Philips Hue FAQ

paulbok · 30-11-2016 10:38am

If they are in a scheduled scene or routine they will come on as the default white when power is restored but will change to that scene after a minute or two. Same if lights are controlled by a sensor, once it is triggered. You shouldnt have to do anything to get back to normal, save wait a few minutes.

Dunjam · 30-11-2016 2:38pm

Amazon.es have the 2m Lightstrip Plus for €36.44.

drunkmonkey · 30-11-2016 2:48pm

Dunjam wrote: »

Amazon.es have the 2m Lightstrip Plus for €36.44.

Damm you!!

9.07 delivery, couldn't just buy one, had to get 2 strips and a dimmer switch.:(

irelandrover · 30-11-2016 2:53pm

i just promised myself this morning I wouldnt buy anymore Hue products. now i have a lightstrip ordered and just got an email about 40% off all Hue products.

drunkmonkey · 30-11-2016 2:58pm

irelandrover wrote: »

i just promised myself this morning I wouldnt buy anymore Hue products. now i have a lightstrip ordered and just got an email about 40% off all Hue products.

Where's this 40% off?

I still need 3 ceiling lights but not in stock anywhere.

irelandrover · 30-11-2016 2:59pm

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Where's this 40% off?

I still need 3 ceiling lights but not in stock anywhere.

i have a friend working for philips

davo2001 · 30-11-2016 3:03pm

irelandrover wrote: »

i have a friend working for philips

Care to share!

drunkmonkey · 30-11-2016 3:27pm

irelandrover wrote: »

i have a friend working for philips

If he can get 3 of these I know how he can make a handy 40% profit on them.
https://www.dmlights.co.uk/philips_hue_still_ceiling_light_white~0TUOZ

irelandrover · 30-11-2016 3:30pm

drunkmonkey wrote: »

If he can get 3 of these I know how he can make a handy 40% profit on them.
https://www.dmlights.co.uk/philips_hue_still_ceiling_light_white~0TUOZ

I'll check. It would all be pretty messy however where he buys then and sends them to me where i forward them on.

mik_da_man · 30-11-2016 3:31pm

Group buy on some hue starter kits??...

...kinda serious like....

J.pilkington · 30-11-2016 3:36pm

Dunjam wrote: »

Amazon.es have the 2m Lightstrip Plus for €36.44.

Dam you just spent €80 on more hue stuff I don't need, but what a bargain

adox · 30-11-2016 3:44pm

Presume the light strips come with a 2 pin from Spain and need an adaptor?

adox · 30-11-2016 3:50pm

Temporarily unavailable.

Still ordered along with a dimmer switch.

matrim · 30-11-2016 3:58pm

adox wrote: »

Presume the light strips come with a 2 pin from Spain and need an adaptor?

I got my one from amazon.co.uk and it came with both a 2 pin and Irish 3 pin. There was a part of the plug that clips out so you can change between them easily.

Not sure if the ones from amazon.es are the same but you would think so if they went to the trouble fo doing both.

mik_da_man · 30-11-2016 3:59pm

Dunjam wrote: »

Amazon.es have the 2m Lightstrip Plus for €36.44.

Damn you is right!
Couldn't justify paying 8 for the shipping so bought the e27 starter kit too :eek:

Cheers !

adox · 30-11-2016 4:12pm

The Hue Go is €60 on .es site too. Very tempting as well!

Mahatma Geansai · 30-11-2016 4:58pm

I thought I had missed the best of the deals and was just planning to buy from Amazon.fr with the 25% off. Luckily, I checked the forum first, as I've now an order for the Hue White Ambiance kit, an third white ambiance bulb, and two 2m lightstrips on the way.

embraer170 · 30-11-2016 6:42pm

Seems the light strip is now €80 on Amazon.es?

adox · 30-11-2016 6:59pm

embraer170 wrote: »

Seems the light strip is now €80 on Amazon.es?

Was showing the same for me earlier but there was another buying option that didn't have any stock. Order still went through and I have an expected delivery in mid December.

Thought the dimmer was a bargain too at under €17 so threw one of those in too.

Edit: Just had a look there and it seems the cheaper price has indeed gone.

Shred · 30-11-2016 7:01pm

embraer170 wrote: »

Seems the light strip is now €80 on Amazon.es?

Yeah it is (thanks be ta fúck:p).

OU812 · 30-11-2016 7:40pm

irelandrover wrote: »

i have a friend working for philips

And you're only telling us now???

Seriously though, as someone suggested, a group buy with a profit for himself would be very appealing. I need to buy a load more bulbs including at least 8 ( possibly 12 gu10s)

Stoner · 01-12-2016 8:30am

I see the bloom is 50 pounds now in Amazon

The Hue Go is up from a low sale price of 50 to 62 but both are 80 pounds full price.

