
It’s also got a veritable shipload of effects, and allows you to program individual bulbs to respond to the bass, mids, and highs in your tunes. Lumes enable you to bring your walls to life with color, visuals, motion and hue control. Hue lamps and light bulbs can be grouped together so you can set the mood in a room in one go, with up to 50 lights on one network. What sets it apart is the fact that it syncs your lights up perfectly with the music you play rather than relying on your phone’s microphone to pick up incoming sound, which often causes a slight delay. For example, to see Hue favorites follow these steps: Tap See All next to the Lights section. To change the color mode tap on the Hue, Temp, or Point names in the middle of the screen.

Or choose from a preset list of 123 colors (with the Hue Color bulbs). When you are configuring an individual light you will only see favorites that are relevant to the selected color mode of the light (i.e., Hue, Temp, or Point). You can either choose between five shades of white: The Alexa app’s five color choices for a White Ambiance Hue bulb. However in the Alexa app, you get a lot less choice. Its working now and making me want to get even more bulbs than the 13 I. This works really well, both for white ambiance bulbs (as pictured above) and Hue color bulbs too. For 200, you get 180 worth of bulbs, making the Hue Bridge 20, while. I also cover this topic in much more detail on my blog here. This is possible via the Hue Labs feature, which I show step-by-step in this guide. If you do the math, the color kit makes a lot more sense. Whilst it’s not obvious from the Philips Hue app, it IS possible to automatically cycle between different colors with your Hue lights and light strips. Additional colored bulbs cost about 60, while white bulbs run about 15. AmbifyĪmbify is hands down the best Hue music app you can get right now. Ambify - the Hue enabled jukebox turns music into light using Philips Hue Smart. There are two starter kits, both of which include the Hue Bridge: a 200 kit with three colored bulbs and an 80 kit that has two white bulbs.

Here’s our top 10 picks for the best Philips Hue apps.

Now that Hue is starting to catch on in a big way, more and more Hue apps are popping up, so we’re here to bring you a quick roundup of the best ones. Luckily for users, Philips released a Hue API so that third-party developers can build new apps for the lights. It’s clunky, slow, and cumbersome to use. Unfortunately, the company’s proprietary smartphone app is absolutely terrible. Philips Hue's app-enabled, color-changing light bulbs were among the very first smart-home gadgets to sync with Alexa, Amazon's popular voice-activated, virtual assistant. Philips’ line of Hue connected bulbs are arguably one of the coolest devices to hit the market this year.
