Philips HueAppear Colour Smart LED Outdoor Wall Light

First, they're easy to install with a little DIY knowledge and a competency with electricity and wiring. Otherwise, they're easy for a qualified electrician to install! Once fitted they're great and add either very pretty colours to the area fitted or simply a nice white light. I guess one disappointment would be that the units are sealed so when a light fails, which you'd hope would be quite a few years, it looks like the whole unit has to be replaced. I haven't asked Philips but given that I did have to ask for a replacement wall bracket and was told they don't keep spares (so the unit Amazon sent me without one had to be returned and scrapped!) so I doubt these are serviceable! So in terms of sustainability not great even though the electricity use is minimal!

We bought this to replace an ageing 1990’s front door light, it’s was easy to install according to the electrician.We chose this light as we already have quite a lot of Philips hue lights around the house and garden.You need to be aware that this doesn’t come with any mounting screws to attach it to the wall, so you may need to buy some before mounting if you don’t have any suitable ones to hand.You will also need to have a Philips hue bridge to control this light if you don’t have one.It can be set up via the automation settings in the Philips hue app to come on from dusk till dawn, or you can choose your own times should you wish.There are lots of colours for you to choose from and it’s also very bright.A worthy addition to any home or garden.

Good quality light and easy to fit, however this is only good as a decorative light as it is not very bright at all and did not light up my path which gets very dark. 100% brightness looks like it should be at about 50%.Easy to use via the Hue app but I've had to return it for a brighter light.

Like all Philips Hue, you know what you're getting quality wise, work great with the app, cant fault it apart from brightness could be a bit better.

Had this installed by an electrician at my front door, over the house number sign in black granite. I mainly have this set to a brighter colour to light up the number, and it does a fantastic job, very modern looking. I occasionally have it set to a colour for ambience, such as blue, and that looks nice too. Not sure about the brightness criticisms as on full it lights up under my roof eaves, but admittedly on colour you lose some of that intensity, but still does the same. Very happy with it, and happy to have a light that no-one in my neighbourhood seems to have either :-)

Upgrades from cheap outdoor lights also bought from Amazon which seem to be the most popular. These were a bit tricky to install with the Phillips hue bridge but overall very pleased once I was passed the setup.

Good quality light fitting and feel heavy and well made. My only gripe is it could be brighter

The media could not be loaded. Bought a pair of these at great expense to provide some mood lighting either side of my garage door. I knew from other reviews the they were not going to be super bright but I have a floodlight covering the same area so it was not a big concern and they do look great.They worked flawlessly for just over around 30 months and now one has just failed due to significant water ingress (see video) and is completely unresponsive even after being thoroughly dried. A call to Hue support confirmed that as the failed light is outside of warranty they are not willing to replace it but perhaps more surprisingly, they are not willing to repair it (even at my expense) either so it is essentially now a very expensive wall ornament. Philips charge a huge premium for hue products so you might expect to receive premium customer support and be dealing with a company who are interested in maintaining their products but clearly this is not the case and is hugely disappointing.Now I have to throw something away that may just require a small part to repair it, how is this environmentally responsible? Worse still, as I bought and installed a pair, I now have to decide other to buy a replacement or go with more cost effective and dependable solution.Update, Hue call me today and pointed out that these are only IP44 rated which means that they are splash proof so unless your proposed position has some cover, you may find that these are not suitable.