I can call up one scene, with my voice, and have it change every light in the house to various specific colors and brightnesses. I don’t have a problem, I have a convenient solution. Your way would take many minutes instead of a couple seconds.
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Philips Hue to Introduce Updated Dimmer Switch and 'Wave Linear' Outdoor Lighting
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I have an earlier version of their dimmer switch and one of the original Hue color lights, no issues here. I was suspecting for a while that the app updates were purely for the naggy "What's new" section, but I am sorry you're having trouble.
They can be programmed to be much more useful in the iOS Hue Essentials app. It's free to use for that.
"The general design has been updated to be more curvaceous and subtle, with matte white plastic"
It still looks cheap and tacky, though! I should know - I have two of the current models in my living room. They don't look great.
It still looks cheap and tacky, though! I should know - I have two of the current models in my living room. They don't look great.
True, Philips doesn't have one, but RunLessWire does and their product has been perfect for me so far. No, I don't work for them. I too was looking for a way to replace the Hue dimmers in my home with something in the actual gong box and came across these. I was using two-way 3M Command velcro strips with the dimmers which was not very pleasant looking. https://runlesswire.com/click_philips_hue.
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They're clunky because Philips must have their worst designers work on their switches. Fortunately I got some Lutron remotes that work with Hue bulbs before they were discontinued.
Boring! The cool Hue switch is the round one that takes no batteries but is powered by the force of you pushing it. There’s something about the efficiency of that system that makes me smile every time I use it!
By the way, I have never had a problem with any of my Hue products, not one. Logitech I’ve had problems with, Eve I’ve had problems with, HomeKit itself I’ve had many problems with, but no problems with the Hue side of things.
By the way, I have never had a problem with any of my Hue products, not one. Logitech I’ve had problems with, Eve I’ve had problems with, HomeKit itself I’ve had many problems with, but no problems with the Hue side of things.
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My electrician just popped open the switches and joined the wires up behind or in the switch. The switch now does nothing and power is always on. The old switch is still there, but harmless.
I wish there was a Hue switch like this one but (in my case for uk sized wall plates) include a cabling option behind that would just do this bridging. Then you could just swap out the switch and the power is always on.
I'm going to have to agree with the other posted here... my dimmer switch is setup with HomeKit and I have to press each button 3 times just to get the lights turned on or off. Meanwhile, I'm sitting here waiting indefinitely for an update to hopefully correct this behavior. Changing the frequency does nothing.
The Philips Hue ecosystem is expensive and it shouldn't be unreasonable to demand that their products at least function well.
I have about 25 motion sensors and 5 dimmers, with lights I had 49 devices on the hue bridge...everything was smooth, until hue released their adaptive lighting update...after that, any motion sensor that was triggered would crash on homekit, basically the bridge was constantly disconnecting from homekit non spot...so for the last 5 days I have gone into troubleshooting mode and it has been BRUTAL! first thing I did was get a new bridge and moved all the motion sensors to the new one, figured maybe I just had too many devices on the 1 bridge, think max is 50...issue still there, it made homekit unusable...once the motion sensors crashed homepods would crash, so no voice controls...everything however works on the hue app perfectly...removed all the hue devices from homekit everything works no problem, put them back everything crashes...removed just the motion sensors, everything works on homekit again with just the lights....signed out of icloud issue still there...luckily I have echo shows all over the house for video calling, so I was able to connect both my hue bridges to that and now all motion sensors work without crashing homekit...one thing I did not do was nuke my homekit home, it’s too big and I have too many devices connected, f! that...have garage doors, blinds, 9 homepods, 7 apple tvs, all hue lights, 15 arlo cameras, rachio sprinkler, abode security system, 30 wemo plugs and switches....so basically right now homekit is running smooth with no hue motions connected, those are now connected to alexa and work fine...the dimmers still refuse to work they are connected to homekit but triggers don’t work, wemo light switch triggers do work...if Alexa supported hue dimmers I would just move them over...what I fine suspect is that everything works in the hue app, light, dimmers and motions...lights and motions work in alexa...but dimmers and motion no longer on homekit and now suddenly they say “hey we have a new dimmer coming out” yeah right! I figured they were just about to release a new bridge, like I said watch that is about to come out
yep tried that right off the bat...nothing...it‘s the way Hue triggers are now communicating with homekit one of those screwed up, I would always lean towards Apple because they don‘t care, and companies always have to change to adapt to Apple software changes...but a hue dimmer now coming out?? interesting is all I have to say
they don’t recommend that at all...they constantly claim to keep it under 50 for best perforamce
Closing in on 100 bulbs/sensors/dimmers here and no issues (yes - on the most current firmware). I really dislike the Hue Dimmers though - we use almost exclusively Lutron Aurora dimmers which are much more natural to use, and simply attach to an existing blade-style switch in seconds.
If you are serious about using the Hue ecosystem but continuing to use the Hue app for control, you are really missing out on most of the power the system has to offer. There are lots of 3rd party apps that make the dimmer or any other switch/sensor/bulbs do pretty much anything you can imagine.
If you are serious about using the Hue ecosystem but continuing to use the Hue app for control, you are really missing out on most of the power the system has to offer. There are lots of 3rd party apps that make the dimmer or any other switch/sensor/bulbs do pretty much anything you can imagine.
I have two hue hubs, one for upstairs, the other for downstairs. Too many devices for just one. It works fine, although daft the Hue app needs me to pick one or the other before using it whereas the Home app and Eve app among others do not. They all work with both hubs (or rather the devices on them) seamlessly.
This has nothing to do with being lazy or wanting to use my smart phone for control. I never use my phone and nearly never use my voice - both of those options suck. Smart lighting is about precise control over your lighting. Key lights come on at certain times during the day - waking us with a natural sun-rise like glow. They adjust themselves in color and intensity throughout the day. Certain areas use motion sensors so there is no running back to the basement to turn off a light and outdoor areas are more convenient and safer. Lights turn off when we leave the house and on automatically when we return home. We then put the kids to bed with lights that turn off slowly and automatically letting them know when it's time for 'lights out.'
This is a limitation of the zigbee protocol. It's not an arbitrary limitation. Anyhow, with 3rd party apps, including HomeKit, multiple bridges are a minor inconvenience.
I have never heard of anyone getting anywhere near that number of devices because in practice each dimmer or motion sensor or routine or timer you set up uses multiple slots. The ~50 number is a really solid point at which you should be going to multiple bridges.
is there an 3rd party app that I can connect both hue bridges to use the dimmers and lights together outside of homekit?
I suggest iConnectHue. It has a steep learning curve and a mediocre UI, but it is well supported and can basically do anything the hardware is capable of. The only real limitation to multiple bridges is that a switch or dimmer on one bridge cannot control a bulb on another. This has not been an issue for me.
iConnectHue does that, it's the only thing that makes multiple bridges tolerable. The homekit integration with multiple ones is kludgy at best.
do dimmers works with lights if under one bridge? realized right now that when I connected both bridges, the dimmers were with the motions sensors bridge, I moved the dimmers back to the light bridge, to see if they would work with homekit like that...nope...but I have yet to try 1 bridge with just dimmers and lights, should that work?
If you are serious about Hue, I would give it another go. There is no other app that is nearly so powerful, bug free, and has the level of support they offer. Also really complete documentation.
I rarely use the app except for setup, so the UI really doesn't matter to me. Even so, the UI is perfectly functional once you get used to it.