​Saturday morning has the fools voting. Put a deal up for 5p off a pot noodle if you want some heat!

Great price. I only just bought 4 of these at £15 each as well. This is handy for all those who got amazon echo. Love my echo. Best gadget I've bought in years.... and I buy a lot of gadgets :smile:

​do you also have a black and white tv

Great price. I only just bought 4 of these at £15 each as well. This is handy for all those who got amazon echo. Love my echo. Best gadget I've bought in years.... and I buy a lot of gadgets :smile:

If you say that again it will get colder. Say it a third time and an ice age will start.

​Saturday morning has the fools voting. Put a deal up for 5p off a pot noodle if you want some heat!

​ah okay. it's now gone

So you don't have to actually plug this wireless bulb in anywhere i.e. you can walk around the house holding it, that's cool?

​what's so great about the amazon echo echo co co co co :laughing:

I was lucky enough to have picked up a load of bills st half this price but this is an excellent price. take some heat from me!

​Haha your right

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/pot-noodle-3-for-1-heron-2527147

:laughing::laughing:

I use Toolstation and Screwfix 10W LED bulbs and they are fine. They are available in BC and ES fittings and cool and warm white. They are about £10 for five bulbs, so about £2 each. They aren't wireless though.

I had two fail on me this week. Luckily Amazon replaced them... But it worries me

Hot for the deal but I wish they would reduce the price of the GU10 bulbs

Wouldn't you need a Hue Bridge, or other home hub that can control the light to be able to activate this from an Amazon Echo?

I use something called a light switch, does the job of turning my bulbs on and off tremendously

How do people find Hue? Seems like a lot of compromises to me. Really you need the lights turned on at the wall at all times to get their full use (you can use their wall switch thing, but only as well as the wall switch). Then if you do turn off at the wall, and back on - they come back on to the default state. If there's a power cut, all your Hue lights come on when the power returns.

Really interested in smart bulbs, but the compromises seem quite significant. So wondered how folks are finding them day to day.

IMO you do need to have dimmer switches. Without dimmer switches it does get annoying if someone uses the main switch because you lose the last state, and then if they turn them off you lose control in the app. For this reason, I find they work best for lamps and not main lights

​If I'm honest we're hardly using the dimmers since getting the Echo and the Hue motion sensors. They did help ease the wife into using them, however.

I'd now be more inclined to buy the Echo Dot for a room rather than a dimmer. The speech recognition works really well for dimming and for controlling lights by group.

Quite a few references to the echo here, do people know you can control them on your iPhone and with Siri?

Are hue motion sensors even available yet? Or you using third part ones? I disagree regarding echo, you would have to rely on voice control 100% of the time which would get annoying. Sometimes you just want to press a button e.g. In the middle of the night

​Yes, Phillips released them a week or two ago. They're £35 and work well. I've fitted one on the wall half way up the stairs where it covers the hallway and landing doors and controls both the hallway and landing bulbs (they're the cheaper white ones) .

The best feature is that it works at night and triggers a dimmer light that doesn't blind you on a visit to the bathroom. The daylight sensor means that the lights don't come on if there's sufficient daylight.

​You need the hub, but you set the bulbs up in the Alexa app for them to work with the Echo.

​Exactly. Echo's speech recognition is superb, even in a noisy kitchen.

same price on Amazon

​Sorry, I didn't mean to suggest the physical switches don't have their uses. :smiley:

Just sharing that in our experience they're being used far less than expected between the Echo, the motion sensors and a widget that lets you toggle the lights from your phone's home screen (no need to get up from bed!).

It's just that I bought the Hue Tap switch for £50 and regret it a bit because I could have bought an Echo Dot for the same amount.

The beauty of the system is that you can personalise it to how you live. We have two kids under 4, so being able to do a lot hands free really helps :smiley:

​I have the hub. You need the hub for the Philips bulbs to work with echo. Would be great if the echo removed the need for all the different smart hubs. I went with philips due to good reviews plus it's compatibility with other zigbee bulbs

don't have an echo so can't compare but can use Siri to control them when out and about which can be useful.

The house I live now I been there 9 years and in all that time there's been 1 power cut, if you still think its an issue just set a few automatic switch off timers through out the day just in case.

The main benefit for me is security when not home, all the lights in the lounge, kitchen/diner, stairs etc. all come on automatically at sunset (actually 60 minutes before sunset with a random + or - 30 minutes included in this) the sunset time changes throughout the year but the Hue system automatically accounts for this. When I get home from work after 6pm the house is lit up. Other benefits are the light in my sons room that automatically fades out to a very dim night light.

Do you need a Philips Hue Bridge if you have an Amazon Echo?

£11.24 now.

​ how did you do this? I'm using ifftt and find using the turn on at sunset recipe they are coming on too late

I'm planning to buy the echo dot. Do I need to buy anything else to use this with the echo dot? Like do I need to buy the switch or would the bulb be enough? Buying as a birthday present

you will need the Hue bridge