Philips Hue Akari White Colour and Ambience Downlight 90mm $64 Delivered @ Amazon AU

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Good price for Philips Hue, Akari is colour series, this deal is for the 90mm downlights, RRP $99. Garnea is non-colour, currently also on sale $56.50 + delivery ($0 with Prime or with $59 Spend or with first order for new customers).

Downlights in recent years are installed with plug base (so they are user replaceable), older ones were not, so this may not work for you.

There are other Zigbee compatible downlights if you don't want to pay Philips premium.

Currently same price at Bunnings: https://www.bunnings.com.au/philips-hue-down-light-led-800lm…

Or you can try 5% price beat at Officeworks (they have it at $87): https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/philips-hu…

Or price match at JB Hi-Fi and use 10% discounted TCN Gift card: https://www.jbhifi.com.au/products/philips-hue-colour-ambian…

JB Hi-Fi currently has a bonus offer, buy 3 and get a free Hue Bridge, may or may not get it when price matched, no harm trying.

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  Arsenal on 13/03/2025 - 11:02

  +1

  Problem is, this basically only really brings them down to match their normal 4 pack pricing, and I assume most people have at least 4 downlights, so this only really helps if you don't have multiples of 4.

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    enigma48 on 13/03/2025 - 11:20

    +3

    The akari 4 pack historical low is 287 (almost $72 each). These are 64ea. Did you have another source for cheaper 4 packs elsewhere?

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      Arsenal on 13/03/2025 - 11:30

      Ah apologies, i was looking at the Garnea ones.. its a good deal if you use the colours (from experience at our previous house the coloured ones never really got used enough to justify the extra cost).

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  PantlessBobby on 13/03/2025 - 11:31

  I have a couple of these and they are fantastic, and understand the description notes there are many other ZigBee comparable downlights if you don't want to pay the Philips premium, but can anyone recommend these ZigBee alternatives without the Philips premium?

  I know the Philips tax pays dividends for peace of mind and they just work, but would love to know 'similar' alternatives that don't break the bank if anyone has recommendations.

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    Anubis on 13/03/2025 - 11:32

    Only similar ones with mesh network are the nanoleaf essential downlights

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    NinjaChicken on 13/03/2025 - 12:32

    I’ve got a couple of the Mercator Ikuu zigbee down lights. They work well - and seem brighter compared to the Hue down lights (haven’t compared specs).

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      bleugh on 13/03/2025 - 15:04

      avoid the Ikuu switches. you can't decouple inputs from outputs and they do crash / freeze from time to time if there's any street power issues :-(
      (to recover, you have to power down at the fuse box for a minute!)

      I've used over 20 of the IKUU walter downlights,
      they're ok value for money,
      downsides though
      the colour is very dim
      no Zigbee mesh (they're end points only)

      Tried the OzSmarthings zigbee lights in a new reno in another room and they're FANTASTIC in comparison (as well as a little cheaper).

      Won't look back now!, bigger, brighter and are actually repeaters, so i have over 20 of them installed

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        rubasurex on 14/03/2025 - 08:53

        +1

        Do you have the v2 downlights from OzSmartThings? Do they dim down pretty low? I've been thinking of getting them as they are so much cheaper than going with Philips Hue. But I've read a few people commenting that they don't dim low enough.

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          bleugh on 14/03/2025 - 15:49

          @rubasurex: yes, I have the V2. They are very bright!. No idea what 'too low' dimming is, but they go lower than the old analogue / halogen bulbs we pulled out. If you use Home assistant or similar then you can even change the colour temperature at different times of day (golden in the evening for example), this gives a much lower perceived dim-ness. If you go super tricky and go with the RGB side (rather than the Warm/cold white) then they can get so dim, there's no point in calling them 'on'.

          and, finally, if you have a lot of lights in one room - and you don't like them so bright at night. create a scene that uses only a few to highlight key areas, and keeps the others off.

          with home automation, avoid using entities to switch if you can. Put everything into a scene, then use your switches to call different scenes - and automations to change those scenes for different times of day if you wanna be really fancy!

          (i'm just learning how to do all that, after doing it all the wrong way for so long!)

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            rubasurex on 15/03/2025 - 08:39

            @bleugh: Thanks for your reply. I just read some people saying that they don't dim enough. The lowest dimming is still too bright apparently. I just wondered if that was an issue with the lights itself or with people maybe not setting them up right.

