Philips Hue Calla Large Outdoor Pedestal Light (Low-Volt), (104 x 402 mm) White & Color Light, Voice Control with Alexa, Apple Home & Google Assistant, Bridge Required

The media could not be loaded. It has excellent quality, is easy to install, and is water-resistant. It works seamlessly with the phone and features a gorgeous design. Overall, it’s made with high-quality materials and performs very well.

First and foremost, this light requires and does not include both a hue bridge (normally $60) and an outrageously expensive power supply ($90). These have no way to work out of the box and include no accessories for attaching to an existing 12 or 24V system. If this ran on 12-24 AC or DC, as many competitive landscape lights do, and included a pigtail to tie into an existing system, I would rate this light higher. As it is, this is a product for those who appreciate landscape lighting, those who likely already have a transformer and hundreds of feet of direct burial wire installed in their year, and not only requires it's own special wiring and a continuous use outdoor AC outlet,. but also it's own (overpriced ; not included) power pack. Phillips, if you're reading this, maybe look in to your market research department if you're disappointed with the sales of Lily and Calla lines. While I'm sure this will eventually be sold in starter packs, north of $300 for one dim bollard light I already have a hue bridge - a requirement for this add on bollard - and quite a bit of hue compatible off brand mr16 bulbs in various wells and spots around the yard. I also managed to branch this off an existing 12V drop (that has plenty of capacity) with a booster and some parts from Amazon... how to is beyond the scope of a review, but note hue uses keyed connectors... mind the polarity. As expected this Hue light runs circles around those off brand lights using the Hue bridge and app - compatible with the full suite of hue scenes, able to mesh (the off brand ones say they can, but don't hop properly on Hue), and have a more accurate color selection concerning WYSIWYG (the saturation in general is about even). This premium margin narrows considerably using my Zigbee network and Home Assistant, but there's nothing wrong with a company that excels in software rather than hardware. To Phillips credit, Hue lights always ran on LAN (unless you're away from home) and never thought it was a good idea to waste precious milliseconds offloading simple switch data to a cloud - the reason many of the larger competitive "smart things" systems failed to catch on despite infinite budgets. If you have no experience with hue lights, they are the best... and though I use another local-centric smart system - Home Assistant - for most of my Zigbee and all of my Z Wave, Thread, and BT/WiFi devices (just kidding, I don't use Bt or Wifi devices at all), I still choose Hue for many of my smart lights due to it's real time color wheel, prebuilt scenes, and overall interface simplicity. This bollard is slightly dimmer in whites but brighter in colors than my off brand landscape bulbs, due to the off brand bulbs only using 2 chips per color while using 3 per each white. The difference is negligible and not really comparable since I don't normally use bollards. I prefer having many more dim spots and wells to better control a "quilt of light" rather fewer super bright units, but do see how bollard lights can imply a key color in a scene that's otherwise oversaturated. The housing pales in comparison to the lights I've made myself - which are mostly glass and brass. This hue baluster is aluminum and plastic, but the aluminum is coated and not anodized. That and the extremely simple design of the hue make the overall unit appear to be plastic, and none of the metal "shines" through. It may be, however, that your use case is an extremely simple aesthetic, putting more focus on what's illuminated vs what's illuminating. In that case, these are simple enough to be ignored, and I suppose don't look plasticy if you're not looking at them. One does you no good, neither in design aesthetics or illumination. For my needs, I can't really employ this bollard without a minimum of 5 more... and I don't want to hark on how overpriced these are... but yeah, I'm not paying a grand for 6 lights. Without a kit, Phillips expects you'll pay north of $300 for the first single bollard, and a tad more that half that for the additional units. While hue has premium software and their mesh is excellent, this bollard strives to be a premium product in look, feel, or functionality. That being said, the market eagerly awaits a smart light brand with similar qualities at a more effective price... and the wait has been over a decade already. Options for landscape lighting now include sourcing inferior low voltage bulbs and searching for MR16 housings or those novelty plastic dollar store copies of successful 80s and 90s landscape lights - often single Kelvin (single chip even) unsocketed hot glued LEDs with a plastic reflector, sometimes going so far as to claim that "solar powered" is a feature and not a limitation. Considering the landscape and smart markets failure to provide matured products, I feel compelled to give this single bollard with no power supply and no network bridge in the box 4 stars and even.. sigh... recommend it.

I have 35 Philips Hue lights and this is the first foray into the outdoor lights they make. This light is great for creating a soft 360 degree glow around it that we use to light up our walkway and driveway. It's set up to turn on and off at certain times, and also to get brighter for 15 minutes right after any one of gets home. It was super easy to set up with my existing bridge, and took about 3 minutes to program it. it comes with a cable (but not a power supply) and the connections seem solid and waterproof, but I guess time will tell. It's completely metal with no plastic parts to break off. Highly recommended-We will be adding the Lily spotlights next!

As you would expect from Philips, this comes in retail packaging and is very nice build quality. This is the "premium" offering in the smart lighting space and it looks & feels like it. You will likely want more than one of these units, depending on your application, so this can be a pricey endeavor. The light has lots of color change options and is relatively bright. This states it requires a Philips Hue Bridge, but if you have a newer model Eero (basically 6 or greater) you can use the Alexa app since they natively support Zigbee. To do this, you'll need to go through the Alexa app, go to add a device, do not pick hue light bulb at top. Instead, scroll down to OTHER. On the setup screen select the question mark at top right of the page and look for the entry that tells you how to put your zigbee in pairing mode. In the tutorial, replace Echo with EERO. You will also need the 6 alphanumeric code on the unit. Overall 3.8/5

This landscape light arrived well protected within a professional-looking, branded box. The user manual is professionally produced and comprehensive. It uses a lot of detailed diagrams illustrating setup. There was a QR code that led to the control app. The app is user friendly. The light itself is modern and elegant looking. It is also well made. It puts off vibrant, colorful light. Overall, I would highly recommend.