Philips Hue Lighting - owners thread

[5678]

Need some help... I am finding that my furthest hue bulb is sometimes not getting turned on or off when the automation job runs. Any thoughts as to why this could be?

I am suspecting it's the range of the bulb to the hub? Is it worth me trying to centralise the hub a bit more or is there something else I can try?

Thanks

[Oakey]

Distance to hub shouldn't matter as the bulbs themselves act as a relay. Try turning the lamp with the errant bulb in it off at the mains and back on.

[wjwren]

Im after a gu10 colour Philips alternative that works with Hue. Any recommendations please?

[dickymint]

wjwren said:

Im after a gu10 colour Philips alternative that works with Hue. Any recommendations please?

Just buy the real thing you know it makes sense

[B17NNS]

wjwren said:

Im after a gu10 colour Philips alternative that works with Hue. Any recommendations please?

Not sure there are any.

[dickymint]

Lucky ol me......



Gonna fill my boots

[wjwren]

anonymous said:

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yes work fine. Have a hue sensor linked to 8 gu10's

[jmorgan]

dickymint said:

Lucky ol me......



Gonna fill my boots

One lamp left to change, law of sod and all that, still, 20% off the lamp is good enough for me.

[Digitalize]

anonymous said:

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I use 5 of them with no issue. They aren't as good as Hue bulbs, but for the price it's good enough.

[Phil.]

GU10's at £35.95 Prime on Amazon today:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Philips-Ambience-Wireless...

[wjwren]

Anyone here have the GU10's? Looking at the amazon reviews they seem a poor light output at only 250lm and the colours are not great. I was about to order some garden spots to put the GU10's in but not sure now

Is the GU10 likely to be updated to the new Richer colour system?

Edited by wjwren on Tuesday 24th April 18:29

[dickymint]

wjwren said:

Anyone here have the GU10's? Looking at the amazon reviews they seem a poor light output at only 250lm and the colours are not great. I was about to order some garden spots to put the GU10's in but not sure now

Is the GU10 likely to be updated to the new Richer colour system?

Edited by wjwren on Tuesday 24th April 18:29

What make you talking about?

[wjwren]

Philips. They are 250lm. Also they are not Richer colour like the e27 model. The e27 is 800 lumen so im thinking of putting lights around the garden that can take an e27, so either a bulkhead, which are a bit ugly, so maybe a bollard. I havent seen any spotlights for the garden which are e27 and have a glass covered front to protect from the elements.

[Blue Oval84]

I've got my GU10s in outdoor spec lights that are waterproof, but they're for wall mounting, not sure if that's the type you're after.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01M23THCQ/ref...

I don't have any problems with brightness of my GU10s, but would say that the colours can be a bit insipid, some are perfect (red for example), whilst others (green in particular) are very washed out and don't match the light output of the standard E27 Hue bulb.

That said, they are silent in operation, which is not what the reviews of the Innr versions suggest, although probably not an issue outdoors. They dim nice and low, and they have a great range of white colour temps.

On the whole, I'm pleased I went with the Hue version, as I couldn't find the look I wanted in an E27 style wall mount.

[wjwren]

Ive emailed Philips today to see if they are updating the GU10's. I think il end up getting the E27 and put something like a bulkhead in near the fence as it will disfuse the light well. Also the E27's are bright and the colours are good.

[JimbobVFR]

Finished the last bit today, I'm now at 100% Hue lighting in my house (not the garden or garage)





Its a single Dresden FLS-PP running both the white strips below the cabinets and the RGB strip above the cabinets. The FLS is an RGBW controller but the White and RGB sections are controlled as separate lights within Hue. THE FLS-PP seems quite expensive at first glance but this whole project cost less than a single 2m starter pack plus 1m extension. I'm running over 9m of strip with 2 separate controllable zones of lighting. Looks awesome IMO

[djdest]

I’ve got a Hue strip light under our kitchen units, it’s in three separate sections but all made from one strip.
You need to be handy with a soldering iron to do it that way though.

Edit:
This is exactly how I did mine, wish I’d found it before as I did it as an experiment not knowing if it would kill the strip when I cut it up!

https://amp.reddit.com/r/hue/comments/3pj9dp

Edited by djdest on Friday 27th April 09:20

[wjwren]

The RGB cable I had from ebay has 4 wires into a connector , any LED strip ive had in the past has only had 2 wires. How do you wire this into the FLS-PP?

[JimbobVFR]

wjwren said:

The RGB cable I had from ebay has 4 wires into a connector , any LED strip ive had in the past has only had 2 wires. How do you wire this into the FLS-PP?

The FLS-PP has 5 terminals for LEDS to be connected to.

There's a common positive (the black wire) and then terminals for Red, Green, Blue and white.

You'd omit the white connection as it's not needed for RGB strips.

The FLS-PP can also control either a separate white strip or you can get strips with the white channel either as alternating LEDS or some have a package with all 4 emitters in one package.

The FLS-PP actually shows up as 2 lights in Hue, a colour light to controll the RGB part and a dimmable a letter white light to control the white.

Hope that helps, I've got 2 of them used both with an RGBW strip and with separate RGB and white strips so ask away if you have any questions.

[wjwren]

So to confirm, dont use the white cable but the blue red and green cable go in to the FLS? Thanks