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I have Hue Lightstrip Plus that I connect to Google Home and I often get error that it's not available. The Hue app also fails to connect. I need to unplug and plug again for it to start working again but after a day or so same thing happens again. It kinda beats the purpose when I can't control it remotely. Does anyone have any idea why this might be happening and whether there's a solution? I don't use a bridge if that makes a difference.

Mimic Presence it is randomly turning off my lights while I am at home and it's quite annoying because I need to constantly manually turn my lights back on. Is there a way to only activate Mimic Presence while I am away from my home location? It would be way more useful if it has this feature.

Hello everybody,

I have a Philips Hue Beyond Pendant Lamp, that I am trying to reset. As I am not able to locate the serial number, I have to reset the lamp by using the dimmer switch reset-method where I hold down the on & off button at the same time.

The problem is that the pendant, has 4 lamps in total. 3 Lamps and one light strip, all close to each other.

When I try to hold down the dimmer reset, it can only find the 3 lamps, and not the strip.

Has anyone else had this problem, and found a fix? Or is there another way that I haven’t figured out. Please help me, as this is getting on my nerves!

Best regards 😀

Hi,

I have a hue plug and I want to program it that it turns on and off several times a day, eg turn on at 10 13 17 and 20:00 and turn off after 15 minutes. Is it possible or do I have Programm several automations in the hue app? Even the home all does not give that options to set one program alone.

I have created some scenes with Govee products, and are able to use these scenes in the Google Home app. When i try to do the same with the Hue scenes, they just dont show up in the GH app. Anyone have a solution?

Is there a way to migrate my devices and setup from a dying bridge to a new one? Also, current bridge is v2 if that will make a difference going to the new one. Also using HomeKit?

How might I go about this?

On the Hue app I get as far as "Which Home in the Apple Home app do you want to connect to?" which leads me to believe you need a HomePod in order to sync between the apps?

Hi i have a au7105 which is one year to old to get Phillips Hue Sync 😞 so i want to ask if you can in any way download the app anyway via maybe a usb or something like that? Cause i can't afford a hue sync box 💀

Hey all,

I am considering getting some wall modules, but want to understand the use case for them!

I have mostly Hue bulbs around my house, I use a little magnetic plate to mount smart buttons over the existing switches.

But wife is quite grumpy about certain rooms, from my understanding the module essentially disconnects the mains, leaving them in an always on state, and then just acts as a zigbee relay?

So I still need to have hue bulbs in every light for this to work?

I think some wall modules/switches allow you to use dumb bulbs, but not the hue ones if I’m correct.

Has anyone gotten the supposed integration working? On Samsung TVs the latest release states that the app can now be controlled by SmartThings automation, which I assume means that when I say switch to a source it could trigger the app to turn on etc. Has anyone gotten that to work? Thanks! (I still think they should just make an option for the color keys to activate the sync function)

doesn't appear to be active, so been deleting as I go.

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So from what I have seen online, this is a common issue but I’m not sure if it’s my router or my bridge.

This is the connection to my Verizon CR100B router.

The amber light blinks on which ever LAN port I plug the Hue supplied Ethernet cord into.

I tried restarting the router, and the Bridge.

I also tried pressing the reset button on the bridge and signing out / reinstalling the Hue app which I read works for some.

Any other clues?

I don’t have an easy way to really check if these LAN ports work because I don’t have anything else that is connectable by LAN.

The router and bridge are both brand new.

WiFi connection has no problems and works very well.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I have a few hue lights throughout the house (6) with a hub. 4x BR30 Lifx bulbs are on sale for a very good price.. pretty much the cost of one hue BR30 bulb. If I was using music sync with Hue essentials app through my android TV, would there be any lag with the Lifx bulbs? Note: My router is in the same room the bulbs would be.

I see people on here saying they have had a bunch of issues with lifx.. and on the plus side, they have more saturated colours.

Anyone have a similar setup or have mixed bulb types?

Should i just pay 3x more for the Hue?

I have a hue bridge one. My phone I can still use it somehow because i’ve had it so long however now I have a new device (iPad) and I cannot download the app. Any 3rd party apps I can use? My lights are just as old as hue 1. Not sure if bridge 2 will work or what to do. TYIA!

