Philips Hue Canless Thin Downlight Review: Smart Pancake Lights!

These are the newest Hue "Canless" lights. They work without a can or junction box in the ceiling, all you need is a 6.1" opening.

The Hue Canless lights are a great option if you want all of your lights to be individually controllable with both color and brightness controls, but they are pretty expensive. I think most users would be fine with a smart dimmer, but these are really cool!

Other Hue Stuff I like:

Background Lights I like

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[travisamos]

Thanks man
The first real video with these lights!

[tucucca]

Great video! I didn’t notice. Did you install multiple lights? If so, was there room for multiple hots and neutrals on each connector box?

[professorxav]

I bought 36 Govee 6 inch lights and I am having all types of issues. I'm returning and ordering these hopefully they work fine.

[mvdnerd]

Can you use these outdoors, installed in the soffit?

[inspirebybri]

Do I need to buy a junction box separately? Or it comes with light?

[maryag]

Do you know the diameter of the light itself, without the border/flange? Hue only published the outer diameter (6.7”) and cutout diameter (6”), but not the light diameter.

[CM-xroq]

I've had poor longevity results with the driver boxes of similar-formfactor LED lights in my Thailand condo. They weren't RGB and weren't branded Phillips, but the body and orange clips look identical (who knows really which company is manufacturing what, now-days). Seems I have to replace them once per year.

[goalessio]

do i have to use the driver that ccomes with it or can i use my existing driver ?

[joejoe]

By nec code It never allow to not support the driver or junction box but everyone just push in the holes.

[BradCapelli]

will they connect to music through Spotify? if so can you do a video on that? debating buying 4 lights for the basement, and a flood light for the shed

[wagonwheel]

My downlight loses connection and cannot reconnect. Nothing works.

[rickyp]

Great Video, What was your Spacing for the lights?

[tomdesaulniers]

Do these dim right down to 1%? Or is it like some lights where anything between 1-10% is basically the same dimness? I want to be able to dim very low. Thanks!

[bigrobh]

Do you think the hue junction box would fit in the blue plastic junction boxes that are installed within the attic?

[TonyPanayides]

Hey thanks for the video. Is there a way to configure the lights during install where you can only turn on the Philips Hue light when it is in the ceiling with other non-smart lights or do you have to turn on all of them? Asking because I would love to only put in one Hue light and not replace all of them but use the different colors/dimming of just the Hue light without turning on all the lights. Thanks!

[TheOtherDerek]

I miss lamps, overhead lighting is harsh.

[oteswang]

1st comment and probably won’t be noticed by anyone