Leave a Review Philips Hue
Love!!!
We’ve had a house full of hue lights for 10 years. After a while they get into my rhythm. They turn themselves on and off and it’s like having my dad when I was little. Always saying, “who left the light on”. Recently we did some remodeling and the bathrooms got 36 inch round mirror set in a bracket with spools of thread to hold it at the right distance. It looks great. Everyone wants one and we saved so much money doing it ourselves. My son came along and I asked him to set the auto sequence. At first I was annoyed because he could see the light blue walls, so why did he make it pink. Then a few minutes later it went back to blue. He set it up to say good morning. I see you. And I love you. In lights every morning. Thanks for being a part of us Hue. Even if the lights in my son’s bathroom turned off when I was in the middle of my shower. Oh and as our system aged, it was harder to get the right power cords and plugs. If you are going to change the engineering, support it. Don’t make me look on eBay!!! I love my globe on the back porch. I love to teach the kids how to make it any color their finger gets to. I have an ap for a thunder storm and it makes the kitchen cabinets turn on like florescent bulbs how they kind of bounce. These things bring me joy because I am comforted by light. Leave the light on!!Show lessHealthyEnergetics
Love the layout but needs more presets & customization
I am obsessed with my Hugh Phillips lights! So much so that I’ve bought nearly $1000 worth and I don’t regret a thing. The app design is slick and modern, with an easy to understand, intuitive layout. Some of the features, such as unstacking gradient, light strips with multiple color options within the color wheel, take some googling to initially uncover. But once you get the hang of it, it’s fun to design your own scenes. There are a few things that I wish Philip would improve upon. The grouping system, especially related to syncing music and other media by creating “entertainment zones“, can be somewhat frustrating and can leave you with several overlapping groups. Moreover– as a previous nano leaf user – I can say that Phillips lacks the lighting customization options that the former’s app permits. Some of the lights seem capable of additional color points yet gradients are always limited to three no matter the size or length. Finally, I wish Phillips would release more presets that you can install on your devices. Addition to the 30 or 40 that are always in the store, it seems they occasionally release seasonal presets. But there is no way to share or view additional presets either Phillips designs or customers. Overall, I would definitely recommend lighting your house with Phillips Hue. The app could just use a bit more fine-tuning to provide the functionality that competitors apps seem to allow.Show lessHarrisonSD
App needs work.
First I’ll start off by saying that Hue is far superior to all other smart bulbs. I have tried many other brands like Govee in the past and none of them compare to the quality of Hue. Even though the price tag of all of Hue’s products is absurdly high, I still will splurge here and there to add to my smart home lighting kit. However over the years I feel like Hue does very little to improve upon features of their app. While it’s still far ahead of every other smart lighting app I’ve used, they don’t seem to care much about upgrading and perfecting it. New features are few and far between and honestly quite underwhelming. I’ve personally thought of so many things I’d love for this app to do and I doubt I’ll ever see features rolled out that achieve them. For example, the dynamic scenes they released a while back only includes, candlelight, fire, and prism (the newest and most boring scene.) I can think of so many different dynamic scenes they could add… lightning, star light, sunlight refracting through water or tree leaves… I mean seriously get creative. The custom scenes don’t even let you add a photo, it just gives you a solid colored dot. It just seems like they make all their money and put forth minimal effort to improve the app. Wish they would try harder and do more because there’s still untapped potential.Show lessAndrew.mills
Developer Response
Hey Andrew, thanks for leaving your feedback. We will make sure to note it down to make it even more user-friendly to suits it to your needs. The formula Living colors can cycle through colors of a predefined or own scene. If you have other suggestions you can leave them on Facebook (http://m.me/HuePhilips) or Twitter (https://twitter.com/tweethue).