We have our whole house on Hue bulbs and use Eve and hue mote to do what we need since the Hue app was so crappy. I'm not learning a new app now. Eve is what the first party app should have been at launch.
There is no way to turn everything off from the widget, you would have to add 1 button for every 4 rooms.
@MillieWales thanks for the Huemote suggestion. Looking it over now and it seems promising.
How do you get on with the Eve app? I downloaded it, had a look and closed it again, it looked a little daunting. I'm getting a load of remote sockets to control stuff that I just want to go on/off, I know the Eve app can control sockets too and I believe build that into scenes (or whatever it calls them) - is that correct?
I like the Huemote app for its simplicity, and I'm starting to use iConnectHue but again that's a bigger learning curve, and the instructions are not the clearest. I've used dozens of apps, so many are not worth even keeping on my phone though, and others are just gimmicky - no developers, I don't need to pretend my house is on fire or have a police car stuck in the living room, I want to control my lights really really easily and intuitively!
My pleasure, I say it a lot but it's a great little app. I think because it's free and doesn't make your house flash like a Christmas tree people think it's not a good app, actually it does a couple of things really well. I like that I can easily change the order of lights, rooms and scenes by simply tapping 'edit' on each of those 3 screens and sliding the item up and down the screen, just as we are used to doing in other apps. Nothing clever or fancy, it just allows us to control our lights.
I love my Hues, but the use of all that blue and green in the app screenshots is really disingenuous. Hue bulbs can't do those colours at all. (Maybe the lightstrips can?)
iConnectHue is smart enough to show the bulb's colour gamut on its selection wheel. Doesn't stop me from messing around hoping to finally find where the blue is.
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You have to make a "room" first, then click on that room and you can then click the plus at the lower right to make a scene. From that same room screen you can see the scenes button on the bottom.How are you getting to the scene page? I'm having a lot of trouble finding it. In addition I can't see any of my old scenes.
With this new app, which I am really disliking so far, it seems that a scene now only controls lights from the 1 room that scene is associated with. That seems contradictory to how most people have their scenes set up. Am I missing something?
So, many of my scenes incorporate bulbs from multiple rooms. The old app has a scenes section where I can click on a scene and lights in my living room AND my office adjust.
With this new app, which I am really disliking so far, it seems that a scene now only controls lights from the 1 room that scene is associated with. That seems contradictory to how most people have their scenes set up. Am I missing something?
As well, I tried to delete a scene I'd created and it won't go away. I click the "X" and it just stays there.
For me this Gen 2 app gets just about everything wrong.
How are you getting to the scene page? I'm having a lot of trouble finding it. In addition I can't see any of my old scenes.
......Overall I'm very happy with the lights. I like having the house lights red if I need to let my old lab out in the middle of the night. Also changing the shower lights to different colors is cool. Or just turning on/off all the lights at once is great. Wish the white bulbs would have the ability to change color temperature which would be nice over the vanity in the bathroom.
You can tell Siri to "Turn lights off" or "Turn lights on". I'm having trouble getting Siri voice response to control a single room or scene.There is no way to turn everything off from the widget, you would have to add 1 button for every 4 rooms.
You can tell Siri to "Turn lights off" or "Turn lights on". I'm having trouble getting Siri voice response to control a single room or scene.
I've been mulling over getting some of these lights in my house. My kids would love them!
I can't find a way to do that either. With the V1 app I had a "scene" that was set to run off all lights set as a widget and I can't find a way to do that with the new V2 app yet. Also, I notice you can no longer sync scenes between devices or to the my hue web site. I have gone back to the V1 app for the better widget/scene support for now.
@MillieWales thanks for the Huemote suggestion. Looking it over now and it seems promising.
The bulbs aren't RGB, they are red/orange, lime green, and blue/violet. These produce great simulations of daylight and incandescent bulbs, and vivid warm colours, but the downside is that there's not enough saturation in the green and too much violet in the blue to sufficiently represent anything between pure yellow and pure blue on the hue wheel. You can get nice yellow and gentle greens, but anything around turquoise just looks like cold white. The blue/violet looks amazing mixed with some orange/red tones, deeper than anything an RGB screen can show, but you can't do anything like the green/blue underwater scenes showing in the pictures.
They are very addictive, I've spent thousands on them. I sometimes try to justify it as saving money on replacing blown bulbs - we live in a 400 year old cottage and standard bulbs would blow every single day due to the wiring. But in reality I just say I like how they make my home look and feel and everyone thinks the house looks better for the lighting. They are fun to play with for a few hours, disco scenes and the house on fire, I do like some of the animated scenes like the weather with the clouds passing over, but once you've got that out of your system it's just nice to have the house lit well. We now have all the rooms decorated fairly neutrally and we do indeed 'paint with colour' - no need to redecorate every time you want a change, you can change the room colour in a second.
One really useful tip, my eldest son's room is at the far end of the house, if I try and call him he can't hear me so I have to go up to him. I used to text him but he never looks at his phone, now I have a button programmed saved on a Hue Tap switch that I touch and his bedroom flashes red, he knows when to come!