Hue Lights brings you the perfect marriage of hardware and software. Get the most out of your Philips Hue System with fast widget support, shared Scenes and Groups, comprehensive scheduling, customized sequences, Apple Watch support and powerful light controls. Hue Lights offers excellent support for the latest Philips hardware including Hue motion sensor, Hue dimmer switch, and Hue Tap. Create multiple time intervals for motion and non-motion events.
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Control separate Hue dimmer switch buttons using long-press and short-press actions. Scene details, schedules, motion sensor time intervals, and switch details are stored directly on your bridge for easy sharing with other devices on your WiFi network.
Enjoy spectacular choreographed audio/visual background animations and sequences! Bring your Hue Lights to a whole new level with multi-track, synchronized, and visually appealing light animations. The 'Hue Lights' third-party app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch gives you fast, accurate, and complete control of your Hue Personal Wireless Lighting System.
Create personalized categories, scenes, and favorites. Access frequently used lighting scenes with just one tap. Set up your favorite colors with precise control over all possible light attributes. Apply favorites to lights, scenes, and groups for quick set-up and changes. What's New in v3.3?
Hue Lights brings more and more capabilities to your smart lighting environment with each release. Popular In-App Purchases Perfect Sunrise - Wake up peacefully with the from Hue Lights! Your lights will change through thousands of precise sunrise colors as they slowly brighten. Schedule multiple sunrise times for weekdays, weekends, or individual days.
Best Hue app AND the dev is extremely responsive. I don’t normally write many reviews but I have to say this is the best Windows Hue app out there, it has a ton of features and no in app purchases to force you to pay more to get all the goodies. The developer is the fastest and most responsive developer I have came across on Windows.
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The schedules and sunrise simulation run 100% on your bridge, so your mobile device can be powered off. The perfect sunrise feature includes an integrated snooze function. At any time during the sunrise sequence you can turn all of your lights off with a Hue Tap, dimmer switch, widget, or app. The lights will resume the sunrise sequence when the snooze timer expires.
You can also start a sunrise sequence using a Hue Tap, dimmer switch, motion sensor, or daylight sensor. The total duration of this sequence is configurable from 1 minute to 60 minutes. Water Simulator - Ride the with Hue Lights! Tune each water simulation with dedicated controls for seagulls, frogs, and crickets. High quality audio clips offer seamless loops and clean, ambient sounds. Listen to seagulls, frogs, and crickets in millions of different locations, near and far, as the app moves them through space and time using advanced soundscape algorithms.
Each water type offers unique themes that slowly change the colors in interesting and dynamic ways. You can also use sunset colors for any of the water types for a relaxing, slowly dimming nighttime routine. Escape to the beach every night with Hue Lights! More details are available in the. Advanced Weather Simulator - Your Hue Lights are ready to rumble with stupendous thunderstorms! Read the for more details. See and hear the Hue Lights weather simulator in action: Customized storm controls:.
Lightning strikes. Rain density. Bird songs. Wind speed. Sleep timer. Brightness. Sky color Watch your lights gently change as the storm progresses.
Lights will shift positions, colors and brightness to create a relaxing ambiance. Brightness, color, animation speed and volume can all be adjusted to create a personalized storm. Adjust controls in real-time and immediately see the effect. Start a timer and fall asleep to the gentle sound of rain and peaceful birds. Lightning, thunder, rain and birds can be individually adjusted or disabled to create a wide variety of storm conditions.
Fire Simulator - Ignite your Hue Lights with a fiery spectacle of animated colors and striking sounds! Read the for more details. See and hear the fire effect in action: Customized fire controls:. Fire type. Fire size. Flare-ups.
Flare-up brightness. Fire brightness. Sleep timer Watch your lights flicker and change as the fire burns. Lights vary from bright yellow and orange flames to dimmer reddish embers. Flare-up frequency can be changed from 0 to 240 flare-ups per hour.
Fire types include fireplace, campfire, brush fire and forest fire. Add wood to each fire type to increase the visual and audio dynamics. Start a timer and fall asleep to the relaxing sound of a crackling fire. When the timer expires your lights and audio will turn off.
Picture the scene, you're sat in your living room, laptop or tablet PC in front of you, and you decide you'd like to adjust your smart lighting. Maybe you want to boost your mood with cooler lighting. Maybe you'd like to play around with a few colours. However, you left your smart light switch on the wall, and your smartphone is out of battery. Surely, with smart lighting your PC can handle the job? Turns out it can, but sadly, there's no official app from Philips to do this task.
That isn't to say there's no official route at all. In fact, you can log on to the website and control your lighting via a browser. You'll need to have setup a login, and paired it with your bridge first, but once done, this method can be used. The downside is the browser interface is very barebones. You can turn lights on or off, but that's it. Activating scenes? Controlling brightness?
So, for full access, you'll need some kind of app. Before we proceed, I should state that I tried this in Windows 10, so my 'go-to' place to find some software to handle this for me was the app store.
Previous versions of Windows like Windows 7 is something I haven't looked at yet. There are several apps in the Windows 10 store for, but the one I tried is 'Huetro for Hue'. It's a free app with a paid, premium upgrade. Once downloaded and launched, job one is discovering the bridge. The app scanned my network, found my bridge, and asked me to push the button on top of the bridge to confirm the pairing.
Once done, the app was ready to go. It's fairly straightforward, breaking down it's controls into sections; Lighting, Scenes, Ambiences, Alarmss, Devices, and automation.
The Lighting section lets you control individual lights and bulbs, as well a for entire rooms and even your entire house. The scenes section lets you activate your pre-set scenes, just as you can in the native 'official' app. Here I ran into a slight quirk. In a previous post ', I'd made mention of a recipe called 'Living Scenes'. When used, your chosen lights gently fade through various colour cycles.
It would seem that in the background, achieves this by creating lots and lots of hidden scenes on the bridge. You don't normally see these scenes, but using Huetro, they were visible. Lots of oddly named scenes showed up, all mentioning. Not a major issue, but you have to scroll down to the bottom to find your real scenes grouped by room. The ambiences section is unique to the Huetro app, and a paid 'premium' feature. It will apply it's own colour cycling functionality, creating either a gentle ambience, or a party in your house! The Alarms section turns lights on or off at set times, the devices section shows you all your remotes, and the automation section is where you'll find routines.
The routines here though are not the same as the ones in the native app. This offers some unique functionality such as missed call notifications through light. All in all the app works OK, but it can be a bit quirky as mentioned above, and I did experience a few crashes, so it's not perfect. Will it get the job done?
Sure, but I'm not sure i'd be paying for the premium upgrade. Your experience may vary however.
The app also advertises Windows 10 Cortana integration, which I haven't yet tested. I'll look at that in a future article and video.
For now though, if you've got Windows 10 and, have a browse through the app store and try a few apps - let me know which ones you like in the comments! UPDATE: See also my new post ' for an alternative approach.
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