Philips Hue Candle Bulbs Add Matter Over Thread Support
What You Need to Know
- Philips Hue candle bulbs now support Matter over Thread integration for third-party smart home platform compatibility.
- New Hue Play Table Lamp ($80) and Floor Lamp Large ($150) project light onto walls and sync with entertainment content.
- Updated candle bulbs feature full-spectrum daylight up to 20,000K and dim to 0.2 percent with 40 percent better energy efficiency.
- New candle bulbs priced at $110, representing cost reduction compared to previous gradient lamp range.
The headline writes itself as a product refresh story, but the more interesting detail is buried near the end: Philips Hue is finally bringing Matter over Thread integration to its candle bulb lineup, a connectivity upgrade that affects how these bulbs work with third-party smart home platforms, not just the Hue ecosystem.
Signify announced two new lamps under the Hue Entertainment umbrella, the Philips Hue Play Table Lamp at $80 and the Philips Hue Play Floor Lamp Large at $150. Both feature a tall, linear design that projects light onto the wall or surface behind them, similar to the existing Signe lineup. They synchronize with games, TV shows, movies, and music through the Hue Play HDMI Sync Box or the Hue Sync desktop and TV apps.
The pricing is a quiet acknowledgment that the previous gradient lamp range had a cost problem. At $80 and $150 respectively, these sit noticeably below their predecessors while still supporting Chromasync for color matching.
New Candle Bulbs
The updated Hue Candle bulbs carry more meaningful changes than the lamps. Key specs include:
- Matter over Thread integration for broader smart home compatibility
- Full-spectrum daylight technology with a temperature range up to 20,000K
- Dimming capability down to 0.2 percent
- 40 percent improvement in energy efficiency over the prior version
Two bulbs are priced at $110, which is not cheap for candle-style bulbs, though the energy efficiency claim and the expanded color range across millions of Hue colors give buyers more to work with than the previous version offered.
Matter over Thread support is the detail that matters most to anyone who has been waiting to bring Hue products into a non-Apple, non-Google, non-Amazon hub setup. Thread is a low-power mesh networking protocol, and Matter is the cross-platform smart home standard backed by the major platform holders. Bringing both to a bulb that previously lacked them is a practical change, not a cosmetic one. All products are available now through the Philips Hue website.
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