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Sync your living room lights with what’s on TV so the color of the room matches the dominant colors on the TV, with a third-party app like Hue TV. Sync the lights with your music to turn your living room into a dance floor, via a third-party app like Light DJ.

Turn the lights on before you enter a dark room, so you don’t stumble all over the place.Īctivate a colored scene to add ambiance to a room.

Turn your lights on or off, or dim them from your iPhone, without having to get off the couch.

So what can you do with Hue lights? Here are a few possibilities: Of course, you could also buy the Hue Bridge on its own, for about $60, and then buy bulbs individually, but the starter kits are a much better deal. In fact, if you want more color bulbs later, it makes since to buy the color kit at a discount, and set the additional bridge aside as a backup (or sell it to someone stuck with a first-generation Hue Bridge that doesn’t support HomeKit). You can often find deals on the color kit (I got mine for $150), so if you’re just starting out, I recommend it. For $200, you get $180 worth of bulbs, making the Hue Bridge $20, while the $80 kit gives you $30 worth of bulbs, making the Hue Bridge $50. If you do the math, the color kit makes a lot more sense. Additional colored bulbs cost about $60, while white bulbs run about $15. 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. The only thing I dislike about Hue is the high startup costs. Since the second version of the Hue Bridge, the Hue system has been compatible with Apple’s HomeKit, so you can control the lights with Siri. They’re controlled by a Wi-Fi bridge that connects to your home network viaĮthernet.

Philips also offers different bulb shapes, including the standalone Hue Bloom and the Hue Lightstrip Plus. They come in two basic variants: the rather pricey Hue White and Color Ambiance and the cheaper Hue White bulbs. What Are Hue Lights? - Hue lights are wireless, software-controlled LED light bulbs. The Hue universe can be overwhelming, so I’ll focus on setting up a starter kit with the official Hue app and just touch on some of the other possibilities. They’re useful, fun, and in the worst-case scenario, they will still work as regular LED bulbs. The obvious choice for my first step was a set of Philips’s highly regarded Hue light bulbs. However, with Apple’s impending iOS and tvOS releases, both of which greatly enhance home automation, I decided that I couldn’t ignore the field any longer. Bringing the bugs and security exploits of computers to my door locks, lights, and thermostat wasn’t an enticing prospect. It seemed like a gimmick that would cause more problems than it would solve. I’ve long been a skeptic of home automation. #1617: Pages regains mail merge, HomeKit sensor improvements, keyboard flags in Monterey.

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