Philips Hue Lighting - owners thread

[dapprman]

Cheers, from what I had seen and from my understanding it was TV to HDMI bix to out, so I stand corrected.

Just for clarification, the lag I get is not with my ambilight TV it's with the Philips Hue B22 coloured bulbs in the same room that I linked in.

[UTH]

I currently have 8 (!!) of the other dimmer switches you're referring to. Some are single ones and I've bought the 3D printed holders that fit over the existing switches, and some are double ones. Pics below.

[UTH]

In other news, I pulled the trigger on the TV sync system with the 55" TV strip light, which arrives at some point today. So I'll see how that looks later

[UTH]

anonymous said:

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So far absolutely, but that said they don't really get that much use. I still probably use the app more often than the switches, and when I do use the switch it's a couple of presses of the button and that's it. The main reason I have bought so many is to stop people who don't know about Hue from switching them on and off at the main switch, as it's no use finding out someone has turned them off at the main switch when I come to turn things on with the app, if that makes sense.

[UTH]

anonymous said:

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Given Covid and house renovation, we've not really had many, if any, people to stay over for the night. I'm sure when that starts happening people will be very confused as to how to get any lights on, as people expect a normal light switch and probably assume all these hue switches are for something else. Maybe something I'll explain to people when they arrive!

[dapprman]

Unless I'm unlucky the new V2 version of the dimmer has far shorter battery life. I have 4 of the original ones, never had to swap the batteries on one, the first has been used near daily for 2 years+. The V2 came with a flat battery, installed a new one, and that lasted just 3 months with minimal use!! - hoping I was just unlucky with the battery.

[number2]

I've a few of these, no batteries required and can sit over a blanking plate if you want. https://www.senic.com/friends-of-hue-smart-switch?...

I use them all the time as it's far easier than getting a phone out. I use the app to set scenes which work really well over multiple lights - lots of GU10 in the kitchen.

The switches can be configured multiple ways so while there are two rockers there are in theory 12 applications... short press, long press, both pressed etc. as well as setting different actions depending on time.

[UTH]

Little update on the TV sync system.

Watched Thor with Mrs UTH last night. I think I'm very much still trying to find the sweet spot in terms of intensity and brightness setting.
First reaction is that at times it was awesome, but at other times it was unnecessary. It would be good if there was a way for the system to know that it's just not required - like two people having a normal conversation and switching from one person to the other, the switching of the lighting just isn't needed. But then of course a big action sequence you probably want it full blast.

So, the jury is still out, lots of playing around to do.....probably requires a bit of experimentation with a single scene with several settings to settle on the best option.

I think it'll be an awesome addition to drunken dancing around to a music channel though, putting it on the music setting looked brilliant when I tried briefly this morning. (Not the drunken bit I may add)

[phil4]

Yep, I get you entirely.

I'll be honest, even without changing the settings (brightness is just under halfway, and intensity set to high... I find that less of a problem, not because it doesn't happen, but because I've stopped staring at the lights, and instead watch the TV and let them add to the ambience. Does that make sense?

[UTH]

phil4 said:

Yep, I get you entirely.

I'll be honest, even without changing the settings (brightness is just under halfway, and intensity set to high... I find that less of a problem, not because it doesn't happen, but because I've stopped staring at the lights, and instead watch the TV and let them add to the ambience. Does that make sense?

Yeah very much so. We started a second film (gave up and went to bed half way) and even having only used it for a couple of hours, I think I found myself starting to get used to it and focussing on the film and not the lights. So over time I imagine it'll blend in much better, at the moment it's still very new so hard to stop looking at every detail of the lights.

[JimbobVFR]

anonymous said:

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I'll come in on this as well. My dimmers get used a lot the battery on the busiest ones lasted about 3 years, some of the others are 3.5 years old with about 40% left.

[dmsims]

anonymous said:

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[UTH]

A question for the TV sync experts:

Does your ever show up colours that don't seem to correspond to anything on the screen? I'm occasionally getting a lot of fairly strong pink along the top of the TV that has nothing to do with what's happening on the screen. Can't help but think something is a bit broken, but not really sure the process to try and get it sorted out, or maybe it's normal and I need to put up with it.

[dapprman]

Going back about 4-6 months here - for those who only used Philip's own app due to the 'welcome home' feature and so stopped using it after the app redesign as this function was broken - tonight I found that a more recent update of it has fixed it, so it might be worth a re-install.

[UTH]

UTH said:

A question for the TV sync experts:

Does your ever show up colours that don't seem to correspond to anything on the screen? I'm occasionally getting a lot of fairly strong pink along the top of the TV that has nothing to do with what's happening on the screen. Can't help but think something is a bit broken, but not really sure the process to try and get it sorted out, or maybe it's normal and I need to put up with it.

Kept happening last night, mainly when the image was quite light blues and whites, it was showing heavy pink. Driving me mad. I'm going to see about sending it back and replacing.

[loudlashadjuster]

UTH said:

UTH said:

A question for the TV sync experts:

Does your ever show up colours that don't seem to correspond to anything on the screen? I'm occasionally getting a lot of fairly strong pink along the top of the TV that has nothing to do with what's happening on the screen. Can't help but think something is a bit broken, but not really sure the process to try and get it sorted out, or maybe it's normal and I need to put up with it.

Kept happening last night, mainly when the image was quite light blues and whites, it was showing heavy pink. Driving me mad. I'm going to see about sending it back and replacing.

Try looking in your source's setup for overscan/image scaling options, maybe there's something funky going on there?

[UTH]

loudlashadjuster said:

UTH said:

UTH said:

A question for the TV sync experts:

Does your ever show up colours that don't seem to correspond to anything on the screen? I'm occasionally getting a lot of fairly strong pink along the top of the TV that has nothing to do with what's happening on the screen. Can't help but think something is a bit broken, but not really sure the process to try and get it sorted out, or maybe it's normal and I need to put up with it.

Kept happening last night, mainly when the image was quite light blues and whites, it was showing heavy pink. Driving me mad. I'm going to see about sending it back and replacing.

Try looking in your source's setup for overscan/image scaling options, maybe there's something funky going on there?

Do you mean my Sky Box that is plugged into the sync box? Ok I'll have a look around there and see what I can find. I've also emailed Phillips to see if they have any advice, got until Sept 11th to send it back to Amazon so got some time.

[Your Honour]

Hi,

I have recently completed an extension with a full Philips hue set up, complete with Philips ambilight TV. I plastered in hue strips up the side of the fireplace to enhance the tv which looks awesome when watching movies or playing the x box. Happy to go into more details if anyone is interested.



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[UTH]

Your Honour said:

Hi,

I have recently completed an extension with a full Philips hue set up, complete with Philips ambilight TV. I plastered in hue strips up the side of the fireplace to enhance the tv which looks awesome when watching movies or playing the x box. Happy to go into more details if anyone is interested.



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Please do. I’m learning how to get the most out of my TV setup. Liking the fireplace lights!

[UTH]

UTH said:

A question for the TV sync experts:

Does your ever show up colours that don't seem to correspond to anything on the screen? I'm occasionally getting a lot of fairly strong pink along the top of the TV that has nothing to do with what's happening on the screen. Can't help but think something is a bit broken, but not really sure the process to try and get it sorted out, or maybe it's normal and I need to put up with it.

They’re sending me a replacement strip tomorrow because of this