Despite selecting 'rocker switch' during setup, it keeps getting added with only a 'press' behaviour - that I can't seem to configure or change.

Hue Wall Switch Module next to a phone showing the Hue app listing the newly-added control as a \"press\" control

Resetting doesn't help; and I've had this happen with _three_ wall-modules. What am I doing wrong?

(All I want is for the wall-switch to function "as normal" - if you toggle the wall-switch to the opposite position, then the configured lights toggle as well; either from on to off, or from off to on, as necessary.)

Hi you all! From Aus and just moved to Europe. Have a stupid number of Phillips hue products. While it's OK to just use basic adapters (aus to EU), it's clear that the hue lights I have have an option to just slide out the aus plug for an EU one. Does anyone know where to buy these little plastic EU plugs that fit the Hue products?

I the photos I have my hue bridge in white adapter with and EU plug which I got from a friend. The black hue play lights have this option to change but I don't know how/where to buy this?

Just bought a sync box for my Hue lights, but it’s not synchronizing. By the way, I have an LG OLED TV.

HDMI1 —> SKY Q HDMI2 —> EE HDMI3 —> empty HDMI4 —> FIRE TV

The lights synchronize with SKY Q, everything is fine. But when I try to switch to the FIRE TV, the lights won’t work. The same issue occurs with EE.

Hey Community,

I have a smart home and I wanted to add a few Lightbars that I purchased from eBay. How can I factory reset them? I have my own Zigbee Controller connected to my home assistant, but I can't find the Lightbars because they are not in factory mode. Perhaps I can emulate something on Flipper Zero or my Zigbee controller?

I would appreciate any suggestions.

I just bought the kit that comes with two bars and I'm trying to connect them to the hue app via bluetooth on my phone. I already have a Hue Go working and never had problems to connect it, but now I connect the bars, they turn on (white light), go the app, select add light and starts searching but never found anything. I already tried scanning the QR code in the light but the same, any ideas? thanks!

Hi,

Can Tap Dial Switch control 3 different Wall Switch Modules?

Each wall switch would control different set of lights going outside. And I’m wondering if tap dial switch can be set so that each button turns on/off one wall switch.

And then for the fourth button I’d like to turn on/off lights on the terrace for example, and the rotation would dim the smart light bulbs on the terrace. This fourth thing is optional.

Hello,

I have several questions about using a Hue motions sensor:

1. After a power cut, (switch pressed) the lamps no longer respond to the sensor configuration. Is this normal?

To redo the configuration, the only solution I've found is to unassign the room to the sensor, then reassign it and redo the entire sensor configuration.

Which is really not practical...

2. Let's say I've done my detector configuration. For one reason or another, I go into the app to change the lighting on my lamps or just switch them off via the APP. Once again, they won't respond to my sensor. Is this normal behavior?

Thanks for your feedback

Tl;dr: I am looking for suggestions for 100W color E26 Hue suitable floor lamp under or around $150 as anything I find is for 14W not 16W

Hey all,

So I want to use E26 100W color ambience in my room and I just can’t keep going on trying floor lamps anymore. I tried 2 lamps from Target and they had quality problem (150$ floor lamp was not straight), and everything I find is either not safe for 100W or it’s too expensive (my budget is up to 150) or just bad looking tbh.

I was wondering if anyone has suggestions for suitable floor lamp? I have another lamp in my room and I think 1 100W lamp should be enough on top of it but I don’t mind if the lamp has 2 slot and I put 2 75W or 1 100W and 1 75W or 60W lamp on it.

Thanks for any suggestions

im trying to connect my bridge to my pc, which is connected to my main router, problem is my bridge is connected to a sub router kinda thing. basically my pcs local ip is 192.168.1.xxx and my router is 192.168.10.xxx, is there any way i can get these to connect? port forwarding, anything?

I bought a new sync box and sync gradient lights, both open box and I am trying to set them up. I also bought a new bridge.

So far, I’ve set up the bridge, it’s connected to my router via an Ethernet cable and I was able to add a 60w bulb that is working just fine.

Then when I try to add my Sync box, I get an error message saying that the Bridge isn’t on the same wifi network - I can’t find a spot where id select a wifi network for the bridge in the settings for the app (iOS). How do I get the bridge on my WiFi network?

Once that is done, how do I connect my sync gradient lights to the whole thing?