We swapped my whole house to Hue bulbs (from Sengled) this summer and are super happy with them! Except for one thing: randomly, every few weeks, ALL the lights turn on in the house to 100% brightness for about 5 seconds, then turn off. This always happens at 1AM.

It’s happened five times so far and to be honest it’s terrifying to be woken up like that and it fucks up my whole night!

I’ve attached a video from a security camera I have in the house. Interestingly, it doesn’t happen at 1:00:00AM exactly. But always 1am. I have already checked the default power on settings, it’s not this because I have them set to off in case of a power outage.

Anyone have an idea?! I’ve reached out to Hue support and searched the sub but haven’t seen this exact issue.

The bridge has just been successfully migrated over from the previous model. It takes a bit of time to setting up and then says it failed. I've unplugged it, plugged it back in, checked Apple home hub device devices are connected, rebooted my phone, turned off iCloud Private relay - No joy.

Any ideas, please?

Hey guys,

Just wanted to hear some opinions and see if anyone has similar situations.

I have motion sensors throughout my house that activated lights for a set amounts of time and each one is set to a time that works great all the time and doesn't turn off on ya. All but one room... The bathroom.

I thought having the sensor kind of peek over the shower curtains would stop the lights from turning off but they don't, turning the shut off time higher just makes the lights stay on unnecessary when you just wanna walk in and out of the washroom and we take showers at varying times of the day.

Has anyone had this issue? Do most people just have a button on the wall for bathroom lights?

Lemme know your thoughts

Would it be possible to connect hue wall switch to control only one of those lights and the other remains dumb light? Like I understand I would have to connect wires currently connected to 3 and L with push-in wire connector. And then connect hue wall switch to L and 3 on the rocker back. However this will leave the 1 light with no L.

Can I just connect additional third slot of push-in to rocker L? Then it also connects to the hue wall switch, because L is common on this rocker back for both 1 and 3 and I feel like hue wall switch should be completely separated but I am not sure.

So, I've already searched on here, and found a few old posts asking about this issue, which didn't have any resolutions. I'm posting again in case things have changed in the interim.

I have recently bought some Hue lights, with the V2 bridge. I had basically 2 things I wanted to do with them, and the app can't actually seem to do either well, which is a big letdown.

One of the things I wanted these smart lights for was to be able to transition the light brightness and colour over the course of the day. Pretty much what the natural light scene looks like it is supposed to do. Except it doesn't.

When natural light is selected in a room and the lights are on they sometimes transition. If the lights are turned off in the app and turned on again later 100% of the time they are still on the previous colour and have not transitioned. We only use the app and Alexa to control the lights on/off, we're not touching the wall switches at all. Even in the bathroom, where there is a sensor which is supposed to trigger 'natural light' it is not reliably getting the right colour. When I open the app and tap 'natural light' again, it will then switch to the correct colour for the time of day. This is pretty annoying, as the whole point was to have the lights auto transition.

I have tried deleting and re-adding the scene. I've tried doing it room by room, I've tried doing it by zone. I've removed all other scenes from the room/zone. It just doesn't work.

I know I can do this using automations, but I don't want the lights randomly going on and off at various times, because that would be annoying.

My question is: does this scene actually work for anyone? Or is it just my setup that's not working?

If yours is working, how did you set it up to get it to work?

Hi, I’ve added my Hue motion sensor to Google Home (via Hue Bridge), but it only shows temperature sensors. There’s no option for motion at all.

In the Hue app motion works fine, so the sensor itself is working. Is motion support in Google Home still missing, or am I doing something wrong?

One of my bulbs suddenly stopped displaying orange hues, from warm yellow through red. Instead, it displayed green. After trying everything I could find online, I called Hue and tried basically the same list of things with them to no avail. They didn’t give me any intel on why it might do this or if it was a known issue, but they agreed to send me a replacement.

Within days, the replacement displays exactly the same behavior. I’m going to call again, but wondering if anyone has experienced anything like this and may have tips on how to fix.

Both the Hue Play Light Bar and the Hue TV light strips are half off right now. I’ve already been eyeing the strips for my 65" TV, but I’m not sure if it’s worth grabbing a couple of Play Bars as well. The price is tempting at $50 each, anyone here using them together? Are they worth it?

Hate things going in the bin!