I don't have the bloom but with just 120 lumens compared to 400 on the Hue Go

I'd forget about the bloom TBH, nice stand but I'd buy a colour lamp and put it in a fancy desk lamp before I'd get the bloom

bk · 01-12-2016 9:15am

Yeah, I use two blooms as bedside lamps. Got them as part of a great deal a few years ago, before the go came out.

The work fine of course, but at these prices I'd buy a Go over a Blooom or even just a bulb in a standard lamp *

* I do like the small size of the bloom that takes up less space on the bedside table then a standard lamp.

Stoner · 01-12-2016 9:19am

bk wrote:

* I do like the small size of the bloom that takes up less space on the bedside table then a standard lamp.

I like its design too. But the reviews seem to suggest it's good but too expensive. Getting it in a sale is the right way to go alright.

AndyBoBandy · 01-12-2016 9:30am

I got a Bloom in Woodies a few weeks ago, and it's decent enough, I have it behind the TV in our bedroom,
I was a bit disappointed it didn't do the ambient whites, just colour only, but I can live with it.

Just off the phone to Amazon there about my 2 twin pack GU10 white ambiances that were supposed to be delivered today, I got an email this morning saying they don't have them yet to send, and delivery date is tbc, thought I'd call them and try and blag them to send me 4 singles or 4 normal colour GU10's, but they were having none of it!! I ordered them on October 14th!

bk · 01-12-2016 9:38am

Stoner wrote: »

I like its design too. But the reviews seem to suggest it's good but too expensive. Getting it in a sale is the right way to go alright.

Yup, I got two Blooms and a Hue bridge (v1.0 one) starter bundle for £73, two years ago.

Well worth it for all that at that price. But not £50 for one, not compared to the Go anyway.

mik_da_man · 01-12-2016 2:52pm

adox wrote: »

Temporarily unavailable.

Still ordered along with a dimmer switch.

As an FYI in the Lightstrip from Amazon.es, I Just got an e-mail to say they will be delivered on the 14th Dec

adox · 01-12-2016 3:34pm

mik_da_man wrote: »

As an FYI in the Lightstrip from Amazon.es, I Just got an e-mail to say they will be delivered on the 14th Dec

Yep same. Thought it was a cancellation email as I hurredly copied it into google translate.

€62 for the lightstrip and a dimmer switch delivered so Im happy enough.

mik_da_man · 01-12-2016 3:54pm

adox wrote: »

Yep same. Thought it was a cancellation email as I hurredly copied it into google translate.

€62 for the lightstrip and a dimmer switch delivered so Im happy enough.

Yeah - Same as me
€200 for the e27 starter kit and lightstrip
It's gonna be a colourful Christmas

adox · 01-12-2016 9:08pm

So despite grouping the dimmer and lightstrip together to keep the carriage cost down(€8) Amazon.es have dispatched my dimmer switch on its own with the lightstrip to follow.

They seem to have spread the carriage cost between the two as it's only €3 on the dimmer. Delighted as I'd expected to wait for the lightstrip to be back in stock and have the two of them sent together as ordered.

shanec1928 · 01-12-2016 9:30pm

e27 color 29.99 on uk amazon.

Irish Gunner · 01-12-2016 9:37pm

Are light strips just good for kitchen or are they ok for bedrooms, night time reading /afraid of the dark

Roen · 01-12-2016 10:33pm

Irish Gunner wrote: »

Are light strips just good for kitchen or are they ok for bedrooms, night time reading /afraid of the dark

They're more for hidden lighting. I have them them stuck behind some wooden beams in the bar and they light up the walls at either end.
For a bedroom maybe running along the side of a dresser or along the top of the wardrobe so they are throwing light on a wall or ceiling.
I wouldn't have them as a naked light like a bulb.
A Go might suit better if you can't hide the strip.

Roen · 01-12-2016 10:40pm

How do other people add a Go to the Hue app?

I've created a room of type other and called it Go. Then added the Go as the only light in that room.
Any other cleverer ways to add one?

Stoner · 01-12-2016 11:50pm

Roen wrote:

How do other people add a Go to the Hue app?

What did you mean? What are you cling the room after the Lamp? Why not just add it to the room it's in? Is it because it's portable?

Roen · 02-12-2016 8:17am

Stoner wrote: »

What did you mean? What are you cling the room after the Lamp? Why not just add it to the room it's in? Is it because it's portable?

Yes exactly. It wanders about. So if I add it to a room and then switch that room on via sensor or app it can switch on where it's not needed.

It's designed to be portable after all, but the app forces you to assign a light to a room.

bk · 02-12-2016 8:58am

Yeah the Go doesn't really fit in Hue's idea of rooms. This is why I preferred their old concept of groups, was a bit more flexible. You can just create fake rooms to recreate the group concept.

