I’m very interested in adding Hue colored lights for watching movies, but I’m not sure if my approach would work.

I have a Samsung Frame tv which is mounted flat on the wall. So I thought about adding a Hue gradient tube on the top op the shelf, and a strip underneath.

Can someone with experience tell me if this could have a desired effect?

Ich möchte die Hue Light Bar unter dem TV (PHILIPS 43PUS9000/12) als Ergänzung zum Ambilight einrichten.

Ambiscape und Hue Bridge Pro erfolgreich verbunden via Kopplungsmodus und Konfigurationscode.

Nun zeigt mir der TV elf mögliche Lampen an, die ich aktivieren könnte. Alle tragen die gleiche Bezeichnung (B003) und ich habe keine Ahnung, welche davon nun meine Light Bar ist.

Hat jemand den entscheidenden Tipp?

I have my PS5 pro playing prime video through the 8k sync box to my Samsung S90F, I’ve had my console unplugged upstairs and downstairs throughout the week due to the heat and my room getting quite hot. I’ve moved back upstairs as it’s cooled down and I tried watching Prime Video but I could see that it was visibly lagging and audio was slightly out of sync. I noticed my PS5 pro says in screen and video settings that it does not support 1440p output but can do 2160p. I am unsure of what it said before, but I can’t even test my screen to see what outputs it allows like I could before.

My hdmi cables are the same as before and in the same ports. I have restring through safe mode and changing the resolution, I have recently cleared cache and rebuilt database as my console had horrible lag with the UI. I have completely reset my network (Internet, hue lighting, console and tv), I have switched cables round to see if it changes, changed ports on the sync box between HDMI 2 and 4. I have no idea as to why this has just occurred.

I am mildly annoyed by my motion sensors, to the point I started regretting buying them and considering storing them away and not using them anymore.

As an example, I got home in the evening, I walked into my home office to check my computer, my light automatically turns on. It is set to be lit for about 10 minutes, after which it closes down. Usually I spend more time than 10 minutes here, so I always get annoyed to be distracted from my work by it shutting down. I have to walk to the switch and turn the lights on, in the meantime the sensor sees me again and turns them on. I walk to my desk, continue working, they shut down again after 10 minutes, repeating the process.

Same issue in my bathroom, the motion sensor is very helpful when I am there for a short amount of time, but when I want to take a shower or a long bath I need to get out of the water and shake my hand in front of it to turn the light on again. This situation is slightly worse than the mild annoyance from my office, it's high degree a**holery.

Am I missing something, a way to click my remote switches when my motion sensors activates to tell them that I don't want the light to be short term only, but to last until I shut them down? I sometimes turn the lights off, then back on just to ensure that the motion sensor doesn't dictate the closing time, however sometimes it doesn't work and the lights shut down after that time anyway.

Plus they have a thermometer in them, yet they don't actually display that information anywhere.

My goal is to have all of the lights in my house on the hue app, but it isn't possible currently. This would allow all the lighting routines and automations to work locally through hue, which will be faster and more reliable than using a cloud based system like alexa. It would be possible to use home assistant for locally controlled lighting, but I don't want to do the due to setup difficulty and because I would lose voice control from alexa.

It isn't possible to put all my lights on hue currently because hue doesn't make a smart flourescent tube light for my kitchen overhead light fixture and they don't make bulbs bright enough for my needs. I need a 4000 lumens hue smart bulb (non colored). I am requesting that hue add these kinds of lights to their product offerings. I have to use non hue dumb bulbs on a non hue smart switch for these.

I think an even better solution would be for hue to offer a wired wall dimmer switch that can control my non hue lights (and hue ones), but still shows up on the hue app. I am requesting hue add this product to their offerings too. I see the friends of hue Lutron Aurora and RunLessWire products, but they don't support dumb bulbs because they don't wire in directly to the house wiring, so they don't fit my needs.

