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I’ve used Hue for almost a decade and now that we’re in our forever home, my spouse has finally asked me to find good light switches that work like normal decora toggles.

We’ve used the in-box Hue first party adapters and didn’t like them due to the “disconnect” between the paddle position and the light status. We used the remote and it didn’t look great next to our wall plates. We used the Aurora dimmers and while they’re intuitive, they’re bulky.

I’m seriously considering the Inovelli switches but I’m wondering if the Blue or White series would work best.

• I imagine the blue series would be extremely responsive since it’s natively using Zigbee. But, I don’t know if my hubs could handle many more devices. I’m already at the max on two.
• I don’t know much about Matter/Thread. The switch is substantially cheaper and Matter seems future-proof. I wonder if Matter would have near instant response or would there be a translation/proxy that causes a delay.

I use HomeKit as my automation hub for the whole family, but I imagine the light switch configuration would matter little.

What would you use in your setup? Blue or White switches?

I'm planning to buy the Philips Hue Sync Box 8K tonight or tomorrow. Right now I have two Hue Gradient Signe lamps right next to the tv. I understand my best bet would be to buy the Play Gradient lightstrip, but my tv is 85" and already mounted, so I don't want to take it off because well I'm scared. The Signes should do an amazing job on the sides I hope. For the top of the tv I would like to buy the regular Gradient lightstrip 2M. Bottom I might want to do the same. But would this actually works as I intend or do I need a Play Gradient lightstrip? I'm a bit lost right now whether the Signes with the regular lightstrip would work correctly with the Sync Box and show the colors of the tv correctly.

Thanks for reading and hopefully responding :)

Hey all

Quick question: two of my dimmers are "unreachable". I tried like 4 different batteries and 3 different ways to reset these devices, but nothing happens. I.e. I can press the setup button for 10 seconds and will see no blinking whatsoever.

Are they bust?

Any input appreciated, my google-fu is not helpful so far.

Hi,

We've had a Ambilight tv since 2020 but my recently used a bridge and synced it with some lights as we have had a media wall built. All worked fine but we wanted to go bigger on the tv so got a 65PUS7956/12 off marketplace thinking it would work exactly the same but there's no menu options for hue, just Ambilight. I can't find any information online so was hoping someone in here might have insight. Thank you in advance x

Hey everyone!

I’m planning to upgrade my home theater setup with a Hue Play HDMI Sync Box (I used to have an Ambilight TV and loved it). Right now, I only have two Hue Liane wall lamps, but I’m worried that won’t be enough to get the full immersive experience.

Here’s the challenge: I can’t install an LED strip behind my TV because it’s mounted flush to the wall.

What type of Hue lamps would you recommend to complement my setup? I’m open to creative ideas to make the most out of the Sync Box!

Thanks in advance for your advice!

I have a Samsung TV, various boxes (Apple TV, TiVo, and DVD player), a Sonos Playbar, and the Philips Hue Sync Box. I'm experiencing a weird issue in which changing the TV volume (which changes soundbar volume, I believe, through the optical connection) switches the Sync Box source to HDMI 1. Any possible fixes?

EDIT: Upon further tinkering it might an issue with remote control use, not the soundbar. Pressing the OK button on the TiVo remote, for instance, makes the Sync Box go to HDMI 1.

I have a living room thats used mainly to watch movies, play games and listen to music and the space is quite wide. About 21 feet wide by 15 feet deep. I have 2 signe floor lamps and can't decide on where to put them for optimal lighting. I have a 65" TV in the center of my front wall and that has the Hue Gradient Light Strip. Currently I have the signe lamps placed at the very corners of the room with it aimed at about 45 degrees so that the light can disperse to both the front and side walls. I tried turning the lights to both face towards the TV but it looks distracting when you can see the actual light strip, so I opted to turn it so that you see the back part and not the front. What do you guys think?

Hello all! I’ve scoured through the help section already and I’m still stuck. Sync box will not turn on lights and sync with anything currently. I have reset/ uninstalled/ installed everything, tried all different hdmi ports, messed with every possible setting and I’m out of things to try. I’m currently connecting my Xbox series X to the sync box to the tv.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Greetings!

I am considering adding the Tap Switch Mini in one of our rooms. The room has three Hue strip lights, but from the description of the TSM it's unclear if it can be configured so that each button actuates a different light strip.

Could anyone please let me know?

You would think it should be clear on the Hue product description page, but it only states that each button can control a ZONE. But at least for me, one light does not (normally) constitute a Zone, as a Zone is an entire room (/a grouping of individual Hue lights).

If you can't control an individual light with each button I guess I could create a Zone for each striplight, but that would only work if I also can bunch together those zones into a "higher level zone," i.e. the entire room. (And the workaround feels a bit clunky.)

(I don't know if you can create zones that consist of "lower level" zones?)

Either way, the cleanest solution would be configuring the TSM to control an individual light per button.

Any thoughts/experiences from this knowledgeable Hue cohort?

I recently purchased a bundle from Philips and ended up with an extra HUE Bridge.

Is there any benefit or situation where running two (2) bridges in a small home makes sense? I am fine running my whole house with one (1) bridge. No issues.

Advice appreciated.