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  browser on 13/03/2025 - 12:22

  +1

  Bought this after getting a light strip from an earlier deal. Really impressed by the quality and ease of setup. So decided to look for a better deal than spending time to experiment with other Zigbee lights.

  The light strip kit included a Hue Bridge in the box, now an extra one in retail pack with the downlights. Works out to $230 for 4 Akari and a Hue Bridge, may put it up in marketplace to bring the 4 downlights under $200.

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  chutibuti on 13/03/2025 - 12:42

  I know you can not go back to history , but it was 49.95, I bought 20 without any issue, beginnings & JB did the price matching as well..

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    browser on 13/03/2025 - 12:48

    It's good to know historic prices.

    That's the down side of downlights, need lots of them. I'm only doing up 1 room with 4 lights.

    Look around other areas gives me the headache. :D

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      chutibuti on 13/03/2025 - 12:52

      it was 2 months back " Invoice Date/Delivery Date: 22.01.2025"

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  wibgyor on 13/03/2025 - 13:08

  Do we need a sparky to install these?

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    Anubis on 13/03/2025 - 13:13

    They have regular power plugs behind them that go into switches, as long as you have those in ceiling you are fine…

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    browser on 13/03/2025 - 14:03

    Depends on what you current have.

    Newer downlights, say less than 10 years, good chance they are plugged, then this would be plug and play.

    • Some may have a separate driver (transformer), like this.
    • Newer ones have the driver build into the light, like this.

    Older ones are hardwired, you will need a sparky.

    • Such as this. The sparky at the time could have installed a plug to the driver (to make it become this), but he would also need to install a plug base. Extra parts, extra time, extra cost, so unless it was specifically requested, they would go with hardwire.
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    Sawtell on 14/03/2025 - 07:33

    If you have hard wired lights to replace, get your sparky to have a look at the Blind Snake rapid plug bases. They are cheap and very quick to install.

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      browser on 15/03/2025 - 14:53

      Almost certainly some downlights are connected with more than 1 set of wires, those quick connect type plugs would not work, they are designed for 1 set of wire.

      Instead of carrying both quick connect and standard plug bases, chances are the sparky only have the standard type that works for all scenarios.

      You can request them to get the quick connect plugs, or get them yourself, but you need to know how many, unless you don't mind having left overs.

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  unco on 13/03/2025 - 13:27

  Are these all standard size? I have downlights in my house which I've replaced one before, it looks like this and had a power plug for each one in the ceiling.
  Can I assume they're all 90mm or should I wait to go home and measure the hole?

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    browser on 13/03/2025 - 14:09

    +1

    I think 90mm is the most common LED downlight, some halogen downlights are smaller.

    The outside (housing) diameter is 115mm, if that's more or less what you have, good chance they will match.

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    Name on 13/03/2025 - 20:22

    While 90mm is most common it's worth measuring still. Half my house is 90mm other half is 80mm. Bought a bunch of 90mm and then had to go around making holes 10mm bigger. Pita!

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  huey on 13/03/2025 - 15:12

  +1

  I got JB to price match a set of 3 and also threw in the Philips Hue Bridge for free.

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    browser on 13/03/2025 - 15:19

    Thanks for confirming. Got the same deal but not sure if it's just that particular agent being nice.

    The Hue Bridge is automatically added to cart when 3 Akari are in the cart, but it has to be 3, 4 will remove it. (I don't know if agent follows a different process in the backend.)

    Split the order to 3 + 1 worked (needed 4).

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  huey on 13/03/2025 - 15:23

  There is a bundle discount when you add 4 units.
  Last time I was able to get an extra 25% discount on top of the price match. No dice this time so took up the free Hue Bridge

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    Anubis on 13/03/2025 - 15:33

    How are you adding bridge after cart is created online?

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      huey on 13/03/2025 - 16:19

      You ask JB rep via chat to do it and add the Hue Bridge for free.

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        Anubis on 13/03/2025 - 19:56

        I tried and they rejected it as it was price matched :-(

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          browser on 13/03/2025 - 21:57

          @Anubis: Probably someone spoiled it when they seek clarification from management, then it becomes a black and white no.

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            Tilania on 14/03/2025 - 16:10

            +1

            @browser: I just got JBHifi live chat to Price match the $64 for 3 with free bridge….needed a 4th so ordered from Amazon with the additional $5 Prime discount….

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              Anubis on 15/03/2025 - 08:57

              +1

              @Tilania: Thanks, I tried again and got it this time with different agent.

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                browser on 15/03/2025 - 14:47

                +1

                @Anubis: Good outcome.