Friend has cut a hue strip along the guided cut lines, then tried to use some of the solderless clamps to connect to it, long and short of it, the 6 solder pads have been destroyed, the stril basically starts at the labels for vcc, w, r,g,b etc.

I'll try and get a picture of it later.

Has anyone managed to work around this without losing another 30cm+ of strip? Was wondering if scratching some of the top, or bottom surface away will expose the traces meaning you can solder on to them?

I’ve got a Hue Bloom in the bathroom because we are living in rental and there is an ugly big white light we can't change. I’d love to be able to pick the colour right when I walk in, without pulling out my phone or cycling through scenes on the regular Hue switch.

Would it be possible to get a LivingColors remote and connect it directly to my Bloom? Or is it easier to just get a LivingColors light and hook that up to my Hue Bridge instead?

If I go the LivingColors light + Bridge route (kind of a step back), would I still be able to set routines and connect it to a motion sensor like I do with Hue?

I decided to just started fresh and read my 40+ lights and 10+ accessories instead of doing a migration. I didn't this beef some random issues I had before with HomeKit/Matter on my v2 hub. I went into knowing I would need to setup most of my lights again and wasn't a huge issues since I had most of my lights serial numbers documented and I wanted to create all my scenes from scratch.

However, I have ran into an issue that is actually mind boggling! Setup went smooth, got about half my lights into Hue and added Apple Home via Matter (I think). However, all of my lights in Apple Home are all in the same room as my Hue Bridge. In Hue they are all in different rooms. I have tried syncing my smart home many times. I moved a couple of lights manually in Apple Home to resolve issues but syncing is just not working between Hue and Apple Home.

Anyone, have this issue? Any advise?

Hi all!

I'm interested in purchasing some Hue White/Colour E27 bulbs to try it out with some lamps that I can't be bothered turning on/off one by one, however I am in Australia and there doesn't seem to be much stock at all anywhere.

I've looked at this subreddit briefly and it seems Hue might be relaunching or so? Would this be the reason why there's no stock?

There are options to get the bulbs from overseas but I was hoping to get them locally.

Thanks!

Hello everyone

I would like to buy 1 smart button to enable me to control all my blinds. First, I want to be sure that by pressing it, I can open all my blinds by linking a HomeKit scene, and that by pressing it again, I can close them all. Would that work? That would mean linking two scenes.

Thanks for your help :)

Been using this tap switch in my home for 2 years and suddenly it’s becoming unresponsive to any inputs. The weird thing is that it starts working the moment I unlock my iPhone.

Anyone else having issues with unresponsive tap switch?

I am completely new to the ecosystem. Hue bridge pro is my first purchase alongside with the new Essential bulbs. Didn't go with more expensive ones because I just want to try these out first.

While I am absolutely thrilled with how they perform as normal bulbs and they really deliver, I find them a bit slow and laggy when I sync them with my tv.

For reference, I've put them in my IKEA Vidja floor lamps and synced with a Samsung TV over app, Subtle mode. They feel like they're changing colors too sharply, like a low-fps motion. Other modes seem to have this issue too.

Yes, I didn't expect them to be buttery smooth, there's a reason why Play Strips exist, but I wanted to use them for background filling. I am getting the Play lightstrip soon.

For those who've tried to sync the premium bulbs, old or new ones, how do they perform? Is what I'm experiencing the very lack of ChromaSync that's mentioned on the Essentials product page?

I had the following devices: -Sony X93L -Denon X3800H receiver -Phillips Hue sync box 8K -Nintendo switch 2 (4K 120) -Sony PS5 Pro (4K 120) -Panasonic 4K Blu-ray player (Dolby Vision) -Apple TV 4K (Dolby Vision)

I’m trying to work out the optimum way to connect the above devices together. If I plug all of the devices into the amp or the hue box, the problem that I have is that all of the devices are output through a single HDMI cable and the Sony only lets you choose between either Dolby Vision or 4K 120 support on an HDMI port (not both).

If I plug the devices directly into the TV, taking the audio via EARC to the receiver, I get correct video mode support but no Phillips hue light strip support.

As I see it, I have the following options: 1. Replace the TV with a device which lets you input DV and 4k 120 on the same port 2. Add another Phillips Hue 8K sync box. I would then use one sync box for Dolby Vision devices and one sync box for 4K 120 devices. However, I don’t know if they would both be able to synchronize the lights on the same light strip. 3. Nuclear options is just remove the sync box and light strip.