I had previously thought I had an isolated issue, but this keeps coming up randomly with different lights. I have had color bulbs and the white bulbs and when I use my automation or the Philips hue switch to turn the lights off, this one light keeps turning itself back on multiple times before it stays off.

I have tried disconnecting the light and re-adding it, and I just don't know why it is doing this. Is it just needing to be replaced? Has anyone else been able to fix this?

I am wanting to add some exterior lighting to my home, but it is a smaller house and I feel like the Lily’s being spots would look ridiculous.

Does anyone know of diffuser caps that can go onto the end of the Lily’s? I wish they made outdoor lights that were not spots, but made to light up an entire wall. The amarant wouldn’t work for me as it needs to be somewhat directional.

Hi,

My wife brought some time ago a Philips Hue light that she set up using her own Hue account in Bluetooth. Is it possible to switch that light to my account and have it controlled with the Hue bridge, and how do you do that ?

Hi,

My WiFi-router is in the basement and my Hue bridge will be connected to it soon, when i receive it. Some of the lights I will be setting up will be on the 2nd floor. Will there be a problem with how far the lights might be from the Hue Bridge ?

Also, is it susceptible to interference from other items in the houses ?

I have an issue. I have the box hooked up to my PS5, NVIDIA Shield and Sky Q box. Problem is that whenever I play the PlayStation, the kitchen Sky mini box just doesn’t connect. I have to turn the PS5 off, take the power cable out of the mini box, reinsert it and only then will the damn thing eventually come on. I never had this issue with the 4K box and it’s annoying!

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

I’m upgrading my entertainment space and got a new 48” OLED TV.

I’ve been wanting synced Phillips hue backlighting for a long time, but I didn’t realize how small their size selections were for the strips.

I’ve seen some posts attempt placing a 55 inch gradient strip on a 48 inch TV, and some say they have had some success while others say no.

I’m considering just getting the dual play bar set instead, or the compact light tube - but it might get too pricy.

What do you reckon is idealv

What options do you have minus a second bridge, on a seperate account, once you've maxed out a hue bridge?

Thanks

I saw someone post about a month ago asking about hue recessed lighting and using them outside. The answers seem to suggest that you can but they weren't specific.

Here's a specific question. I'm building a house in Canada. I want smart pot lights in the soffit of the house. I'm at a loss at finding something that seems to fit my needs.

Would any of these work, even if they don't specifically say outdoors?

https://www.philips-hue.com/en-ca/products/smart-recessed-lights

I know this is a Hue sub, but if there are other suggestions, i'd be more than happy to hear them. The only thing is they need to work with alexa.

Thanks!

Sorry if this has been posted before, I couldn’t find anything about this if it has. But if I already have some downlights that use what looks to be the same connection, would I need to remove the old connection and re-install the Hue boxes? Or if the plug fits what’s already there, is it fine to just plug in the Hue? I haven’t done electrical before so I want to make sure I’m a) not taking unnecessary risks by replacing wiring when I don’t have to, and b) doing it right so the power is supplied properly. Thanks in advance!

It was a dream come true, I had been looking for strip extensions and happened across this. I didnt buy all of them but probably 80% or so lol

When my Hue lights are synced to my PC, is the only way to unsync them by using the app on the PC or my phone and unsyncing them manually? Or is there some way I can unsync them using Google Home.

If they are synced to my PC I cannot control them with my Google Home voice controls.

Note: I never shut off my PC.

I've been looking at network traffic this week, and I'm finding the Hue bridge is rather curious about nodes on my network. It's 'investigating' my primary workstation using SDDP (port 1900).
I can't think of any reason why my lighting bridge would need to know about my workstations or connect to a PC, ever.

I've just started looking into this.
Does anyone have some perspective on this?

Thanks

So I just got the new sync box 8k, my setup goes tv into a HDMI out 1 for my HDMI Switcher, tv 2 into output 2 and then I have the sync box connected into the switch INPUT 1. The main tv is a LG OLED CX, the second tv is a LG 4k nano cell only like $300. The problem I'm having is I have them both on and I watch Dolby vision content, the screen on the nano cell goes pink, if I don't watch in Dolby vision the screen is normal. I had the old 4k sync box and this never happened, I was able to get Dolby vision on the main tv and it went to HDR on the second tv. I even tried my old HDMI switcher and still the same problem. I'm thinking that this Hue 8k sync box is overloading the second tv because it's not as high end? Any input is appreciated thanks!

Has anyone tried this? It's a cable with a USB-A plug on one end and the DC plug the Go lights use on the other, reportedly designed specifically for this use case.

I'm thinking of replacing the huge and ugly wall warts for my two Hue Go lights with that cable plus the smallest possible double USB-A wall wart that would provide the right wattage (I'm guessing a 20W PD one should be be fine).

Not many opinions on this company, and absolutely none about this product itself, so I'm kinda hesitating here. Has anyone here tried that? Would it be crazy to keep a USB wall plug permanently connected with this kind of cable?

At some point in the last six months or so, I've been experiencing an issue where individual lights are slow to respond with Alexa commands, but rooms behave normally. I'm unsure which side of the integration this seems to stem from. Generally, other things, of which there are not many, seem to respond as expected. Is there anything from a debugging perspective within Hue that might be able to show any sort of request/response latency?