ple, on the veran­da, where there is no gen­er­al light­ing. Just keep in mind that there is no pro­tec­tion against water here, so you can leave the device in the open only if rain is not promised.

Of course, it would be too banal to make just a portable lamp. Philips Hue Go has the abil­i­ty not only to change the shades of col­ors, but also to run dif­fer­ent light­ing sce­nar­ios. For exam­ple, “cozy can­dle­light” is a warm light that mim­ics the burn­ing of a can­dle. Such sce­nar­ios are not cre­at­ed for full-fledged light­ing, but for dec­o­ra­tive light­ing or sim­ply cre­at­ing a cer­tain mood (for exam­ple, dur­ing a roman­tic din­ner). Some are direct­ly in the device, oth­ers are avail­able through the appli­ca­tion. This is how, for exam­ple, the “Light of the Stars” looks.

In the same place, in the appli­ca­tion, you can con­fig­ure such sce­nar­ios as “Wak­ing up” or “Falling asleep”. In the first case, the device will grad­u­al­ly increase the bright­ness, imi­tat­ing the sun­rise, in the lat­ter, it will decrease.

An impor­tant fea­ture of work­ing with the appli­ca­tion is that you can not only use pre-installed sce­nar­ios in it, but also change the bright­ness of the glow (with the slid­er at the top of the screen). It is impos­si­ble to do this with but­tons (more pre­cise­ly, a but­ton) on the case. And, of course, switch­ing on / off from a smart­phone is also pro­vid­ed.

Like many oth­er devices, Philips Hue Go can work with­in an ecosys­tem. To do this, you will need to pur­chase a con­trol unit. But get the oppor­tu­ni­ty to con­trol all the smart light­ing fix­tures from the Philips Hue line: cre­ate sce­nar­ios, remote­ly turn on and off …

autonomy

When the device is used as a full-fledged lamp, the bat­tery lasts for 2.5 hours of oper­a­tion. If it per­forms the func­tion of dec­o­ra­tive light­ing, auton­o­my can be much high­er: in the most eco­nom­i­cal modes up to 18 hours. For charg­ing, you need to use the adapter from the kit — the con­nec­tor here is tra­di­tion­al, in the form of a cylin­der. If it were USB‑C, it would be much eas­i­er.

Bottom line: our Philips Hue Go experience

What we def­i­nite­ly like is the pres­ence of a bat­tery and a huge num­ber of pos­si­ble shades of light (to be more pre­cise — 16 mil­lion), not to men­tion dif­fer­ent light­ing sce­nar­ios. What was miss­ing was the abil­i­ty to charge the device with a more pop­u­lar adapter and adjust the bright­ness of the glow with the but­tons on the case. How­ev­er, this is anoth­er nice fix­ture from the Philips Hue fam­i­ly — if you like to exper­i­ment with light, you should like it.

Love smart devices? Then read our review of a ket­tle that can be con­trolled from a smart­phone and find out about a new series of lamps and sock­ets from… Sber­bank.