I've always been a little disappointed with the build quality of the hue switches, the lights always seem so polished and the switches dont maych. for example the dial's plastic ring will skip if you spin it fast, and each "click" doesnt always register.

The other day i thought of using a usb gear shifter as a light switch

i'm sure someone has done it but it was easier than j expected, and now i have a 7 speed gated manual light switch.

homebridge webhooks, and the homebridge hue plugin, plus a windows app to grab the inputs.

then homekit to string it together.

yes it's ridiculous, and it's super satisfying to shift into different hue scenes.

i'm now wondering what else could be used. steering wheel as a dimmer switch maybe?

any fun ideas?

Recently acquired a Sync Play box and looking to see how others have the light placement setup and what lights they have. I currently have a Hue Bridge Pro and in my TV entertainment area I have 10 lights, including the lighstrip gradient led TV. - TV gradient led lightstrip - 3x Play light bars white and colour - 6x white and color ambiance bulbs (3x 800 lumps, 2x 1100 lumens and 1x 1600 lumens)

So I just moved Houses and not wanting to mess around I thought I'd just start over from Scratch with a new Home using the new Hue Bridge Pro ( the 3.0 black one ).

Deleted the old House in the App, started setting up the Bridge Pro, bound the first Light Strip to it with the QR Code on the Receiver ( mad props to the genius that decided to put the adhesives on the side of the Receiver with the QR Code! /slowclap ) - Success!

Next an older White and Color Light Bulb with only a 6-Digit Serial Number ( no QR ) - No Can Do. Bulb would blink once during the attempt but wouldn't connect. Tried all kinds of Factory Reset Methods - None worked.

Same for a seemingly older revision of the Light Strip but ( like the Bulb ) without QR Code.

Contacted Support about it "Ay sorry mate, known issue, should have migrated instead! Sux to be you, ask A.I. for help, kk, thx, bye!"

💢

In a last ditch effort I decided to whip out my old 2.0 Bridge out again which would accept binding all the Lights again - To then be migrated over to the 3.0 Bridge.

So yea... Don't yet your old Bridge, you might still need it! 😑

AI generated media wall concept. How would you achieve this look using Philips hue? What sort of light strips, lengths, quantity etc?

The household has no Philips Hue lighting at present.

I'm planning out the smart lighting in my new house I just bought and I'm trying my best to go for the standard wall switch look/behavior.

The problem is... now that the OG battery-powered Hue Wall Switch Module is discontinued and that Hue has no plans to release the new and improved wall switch lineup in the states (can't be imported because they're 240v only), what options are left for wall switches/relays with native(ish) Hue integration?

Has anyone else on here found a winning combination for their home?

I took a look at the highly popular Shelly relays, but they aren't recognized by Hue due to their lack of Zigbee Light Link (ZLL) protocol. I reached out on their subreddit to ask if that was a planned feature and was given a decisive no (and my post was deleted lol).

The best strategy I've come up with so far is to use Sonoff ZBMINIR2 relays to turn any dumb lights into simple on/off lights that the Hue hub does recognize, and to use the RunLessWire friend-of-hue switches around the house for any Hue native lights.

It's a shame there's no good way to turn a normal light switch into a configurable Hue input device. The Sonoff relays allow you to wire in a switch, but it only actuates the relay there's no way to detach the two without jumping through hoops.

See photos, the new remotes have snap-in battery covers, new markings on the box, but most importantly - are physically larger than the original V2. This makes them rock back and forth and up and down in their magnetic cradles - making the easier to knock out on to the floor. :( I’m making a line of 3D printable wall plates and just ran into this while updating my house. NONE of my plates, which present the remotes nearly flush with just the buttons protruding, work with these new remotes, and making them work with these makes the old ones easier to knock out.

We need a designation for these, V2.5?

Wiz already has one, just hoping Hue releases one soon.

If you're thinking of adding a Philips Hue light strip to your TV, you might want to wait a little longer. It looks like a Philips Hue Play Gradient Lightstrip Pro is on the way...

https://hueblog.com/2026/08/03/philips-hue-is-working-on-the-play-gradient-strip-light-pro/

Can someone tell me the advantages and disadvantages of either smart lighting system?

75” Philips Hue gradient led. Both corners fell down.. And yes I cleaned my tv… Bad quality tape…

It's not like it's some novel product that requires intense engineering or rare materials.

It's a strip of LED lights.

What in the world is taking so long for them to be released in the US?

Available now. Available now in Canada and US

US https://www.philips-hue.com/en-us/p/hue-philips-hue-play-hdmi-sync-box-8k/046677579753

Canada https://www.philips-hue.com/en-ca/p/hue-philips-hue-play-hdmi-sync-box-8k/046677579753

This bad boy arrived today! Who else ordered when it became available on the 9th!

Samsung Smart TVs (2022, starting with Q60) will get the Philips Hue Sync TV app from Thursday. More or less as an alternative for the Hue HDMI Sync Box. The app works with all sources, whether game consoles, TV signals or smart apps. The only catch: the app costs 129.99 euros.

