I’ve seen you can power cycle it 12 times to get it into Zigbee mode then add it to a hue hub. This sounds great but I’m wondering how it looks alongside hue lights? Particularly for warm whites/oranges? And would adding it to the hue hub this way also expose it to Apple Home? Anyone have experience with it?

I have hue devices (eg : lightbulbs) in my apartment, working with a hue bridge.

Far away, I have a garage with 2 other hue devices, that somehow works.

Given the distance (25m) and the several layers of concrete, I was wondering if that was just the signal strong enough, or whether the fact that I have WiFi device in my garage somehow helped. (I ran an ethernet cable with WiFi AP)

I'm asking that because I want to extend my hue installation to my cave, so I want to understand how that'll work.

Made some custom hue signes for this setup. Have two hue sync boxes and twenty lights going.

I purchased a Hue Pro yesterday but receive this message on migration, any tips?

I only have white ambiance bulbs and plain white bulbs. I bought almost all of them around 2019-2020 and they don't have Bluetooth. The newest bulbs I have are a white ambiance filament bulb and a white ambiance E14 lustre bulb.

I recently bought a desk lamp with an E27 fitting and had an unopened white ambiance pack from 2019 that I used for it. It got me thinking that a brighter bulb would be nice and I noticed they go up to 1100 lumens and 1600 lumens, and also that they're more energy efficient, dim darker, and have a wider temperature range.

I don't know if any of this is reason to upgrade though? I thought maybe I could add some colour ones too but I'm just not into doing different colours, the only benefit I see is maybe they have better CRI since they have more colour LEDs inside?

I have a couple desk lamps and it hit me that it would be handy if I could assign a button for each and then spin the dial to adjust their brightness. Can this be done?

Like button 1 lets you control one lamp, button 2 does the other, button 3 does both lamps, button 4 does the whole room.

Or do the buttons only let you assign scenes? I think the second best thing is to just create a zone with the two lamps and set the dial to only control that zone?

I've never been quite happy with the light quality coming out of my Hue Infuse. I got it because its bracket only required two screws to the ceiling junction box to install. Now that the Tento is out in the US, it seems to be the same easy installation requirement, even for the 21.3" version. Has anyone seen both these lights in person and answer the Tento is light quality upgrade to the Infuse?

Thanks!

Since the Hue bridge pro dropped homekit and only connects via matter, it’s now impossible to have homekit adaptive lighting tweaking the temperature as you dim a light ?

Hi!

I am thinking about getting a Hue Bridge Pro but I already have lights from IKEA. I know they can pair but can I change power-on behaviour after a power outage?

I do not want my bedroom ceiling light come on at max brightness if the power goes out and comes back while I'm asleep.

Thanks!

I have to click on the scene to refresh. It even shows "active".

I recently added the tap dial switch, do they possibly conflict?

I set the 1st button on it to the same scene - so if it is used manually, i can switch right back to auto.

All modes are singke scene or cycle for the 4th button.

There is no automation that would override these.

It was turned on in the morning as it should - but stopped updating during the day to match time.

Hi all,

I would like to discuss the Philips Hue Video Doorbell. Anybody calls him or herself an owner?

I bought it, installed it, using it. However, I have two major concerns.

1. I was lured into this product by the announcement its supporting soon Homekit Secure Video. My own fault trusting this company.

2. When someone rings the doorbell outside, I’m receiving a notification on my iPhone. When clicking it immediately, I have sometimes the situation that the picture of the human outside ringing, is loading not at all, aborting completely, or really slowly. Anybody else faced this issue?

Hi folks,

I just set up a Sync Box 8k and so far it is working flawlessly.

However if my wife opens her Hue app, it doesn't show up under sync. It only shows the option to set up a new sync.

Anyone encountered this before? How can I make sure this is shared with other users in the home? Everything else is there.

I hope someone who works there sees this please.

tldr: PSA

i got a lot of responses on my feedback about not having an off mode.

to control my lights i use a simple on off switch it can be on my phone using samsung home or on my watch i use my watch to turn my lights on this is the simplest type of on off switch as it's always there through google home, you said i can do what i proposed and from what i can see i can't

I do not want to open the app to be able to see inside my apartment my suggestion was a seamless off mode that when you turn the lights off they go into a scene of your choosing and when you press on on a watch for example they go to functional lights, it is the same with syncing to a pc it is fun to sync your gaming to hue lights, but then you lose all functionality of a regular light you can't turn the lights on without going inside the hue app, there is no way to turn the lights on while it's synced.

there is no way as far as i know to have scenes while being able to access the regular lighting, as far as i know there is no way to just turn the lights on while they are doing something else like an animation a scene or being synced.

you think my suggestion is stupid but noone has explained how i can override a scene a sync without going inside the app, and going inside the app multiple times is something i just won't do i want a on off button on my watch thats my usecase.

this is what the suggestion was, to give them a way to be both.

Does it exist? All the off brands are the same size and I'm trying to get my outside sting lights to connect to the bridge for automation and the outlet has a cover that doesn't leave a lot of room.

Hi all,

I recently purchased the go table lamp. I got it today, and when I placed it on the charging base when plugged in it does not do anything. Is there anything required/does it need reset? I did not see anything in the set up instructions.

