The official Philips Hue app is the most comprehensive way to organise, control and customise your Philips Hue smart lights and accessories.
Organise your smart lights
Group your lights into Rooms or Zones — your entire downstairs floor or all the lights in the living room, for example — that mirror the physical rooms in your home.
Easily control your lights — from anywhere
Use the app to control your lights anywhere you have an internet connection.
Explore the Hue scene gallery
Created by professional lighting designers, the scenes in the scene gallery can help you set the mood for any occasion. You can even create your own scenes based on a photo or your favourite colours.
Set up bright home security
Make your home feel safer, no matter where you are. The Security Centre lets you programme your Secure cameras, Secure contact sensors and indoor motion sensors to send you alerts when they detect activity. Trigger light and sound alarms, call the authorities or a trusted contact, and monitor your home in real-time.
Get the best light for any moment of the day
Let your lights change automatically throughout the day with the Natural light scene — so you feel more energised, focused, relaxed or rested at the right times. Just set the scene to watch your lights change with the sun’s movement, transitioning from cool blue tones in the morning to warmer, relaxing hues for sunset.
Automate your lights
Make your smart lights work around your daily routine. Whether you want your lights to gently wake you up in the morning or greet you when you get home, setting up customisable automations in the Philips Hue app is effortless.
Sync your lights to TV, music and games
Make your lights flash, dance, dim, brighten and change colour in sync with your screen or sound! With the Philips Hue Play HDMI sync box, the Philips Hue Sync for TV or desktop apps or Spotify, you can create totally immersive experiences.
Set up voice control
Use Apple Home, Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant to control your smart lights with voice commands. Turn lights on and off, dim and brighten or even change colours — completely hands-free.
Use Siri Shortcuts for quick control
Use the Shortcuts app to create shortcuts that you can place into widgets on your Home Screen for even faster control of your lights. Turn lights on or off, adjust their brightness and temperature or set scenes – all without even opening the app.
Learn more about the official Philips Hue app: www.philips-hue.com/app.
Read the Philips Hue Privacy Notice at www.philips-hue.com/privacy.
Note: Some features in this app require a Philips Hue Bridge.
Isn’t it funny how people rate an app 1 or 2 stars because it either doesn’t do what they want it to do or they can’t figure out how it works? Is my kettle useless because it doesn’t make me cheese on toast? No, it’s designed to boil my water and it does just that. The Philips hue app is very easy to set up with your bridge and adding bulbs to it is very simple. Once everything is set up simply synchronise with Apple HomeKit. It’s important to understand that Apple HomeKit takes its settings from the Philips hue app so do all your rooms and setting from there first. Setting up rooms and adding lights to those rooms is simple. Light settings are remembered fine, like dim levels and auto updates are easily turned off is desired. I really don’t know how people are struggling with this app when it actually does everything it was designed to do with a simple and easy to use interface. I’ve only knocked off 1 star because I can’t see a way of grouping several spot lights together in to a group but I’m sure this will follow soon in an update. Don’t be put off by the negative reviews. I’ve not had a single issue with this app.
Good system though costs add up
JonReades
I resisted smart home stuff for quite some time on the basis that I didn’t want anything in my house to suddenly become unusable in the event of anything as basic as a web site outage. The Hue system works well, seems robust against disruption, and we have one bridge controlling something like 40 bulbs (both indoor and outdoor) in an intuitive way. We like that the bulbs are ‘drop in replacements’ for non-smart ones and have been slowly upgrading the house one room at a time. I wish they had corn cob LEDs too though am guessing it’s a power issue. The outdoor ones are also nice: we have a strip under the deck edge, three lily spots, and two GU10s in external housings — all work well together and have seriously improved the feel of the garden. That said, there is obviously lock-in here: you don’t want two or three different apps to tweak your house’s lights so once you go Hue you’ll tend to want to keep buying Hue. Also note that functionality is significantly enhanced with a Bridge. Just much simpler to manage groups of lights and routines than via Bluetooth.
Typical Philips
Jetsaway
I have known the Philips company from my youth as a prospective electronics engineer over 60 years ago. I have always admired their ingenuity and research abilities but they fail so frequently on the implication of great ideas. As an example, I had a loss of electricity supply 6 days ago for just a few minutes the effect was chaos with my Hue lighting coupled to my Alexa device. The loss of power coincided with a disruption to my network but having re established the power and network many things were restored without a problem, unfortunately no so with the Hue hub, Hue lights and hence audio control via Alexa. Ironically I/p devices costing a fraction of the Hue components worked without hesitation but after several days of effort I have just about got the Hue components functioning albeit with some lack of functionality. As an example of what I remember historically, Philips produced a very early VCR which with a few engineering shortcomings produced reasonable results. The operating instructions were another matter especially when compared to products coming from Japan whose instructions were logically progressive and far easier to comprehend the operation of this wholly new idea of a video recording machine. I feel it must be a European way of thinking which still persists if one has the dubious pleasure to operate Bang & Olufsen equipment, it can be highly rewarding in what it can do but a common sense path to know how to do is not the prerogative of the uninitiated.Keep up with the R & D but improve the implementation.
Lots to love but waiting for some essential camera features
BeccaJDB
We love our Hue lights so added a security camera. They’re very expensive but to have one system, it seemed worth it. Easy to set up. Sadly, though, the features are just not there yet. Top of the must-haves is an auto-arm option for when you leave the house. Worse, actually is that, at the moment, an intruder would trigger an alert, but then you have to activate either flashing lights or a siren manually. It’s just one button to press, but if you were asleep, the intruder would just do their deed with no sense of there being an alarm. There are currently no Hue Labs options and no automation options. You also can’t get camera controls in iOS shortcuts (just lights). I’m hoping it’s early days and that new features will come because the overall system is reliable and Hue customer service is unbelievably fabulous. They actually call you back and are real, human people who seem to care about making you happy. Gee up, Hue…add the things we need.
- Introducing Hue SpatialAware for Bridge Pro. Scan your room and let the app intelligently distribute Scene Gallery Scenes across your room for a more natural and immersive feel. Half of the scenes are already remastered for SpatialAware, with an option to switch between spatial and classic mode during preview.
- Now, when someone rings the Hue video doorbell, you can get a simulated video call, respond, and check to see who is at your door.
- You can now select pre-recorded responses to play automatically when you can’t answer the door.
Version 5.66.0
The developer, Signify Netherlands B.V., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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