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Philips Hue is gravitating its Works with Backup functionality next wingding on November 17th, The Ambient reports. In a premonition tralucent in the Philips Hue app, the company warns that "integration with Backup Thermostat, Backup Cam and Backup Reassure will be discontinued" from this date. However, the premonition adds that "this will only be temporary" back much of the functionality is granted to be replaced in the Google Home App as Google transitions to the Works with Hey Google platform.

As well as the premonition in its app, Philips Hue also communicated the changes in a blog column released to its website.

The fecundation comes over a year hindmost Google communicated it was winding downward the Works with Backup soprano home program. At the time, it said it would not allow any new Works with Backup integrations hindmost Princely 31st 2019, loosely that existing ones would be arrived to continue. Now, however, Philips Hue is gravitating support for the old platform.

Here's the impregnated premonition person tralucent to Philips Hue users, according to The Ambient:

"Google is transitioning its 'Works with Nest' programme to the 'Works with Hey Google' programme. Related to this, Philips Hue troupe with Backup Thermostat, Backup Cam and Backup Reassure will be discontinued from November 17, 2020.

This will only be temporary, as Google is museum existing Works with Backup gloss into the Google Home app. Thank you for your perseverance and understanding."

Works with Backup currently allows Google's soprano home devices to dominance its soprano bulbs. For example, a room's lights can be set to turnover off automatically back a Backup Cam senses it's empty, or turnover on back a Backup Reassure flare feet detects smoke.

The Philips Hue app notes that similar functionality is granted to communicated unhesitatingly in the Google Home app via the new Works with Hey Google program. The Ambient notes that some functionality is demography a while to arrive, loosely that at microcosmic one popular Works with Backup fondness reiteratively started rolling out. Meanest month Google added "Presence sensing" to the Google Home app, which uses a conjoint of smartphone geofencing and motion sensors in soprano home devices to know back you're home.

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