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my daughter is staying up late and she is ignoring her bed time, im looking for a light that can be controlled with my phone only and can NOT be manually turned on or off, i dont want her to be able to turn it back on after i turned it off

does something like that even exist?

I have a sync box but it doesn’t work with the native apps on the Samsung TV. Besides the fact that it charges $2.99/mo, it doesn’t work. The app will start syncing my TV Gradient light strip and then it just stops after a couple mins when switching to another app to play a video.

My guess is that the tv is backgrounding the Sync app and stopping it when another app is active. But that would make it worthless?

Has anyone had any luck troubleshooting the reliability of the app on a Samsung tv?

Hi everyone,

I just switch from iOS to Android (S25) and I am facing some difficulties with setting up my hue app and different automation/shortcuts and was hopping you could help me!

I have a few hue light in my apartment and I am primarily using the "all day scenes" that changes through the day. I was using a simple widget on my iPhone with the main actions : Activate Golden Hour scene & Turn off the lights. For the other scenes I would simply go on the app and select them manually but it would be rare.
Now on android, I'm trying to replicate this but unfortunately the widget only come in 1x1 block and does not allow to select the 24h scenes.

1. Is there a way to get the equivalent of the widget I'm used to, in order to easily control the lights with one button on my phone?

2. I moved in with my gf (also android user) and I would like it to be easy for both of us to operate + beginner friendly for guests (I have 2 Hue dimmer switch that I could setup).

3. And that might be a lot, she has a bunch of Govee bulbs / random smart bulbs around the apartment and was wondering what would be the best way to combine everything knowing that they are not Zigbee compatible. I was thinking about the Google Home app directly but I believe I can't have the "all day scenes" in there.

4. What is the equivalent in Android of the iOS Shortcut app to create automation based on buttons/nfc tags etc?

Thank you in advance!

I was shocked to find these at my local goodwill. Hopefully they both work lol

I don't want additional software in the background using up precious CPU power while gaming.

Any further news out there on the LG app release?

I have a few Ws2812 b LED strips around the house, driven by a Raspberry Pi and some custom scripts. I've recently got a bunch of Hue bulbs and Hub—I find their app amazing for setting up a scene. The question is, could I somehow connect the existing pi to the hub and set my lights from the hue app?

All the lighting in my home can be operated normally, except for my recessed hue lighting. How do you solve this? Just cut power with a dumb switch?

A core tenent of my setup is that using smart features is purely optional. I.e. a friend staying over would just operate lights as normal.

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Renting a house with a built-in entertainment center that just barley had space for my 75 inch tv. Would tv backlighting be worth adding to this?

I normally change my front porch lights scene for every holiday. However, it no longer offers the various scenes, only the default options. I can still select the color scenes individually in the app... But the automations no longer offers them as choices. Even creating a new automation didn't work.

Any idea what happened or how to fix it?

My apartment has ceiling dome lights that takes two 60 watt max A19 E26 bulbs and has a non-dimmable wall switch to turn it on/off. I already have a Hue bridge, lamps with Hue bulbs and a couple of Hue dimmable switches to control them. Can I also put Hue bulbs in the ceiling dome lights, leave the wall switch on and control them with my Hue dimmable switches?

I recently bought a second bridge. I've moved all of my lights and accessories with the exception of the wall switch modules. I don't want to have to remove the wall plate to hit the reset button on the wall switch module. If I delete them off the old bridge will it set them back into pairing mode without having to hit the reset button?

It seems the Hue Bridge did this for all of my lights and my tap dial. But it didn't for the dimmer switch (I had to manually reset it), so I'm a bit worried!

Thanks!

I just got the TV Gradient Light Strip and 4k Hue Sync Box. Currently, the Sync Box is stuck on "identifying Hue Sync Box," after connecting to Bluetooth/WIFI (for almost an hour now after I gave up troubleshooting). I've read all the posts here with the same problem and have found no solutions. (Using the normal Hue App as the Hue Sync app is no longer available, iOS). The only Hue items I have are the gradient lights and bridge, which connect just fine.

This is what I've tried (trying to be as specific as possible):

• Turning off 5ghz on router/modem (AT&T Internet Air) so everything is connected 2.4ghz
• Factory resetting the box multiple times
• Deleting/Re-installing the app multiple times
• Restarting my phone multiple times
• Moving Bridge and Router/Modem within centimeters of the box
• Local network permission is enabled on both the box and bridge
• Deleting bridge from my home and setting it up again (after disabling 5ghz)

Any help or other useful troubleshooting steps are greatly appreciated. After much time stuck on the 'identifying' screen, the box light turns blinking blue > white > red. I'm willing to try some more before I return and purchase the 8k box to see if that one will actually work.

Update: Still no dice and I have ordered the 8k box to test.

• Used another ethernet cable per comment (CAT 6, 10ft)
• Removed iPhone case
• Unplugged everything and ensured devices were using the correct plugs (plugged in sync box and gradient lights into the same plug since it has 3 inputs/ports).
• Unplugged Wifi Extender
• Putting bridge on top of the box.

