Ambie · ambient lighting
The lights in your car, reacting to it.
Ambie is a set of small modules that take over the ambient lighting already in your car and make it respond: to the drive mode, the climate, the doors, the music. You keep your light strips.
What drives the colour
One colour per drive mode.
Change the temperature
Open a door
An illustration with example colours, drawn for this page. The pods demo is the real software; this one is not.
Try the triggers
Pick what drives the colour, change the temperature, open a door. Each of these is something Ambie listens for in the car.
Some of these run in a car today and some are still being built. The lists below say which.
What it reacts to
More triggers will come the same way: as updates, not new hardware.
- Drive mode
- A colour for each mode, changed the moment the car changes.
- Temperature
- A red or blue flash when you turn the climate up or down.
- Door open
- The open door's own lights change, so you see which one it is. Needs a door module in that door.
- Now playing
- Colours taken from the cover art of what is playing.
- Weather
- The cabin follows what it is doing outside.
How you control it
Three ways, and they stay in step with each other.
- The car's own ambient menu
- Colour and brightness from the ambient lighting page on the car's screen, the way factory lighting works. Nothing new to learn.
- The companion app
- Set what each trigger does, save your own looks, and name which module is in which door.
- The pods
- If you have the pods: colour and brightness from the steering wheel.
What you buy
Modules only. A controller that goes behind the centre console, and a module for each door you want lit separately. The doors talk to the controller wirelessly, so nothing runs through the door hinges. We do not sell light strips.
- Plug and play today
- Cars with an aftermarket ambient kit that does more than three colours. Ambie plugs in where that kit's control box is.
- In development
- Cars with the factory multicolour ambient lighting.
- Not for
- Cars with no ambient lighting. Those need a multicolour kit fitted first.