ABOUT HUE: Philips Hue is the World’s Leader in Smart Lighting.* Extend Smart Lighting throughout your home, including outdoor spaces, with the Philips Hue system. What is smart lighting you may ask? It means absolute control of your home’s lighting through your smartphone, tablet, Hue wireless dimmer switches and sensors or even with your voice.
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Added on: December 20, 2018 - More: Comments & Reviews
ABOUT HUE: Philips Hue is the World’s Leader in Smart Lighting.* Extend Smart Lighting throughout your home, including outdoor spaces, with the Philips Hue system. What is smart lighting you may ask? It means absolute control of your home’s lighting through your smartphone, tablet, Hue wireless dimmer switches and sensors or even with your voice. As a bonus, Philips Hue is the only smart lighting product with Energy Star certification and lasts up to 22 years. GOT VOICE? Do you already have a favorite Voice or Smart Home assistant? With the most options for Voice control, Philips Hue Smart Light bulbs work with any Voice or Smart Home Assistant (Works with Alexa, Google Assistant, Apple HomeKit, Microsoft Cortana, IFTTT, Nest, Logitech, SmartThings, Razer, Xfinity). HOW IT WORKS: Hue smart light bulbs are wireless connected to the Hue Hub (included in Hue Starter Kits, also sold separately) using a technology called Zigbee. Thanks to this technology one bulb can transmit the signal also to other bulbs, so you don’t need to add a Wi-Fi extender to cover all the rooms in your house or clog up your Wi-Fi network with additional Wi-Fi devices. Add up to 50 light points on one Hue Hub.
* According to market share data from leading research bodies in US and Europe; these markets represent over 90% of global sales of both Philips Hue and the Smart Lighting industry.
Very YELLOW colored light. Look at the attached picture … Very YELLOW colored light. Look at the attached picture, these bulbs are as “warm” as they come. I wish I would have known they were this yellow beforehand. My fault. Unfortunately, I have to return these bulbs because I can’t handle how drastically yellow they are. Wish I didn’t have to pay more than double the price for their white ambiance bulbs, just to get a bulb that has natural “cool” light…
Can’t Operate the Lights Outside of Your WiFi network First the Negatives:You cannot control these lights from the Hue app if you’re not at home. The app only works if you’re within your home’s wifi range. Part of the reason why I wanted these is so that I could manually turn on my lights when I’m out of town (to make it look like someone’s home). But the Hue app doesn’t work that way.HOWEVER, there is a work around. If you have a Google Home or Google Home Mini, you can link the lights to your Google Home app and turn them on…
Possible fire hazard? I was excited to try the Hue system and bought a four bulb starter kit in November 2017 when there was a good sale. I’ve been using them since but last night one of the bulbs gave an audible pop, went out, dimmed the other (non-hue) lights in the room, and started smoking. We quickly turned off the power but it was too late for the lamp and the power strip it was plugged into – the lamp no longer works w/ any light bulb and the power strip gives off a disturbing electric fire kind of smell…