The just-released “pro” version of Philips Hue’s smart hub comes with a killer feature: the ability to turn your Hue lights into motion detectors. But as I noted after testing the Bridge Pro last month, Hue’s motion-sensing functionality is missing a key feature.

Specifically, Hue’s new MotionAware system is pretty good at detecting movement, but it can’t sense when a room is simply being occupied by someone.

The ability to detect presence as well as motion in a room would be the “next step” for Hue, company founder and technology chief George Yanni has acknowledged, although it’s not clear exactly when Philips Hue might actually take that next step.

“We, in theory, can sense more sophisticated things than just motion,” Yanni said in a recent interview with HomeKit Insider (via

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