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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  • +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.

    • +2

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

      • 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).

  • 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.

    • Only similar ones with mesh network are the nanoleaf essential downlights

    • 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).

      • 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

  • +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.

  • 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..

    • 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

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

  • Do we need a sparky to install these?

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

    • 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.
  • 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?

    • +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.

  • +1

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

    • 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).

  • 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

    • How are you adding bridge after cart is created online?

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

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