Philips Hue
Philips Hue Lightstrip Plus v4 (2 m base kit)
- Zigbee
- Bluetooth
Verified September 2026
The safe-choice light strip for UK Hue households: extendable to 10 m, rock-solid on the Bridge, and flawless in Home Assistant's local Hue integration. You pay roughly double a Govee strip for that reliability. This 2 m base kit includes the driver and controller, pushing 1,700 lumens at 4000K white (1,140 lumens on warmer 2700K) from 20 W, enough for accent lighting but not a room's sole source. It is IP20-rated, so strictly indoor, dry-location use, unlike outdoor-rated Govee alternatives. Extension pieces are sold separately, and colour and brightness sync with the rest of a Hue Zigbee mesh is instant since it shares the same protocol as your bulbs.
In Home Assistant
| Control | Type | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Light | Light | One entity covers the entire physical run regardless of how many extension pieces are attached — no zone/segment sub-entities are ever created. |
| Colour | Colour | Sets a single uniform colour across the whole strip; there is no per-segment colour parameter. |
| Brightness | Number (0-100%) | Standard local dimming via the Bridge; low-end steps can visibly band on the full 10m extended run since one dimming curve applies to the whole length. |
| Effect | Select | Built-in dynamic effects applied uniformly to the entire strip; selecting one overrides any manually-set colour until cleared. |
| Entertainment area | Capability | Can be added to a Hue Entertainment Area, but since it's single-zone, it receives one averaged colour per frame rather than the multi-point gradient rendering Hue's Gradient-series products get in the same area. |
The strip, base plus any extension pieces up to 10m total, reports to HA as a single light entity — extensions are purely electrical, so adding segments never creates new entities or exposes per-section control; the whole run always takes one colour value. That's a hard contrast with LIFX's multizone strip already on our site, where HA's integration exposes zone-indexed colour so scripts can drive chase/gradient effects along the strip's length. Assigning this Lightstrip to a Hue Entertainment Area doesn't change that: the Bridge still pushes one averaged colour per frame to the whole strip, since true per-pixel gradient rendering is exclusive to Hue's separate Gradient-series products, not this model. The known physical failure point is the barrel connector joint between driver and each extension piece — a loose or corroded joint shows up in HA as the single entity flickering or dimming rather than a partial dark segment, since there's no sub-zone telemetry to isolate which run is at fault.
Specs
- wattage
- 20 W (0.5 W standby)
- ip rating
- IP20 (indoor, dry locations only)
- brightness
- 1,700 lumens (4000K); 1,140 lumens (2700K)
- dimmable range
- 1-100%, standard Hue dimming curve
- colour temperature
- 2000K-6500K tuneable white, plus full-colour (16 million colours, Gamut C)
- max extension length
- 10 m total (this 2 m base kit + extension pieces sold separately)