Philips Hue Lighting - owners thread

[dmsims]

Oakey said:

Philips do B22, E27, E14 and GU10, what else is there?

A normal E14 bulb (not a candle)

MR16

[jmorgan]

Wow. This is some good kit. Only downer so far, the hub for the apple Homekit use drawback. That is needing to have an Apple hub to get the full apple experience with Homekit for all users.

Still finding my way around the Phillips hub and app and liking the all off or on when leaving home or coming home.

[djdest]

It's better to have some set to come on when its dusk such out an outside light.
Then it never needs resetting as the evenings stay lighter through the year

[ecsrobin]

jmorgan said:

Wow. This is some good kit. Only downer so far, the hub for the apple Homekit use drawback. That is needing to have an Apple hub to get the full apple experience with Homekit for all users.

Still finding my way around the Phillips hub and app and liking the all off or on when leaving home or coming home.

You can use an iPad if you don’t remove it from the house.

[jmorgan]

ecsrobin said:

You can use an iPad if you don’t remove it from the house.

Yeah, one is too old, the other comes with me when I work away. Waiting to see what the rumoured new Apple TV has to offer on release.

[jmorgan]

The dimmer switch seems a bit rocking horse poo at the moment, are they worth a punt? e.g. leave phone downstairs and go up, off on, on the main switch will bring the lamp on max white but the blipper seems a no brainer add on.

[Cotty]

Anyone used the motion detector?

Thinking of putting one on the stairs so the landing light goes on when you walk up and off when you walk down. Rather than walk up in the dark and hunt for the switch to turn the light on. Or is it a bit of a gimmic? Or I could just buy a Hue bulb for the landing and ask Alexa to turn it on an off.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Philips-Intelligent-Wirel...

[ecsrobin]

jmorgan said:

ecsrobin said:

You can use an iPad if you don’t remove it from the house.

Yeah, one is too old, the other comes with me when I work away. Waiting to see what the rumoured new Apple TV has to offer on release.

Our Apple TV is our entertainment hub we certainly couldn’t live without it, I’ve been tempted to get the games controller to make the experience even better.

[jmorgan]

ecsrobin said:

jmorgan said:

ecsrobin said:

You can use an iPad if you don’t remove it from the house.

Yeah, one is too old, the other comes with me when I work away. Waiting to see what the rumoured new Apple TV has to offer on release.

Our Apple TV is our entertainment hub we certainly couldn’t live without it, I’ve been tempted to get the games controller to make the experience even better.

I have bt tv and the apps on the tv, Netflix mainly. Getting fed up with Netflix, if the rumoured 4K Apple TV is good, then I will get it. That will be the hub sorted, Apple TV no good then we will get another iPad to act as the hub, or rather I get s new iPad and my air becomes the hub. Should know by September so not long to wait

[Oakey]

Cotty said:

Anyone used the motion detector?

Thinking of putting one on the stairs so the landing light goes on when you walk up and off when you walk down. Rather than walk up in the dark and hunt for the switch to turn the light on. Or is it a bit of a gimmic? Or I could just buy a Hue bulb for the landing and ask Alexa to turn it on an off.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Philips-Intelligent-Wirel...

Use one in the kitchen, it's great. Go in during the evening and the light comes on automatically and then turns off after 5 minutes when you've left. From midnight till morning it's set to come on dimmed so if you need to come down you aren't blinded by bright lights or fumbling in the dark.

[djdest]

Wev got two motion sensors, one on the landing and one in a lounge that is also the route to the kitchen. The lights are not left on by the kids now!
The landing one is excellent, it comes on full strength from dusk to 10pm, then from 10pm-6am it comes on really dim if someone gets up in the night

[sgrimshaw]

Anyone got the GU10 bulbs?

Just wondering if anyone has experience of using 4, 5 or 6 of them in a spotlightbar.

Also, any recommended spotlight bars which can take these deep bulbs.

[mph999]

Upgraded to the latest Hue app (Android), but cannot get 'Wakeup' to work at all, correct time zone is set, tried reinstalling, clearing the bridge - nothing happens at all.

Tried using 'Other routines' and these work perfectly, so it looks like a bug, or something unique to my environment.

Not that bothered as other routines work, but interested to see if anyone has seen similar.

[jmorgan]

iOS here and it is working fine once I got around the wake up and start to wake up bit.

[Oakey]

Have you selected the days, they should be grey when you have?

[jmorgan]

Got a motion sensor and set it up, seems limited in application? Or its position is wrong. It can be set off for the lightest of movements even on minimum setting. Thought I might cheat and use it at the top of the stairs to cover front door as well, nope! Sensitivity for that and the cats set it off. De sensitise it and does not pick up on you until half way up.

Lots of potential but either I am missing something or the control can do with more work.

[djdest]

Ours is at the top of the stairs, when I first set it up it was able to pick up walking past the bottom of the stairs. I did however have it above a bedroom door pointing straight down the stairs

[768]

There might be a hardware adjustment for sensitivity on the PIR if you open it up. I haven't tried.

I don't find the high sensitivity that responsive on one of ours. They work well in a few places though.

[jmorgan]

Positioning then.

Wonder if I can override the sensor part with at the bulb setting.


Better have another tinker.

[jmorgan]

Positioning does work but the app needs more control.

Anyone using iConnecthue app?