AndyBoBandy · 02-12-2016 9:24am

Just use the original app and set up some scenes for the Go, I have my rooms set up in the newer app, but have still left some lights out of the ' hue room' in that particular room. example: my living room has 2 lamps with colour hue bulbs in them, my centre light in the same room has a hue white ambiance bulb in it,
I'd rarely use the centre light in any room, especially a room with lamps in it already, so the last thing I'd want is my daily routine of the lamps coming on in the afternoon, with the centre light coming on as well with them, so the centre light is set up in it's own room, so I can control it independently from the 2 lamps in the same room.

it means i have more rooms in the app set up, but it means I can have separate control of various lights in the same room, just a pity hue won't let you have a single light in more than 1 room.

bk · 02-12-2016 9:33am

AndyBoBandy I do exactly the same.

I've the 4 GU10 ceiling lights in my living room, set in one room, so they can all be controlled as one.

But then I also have a lamp and Iris (behind the TV) physically in the same room, but I leave them out of the "room" in the app. It isn't perfect, but works fine.

BoardsMember · 02-12-2016 11:06am

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

Just use the original app and set up some scenes for the Go, I have my rooms set up in the newer app, but have still left some lights out of the ' hue room' in that particular room. example: my living room has 2 lamps with colour hue bulbs in them, my centre light in the same room has a hue white ambiance bulb in it,
I'd rarely use the centre light in any room, especially a room with lamps in it already, so the last thing I'd want is my daily routine of the lamps coming on in the afternoon, with the centre light coming on as well with them, so the centre light is set up in it's own room, so I can control it independently from the 2 lamps in the same room.

it means i have more rooms in the app set up, but it means I can have separate control of various lights in the same room, just a pity hue won't let you have a single light in more than 1 room.

To me that sounds like a good case for having the centre on a hue switch, no? I'm not suggesting you do this, I am thinking about my own setup and wondering if that would be a good use of one of the switches I have on order.

AndyBoBandy · 02-12-2016 11:14am

BoardsMember wrote: »

To me that sounds like a good case for having the centre on a hue switch, no? I'm not suggesting you do this, I am thinking about my own setup and wondering if that would be a good use of one of the switches I have on order.

I already have the 2 lamps in the room on a dimmer switch, and I don't really want to add another just for the centre light, after all I have a traditional light switch for it anyway!

for the few times I'd use it, I can just use the app to select the particular light recipe I want, which would mostly be energise/concentrate.

although thinking about it now, I don't actually use/need the dimmer switch connected to the 2 lamps, so maybe it would be better to assign it to the centre light, with each press of the button selecting a different recipe.

matrim · 03-12-2016 12:28am

bk wrote: »

https://www.amazon.co.uk/SwitchSafe-socket-protector-prevent-accidental/dp/B01634O2MS/ref=pd_sim_60_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=VMS1BH456Z1G9YN2XCRS

For anyone looking, I received these today and they aren't big enough to cover my (fairly normal size) light switches as delivered. But I plan to cut off the side panels and then it will cover the front of the switch but silll leave a little bit on the side that you can reach if required.

bk · 03-12-2016 8:37am

matrim wrote: »

For anyone looking, I received these today and they aren't big enough to cover my (fairly normal size) light switches as delivered. But I plan to cut off the side panels and then it will cover the front of the switch but silll leave a little bit on the side that you can reach if required.

Sorry about that! It fits my standard looking switches fine. If others find the same then I'll remove it from the faq, I don't want to recommend something that doesn't work for most people.

matrim · 03-12-2016 9:23am

bk wrote: »

Sorry about that! It fits my standard looking switches fine. If others find the same then I'll remove it from the faq, I don't want to recommend something that doesn't work for most people.

No problem. They would work for plug switches but are too small for my light ones.

The internal measurement is about 15mm by 25mm so length wise it's fine but not enough width. As mentioned if I take off the sides it will work

randombar · 04-12-2016 9:04pm

Hi Lads,

Just wondering if a google doc might be handy to keep track of prices, so many different products an random pricing.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EIZG2CQRq2yiluIwcOefL_KvegXZ2XYuiR1sTT7J6iU/edit#gid=0

Might be too much work in keeping it up.

// Gary

OU812 · 04-12-2016 9:39pm

great idea Gary. If you open it up to a couple of people we could all fill in detail

randombar · 04-12-2016 9:47pm

OU812 wrote: »

great idea Gary. If you open it up to a couple of people we could all fill in detail

Should be editable. Is it not?

randombar · 05-12-2016 8:02am

GaryCocs wrote: »

Should be editable. Is it not?

Editable now.

Orion · 05-12-2016 9:41pm

Anyone know where is Dublin city centre you can get a B22 to E27 adaptor?

Officer Giggles · 05-12-2016 9:44pm

Orion wrote: »

Anyone know where is Dublin city centre you can get a B22 to E27 adaptor?

IKEA, €1.50 for 2

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