Philips Hue FAQ

AstraMonti wrote: »

I just replaced every single bulb with hue in the last 6-8 months. Thank heck for black friday.

14 spots in the kitchen + 3 e27 + 1 strip
8 spots in the living room + 1 strip + 1 pendant + 3 bloom ones
6 spots in the bathrooms
6 in the hallway
12 (ikea) in the garden bollards
5 e27 in the bedrooms
and 3 external hue lights as well.
All switches replaced with hue apart from 3 in the kitchen that are niko.
2 motion sensors

and I think this pretty much sums it up.

P.S. If anyone is selling a bridge please pm me.

Where are all the sensors? 39?

AstraMonti wrote: »

All switches replaced with hue apart from 3 in the kitchen that are niko.

How are you finding the Niko switches? Worth the extra expense?

AstraMonti wrote: »

Has anyone seen any Hue compatible "golf bulb" leds? I 've checked Philips and they don't sell them.

Are these any good for you?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0748MY3S8/ref=sspa_dk_detail_1?psc=1

AstraMonti wrote: »

Thanks, I got one of them to try but they are bit bigger than the golf ball size, and they are protruding the pendant light by a few cms.

innr do ball like bulbs too but has pretty much the same dimensions as the Phillips ones

Irish Gunner wrote: »

I have a routine set up for the lights to come on and off at certain times and have turned the random times on

However what it seems to do is turn them on and they stay on. I thought that that randon times means that they would turn off and on as it says on the tin for 'random times'

anyone experience this?

Have you set an off time after the on time you set?

What is the best option for Hue down lights in a kitchen? We doing some renovation and the kitchen ceiling has to come down so I have a green field.

Do I go with Hue GU10’s or with the recessed Hue Phoenix? It’s a large room so will probably need 12 down lights.

Thanks.

Definitely go with GU10s - those phoenix ones need a 12.5cm diameter cutout so if they were ever discontinued and needed to be replaced you'd have a lot of patching up to do. Besides which theyre very expensive. I've been using Ikea tradfri GU10s for over a year with my Hue hub. Much cheaper and colour temperature 2700k so lovely warm light. I went with these fittings (also available in brushed aluminium/swivelling) - very sleek and modern looking if that's what you're after.

BobMc wrote: »

Sorry butt in here lads, also thinking of swopping six downlighters in kitchen with colour hue GU10's did I read some where they are extra long??

Love the look of those white Sebson holders are they bulb holders only? with seperate electrics for bulb end needed
thus allowing for longer depth Hue GU10's?

The GU10 colour bulbs are bigger,

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

For a GU10 White & Colour, you want this type of fitting, where the connection to the terminals of the bulb are independent to the part that holds the bulb. You are then only governed by the ceiling cavity space. I've 10 of these style in my kitchen with GU10 White & Colour Ambiance (big) bulbs in them, and 4 on my landing with White Ambiance GU10 (regular size) bulbs in them (though I've 4 White & Colour bulbs arriving today to replace them).





If its only GU10 White Ambiance, which is more like a regular sized GU10 bulb, the below would work;




I've 6 of this (enclosed or 'top hat' as I call them) style in my attic with White Ambiance bulbs in them.

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

Here is a photo of a Hue Colour Ambiance, beside a White Ambiance, beside 2 regular LED GU10 bulbs,

As can be seen, the Hue Colour Ambiance is much larger than the other 3, the Hue White Ambiance is almost identical to a regular LED GU10




holder for the larger GU10 colour here;

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=105911276&postcount=1475

Not decided on the colours or not yet, its a pine tongue and groove ceiling, thats getting painted white, so I want to remove the brass coloured holders and swop to white and do the bulbs at the same time, are the ikea GU10s a good option
with the hue system, I'd need 6 for dining area and 4 for kitchen so be bit pricey for colours !

Anyone any experience of the Hue Aurelle panel lights?

anyone know what commands work with alexa and hive, looking at skills noticed one that supposedly can turn on hot water, also if asked about temp it will give precise temperature in the house, wondering is there command to turn on heating.


as previous poster have all house wired with hue lights and alexa works fine with them, not mad using alexa on boiler, but would be handy to know what commands are there.

Question about the motion sensors. I got two, one to cover the hallway, the other on the corridor leading to the bedrooms. However I find that I almost have to be on top of the sensor to trigger it. Is this normal? I world have thought they would work at 15 to 20 feet.

punisher5112 wrote: »

Go into settings and adjust.

I've tried but still not much better.

punisher5112 wrote: »

Is there anything in line of sight? Could you angle it differently?

Maybe try it lower down and facing straight and not tilted.

I have them on top of the door frames, no real obstructions but i'll play around with positioning when i get a chance.

Irish_peppa wrote: »

Hi Mossie can the Hue motion Sensors be used with philips GU10 recessed bulb do you think and can they be set to allways come on with the same color/ brightness or must you keep resetting the ambience of the light? I have zero experience of smart bulbs:o

They can be used but I think you only pick bright, dimmed and nightlight.

How Soon Is Now wrote: »

I have a hue hub in sitting room with two color bulbs connected to it already.

If I wanted to get bulbs for my hall and bedroom and maybe another echo for bedroom as well would I need another hub?

No you don't need a new hub, you can connect something like 40 bulbs to one hub.

T-b0n3 wrote: »

I have a motion sensor in the downstairs toiler and I can set the light to come on in different light recipes (relax, read, concentrate, energize) or scenes (savanna sunset etc) but is it possible to adjust the brightness for my choice?

I previously had selected "relax" and it was a little too dark @ 50%, while I find "read" too bright @ 50%.

Is there a lab I can use or am I missing something? I've not used labs before.

Thanks

You can create a scene for the room yourself setting the colour and brightness. THen the sensor can trigger to this scene.

T-b0n3 wrote: »

I have a motion sensor in the downstairs toiler and I can set the light to come on in different light recipes (relax, read, concentrate, energize) or scenes (savanna sunset etc) but is it possible to adjust the brightness for my choice?

I previously had selected "relax" and it was a little too dark @ 50%, while I find "read" too bright @ 50%.

Is there a lab I can use or am I missing something? I've not used labs before.

Thanks

You don't need labs to do this. Just create a new scene, or edit an existing scene to the brightness of your choice and then save it.

So to do a brighter version of 'Relax' turn on the relax scene, then fade the brightness level up to where you want it, and when you go to create a new scene, it should offer the option of using the current light settings. Save it as something that's easy to spot like Relax 75% or whatever and then set your sensor to trigger the Relax 75% scene instead of a default Ambiance scene.

For me though, Relax wouldn't be the scene for a toilet/bathroom, so also try a scene with Read, and fade it down to whatever level you need, as there is more blue light in the Read scene than in the Relax scene. Or better still, use the colour ball to find the best colour/brightness combination for you, and then when creating the new scene, just select the 'Use current light settings'