FabianThe new SpatialAware feature has been available in the Hue app since Tuesday. When used with the Hue Bridge Pro, lights in a room can be scanned to determine their positions, thereby optimizing the display of scenes.
And in practice, this actually seems to achieve the desired effect, at least according to your initial experiences. Unfortunately, I’m still not home to try out SpatialAware myself.
“It really makes a huge difference, especially with the 24-hour scenes! I have seven lights—from lamps to strips—in a 20-square-meter room, and it already looks great,” writes DeWecki. And Sash is also convinced by the new technology: “SpatialAware is a huge leap forward technically, and the first impression is really strong. The lighting atmosphere finally feels organic and no longer just statically distributed.”
SpatialAware is not yet available in zones
So far, there seems to be only one major issue: SpatialAware can currently only be used in rooms, not in zones. But that would be a really exciting feature, especially in open-concept living spaces where there are no walls or doors separating the dining room, living room, and kitchen.
So far, you’d have to create the same SpatialAware scene in every room and then manually create a scene from it within the zone—that’s not really intuitive and should definitely work more simply.
I’m actually a little surprised that Philips Hue didn’t think of this small feature. Over the past couple of days, I’ve seen people mention exactly this quite often on social media. That gives me even more hope that SpatialAware will be expanded to zones in an upcoming update. At least from a technical standpoint, I can’t think of any reason why not.
