Seems like good price, though it came with Smart Button instead of Dimmer Switch.
Don't forget your favorite cashback. Seems this falls under Home Improvement.
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The usual Danger Danger Will Robinson warning that these are the white-only (colour temperature adjustable) bulbs, not the colour bulbs, because people have been caught out before.
There's nothing actually wrong with these, they are perfect in places like the laundry and loo, where the colour bulbs are overkill.
they are perfect in places like basically everywhere
the laundry and loo, where the colour bulbs are overkill.
Fixed that for you :)
But yes, a useful warning!
Do people actually use the other colours? I feel white with variable temperature is all most people need.
Do people actually use the other colours?
Constantly. Set the bedroom lights to red - great atmosphere. Loungeroom lights run on a sunset colour scheme, it's very soothing and good for evenings. For the outside spots and strips I used a tropic colour scene with mauves and oranges.
Appreciate it! we are migrating from google home and had the colour bulbs there, honestly aside from the odd gimmick I never used the colours, just found myself switching from cool to warm white(and I wont lie I think having the colour option made the white a lot less powerful, could be down to those bulbs though).
So on that note, strongly suggest anyone wanting colour to think if they actually need colour in that space, cool to have, but not cool enough to justify the extra cost, in my humble opinion.
I only use coloured bulbs in my laundry and loo.
This or Lifx?
Been looking at both, I reckon Philips is a no brainer given the price is right, the reduced price of this tipped me over. I was umming and ahing for a few weeks about both because lifx is much cheaper. I use Philips in pretty much every lighting application.
Agreed. Philips may come with the premium price but it comes with the premium features and convenience. Don't mind splashing the extra cash since Hue is amazingly convenient.
Have got some old lifx light bulbs that are too big to fit into the enclosure.
What sort of premium features and convenience are we talking about over the lifx?
@SevenSmurfs: It's the entire ecosystem. There are all the different bulbs, various lightstrips both indoor and outdoor, downlights, outdoor spotlights, controllers…there are a couple of bits I wish was in there but you could easily equip your entire house in Hue and it all works together, no mish-mash of different apps for a dozen different products (or having to tie them all together in HA, Hubitat, Homekit or whatever). Works locally, so no cloud dependence. The app is good and brings everything together. And, importantly for the rest of the family, it is easy to operate and just <i>works</i>.
The key is to stalk for sales, and never buy at full RRP.
Hue are great but i stopped buying them because the hub will only allow about 50 lights and a dozen accessories which is BS. They keep creating more and more lights and ignore the hub issue.
Damn you got more than 50 lights?
More than 50 lights is not hard to hit, i have 10 downlights in the kitchen, 8 in the hallway, 4 in the stairs. So there's half the limit there, and when you add the rest of the roof lights, lamps, LED strips etc it adds up fast.
Just set up another hub. We use 3 hubs across the house. It's quick to change hubs in the app.
Agree, I fear will run into this issue - and got a couple standby hub.
However, hopefully Matter Thread support / migration will hopefully solve this issue. Fingers crossed.
You can use multiple hubs. Kinda a silly reason to stop buying them to be honest.
The multiple bridges dont talk to each other. Everything is locked to a specific Bridge, meaning that you can no longer have a single Hue switch to “switch all lights off".
You can only have one bridge per Hue account for out-of-home control If you want to control multiple bridges while you’re away from home. The Alexa Hue skill only supports a single bridge. The skill is required for Hue scenes, so you’ll be limited to using a single bridge’s scenes with Alexa.
So it's the principal of the thing, i've spent many thousands on Hue devices and now have to jump through hoops and limitations to spend a few thousand more. So why would i spend $400 on a Hue Sync box, or $300 for an outdoor light from a company when the most important device that ties the whole system together is junk and they refuse to update it? It's almost 2023, if they can't make a hub with enough memory and CPU to store more light bulbs then why would i keep buying them?
@LowRange: You can use the Hue Essential app for multi hub support. But most people just section their house between the multiple hubs. So there is no issues.
Given that I have about 42 lights and 30 accessories running off single hub without any issues yet
@asa79: As mentioned it's the principal of it, Philips Hue are a premium light so someone spending thousands shouldn't have to juggle multiple bridges with third party apps, and compromise on features just because Philips don't want to make a bridge that's capable which would be trivial for them to do.
They have no problems developing costly new outdoor lights, or $600 in sync box and play bars to make your TV backlight display pretty colours but neglect the one thing that ties the whole system together. So i have refused to spend another cent on their gear for the last 3 years because of it.
And yes, i have reprogrammed the dimmer switches already.
@LowRange: I use the Hue Essential to program my hue dimmers to do different actions from standard very easily. Check it out. To have it control multiple hubs
Hue over Lifx IMO.
Wifi vs ZigBee really. ZigBee is faster and more reliable then wifi
This is coming up as $171.86 for me. Have I missed the sale??
Same
Been looking for a cheap kick off to migrate to apple homekit, thanks OP!