Welcome everyone I'm Ricky from tech talk and as you might have noticed i
have recently changed the background for my videos
this is thanks to the Philips hue lighting system and you can just get so
many colours and different styles which is really exciting
and they can do so much and today i want to add two new lights to my system and
my setup here so these are called Philips hue go
portable lights which is their new version and it offers
the ability to charge them up and away you go
it doesn't have to be plugged in by the mains all the time
you can actually charge it up and away you go which is really exciting so what
we're going to do today is unbox them and set them up
they're using Bluetooth for connectivity and you control through
the app which is available on the ios app store or the google
play store and i'm going to show you how to set them up and what mine looks like
at the moment with the different lights that i have currently so on the front
here we've got name branding you've got a bit of information you can see someone
holding it here it can be put in two different positions you've got the stand
up position or you can actually lay it down and the
light can shine up which is quite nice and then down here it says that it can
go from a warm white to a cool daylight and you've got 16 million
different color choices which is fantastic to see
and then obviously bluetooth and it's app controlled
so down the left hand side we've just got a bit more information here
i'm going to talk a bit more in greater detail you can set the scene in your
room with bluetooth app control as i've mentioned directly
control all lights in your room so again you can just select different
lights for different rooms but control them with one switch which
is really amazing with these lights you can easily create
a really nice ambience or a setting or scene so you're having a
romantic meal say you want to enjoy your gaming you
can have it sync up with consoles you can have a sync up with music
it can be really enjoyable what you can do with these lights and so much
different things to offer as i mentioned you will need the app as
you can see here which is the philips hue lighting app
there are third-party applications as well you can buy so down into the back
there's just some key information down at the bottom that i want to talk about
first of all is alexa can be used with alexa or google
assistant it also works with siri and home kit
as well coming across it's just got it has 520 lumens
an led bulb it's up to 20 000 hours slash 20 years of actual usage
which is really quite amazing it's instant on and instant going and it
can actually take 50 000 switches if you use the switch to
turn it on or off so that's really quite
interesting to see here and the rest of the packaging on the
back is just going through retail information
and obviously the setup process and what you require
so the bottom here there's just a bit of tape that i'm just going to cut
just cut that
flip it around so once flipped around inside here it gives you a bit of detail
about how long it will last on the battery there's multiple
different ones here for the different modes it
has so obviously you can change this via the app
but with the button that is on this light you can press
and you'll get one of these options and it will cycle through for you
it's really interesting to see 24 hours of use with
and then all the way down to three hours of use some of two and a half hours just
depending on its brightness and its level of color
a really nice option to see there about the battery
life
so just lift this up flat inside is our light so philips hue go portable
light so it's got a bit of cover just take
this off as you might have known for the ones
that are really focused on the background you might see
one already set up over there i did actually have a quick look at it
so very nice light here that you can either have in this position
or with the pedestal here you can stand up which is really great
coming around here we've got our power connection
and then underneath you've got your light you can just press here so you've
got a button and it might have some battery in it
does it have any in it no it doesn't but i'll show you how that
works anyway we can sit on a desk like that which is really nice or as you can
see over there in that corner you can actually see it stands up i'm
wondering who actually noticed it before i mentioned
leave a comment down below if you did so underneath we have some instructions
and some manuals the information to go through
again if you do have any questions or queries though drop a comment down below
i'm actually more than happy to help that folds right out
then we've got warranty and safety information as well
inside this little packaging here you're gonna find
your uk three pin plug so i'm gonna grab that out and we're gonna plug it in and
then we're gonna go through the app process together so welcome back
so i've pulled up the application here in the ios
app store like i said it is in the google play store so just type in
philips hue and then it shows you what you can do
here and make sure you download this i'm just going to tap
open on here and that shows me my lights that i
currently have at the moment that you see along the background and like i said
if you was clever enough you did notice that
lights i'm already using so actually let's add this one
in as well so it will need to be charged up first of all so like i said we're
just going to put this in here there we go
so we're greeted with our light and like i said with this button underneath
you can actually press this and you can see
it changes and these will correspond to them different
battery levels that it mentioned i like this one this is like a candle
looks really nice actually it sort of moves around the lines it
sort of flickers quite like that one again you've got different options here
this is what i like with the hue lighting system is that you can use this
then to focus light and it looks so nice on a
white wall in the background i like this one as well the move
or vive violet color looks really nice and then again it will cycle through and
you can press and hold to power off no power off for us but actually what we
need to do is now add this in the application so i'm going to do
this on the ios version sorry it's not on the google
play version but on the ios version you're going to come over to settings
and you're going to go to light setup and what we want to do is search for a
light so we're going to add light and then it
will begin it to search so we're going to say search
gonna power it back on no don't need to which is great so it's come up here go
light one so we're going to tap on here you
saw it flash up you can rename this as well so i'm going
to rename this for the left side of the desk so now i know
that's where that is that's fine that's in my list here and i can designate a
room now so if i go down to rooms and scenes and
go down to office and then i can tick the ones i
want all in this room so i'm going to tick this one so this is
in my living room currently this one and we're going to hit done which is
great so now that's done we're going to come over to this side
and as you can see here i've got four lights now instead of three
so turn on there we go and then i can adjust this
so you can have a real soft light just depending however you want it
and of course you can go all the way up as well
and i can ask siri to turn off all of my lights
turn off all office lights
okay the lights are off so there we go they go all
off turn all office lights on okay the lights are on it remembers
where i set obviously you can set presets as well in
different scenes which is really nice so i worked with honor previously so we
have an honor color that looks really nice as well it sort
of sets them to these colors going back to the light as well you'll
see which ones are sort of set and the way they're set and you can jump
in here and actually change these depending however you want to i'm not
going to mess around with this scene otherwise there are preset scenes here
so you can have sort of ocean feel or like the aurora sky i believe this
one is you can have safari you can just have all different sort of
ones that there's loads of different options
inside here and you can change and adjust them you've got your palette
wheel as well and you can change and adjust
you can take a photograph and you can pick the color out of your photograph
with over 16 million colors to choose from it's actually
endless and the options are actually amazing so tapping into office
again go back to the list here and as you can see i can actually change and
adjust all of the brightness up here at the top if i want to
to make them all and you can see they all slide along
so actually so much you can do in this application
but that was a look at the philips hue go portable lighting here
and obviously like i said you can use this button as well
you can also lose the cable as well you don't need the cables there might be a
bit of charge in there now yeah there's a bit of charge in there
now which is great i'm just going to set the cable to the side
here so now actually i can take this wherever i want to go with me
if i want to go outside and meditate if i want to go
outside during a barbecue just make sure you charge it up and like i said there's
two different ways of actually shining this light so it can be
done like this which you'll see over in that corner whoever was actually
watching the video in the background we can have it like this a center focal
points and this is where it makes the ambience
really nice and really enjoyable so you could be on a date nights you could be
having a meal you could be having a game night so you
could just be doing anything i'm going to be creating more videos around the
philips hue light system and actually what you can do with it because it's so
interesting and so variant as well in description i will leave a link to
philips hue system and the best place to go and buy them and also a link to these
ones but let me know what you think it's always great to hear from you
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i'll see you really soon bye for now