{"id":408131,"date":"2017-09-28T01:46:45","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T17:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/09\/27\/lifx-homekit-enabled-tile-modular-lights\/"},"modified":"2017-09-28T01:46:45","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T17:46:45","slug":"lifx-debuts-new-homekit-enabled-tile-modular-wall-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/lifx-debuts-new-homekit-enabled-tile-modular-wall-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"LIFX Debuts New HomeKit-Enabled &#8216;Tile&#8217; Modular Wall Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LIFX just recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/09\/21\/lifx-bulbs-homekit-support\/\">introduced HomeKit support<\/a> for its existing Wi-Fi connected smart bulbs, and today, the company is launching a new product with HomeKit compatibility, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifx.com\/collections\/featured-products\/products\/lifx-tile\">LIFX Tile<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The LIFX Tile is similar to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/review\/nanoleaf-aurora-smarter-kit\/\">the Nanoleaf Aurora<\/a>, offering a series of five 7.87-inch square plastic panels that are meant to be attached to a wall using 3M adhesive. Tile panels can be arranged in any configuration, but unlike Aurora, only five panels can be connected to a single controller.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/09\/lifxtile2-800x502.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"502\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-593016\"\/><br \/>Though only five panels can be connected, there are 64 individually addressable zones in each Tile for creating unique light patterns with multiple colors on each of the squares.<\/p>\n<p>Across five panels, Tile offers 2100 lumens of light and can be set to turn any color just like LIFX bulbs. There&#8217;s also a dimming feature to control the light output.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/09\/lifxtile1-800x491.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"491\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-593017\"\/><br \/>According to LIFX, Tile is compatible with HomeKit, Google Home, and Amazon Alexa. Tile connects to a home setup over Wi-Fi, with no hub required to control the lights.<\/p>\n<p>LIFX is charging $250 for its Tile Kit, which includes five tiles and a power pack. Pre-orders are available starting today <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifx.com\/collections\/featured-products\/products\/lifx-tile\">from the LIFX website<\/a>, with the product set to ship out in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIFX just recently introduced HomeKit support for its existing Wi-Fi connected smart bulbs, and today, the company is launching a new product with HomeKit compatibility, the LIFX Tile. The LIFX Tile is similar to the Nanoleaf Aurora, offering a series of five 7.87-inch square plastic panels that are meant to be attached to a wall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":408132,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[68,69,59,26],"class_list":["post-408131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macrumors","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}