LIFX Unveils HomeKit-Compatible Decorative 'Beam' Light Set

[MacRumors]

Lighting company LIFX, known for its range of smart lighting products, today announced the LIFX Beam, its latest decorative smart light.

Beam is a set of thin, rectangular lights that are meant to be used for accent lighting. There are six white plastic beam lights per kit, along with a power pack and 1 illuminated corner, which can be used to create "L" shaped designs when attached to a wall.

Like other LIFX lights, the Beam supports 16 million colors along with a range of white shades. There are 10 blended light zones per beam, so each one can light up in a multitude of colors.

Colors can be selected using the LIFX app, and there's also built-in HomeKit support so the Beam can be controlled via Siri and added to Scenes with other HomeKit products. LIFX products connect to a home setup via WiFi and do not require a bridge.

LIFX added HomeKit support to its most recent line of light bulbs in September, and just last week introduced the LIFX Tile, a modular square-shaped accent lighting system.

LIFX Beam can be pre-ordered from the LIFX website for $199.99.

Article Link: LIFX Unveils HomeKit-Compatible Decorative 'Beam' Light Set

 

[SigEp265]

They have to be able to make these kits cheaper ...

 

[MrXiro]

Heh... are we back in the Miami Vice era again?

 

[Kabeyun]

Why not? I hear 80s Sci Fi is making a comeback...

 

[acarney]

Ya, I love the clean crisp edges and colors of these things, but the price is just insane, especially if you need three or four kits to outline a room completely...

These have got to have huge mark ups on them, or license cost for home kit is INSANE. If that's the case, make a bridge for $59 or something that has the home kit license and then offer the kits much cheaper.

 

[lincolntran]

A solution looking for a problem

 

[fullauto]

A solution looking for a problem

These and other products (Hue, diy fitting spotlight kits and bulb splitters etc.) are great solutions to poorly lit rental properties (in which the market is probably pretty large.)

 

[McScooby]

Just figured out that have broken Homekit remote access somewhere along the line with iOS11, solution is TV has to be connected on wifi or else feck all works, even to get to that I had to disconnect it from ethernet & manually key a 30-digit passcode as it the TV didn't recognise the iPhone. Out of sheer frustration I swore a few times at the phone, but hey it's only lights, god help folk with locks, think different? sure does!

 

[ErikGrim]

A solution looking for a problem

Interior decorating isn’t a “problem”. SMH.

 

[Vasilioskn]

I love that no hub is required. Will be watching this product over the hue ones

 

[Kaibelf]

A solution looking for a problem

People said the same about personal computers for the home. All of those people didn’t end up looking very smart.

 

[LiveM]

I love that no hub is required. Will be watching this product over the hue ones

Yeah, but because of that you need a power cable.

 

[belvdr]

Looks like glow sticks on a wall. Ugh.

 

[ilovemyibook]

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Yeah, but because of that you need a power cable.

You’d need a power cable regardless.

 

[x-evil-x]

looks like a cable management cover with led's inside. Would be easy to make this with those exact things and amazon sell 6 foot led strips for 20$ that include everything and the crappy remote.
Not sure why these are so expensive you can make stuff like that easily.

 

[Hustler1337]

Well overpriced, don't see them selling much of these. I'd much rather spend €229.99 on a modern lamp(s) for that price than on a pack of 6 30cm light strips.

You could almost say this is an LED light strip with a translucent diffuser to house the strip to achieve that smooth blended colour transition. It'll look like your basic cable trunking when it's turned off, which isn't a pretty site.

 

[kyjaotkb]

I'd expect it to cost £29.99 and to be sold at Scribbler. This is lava-lamp level of usefulness and prettiness.

 

[OzyOly]

I work for a competitor of LIFX, also in Australia. I can tell you, it is not cheap to produce these products, especially as a small company.
The price will come down eventually...

 

[LiveM]

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You’d need a power cable regardless.

Then it's a failure.

 

[ilovemyibook]

Then it's a failure.

Then tell me how else these would get power. I’m interested to hear this.

 

[LiveM]

Batteries.

 

[ErikGrim]

Batteries.

I would love to see the kind of battery life a light with a built in WiFi router would get.

 

[ilovemyibook]

Batteries.

Are you trolling?

 

[Michaelgtrusa]

These should look good with any wall color.

 

[LiveM]

I would love to see the kind of battery life a light with a built in WiFi router would get.

Perhaps they should drop the mesh function then. My Philips Hue lamp goes for three hours and it's a lot smaller.

Zigbee is used specifically to save power and a battery-operated model should probably not use Wi-Fi.