I got 2 Phillips Hue Lightbars as Backroundlight for my TV and I want to use them with my Apple Home App, because I already have several other products. I already ordered the bridge to use it, so that shouldn’t be a problem. The question I have is: How can I synchronize the lights with my TV without the Phillips 4K sync Box, that costs an additional ~250€. Is there another way? I didn’t find another product for this yet. Or is it not necessary because I watch with my Apple TV 4K?

I am thinking about using these bifrost leds @ 18W/m with a hue light strip controller. I am mostly just interested in getting a strip that matches the hue color spec with shorter cuttable segments; I don't need the extra brightness.

I want to run a 3m segment for under cabinet lighting. I already have a regular hue led strip for the above cabinet.

I am wondering if I connect these leds to the hue controller without the bifrost amp & ps, will they dim appropropriately? iiuc, at maximum brightness they will draw ~24 watts which is the max of the hue power supply. Are there any disadvantages of using led strips that have a higher power rating than the supply? Has anyone tried this setup?

Hi,

As some maybe know, I use the Floodlight with camera.

I already found how to use the camera as sensor, so I can choose which lights need to turn on when the camera detects movement ...

But I wonder if there is also a setting to choose, so the light turns off after a while when no movement is detected by the camera, used as motion sensor?

Thanks!

Whenever I turn the light strip on it functions until I hit the synch button under the synch tab on the iPhone app. Then the toggle under the room section for the light strip immediately shuts off and I am unable to toggle it to the on position. It’s says in the middle of screen Hue synch is active stop synching to control your lights. Started happening about 6 months ago. Beyond frustrated as this wasn’t a cheap purchase. Any help here would be greatly appreciated!

I recently switched my Google home to connect to my Philips hue lights via Matter so that I could finally control all the lights on my second bridge by voice. However, I have noticed now that it no longer can voice control the Philips hue scenes that I have saved. Is this a known problem or is there a fix?

I'm trying my best to synchronize my new Philips OLED65 809 GOOGLE TV with Hue Bridge and Philips Hue Lightbulbs. But apparently there is no way to do so anymore? I'm on it since 3 weeks and even bought a philips hue snyc box for 250€ to find out it's just for external devices like PS5 etc.

Isn't there a way to use a current gen philips ambilight tv with the philips hue ambilight devices? I'm feeling a bit fooled here, was this the only thing philips was known for.

I got an older philips ambilight from 2022 and the bridge just synced, but it's with android tv not google tv. The newer google tv one doesn't even have a menu for ambilight.

Help?

I can't really find an answer online. Can I use the power supply with 3 output for hue play ton control 3 lightstrip plus V4 and control those separately?

I am trying to have a single (or maximum 2) power supply for multiple indipendent strips. I am fine getting them on at the same time, but I may want to have different colors or intensity.

TLDR: Got a Phillips Hue Gen 3 Smart light. I want to sync music to the lights.

Hi all, college dorm guy here.

I bought a Philips Hue Gen 3 Smart light, full name: [[PHILIPS Hue Gen 3 Smart Light E27 Color Ambiance 9W Bulb, Bluetooth & Zigbee Compatible Hue Bridge Optional, Compatible with Alexa & Google Assistant]].

The room is small, so the one light bulb is enough. The room also has a screen, a PS5, a Firestick, JBL speakers (that can connect to PS5, Firestick via HDMI, or phone via BT), a personal wifi/LAN connection (wired and unwired), and a Google Home mini. I have an iPhone. I want the lights to sync to music with Spotify or yt.

So, would buying a Hue Bridge let me sync the music to the light? Would I need anything else to set it up? I would be grateful if you could let me know how to set it up.

The end goal is to have the lights synced to the music in any way. I would also like the lights to be synced with YT music videos, but Spotify is enough.

I shipped two Hue Signe floor lamps from the US to the Philippines. I tested both lamps before I traveled and they both worked fine. I also bought a voltage converter so that I'd be supplying them with 110-120v vs the 220 that is standard here.

However, both lamps cannot be found in the Hue app. I tried via the normal search and also with the serial number. Any suggestions?

I just made the switch from mismatched smart home lighting to all Philips Hue and I love it. I set up an entertainment area with a Sync Box, the TV light strip, and 3 bulbs in my living room.

My house is old af and the light switch situation is a mess, so we rely heavily on automations and voice commands through Google Home to run our lights. All of the commands work as expected, except for one, which I can't figure out a fix for.

The voice command is "bedtime" and is supposed to turn off downstairs lights, the tv, and turn on upstairs lights. All of the lights behave the way I want them to except for the entertainment area while it's actively syncing. If I stop the sync, the command executes properly by turning off the lights attached to the entertainment area.

Is there something I'm missing here, or is the fix to just stop the sync before running the voice command? I can't find a way to add Stop Sync as an action on the automation.