Hue accidentally leaks a new video doorbell

An replace to the Philips Hue app this week seems to have leaked a brand new Hue Safe video doorbell, stories Hueblog. The unannounced product exhibits up in a piece providing directions for including units that you don’t have any QR code for.

From the screenshots beneath, taken within the iOS Hue app by my colleague Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, the Hue Safe doorbell is a simple video doorbell — tall, rectangular, and with what appears to be like like a big button within an LED circle. As of this writing, the app nonetheless exhibits it on my cellphone.

I might solely get thus far within the directions earlier than hitting a wall, however there are particulars to glean. That features that it could be a wired system, due to mentions of low-voltage errors and a have to “bodily set up” the digicam earlier than setup. It additionally makes use of each Bluetooth — for setup, no less than — and Wi-Fi.

Hueblog writes that the digicam isn’t anticipated to launch till this fall, so it could possibly be some time earlier than pricing or digicam specs can be found. The easiest way to set your expectations might be to take a look at Hue’s different Safe cameras, such because the floodlight and indoor / outside choices launched in 2023. They every provide 1080p video, two-way discuss, and end-to-end encryption of recordings, in addition to sensible alerts for folks, pets, and automobiles. Additionally they don’t assist HomeKit Safe Video, and I wouldn’t count on that to vary with this system.