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Hi all
I've had Hue lights running for a year now, and thought I would share some tips and see what else people were doing. I can't see another recent thread to discuss Hue.
A few months ago I discovered Osram Lightify bulbs were compatible (this was temporarilly disabled then enabled again in a firmware update 2 weeks ago). If your timing is right, these are a third of the cost of Phillips' bulbs. I bought the rainforest out of it's last 5 E27 bulbs at £15 each at the weekend. Although the colour transitions on these bulbs are not as smooth as Hue, it's not a big deal to me. To add these bulbs, do not switch them on until you start an automatic search in your Hue app - whilst searching switch them on and they connect in a few seconds as "Extended Colour Bulb".
I now have 2 strips, 2 blooms and 2 tabletops in the kitchen (20ft x 10ft) and 1 Lighify in a lamp in the connected utility room (10ft x 7ft). These provide enough light to work by but I really need to do the GU10s in the celing - unfortunately there are 12 of these to fill!
Hallway (next door) has 3 Lightify - 2 in lamps, on in the main celing light. Hallway is L shape cut out of a 12ft x 12ft square. This room is lit perfectly.
Sitting room (20ft x 15ft) has 4 Lightify, 2 in lamps and 2 in the main celing lights. Again lit perfectly well.
Study (15ft x 7ft just has a single strip for a backlight to the 50" TV and looks great.
Still to do - Kitchen Gu10's, Dining room GU10's (so that's £850 in hue speak!). 2 habited bedrooms will need 5 Lightify.
I love them, adjustable colour and brightness, timing, geofencing and of course Disco effects. I also use IFTTT to play around although can't find anything really useful. Flashes on email, all go blue when it's going to rain are all novel but that's about it.
I'm also playing with the JSON api side of things, mainly to build my own remote, as few of the many I have tried (iConnectHue is the current one) really make things easy enough for the rest of the family - which is key as they light the house
So, that gets the ball rolling, what is anyone else doing?
I've had Hue lights running for a year now, and thought I would share some tips and see what else people were doing. I can't see another recent thread to discuss Hue.
A few months ago I discovered Osram Lightify bulbs were compatible (this was temporarilly disabled then enabled again in a firmware update 2 weeks ago). If your timing is right, these are a third of the cost of Phillips' bulbs. I bought the rainforest out of it's last 5 E27 bulbs at £15 each at the weekend. Although the colour transitions on these bulbs are not as smooth as Hue, it's not a big deal to me. To add these bulbs, do not switch them on until you start an automatic search in your Hue app - whilst searching switch them on and they connect in a few seconds as "Extended Colour Bulb".
I now have 2 strips, 2 blooms and 2 tabletops in the kitchen (20ft x 10ft) and 1 Lighify in a lamp in the connected utility room (10ft x 7ft). These provide enough light to work by but I really need to do the GU10s in the celing - unfortunately there are 12 of these to fill!
Hallway (next door) has 3 Lightify - 2 in lamps, on in the main celing light. Hallway is L shape cut out of a 12ft x 12ft square. This room is lit perfectly.
Sitting room (20ft x 15ft) has 4 Lightify, 2 in lamps and 2 in the main celing lights. Again lit perfectly well.
Study (15ft x 7ft just has a single strip for a backlight to the 50" TV and looks great.
Still to do - Kitchen Gu10's, Dining room GU10's (so that's £850 in hue speak!). 2 habited bedrooms will need 5 Lightify.
I love them, adjustable colour and brightness, timing, geofencing and of course Disco effects. I also use IFTTT to play around although can't find anything really useful. Flashes on email, all go blue when it's going to rain are all novel but that's about it.
I'm also playing with the JSON api side of things, mainly to build my own remote, as few of the many I have tried (iConnectHue is the current one) really make things easy enough for the rest of the family - which is key as they light the house
So, that gets the ball rolling, what is anyone else doing?