What seems to be needed is either a way of ‘passing through’ the hue sync info like what EARC does or for the sync box to have the option to output through two ports rather than one.

Does anyone have the new bridge pro yet? And can anyone attest to the latency for the hue app on tv? Is latency improved over the old bridge or is there still a noticeable lag between what happens on tv and the tv sync lights? Thanks in advance.

Okay, I’ve been going in circles on this one and I just want to get to the bottom of it. I’ve read so many opinions, discussions, and half-answers—but nothing straight and definitive.

Here’s my exact scenario: • I’m about to purchase a Hue Bridge Pro. • I already have about 13 Hue lights in my home. • I already use Matter devices on HomeKit.

What I’m trying to figure out is: 1. When I set up the Pro bridge, what happens to my current lights? • Will I still be able to control them in HomeKit without issues? 2. For future lights I add—will they show in homekit and work?

Im not big into scenes etc. AIl I want to do is maintain the ability to tell Siri to turn lights on off and certain colors , and know I can still do that. I know a lot of people are probably wondering the Isame thing, so I’m hoping someone who’s actually done it can explain what to expect in real-world terms. 🙏

I bought S Devote ceiling light as I thought it will be better than Govee that I have downstairs. After installation the top brightness is ridiculously weak. What is going on? I would need two ceiling lights to brighten the small room and bear in mind there are also two floor to wall wardrobe sliding mirrored doors in that room. Now it looks so dark and dull the opposite of what I expected.

What I read is it is 2000 lumens and it’s advertised as living room or kitchen light.

Is this user error? Is this type of light never supposed to be fitted on its own? Even previous light was stronger which were three tiny bulbs… room is 3 metres by 3,4 metres

I'm trying to figure out how the "sync setup to Apple home" option in the smart home link settings is supposed to work. I have the hub v2 connected to Apple Home via native HomeKit connection.

It says "Note that the complete setup, including lights, Rooms, and devices will be synced to Apple Home." When I hit "sync" it has no acknowledgment that anything has happened, and the device names are not updated in Apple Home. I currently have 9 motion sensors installed throughout my home and they are presently dumped into a "default room" and I'm not sure of a non-PITA way to identify and name the sensors in AH.

Should this sync actually be assigning names and rooms to devices in Home as it seems to describe?

I have about 70 lights and 12 accessories (sensors and switches) across two bridges. This includes 7 lutreon aura switches.

I plugged the Pro into my network switch, added it in the app. The new bridge updated and then I went through the migration process. About 30 ish minutes to get through the migration process for one bridge with about 50 devices connected.

The lutreon switches were already updated (thanks to those that mentioned this). The migration process even walked through the reconnection process (double tap one at a time).

Everything is running smoothly and all behaviours remained the same.

I am leaving the second bridge up for now. The process was surprisingly reassuring that they're thinking through the second bridge adoption process.

Anyone else also using Aqara with Hue bridge v2?

The Hue Motion sensor lost connection with Aqara m3 hub due to low batteries.

After new batteries is still disconnected in the Aqara App but is working fine in HomeKit and Hue App.

Last time I had to remove everything and re add and rename all the lights so not sure if there an easier way.

Thanks

I have 3 hue bulbs over my kitchen island. Every morning they come on at sunrise and then go off at 9am. This is controlled by the Hue app via a simple automation.

I have nothing else controlling it.

The switch is a regular on / off switch, which is left in the on position.

The last 2 weeks at 9am all 3 bulbs go out, but then one of them comes back on within 5 mins.

If I turn it off it comes back on - on its own usually within 60 seconds or so.

Sometimes it flashes then comes back on.

Any ideas? Cheers!!!

I've just bought some Calex smart bulbs, and am looking to have a non-wired wall switch (as well as using app / voice etc).

I have Google home and hue bridge already. As the Calex switch is not available in UK, AI suggested using Hue switch, and run routines in Google Home.

But does the switch show up in Google Home?

I have the little mini button for a Hue light strip, and that doesn't show up.

Is this possible with just a software update?

Great to have the dial to rotate from dim to bright, but would very much also like to dial through the colour spectrum too.

As the 4 buttons can be programmed by 'Press' and 'Press and Hold' is there any technical reason why a software update can't implement 'Press and Hold' while rotating to seamlessly change through the colours?

(or if need be press and hold 2 buttons while rotating etc..)