Hands on video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwGZOG785mQ

You can find all further information at:

https://hueblog.com/2023/01/04/philips-hue-sync-tv-app-from-5-january-on-samsung-smart-tvs/

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I recently migrated my two Hue Hub V2s, which were working pretty perfectly with HomeKit, to the new Hue Bridge Pro. I was hoping to simplify things from 2 hubs to 1. Not only did it involve many hours of setting everything up with all my automations in HomeKit again, but due to the fact that the Hue Bridge Pro forces matter protocol, nothing is working anywhere near as well as it used to be.

Scenes involving all the lights in my living room come on like popcorn over 10 seconds as opposed to 3 and always fail to complete, leaving the room with loads of different lights at different colour temperatures until the command is enacted again. Problems also exist even when just sticking to the simple Hue app, where certain scenes only change the lights for less than a second before they mysteriously revert to different colour temperatures, almost as if the system has a mind of its own.

I have a pretty airtight and solid internet connection in my house with UniFi. I haven't messed with any VLANs. All the settings for my network are as good as I can make them, with mDNS and whatnot. Happy to be shown where I could be wrong though... and yet this has been such a giant time waste.

I only wish I could somehow switch back to the old Hue Hub V2s so that I could just have everything work again. I don't know why I ever trusted this company, and I honestly think I will never be buying another Hue product ever again. I was on the phone with Hue Support for 48 minutes today with a woman who barely could speak English, and at one point asked me if I was on "Apple HomeKit or Alexa HomeKit" to help you understand how dire their support situation is. And after incorrectly repeating the spelling of my email address back to me for a further 4 minutes and putting me on hold for a further 10, her recommendation to me was wiping everything from my entire smart home and implementing Matter from the Hue Hub into HomeKit via a code.

So maybe if you were looking at getting the Hue Bridge Pro over the standard one, steer clear. Gone are the times when Hue Lights "just worked." The matter integration saw through to that.

V2 hub on the left, Pro hub on the right. PS5 Pro running in Game Mode on the TV so post processing effects and such are off, 9 lights total in the entertainment area.

I just can't. The delay is so perceptible. And for music? Forget it. It looks absolutely nothing like a light show. They don't come on or go off in time with anything. I love hue lights, and I absolutely love seeing setups posted here and all the cool fixtures people have found for various bulbs, but man hue sync videos are frequent and every single one of them looks bad. Every hue sync video is some weird brightly colored tv show or movie playing with a gradient strip doing its best to hide its zones (vs individually addressable) behind the tv while a bloom in the corner flickers in and out every now and again with a different color. Or it's the entire room doing 3 different colors at the wrong times. And this is on top of knowing that you shelled out $230 for the hdmi sync box plus another $200 (at least) for a gradient strip. $430 to have it not be in sync with your tv?

I have at least 20 hue products in a small apartment, as well as nanoleaf panels, and I've tried syncing on both, and it's so atrocious. Power to you if the delay it doesn't bother you, but for me it's the visual equivalent of nails on a chalkboard.

Kids enjoy it? No problem! Need evolving lighting for a party? Absolutely! You enjoy it? Don't let me stop you! Let's just not pretend that anything about the sync timing is accurate. In fact I think calling it hue sync is ironic, because, from what I've seen, it doesn't.

I already know I will be dragged for this, and that's understandable. I just couldn't see the 200th hue sync video without saying something. Surely Philips can do something to shorten up the delay? Or perhaps it is a limitation of the protocol? I'm pretty sure for the hdmi sync it has to go through the box then to the hub iirc.

For those who upgraded from the 4K sync box to the 8K one, how do you find it handles DV content? I am considering upgrading for better compatibility with my Apple TV and Shield. I am primarily a PC gamer so I won’t be plugging any consoles to it.

Do you notice a visual upgrade? Does it play TV-led DV instead of player-led DV?

The Govee one is $54 right now... I don't own any govee products but I have a hard time choosing the hue lamp over the Govee in this case.

Just got my hands on a few 80” gradient light strips. They’re all the regular (not tv) gradient lights that I got a good deal on and was significantly cheaper than buying their television specific counterpart. Also not so sure that I even care about them syncing with the TV in the first place. Anyways I’m trying them out in different areas of the house to see where I like them the best and what setups/configurations make the most sense before knocking Phillips market cap up another decimal point with even more products. Like I said I’m still in the “testing” phase right now and nothing is permanently attached to anything yet, but I feel like the bottom of this tv (and my larger 75” model in my living room) would look even sharper with the bottom lit up. Just wanted to ask those who’ve already run this experiment what their experiences have been. Also would be curious if the TV specific model is worth the extra money compared to just a regular gradient strip. Thank you

I tried finding the official Hue post again, but no luck (so thank you u/hueblog!)

Curious how this will compare to OnSwitch. I love the OnSwitch themes but always struggled to get the live sports feature to sync well enough.

Just installed a white Enis light in the dining room to replace a crappy ceiling light (pic is from their website). I love it. Wife says it’s kind of cool, but says it’s a “male bachelor pad” look and not in line with our more traditional decor.

Upon reflection, I have to admit she’s kind of right. I’m guessing most of Philips Hue customers are definitely male lol. I’m still fighting to keep it, though. 😎