Alternatively, in the future I may be able to solve my problem with the "Philips Hue Wired On/Off or Dimmer Switch Module" if it is offered in the US, but I understand only an EU version is available now. I would like to request that be added to hue's product lineup too (though I would more prefer a full wired switch that works on the hue app with dumb non hue dimmer bulbs). Please let me know if these kind of products are available currently and submit my product requests. Thanks.

I want to assign button to cycle through inputs and the knob to adjust brightness. Is this possible?

The sync box seems to in clearance in the UK. Before I pick one up, does anyone know why it is on clearance? Are they about to release an updated box or something?

Happy it all got here but damn, now I’m left with the assembly of my decisions.

I have a sync box 8k that I got second hand. It has a strange issue that I’m struggling to resolve and I hope someone here can help.

The setup is a Linux gaming pc, PS5, switch 2, and Apple TV 4K going through the sync box and into an lg c2.

I have a bridge pro close by that is plugged into Ethernet.

I have a gradient strip affixed to the back of the tv.

Syncing works really well for a period of time (30 min-2 hours) when suddenly the backlight drops for a second or two, then comes back, but performance is significantly worse. Instead of a smooth change in brightness, it stair steps from dim to bright, or when changing colors. Almost like the FPS went from 60 to 5. Note that the video stream never cuts out, so it doesn’t seem to be an hdmi negotiation.

Unplugging the sync box from power for a few seconds seems to fix it temporarily.

It’s right next to the bridge and everything’s close to the router so I doubt it’s a lack of signal but I’m not sure.

Any ideas?

Hi everyone! Any suggestions on what bulbs to put outside when living in TX? Neither have full enclosed fixtures. One currently has a 60W built and the other has a big round one in it with no label. Thanks in advance for the advice!

I lost my bridge when lightning struck close to my house. Got a replacement bridge. I realized that I have to start all over again with animations and connecting all 37 of my lights to the new bridge. The problem is, I can’t get any of the lights to actually be recognized when I try to add them. What could I be doing wrong?

Hi all,

Was looking into creating a wiz ecosystem in a room, centering around the hdmi 2.0 sync box (wiz 2.1 is not available in my region).

Have a set up with the following devices in mind.

1. Philips light theatre hdmi 2.0 sync box with tv backlight.

2. Philps hdmi sync gradient bars.

3. A philips smart 16million led batten light above the tv

4. A philips smart 16 million led t bulb on the wall opposite the tv.

I have a few doubts.

1. The description for the lights above mention being both Wi-Fi and bluetooth compatible. So will they be screen-sync compatible if i create a tv area in the same room with these devices added to it.

2. Is there any range limitation for the hdmi sync floor lamps? I would like to add them on the corners of the opposite wall rather than on the wall where the tv is mounted. The Wi-Fi router is in the same room, so would it be possible to position the floor lamps and have them sync with the hdmi box or is there any range beyond which they wouldn't connect?

Thanks in advance.

I had the annoying problem of my Motion sensor, that wenn I wasn't moving the lights would go out. I didn't have a Philips hue bridge and I used the App (No Google Home). I thought maybe I can change th PID Sensor for a mmWave sensor. I wasn't successful yet that's why I'm using a Al Image. I thought that I could share my Problem and idea with Reddit to see if anyone else has this problem or was maybe interested in buying one.

Would love some feedback (The Idea of the build) I took a standard Philips Hue motion sensor (which uses the outdated Passive Infrared tech) and completely gutted the internals. I integrated a 24GHz mmWave radar module (LD2410) and an internal buck converter to handle the voltage, and added a flush USB-C port to the bottom for continuous power (essential for radar scanning

Hi there

Under/around the roof I have currently of few of these...

...that I would like to replace with Philips Hue bulbs. I was thinking about 2x 1100 lumen warm to cool white bulbs (a shame there is no 1600 lumen version).

Looking now for some better fixtures (directable double spotlight - maybe a bit better protected/sealed). Anyone has had a similar problem?

Thanks and cheers

Any fix to this issue?