Philips Hue Adds Support for HomeKit Adaptive Lighting to Ambiance Lights

[x-evil-x]

this should be pretty nice. My main wish for Hue is to create the same colors upon request. I don’t know if anyone has tried this, but when requesting colors through Google Assistant or Siri the colors are not the same at all. Violet and soft white are totally different when asking Siri or Google, and I don’t really understand. Fwiw I always prefer the color google chooses.

if you want a specific name color and actual color you want then create a scene with that light only. like this
Tv light white.
Change it to the color you want and then you can have Siri turn on that color. Scenes should really be used for most things. Too bad im maxed out on mine.

 

[x-evil-x]

im still unsure about this as I don't like color of the lights changing because it changes the whole feel of my place from my scenes I made. So at night the whole house will be changing to more orange colors from my set colors for my 30+ bulbs and strips. Ill give it a shot but I really don't see the benefit of this if you like your scenes for specific situations and not have everything be the same color.
I don't do hues standard scenes like bright or read. They make my place look pretty bad imo. The way I have the colors set in the scenes is how I like my place for certain times. Anybody else like me or do people really want their lights to be changing the whole feel of there place? My whole place is hue so it will completely change the feel of the space doing this.

 

[CJ Dorschel]

Still no update on my Philips Hue bridges. With so many hue systems in use this will be a slow rollout.

 

[Pimmp]

Still no update on my Philips Hue bridges. With so many hue systems in use this will be a slow rollout.

Well if Apple can push out gigabytes of ios updates i think philips should be able to push ut kb for bridge updates

 

[CJ Dorschel]

Well if Apple can push out gigabytes of ios updates i think philips should be able to push ut kb for bridge updates

Truth! Can’t argue with that fact. I’m still waiting on HomeKit firmware rollouts for my mesh systems that were released months ago yet another slow rollout.

I wonder if this has to do with Apple opening HomeKit up to third parties with the new API. I know the MFi program was stopped as everyone is using the same standard security chips, etc. I don’t expect Google to ever make Nest products HomeKit compatible but it would be nice. A lot of smart home devices that have been promising HomeKit compatibility for a while suddenly went quiet, and then a few quickly released HomeKit support after iOS 14 was released.

 

[steevn]

if you want a specific name color and actual color you want then create a scene with that light only. like this
Tv light white.
Change it to the color you want and then you can have Siri turn on that color. Scenes should really be used for most things. Too bad im maxed out on mine.

if you want a specific name color and actual color you want then create a scene with that light only. like this

Tv light white.
Change it to the color you want and then you can have Siri turn on that color. Scenes should really be used for most things. Too bad im maxed out on mine.

Yea I have since done that, but that seems pretty unnecessary overall when out of the box it is a different color based on if someone uses google or Siri, it may be different with Alexa for all I know.
You’ve even said yourself that you have maxed out your scenes, which isn’t something that anyone wants to run into.

 

[clcnyc]

Still nothing new on my bridge. Come on, I need a silly distraction today!

 

[x-evil-x]

if you want a specific name color and actual color you want then create a scene with that light only. like this

Yea I have since done that, but that seems pretty unnecessary overall when out of the box it is a different color based on if someone uses google or Siri, it may be different with Alexa for all I know.
You’ve even said yourself that you have maxed out your scenes, which isn’t something that anyone wants to run into.

Out of the box yea. These all have the same generic color names they use. If you want to use each device with the same name you have to add it into each. I don’t use my google home to control light names I use HomeKit for everything. Sometimes Alexa for little things. You have 50 scenes you can add a few custom color names then add it into hue the same way and transfer it to an Alexa or google hub.

 

[Pimmp]

Truth! Can’t argue with that fact. I’m still waiting on HomeKit firmware rollouts for my mesh systems that were released months ago yet another slow rollout.

I wonder if this has to do with Apple opening HomeKit up to third parties with the new API. I know the MFi program was stopped as everyone is using the same standard security chips, etc. I don’t expect Google to ever make Nest products HomeKit compatible but it would be nice. A lot of smart home devices that have been promising HomeKit compatibility for a while suddenly went quiet, and then a few quickly released HomeKit support after iOS 14 was released.

Third party 😱 you mean that there is a microskopic chance that I would witness a straight out of the box homekit compatible pushdimmer before 2060?

 

[forrie]

I don't see the update being available -- I'm on the US eastern coast. Does anyone know Philips Hue release plans?

