![]() When I eventually gave in and allowed it to do so, it deleted the Room not just from Hue but also from the Home app! This lost all the Scenes associated with that room, which was a major pain. It would not allow me to save the office lights unless I allowed it to delete Living Room. ![]() When I tried to add the three office lights to Office, it complained that Living Room had no lights and wanted to delete it. I already had Rooms set up in the Home app – Office, Living Room and Bedroom – and the Hue app is able to import these so that you can assign your Hue lights to existing rooms. This was the second area where the Hue system seemed to have trouble, initially not seeing the rooms and then – when it found them – it went into a bizarre loop. Instead, you have to do it in Apple’s Home app. This seems a pretty basic piece of functionality, especially for spotlights within a single fitting that you’ll mostly want to switch on and off together. You’d imagine this would be done in the Hue app, but unless I’ve missed something, it doesn’t seem like the app can do this. To make them controllable as a single light, I then grouped them as one light, called Office Lights. I named them Office 1, Office 2 and Office 3. You need to name the bulbs, and each one flashes to identify itself as you do so. This is another good reason to do them a few at a time. The hub takes a surprisingly long time to find the bulbs, which it does one at a time, so you do need to be patient. (Don’t ask me about the ceiling: it’s a UK home thing. In there, I have a triple-spotlight fitting, so three Hue bulbs. Press the button on the hub and it will go looking for the bulbs. Connect the hub to your router and to power. In practice, the hub seemed to have a lot of trouble finding all 12 bulbs, so I switched to doing them one room at a time, which not only proved more reliable but also less confusing.ĭone a few at a time, it’s very simple. In theory, you screw in and power on all your bulbs before connecting up the hub and allowing it to find them all. Let’s start with the Philips Hue setup process. In this piece, I’ll share my thoughts on the Philips Hue bulbs, from setup to use describe how my revised setup works show the kind of fun you can have with Hue lights and explain why I now want even more … Zac talked earlier about his HomeKit setup. The result is that all the lights bar the kitchen, bathroom and spare room are now HomeKit controlled. This added a total of ten color & white spotlights across three rooms (living-room, office, and bedroom) and two white bulbs for the landing and hall. I said last time that I was waiting for a grown-up to install my new light fittings for the Philips Hue lights, and this has now been done.
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