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The app was awful a few years ago but they took the feedback in stride and made something responsive and usable (lots of headroom for improvement but I can't overstate how bad the app was on launch).
I got a chill of terror when I saw this at #1 on the front page, thinking it was the other meaning of "hack" and that it was some massive vulnerability that is going to ruin my morning while I take my bridge and bulbs offline and make me regret ever buying into it. I know this is Hacker News, but the classic hackers lost that linguistic battle or at least achieved stalemate decades ago. If you're going to use the wor…
got even funnier at house parties where people on various psychedelics did not know what had just happened.
I have about 10 hue bulbs throughout my apartment, which I've only purchased on Black Friday sales (they tend to go up to 50% off, I've found, which puts them more in line to what I feel is a reasonable price.) My biggest gripe is the unserious development of their iOS app, which has really been a hurdle to get them setup correctly. The app underwent a rebuild maybe 18 month ago, which forced users to allow for phone…
I have found Hue to be a rare example of how IoT can be good, they have a pretty open platform using the bridge and api, with good quality if a little pricey product. Be great if hue made a devkit for the kind of projects in the post.
I've used the API to modify my lights based on the album covers of the currently playing track on my Spotify: https://gist.github.com/tvldz/1210619db98302be3e9c972737e979 .
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I have 3 Hue light bulbs + 3 IKEA Tradfri light bulbs ( + bunch of other zigbee stuff, in total ~40 devices in my mesh network) I started home automation with a Philips Hue starter kit but built my own zigbee network with Home Assistant later on. I'd say IKEA light bulbs, being around half the price of Philips, are pretty much on par with them. The worst lights I had were OSRAM, they kept losing the zigbee connection…
I’ve found the IKEA bulbs to be significantly worse than the Philips ones, so I would definitely say the price difference is warranted. The IKEA bulbs aren’t as bright, get overwhelmed if you send a lot of commands quickly (so you can’t implement a dimmer for example, without the light jittering as it dims), and don’t have the “turn power on-and-off quickly to reset to full brightness” feature (though this is nice if…
I have found Hue to be a rare example of how IoT can be good, they have a pretty open platform using the bridge and api, with good quality if a little pricey product. Be great if hue made a devkit for the kind of projects in the post.
I've used the API to modify my lights based on the album covers of the currently playing track on my Spotify: https://gist.github.com/tvldz/1210619db98302be3e9c972737e979 .
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Couldn't you avoid that with these Hues just by running it dimmer than 100%?
The Hue bulbs are on the dimmer side compared to a traditional bulb (LED or otherwise) so this would defeat the purpose for my use cases. The color bulbs in particular are horribly dim, but fun nonetheless. The only failure I've encountered in ~10 years is my original Hub started crash looping a few years ago and I ended up getting a new starter kit to replace it. The bulbs seem to really last, however.
What do you mean, do they not produce the advertised number of lumens?
Just looking at specs, their highest output coloured bulb produces 1521 lumens at 4000K white colour temperature and 1055 lumens at 2700K [0].
That's very close to the brightest regular bulb I can find in stores (1600 lm).
[0] - https://www.philips-hue.com/en-gb/p/hue-white-and-colour-amb...
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It also works find with other zigbee stuff (in both directions, you can pair MUCH cheaper Ikea bulbs to the Hue bridge, and pair Hue bulbs to other zigbee coordinators), even if they don't really advertise that.
I've tried using other products that were "cheaper". They work at first, but then issues. First, I bought a compatible bulk LED strip. The listing suggested the power supply to use, but it was way too weak to push the entire strip. Luckily, I bought the strip to cut into sections for using in multiple places. The suggested power supply was still to weak for the smaller sections. Knowing how to calculate the draw per…
I'm told there are cheaper equivalent solutions out there, but Sowilo's mostly turnkey solution was good enough for me. It helps keep S.A.D. at bay.