Philips Hue Lighting - owners thread

Philips Hue Lighting - owners thread

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ecsrobin

17,018 posts

164 months

Thursday 2nd September 2021
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The new Spotify sync works brilliantly. Far better than using hue disco.

I also like the dynamic changing of lights although possibly slightly too slow for me but apparently they will allow you to change the speed in a future update. We have a couple of coloured bulbs in our fireplaces (no fires) and have them on a colour so it’s nice for them to cycle through a scene.

MrOrange

2,031 posts

252 months

Thursday 2nd September 2021
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ecsrobin said:
The new Spotify sync works brilliantly. Far better than using hue disco.

I also like the dynamic changing of lights although possibly slightly too slow for me but apparently they will allow you to change the speed in a future update. We have a couple of coloured bulbs in our fireplaces (no fires) and have them on a colour so it’s nice for them to cycle through a scene.
It really is rather good. I set it up today in my kitchen, which has loads (about 10) Hue lights including downlighters and gets a huge thumbs up from me

wjwren

4,484 posts

134 months

Thursday 2nd September 2021
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Is this in the hue or Spotify app?

ecsrobin

17,018 posts

164 months

Thursday 2nd September 2021
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wjwren said:
Is this in the hue or Spotify app?
In hue click explore if it has an orange dot then follow setup. If you don’t have the dot yet it will appear over the next week

loudlashadjuster

5,082 posts

183 months

Thursday 2nd September 2021
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Question about the coloured bulbs; do they give a light comparable to normal warm LEDs if set to ‘warm white’ or whatever?

Stussy

1,790 posts

63 months

Friday 3rd September 2021
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Yes, and can be adjusted to whatever shade you wish between cold /warm (blue to yellow)

UTH

8,864 posts

177 months

Friday 3rd September 2021
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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.
They’re sending me a replacement strip tomorrow because of this
The new strip has not fixed the problem. WTF do I do next?!

Stussy

1,790 posts

63 months

Friday 3rd September 2021
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Surely the sync box has to be faulty as that is what interprets the signal and decides which colours to display.
Is it worth trying different cables to rule those out at least?

UTH

8,864 posts

177 months

Friday 3rd September 2021
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Stussy said:
Surely the sync box has to be faulty as that is what interprets the signal and decides which colours to display.
Is it worth trying different cables to rule those out at least?
Yeah that's what I'm thinking as well.

loudlashadjuster

5,082 posts

183 months

Friday 3rd September 2021
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UTH said:
Stussy said:
Surely the sync box has to be faulty as that is what interprets the signal and decides which colours to display.
Is it worth trying different cables to rule those out at least?
Yeah that's what I'm thinking as well.
Could also be to do with overscan or burn-in settings on the source? If it's throwing out anything weird at the periphery of the image that isn't making it to the screen then maybe the sync box is picking that up and doing its best with it?

UTH

8,864 posts

177 months

Friday 3rd September 2021
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Took a drunken photo last night, no idea if this is at all helpful to anyone who is more tech savvy than I am? That shade of pink is what keeps appearing when it seemingly has no relevance to what's happening on screen


phil4

1,203 posts

237 months

Friday 3rd September 2021
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If the replacement light strip hasn't solved it, I'd very much assume it's the sync box at fault.

It's not an analogue cable, so it'll be all or nothing on that, so I'd just assume the sync box and ask them to replace it.

UTH

8,864 posts

177 months

Friday 3rd September 2021
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phil4 said:
If the replacement light strip hasn't solved it, I'd very much assume it's the sync box at fault.

It's not an analogue cable, so it'll be all or nothing on that, so I'd just assume the sync box and ask them to replace it.
They've come back with this:

We advise you to factory reset the Sync Box. Please remove the power first, now hold the front button and connect power while holding the button and wait for 15 seconds to issue a factory reset.

You can also check:

Another likely thing to happen is that something is actually interfering with the Hue sync. If that is the case, you will have to look for every possible thing that could be doing so.

We have actually seen multiple users mentioning that Homekit interferes with the working of the Hue sync app. So, also keep that in check.

JimbobVFR

2,679 posts

143 months

Friday 3rd September 2021
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It might be worth trying the PC sync app,. It would at the very least confirm for sure it's not the strip at fault.

mw88

1,457 posts

110 months

Friday 3rd September 2021
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UTH said:
Took a drunken photo last night, no idea if this is at all helpful to anyone who is more tech savvy than I am? That shade of pink is what keeps appearing when it seemingly has no relevance to what's happening on screen

Could be some HDR setting? Below is a link from a while ago, not sure if the Hue Sync Box supports HDR properly or not!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Hue/comments/dl8zuu/hue_s...

Might be worth testing to see if you can disable HDR on the Sky Q box
https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Sky-Q/Can-you-turn-of...

dickymint

24,089 posts

257 months

Saturday 4th September 2021
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UTH said:
phil4 said:
If the replacement light strip hasn't solved it, I'd very much assume it's the sync box at fault.

It's not an analogue cable, so it'll be all or nothing on that, so I'd just assume the sync box and ask them to replace it.
They've come back with this:

We advise you to factory reset the Sync Box. Please remove the power first, now hold the front button and connect power while holding the button and wait for 15 seconds to issue a factory reset.

You can also check:

Another likely thing to happen is that something is actually interfering with the Hue sync. If that is the case, you will have to look for every possible thing that could be doing so.

We have actually seen multiple users mentioning that Homekit interferes with the working of the Hue sync app. So, also keep that in check.
i can't remember the input/output ports on my Hue Sync but do remember there was a couple of different ways of plugging stuff in that would all work.
Try swapping things around but first I would try a new cable from your Sky box to Hue.

Oh are you using the ARC port on your TV? Maybe change that?

dapprman

2,309 posts

266 months

Saturday 4th September 2021
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loudlashadjuster said:
Question about the coloured bulbs; do they give a light comparable to normal warm LEDs if set to ‘warm white’ or whatever?
Personal experience I found that with a 'white' or bright warm light the Philips coloured bulbs do not seem as bright as the Philips Warm bulbs or the basic Philips bulbs.

anonymous-user

53 months

Wednesday 22nd September 2021
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Is it ok to buy a used Hue bridge and other assorted Hue equipment from the point of view of it free from being locked/registered to the person that first bought and used it?

Can it all be factory reset and reused on someone else's Hue account?

phil4

1,203 posts

237 months

Wednesday 22nd September 2021
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Yes, no probs. You'd just need to put the device into pairing mode, but you do that if you've multiple hubs to move it from one to another etc.

ThisInJapanese

10,910 posts

225 months

Wednesday 22nd September 2021
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Lord Marylebone said:
Is it ok to buy a used Hue bridge and other assorted Hue equipment from the point of view of it free from being locked/registered to the person that first bought and used it?

Can it all be factory reset and reused on someone else's Hue account?
Yep! I happen to have an unused one here that I was about to stick on eBay, not sure what they go for but you're welcome to it for the average price on eBay should you want it