Enhance your games with Philips Hue Gradient lightstrip for PC
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- čas přidán 11. 10. 2022
- Here's a video on the Philips Hue Gradient lightstrip for PC. A brilliant bit of kit that can fit on the back of your monitor and react to the games you're playing, video on screen or music you're listening to. In this video I'm unboxing and setting up the kit on a Corsair monitor to show you how to do it and what it looks like in action.
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This is the Corsair monitor I was using (it's 32 inch, not 34, I'm a numpty)
CORSAIR XENEON 32UHD144 32-Inch IPS UHD (3840 x2160) - go.corsair.com/Xx7dvG
Specs of the gradient bar include:
Colour black
Colour(s) White
Material silicone
Operational humidity 5% H 95% (non-condensing)
Operational temperature -20°C to 45°C
Extra feature/accessory incl. Colour changing (LED) Yes
LED integrated Yes
Universal Plug Yes
Guarantee 2 years Yes
Colour temperature 2000-6500 K
Cut-ability No
Extendibility No
Input Voltage 220V-240V
Max. standby power 0.5 W
Wattage 19 W
Power consumption
Wattage 23 W
Product dimensions and weight
Height 1.6 cm
Length 116.5 cm
Net weight 0.261 kg
Width 1.7 cm
Service Warranty 2 year(s)
Technical specifications
Lumen output at 4000K 1,000 lm
Lifetime 25000 hour(s)
IP code IP20
Class of protection Class II
Extra features not compatible with protected video content (DRM)
Replaceability of light source
Non-replaceable LED light source
Replaceability of control gears
Non-replaceable control gear
Lumen output at 2,700 K (out-of-the-box setting) 900 lm
Packaging dimensions and weight
EAN/UPC - product
8719514434530
Net weight 0.260 kg
Gross weight 1.190 kg
Height 140.000 mm
Length 290.000 mm
Width 290.000 mm
Material number (12NC) 929003498601
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My guy put a white backdrop up before you review a backlight. Absolutely kills the effect with your blue wall.
Common sense is hard to come by these days
Great way to add some personality to the setup. 👍🏽
Hello sir Prawn ! Thanks for the great review.
I'm looking for a backlight system for a Samsung g9.
How does the Phillips one compare to the corsair ls100 ?
I'm planing on using it mostly for gaming.
Do you know if this will work with Hue Sync in an entertainment area? I’m wondering whether this would work as the bottom section for a TV.
Hello, how does your pc connect to them? Is the strip itself enough? Do I need the bridge or the sync box?
Can I ask where you got the light strip? I noticed that the power supply is for 220-240 voltage, which is surprising because I thought nowadays all power supplies are for 100-240v. Thank you.
Is it possible to run two of these in series for a large monitor? (48") I don't want to buy the bigger strip and be forced to run output through a sync box
Thanks a lot!
You're welcome!
Can you use the play bar expension cables to extend the power?
How do I get the hue sync box to work with only my TV or does it only work with using other their devices
I wonder how this would work with my big 800r curved monitors. Worried the curve will stop the adhesive from keeping the clips on
Does it have many spots of different color according to the screen ?
Do you think the light would still be able to be positioned correctly if my monitor had a bump going diagonally down the back? It's a part of the design from my monitor (MSI G27C5)
I use this with the aw3418dw, so you should be fine.
wish they made this for a larger monitor... i have a 48" gaming monitor
which setup would you recommend for a 49" Samsung monitor, the ultra super widescreen kind of thing?
Sadly most don't cater to it. A mix of hue light strips and bulbs on the desk would work well though
If i was to buy this a standard strip, and a bulb would the standard philips strip and bulb connect and mimic the colours of the game as well as the monitor strip?
Yes. If you put them all in your entertainment area in the Hue app.
I have this and it won't find the light on the app, Tried adding serial number and still won't find it.
edit : After 2 hours of nearly tearing my hair out and yelling and screaming at my pc(lol) I got it to work, Tried everything and was about to return it.
Make sure you put the controller box VERTICAL on the back of your monitor, I'm not joking that fixed it for me as I had it horizontal thinking it wouldn't matter. Hope this helps someone from stressing out.
What an unusual problem though, Never had issues with other controllers being in a different position.
Are you referring to the power box?
Yikes, I thought the Corsair option was expensive but damn. I mean I know Philips is a pricy brand but this is just a super basic strip and you need to also get the bridge if you dont already have it. So twice the price or more depending on the kit you get.