 

[philipc121]

I don't see the update being available -- I'm on the US eastern coast. Does anyone know Philips Hue release plans?

Found this on their twitter:

"as part of our safe deploy process, we will further roll out Apple HomeKit Adaptive Lighting for your Hue Bridge in the next few weeks."

 

[clcnyc]

Found this on their twitter:

"as part of our safe deploy process, we will further roll out Apple HomeKit Adaptive Lighting for your Hue Bridge in the next few weeks."

Ugh noooooo

 

[SimonTheSoundMa]

Does it work when the light it off? I just want lights I can turn on at whatever time of day and have be the correct hue for that time of day. LIFX has had their own temp shift feature but it’s like the lights always have to be on

Hue have it in their own app for a while. This update just brings Apple's own implementation.

 

[The Banker]

Ive got the firmware installed but I'm not getting a message in my home app to enable it?

Same here, perhaps it requires a home hub, which I don’t have.

 

[tzm41]

Found this on their twitter:

"as part of our safe deploy process, we will further roll out Apple HomeKit Adaptive Lighting for your Hue Bridge in the next few weeks."

Maybe they are rolling out in smaller markets first so that they can catch any last minute hidden bugs or security flaws. Still, a couple weeks, that's much faster than Gmail or Facebook dark mode roll out. \s

 

[odHbo]

Pacific Coast here and no update yet.

I wish this wasn’t announced so publicly if it’s a slow roll out. That got me excited as I’ve been waiting for this for a long time. Oh well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I have a sneaking suspicion this was announced early because NanoLeaf has a $20 bulb shipping with Adaptive Lighting and Hue is aware of that.

 

[Perry Barhydt]

Still no updates available

 

[vc2020]

I'm in Canada and wasn't seeing the update and tried to turn a VPN for the Netherlands on my iPhone and still no dice but when I also ran the Hub through the VPN (using a router flashed with ExpressVPN software) the update showed up and it's now updating.

Just bumping this in case anyone who's eager to get the update missed it.

 

[palemonkey]

I'm in Canada and wasn't seeing the update and tried to turn a VPN for the Netherlands on my iPhone and still no dice but when I also ran the Hub through the VPN (using a router flashed with ExpressVPN software) the update showed up and it's now updating.

thanks, this worked for me (in UK)

 

[NightFox]

I'm in Canada and wasn't seeing the update and tried to turn a VPN for the Netherlands on my iPhone and still no dice but when I also ran the Hub through the VPN (using a router flashed with ExpressVPN software) the update showed up and it's now updating.

Never tried a VPN before but am I right that just signing up for an ExpressVPN trial on my Mac isn’t going to work as I’d need to actually have my router using the VPN and not just my Mac?

 

[tzm41]

Just bumping this in case anyone who's eager to get the update missed it.

Is there any alternative to this as my router (eero 6) doesn't do VPN?

 

[jocamero]

Thanks for the ExpressVPN tip! Signed up with ExpressVPN, created and shared the L2TP connection over to the Netherlands on my Mac via System Preference->Sharing->Internet Sharing and using another USB-C Ethernet port over to the Hue hub.

In the US, prior to this, no update was offered.

 

[vc2020]

Never tried a VPN before but am I right that just signing up for an ExpressVPN trial on my Mac isn’t going to work as I’d need to actually have my router using the VPN and not just my Mac?

Is there any alternative to this as my router (eero 6) doesn't do VPN?

Thanks for the ExpressVPN tip! Signed up with ExpressVPN, created and shared the L2TP connection over to the Netherlands on my Mac via System Preference->Sharing->Internet Sharing and using another USB-C Ethernet port over to the Hue hub.

In the US, prior to this, no update was offered.

I was just about to share that tip myself jocamero. You can share internet from your Mac connected to the VPN and plug the Hue hub into your Mac if you have an Ethernet port or USB-C Ethernet adapter.

 

[tzm41]

I was just about to share that tip myself jocamero. You can share internet from your Mac connected to the VPN and plug the Hue hub into your Mac if you have an Ethernet port or USB-C Ethernet adapter.

I've been trying to do that, but I cannot connect to the hue hub with my phone on the same network. Wondering if there's any special setting under the networks settings?

 

[vc2020]

I've been trying to do that, but I cannot connect to the hue hub with my phone on the same network. Wondering if there's any special setting under the networks settings?

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I’m not sure to be honest. I use it directly through my router since my router has VPN software. I believe share your connection should be L2TP and L2TP needs to be connected to the Netherlands server.