Philips Hue Lighting - owners thread
Discussion
Cotty said:
Mr Will said:
The other option for hallways etc is the motion sensor - works great for simple rooms you'll be passing through often.
Yes im thinking of getting one for the stairs so the landing light goes on when I walk up and off when I walk down. We've got two sensors, one on the landing that comes on bright from dusk to 10pm, and then comes on as a nightlight after that and turns off after 1 minute.
The other is in a lounge that is also a walk way that connects the kitchen one way and hall the other. That light was forever being left on, so now just stays on for 5 mins when triggered.
We've got about 10 hue devices/bulbs now and love how it's all set up.
It's also made a noticeable drop in the electric bill
The other is in a lounge that is also a walk way that connects the kitchen one way and hall the other. That light was forever being left on, so now just stays on for 5 mins when triggered.
We've got about 10 hue devices/bulbs now and love how it's all set up.
It's also made a noticeable drop in the electric bill
Has any one tried the GU10s in a fitting like this where the bulbs stick out and are visible?
https://www.wholesaleledlights.co.uk/gu10-spotligh...
I'm worried that the white plastic on the outside of the hue bulbs will look weird.
https://www.wholesaleledlights.co.uk/gu10-spotligh...
I'm worried that the white plastic on the outside of the hue bulbs will look weird.
Cotty said:
AB said:
Decided to bite the bullet on Hue, about to leave the office as the gear has been delivered to a neighbour.
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k me it's expensive!! Decided I may as well do all the main rooms in the house, so main 2 bedrooms, hallway, landing and living room.
That's the best part of £800, it's ridiculous. I've gone for an Echo downstairs and a Dot upstairs.
How are you looking to control them, via the Echo and Dot? Im still finding without a dot in each room im walking onto a dark room and having to exit the room to find a dot to tell it to turn the light on, then go back into the room. f
k me it's expensive!! Decided I may as well do all the main rooms in the house, so main 2 bedrooms, hallway, landing and living room.That's the best part of £800, it's ridiculous. I've gone for an Echo downstairs and a Dot upstairs.
Worst case scenario I buy another Dot for the living room downstairs and one for the "man cave" on top floor, each Dot is the price of a bulb.
The biggest problem I have right now is encouraging my wife not to use the light switches, she had zero interest in my new toy so I've ordered all the GU10 bulbs I need, 2x Hue Tap for Kitchen/Dining Room and Living Room and dimmers for all other rooms.
Mr Will said:
You can take a huge chunk off that cost by reducing the number of Colour bulbs. Instead of £50 per bulb you can get Ambience bulbs for £25 or Dimmable White for £15.
Colour bulbs are great for effect, but you don't need them everywhere.
We've just had our kitchen and dining room made open plan and we're having a party when it's all finished.Colour bulbs are great for effect, but you don't need them everywhere.
That's how I've justified them all being colour bulbs.
I agree, the only colour ones we've got are the light strip behind the tv which gives the lounge a different mood depending on colour, the light strip under the kitchen units simply because you can't buy one that isn't colour. (However, its sometimes nice to use a colour if friends are round for the evening) and our daughters room simply because she wanted one.
The rest are all just ambience bulbs
The rest are all just ambience bulbs
Mr Will said:
All sorts of other options available if you program them with one of the 3rd party apps. For example I've got mine set so that holding down the off button turns off all the lights on that floor of the house. Pressing 'dim down' when the lights are off activates the nightlights for 5 minutes, etc.
Tell me more!AB said:
Looks great but if they manage to put in a high res capacitive touch screen, enough oomph to make it respond quickly, and keep the cost reasonable I will be very surprised. Anything less than that and it will become frustrating to use.You can achieve almost all of that with Alexa and Smartthings today, I think only thing I couldn't do is the room to room video call. Having lived with my Dots for a few weeks I greatly prefer voice control to smartphones or similar remotes, much less faffing about.
AB said:
Mr Will said:
You can take a huge chunk off that cost by reducing the number of Colour bulbs. Instead of £50 per bulb you can get Ambience bulbs for £25 or Dimmable White for £15.