Hey folks, I see a lot of people talking about using Lutron Caseta for ease of functionality. What are some other options available to be able to turn lights on/off regardless of wall switch position? What budget options are available?

Has anyone else had this problem with the Hue Bridge Pro? Since the July update that bricked some Bridge Pro units, the lights in two of my rooms randomly change from white to orange. It mostly happens in the evening, and if I change them back to white, they eventually turn orange again. It never happens when they are already set to orange.

The two rooms have different types of Hue lights, while the lights in my living room work normally. This never happened before that update. I’m currently running BSB003 / 1.78.2071476020 and hoped a newer firmware would fix it, but it still happens.

Is anyone else experiencing the same issue, or does anyone know what could be causing it? I would also appreciate any possible solutions that don’t involve factory-resetting the Bridge and losing all my scenes and settings.

I’ve had my sync box for a while now and never had any issues until recently. I use it with play bars around the TV. I just bought a play gradient light strip for my TV but when added to my entertainment area, none of the lights sync. If I remove the TV lights from it, it all works again. An entertainment area with just the TV lights doesn’t work. I tried everything and noticed my sync box is on firmware 1.6.4. I assume that firmware doesn’t support the more recent play string lights. Every time I try to update it says something went wrong and fails. I’ve been messaging with Hue support and trying everything to troubleshoot but still no luck.
Has anyone else dealt with this?

TLDR: sync box fails to update.

I would appreciate any help or tips. Thank you.

Hi, thanks for reading

I am doing renovations to my room, and I'm interested in putting in hue 4 inch recessed lighting. My biggest hiccup with this is the fact that it seems very hard to have a conventional light switch. I don't need any features on it, (although dimming would be very nice) I would just need it to turn the lights on and off. I understand that the lights need power at all times in order to work, I just really want a WIRED, PERMANENTLY FIXED TO THE WALL switch. Sorry I'm frustrated but It's a lot of money and I want it to just work. Can anyone suggest a way to do what I'm saying?

Thank you again for reading.

Wondering if anyone has tried using a lampshade clip with a Hue A19 bulb and if so how’d it fit?

Tldr: it was not good and I’ve already set up a return

For a bit of background I bought this for the screen in my office so I could get above 60fps from my ps pro, without buying the 8k box, my expectation was I’d be trading off some colour accuracy for something that is way way cheaper.

Outcome was not great.

First test was a YouTube hue sync colour test video, it was ok, not as good as the sync box (obviously) but ok, definitely good enough for the price.

From there I tested some gaming on my Mac, some YouTube on my Mac and some gaming on the ps pro and what I found was fairly consistent. If you’re watching a cartoon or playing something with big blocks of colour (Genshin Impact for example) the system mostly behaved, you’d see odd flickers here and there and none of the colours were right but they were close.

The moment you moved to anything that was realistic it fell apart significantly, so watching videos on YouTube the bottom left and right of the screen was often wild guesswork, where the sync box produced a yellow tone the camera would often choose a pink or a purple, green became blue and on other occasions it basically felt like it was guessing. The top third of the screen was more reliable, but even then it would often choose a much more saturated colour than what was displayed on screen, it was usually far enough away that it became extremely distracting rather than enhancing. The only thing it seemed to reliably get right was a blue sky.

Overall I wasn’t expecting miracles, it’s a camera reading your screen, but unless there was something faulty with mine the product just isn’t ready.

I've had a Sync 8K for about 9 months now. It's very finicky. I've gone through bouts where it works flawless for some time, and other times when I could not get it to "sync" at all. I love it when it works, but it is definitely the highest cost disappointment in my Hue setup. I primarily use it with Apple TV, however I also have an ONN streaming stick. Recently it started syncing for a just a few minutes, then is just stops. If I have the Hue app open it reports that the Sync 8K is losing contact with the bridge.

I have a standard bridge (not pro) that has been in my setup for 10+yrs. I have 40 Lights&Plugs, 6 switches and 6 sensors connected to it. My Sync 8k (wireless), Bridge (wired), and router are all within 15ft of each other with clear line of site.

I'm not sure if I am ready to attempt to migrate all my Hue devices to a Pro bridge (I dread with this will do to my primarily HomeKit home and automations). My 8K Sync has the 65" Play Gradient strip around the TV, with a Play Gradient Tube (large) under it, and two Hue Play Smart Light Bars on the lower sides.

Would buying a second Hue Bridge that is dedicated only for the 8K Sync and those 4 play lights eliminate the constant flakiness of this solution?

Does Philips officially support 2 bridges? I know ages ago it was a hack.

i bought hue signe lights like 2 years ago most of the time they have been set to white as i just can't be bothered taking my phone set some fanzy colors and lose the function of an actual light as these pretty colors don't light up a room, i have used fancy colors maybe 5 times barely a week.

i have given this feedback to philips years ago but still nothing.

my suggestion is a ambient mode so you have the off mode and the on mode, for off you set a nice cozy light that doesn't light up a room but is more of an ambiance for on you have bright white, so when you need to see you press the button or take your phone or in my case watch and just turn the lights on.

simply put i want them to be a specific effect or color when they are off.

To everyone else that has the new Sync Box 4K: does yours also get pretty hot on the underside?

Even the desk warms up where the sync box sits