Hue is finest identified for its sensible lights, however not too long ago the corporate ventured into dwelling safety with its Safe lineup of cameras. Now, mother or father Signify is releasing its first video doorbell, the Hue Safe, with a number of distinctive options it hopes will make it stand out towards formidable competitors from Nest and Amazon’s Ring.
To start out with, the Hue doorbell comes with a 2K fisheye digicam, extra decision than Nest and a few of Ring’s doorbell merchandise, doubtlessly providing extra detailed video. Hue can be providing a 24-hour video historical past without cost, letting you keep away from paying for a subscription in the event you solely wish to preserve a day’s value of clips. As well as, the digicam can work with Google Dwelling and Samsung SmartThings, together with Hue’s personal app. It will not be appropriate with Apple Dwelling at launch, however can be up to date to work with it later. Signify will even add Matter assist someday this fall.
Together with 2.4GHz and 5GHz Wi-Fi compatibility, the Hue Safe video doorbell include a Zigbee radio. That lets it pair with Hue lights, so you’ll be able to set it as much as mechanically activate different Hue lights (inside your lobby or exterior the door, as an illustration) when somebody approaches the entrance door. Nonetheless, if you’d like a chime to go with the Hue Safe by offering sound alerts when the doorbell rings, you will want to purchase the $60 Hue Good Chime that is bought individually — as the brand new doorbell would not work with any third-party chimes for now.
Hue’s Safety video doorbell arrives in October in North America, Europe and the UK for $170 (£140). Signify will even launch a brand new 2K wired digicam in Europe that is an replace to the unique Hue safety cameras. That mannequin will value €180 or €200 with a stand, with no phrase but on US availability.