Colour bulbs are great for effect, but you don't need them everywhere.
We've just had our kitchen and dining room made open plan and we're having a party when it's all finished.Colour bulbs are great for effect, but you don't need them everywhere.
That's how I've justified them all being colour bulbs.
To some examples - in my kitchen I have 3 spotlights (skin, cooker, fridge), one wall light, under-cupboard lighting and a pendant light above the island. The three spotlights are colour bulbs, as is the lightstrip under the cupboards but the wall light and pendant light are both just ambience bulbs. I can't imagine a situation when I'd particularly want these two to be in colour.
In the living room we have a couple of lamps that are only ever on in the evening. These are fine with white bulbs, as are the front porch and the conservatory.
The hallway and landing are done with ambience bulbs since these are often on in the daytime, plus I wanted to be able to turn them very warm as nightlights. I can't imagine wanting the hallway to be multicoloured though!
That said, there is no downside to the colour bulbs except the cost! If you can afford it then go for it.
weeboot said:
Mr Will said:
All sorts of other options available if you program them with one of the 3rd party apps. For example I've got mine set so that holding down the off button turns off all the lights on that floor of the house. Pressing 'dim down' when the lights are off activates the nightlights for 5 minutes, etc.
Tell me more!This also allows 3rd parties to publish their own apps for controlling the lights, that do things that the Philips app doesn't.
Now the great bit about this is that the schedules/rules/etc run on the bridge itself, not in the app, so you can still use the Philips app for day to day use. I only use the third party ones for setting up the system, rather than having to use them day to day.
The two big names are iConnectHue (iOS) and All4Hue (Android) - I use All4Hue.
The rules themselves are pretty simple - you choose from a list of conditions (all of which must be met) and a list of actions to perform. This is then saved on the bridge and will trigger automatically at the appropriate time.
To give an example, the nightlight rule:
Conditions:
If "landing dimmer dim-dn" is pressed
And "hallway: all lights are off"
Actions:
Activate Scene: "Hallway - Nightlights"
Start timer "hallway - auto off"
This also requires a timer set up in the system. These are similar, but have a duration and an action:
Timer:
Name - "hallway - auto off"
Time: 5 minutes
Action: Turn off all lights - Hallway
20% off at the BT online shop
CODE HUE201004
https://www.shop.bt.com/learnmore/electronics/phil...
Enjoy!
CODE HUE201004
https://www.shop.bt.com/learnmore/electronics/phil...
Enjoy!
TheBogFlogger said:
20% off at the BT online shop
CODE HUE201004
https://www.shop.bt.com/learnmore/electronics/phil...
Enjoy!
Thank you! Shame the white ambiance GU10s are so much more expensive on there. Can get a twin pack for £45 on amazon. CODE HUE201004
https://www.shop.bt.com/learnmore/electronics/phil...
Enjoy!
Afternoon,
Have recently bought into and upgraded to Philips Hue.
In the kitchen / Dining room we have lightstrips and also some cabinet lights.
There are 4 zones in total to control
kitchen ceiling lightstrip
kitchen floor plinth ligthstrip
tv/media cabinet ligthstrip
tv media cabinet shelve lighting (2 colour GU10's)
We have fitted a launchport wall station with iPad fitted which can control most connected things like the philips hue lights and so on but would also like to have a dedicated lighting controller wall mounted, is there any other options available other than the philips hue dimmer switches and obviously the iPad and iPhone apps ?
Thanks.
Have recently bought into and upgraded to Philips Hue.
In the kitchen / Dining room we have lightstrips and also some cabinet lights.
There are 4 zones in total to control
kitchen ceiling lightstrip
kitchen floor plinth ligthstrip
tv/media cabinet ligthstrip
tv media cabinet shelve lighting (2 colour GU10's)
We have fitted a launchport wall station with iPad fitted which can control most connected things like the philips hue lights and so on but would also like to have a dedicated lighting controller wall mounted, is there any other options available other than the philips hue dimmer switches and obviously the iPad and iPhone apps ?
Thanks.
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