Dont forget that phillips release their new gaming monitor with ambiglow , yes that is Philips 252m1rpe Full HD 240Hz
I tried looking it up but can't find any info on it and only one youtuber in Indonesia had it. Guessing it'll come to the states at some point
Will this work on a Mac?
is it worth it over the corsair ls100 for ambilight specifically?
My experience was LS100 wasn't as good czcams.com/video/Aa6gRdqPbns/video.html
hey mate, would this work on a curved ultra wide?
yes, mounted my strip to my curved ultrawide just now!
Do u need a sync box to sync the lights?
want to know too
I cant Seem to find the 32-34” option. It only shows 24-27” monitors.
It's on the Philip's website
Why would you make a 14 minute long video about colour syncing lights, only to demonstrate the effect on a blue wall and therefore fail to demonstrate the colour syncing effect? And also having another set of lights shining on the wall so even the brightness of the tested lights is not accurately shown?
Do you need a hue bridge for this to work?
Yes
Noooooooooo. My hue bridge alwayyysss disconnected. Is that common with the bridge, if not I don’t mind buying it. But there was time with mine where it literally wouldn’t work for 2 months then work for only a week etc.
Too bad it only covers 3 sides of the monitor. I'm currently using the sync app on PC with my hue lights but the lack of lightstrip behind the monitor is annoying.
Yeah it’s to bad, adding a light bar or 2 behind the PC will do the trick but it’s 70$ on top of already ~250$
@user-db1zv9ew5u Yep, it's Way too much. I think I'll probably purchase a standard 2m lightstrip and put it behind the monitor. Much more budget friendly. ( still 70-80 though 🤑)
Hello what game is the plane game?
Call of Duty WW2
I'm assuming you need to connect this to the monitor itself using hdmi?
No.
@@TheProvokedPrawn oh that's awesome! My monitor has only one hdmi port and that's taken by a capture card and I was worried it would as a review I read said it did
@@eseren I did show how it's connected. It's via the app and the Philips Hue hub. Not your monitor
the very video you're watching shows how to connect it
what is good for 65 inch gaming
Philips Ambilight?
I dont get is, where does it adapt automatically to the game or movies colors?
@@createdvoid8186 well that su***
The light emits correct colour (matching what's on screen) but his blue wall messes the colours up.
@@Alex___R oh thanks. so what do you need to make this work on a PC monitor with a Nvidia GPU under Windows?
@@bestonyoutube Hardware: Hue Play Gradient Lightstrip (in correct size for your monitor) and a Philips Hue bridge. Software: free Philips Hue Sync App on your PC/Mac (GPU doesn't matter) and a free Philips Hue app on your phone. It's quite pricey to dive into it, but one bridge can handle 50 lights so you can add more lights/switches/sensors around the house in the future.
@@Alex___R why do you need a phone and a hue bridge? isnt there an alternative with open source software which is cheaper and works with other RGB strips too?
Even after watching this full video, I still don’t understand how the power strip “reacts” or “syncs” to the color on the screen.
I was reading other reviews on here and you said you also need a “Phillips Hue Bridge Smart Lighting Hub”? If I remember correctly? But I still don’t understand the mechanism behind how the hue hub and the light strip working together to react to the screen light. I don’t see any sensor camera which I see in govee products for that to work?
I’m sorry for sounding like an amateur but this question has been bothering me for a while now. 😅
It's via the app
@@TheProvokedPrawn yeah, but how does the app send the colors to the lights?
Via Wi-Fi > Bridge > Wi-Fi > Lights I suppose?
Wouldn't that give a bit of latency between the effect on screen and what the lights shows? Games can be really fast, so first second it's blue and one explosion later and everything is red and yellow.
i still don't get it either...how can the app know what's on the monitor ? I'm pretty sure it does not react and sync to the monitor video, I can't even see it on the demo video, it's just blue all the way, makes no sense
I've been wondering this too. There's no way for the LED's to sync to monitor without additional hardware.
@@whitegoodman3438 As far as I understand it, all the lights have their own "Zigbee" network.
Every Zigbee device can communicate with each other, and when you setup the app on the computer, you connect it with the bridge which connects your pc to the Zigbee network.
Your computer can then directly communicate to any of the lights directly, so it chooses the light with the best connection(presumably the light strip in this instance) and tells it what colors it needs to be.
If you have many lights in your setup, the lightstrip may then tell the lights next to it how they're supposed to then react.
Will my FPS drop?
Shouldn't do
0:54 half should be orange and the other white… doesnt seems to work properly sir.
Looks very washed out to me, not bright enough to others iv'e seen.
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