Just change it back to a simple on/off switch, couple of quid.

yes.

I am a bit salty that I missed this deal. I went and bought a B22 version out of John Lewis. Got 10% discount on it but still £30 more than this.

Nabbed one at 17:02, been watching these for a while now, will be stalking the light bulbs tomorrow at 6pm :smiley:, Thanks muchly OP

Just moved this weekend and been keeping an eye out for a bargain on these.. :smiley: very happy

Richer colours they market it as. http://athomeinthefuture.com/2016/09/philips-hue-with-richer-colors-a-comparison/

I've not got around to comparing the two myself yet though.

What's the difference with the new bulbs?

Oh and the light strip too :laughing:

Heads up for everyone. Posted another deal for E27 White and Colour Ambiance bulbs. £30 tomorrow at 6pm :sunglasses:

That was for the previous Gen bulbs though.

Thank you OP. I've been waiting for this at around £100 mark. I think I was staring at the deal counting down the last 5mins before it went live to get it. Sold out v quick. Cheers again

Does your phone last longer with just wifi on or just blue tooth on?

The same question for none corded headphones?

zigbee about half of wifi

Also zigbee is a mesh network so devices are repeaters, I don't think wifi is.

thanks poster. finally got some for a decent price. literally been waiting for about 8 months and have missed any other previous deals that were reasonably priced. thank.

I'm not sure what the OFF power consumption is for any of the smart bulbs but I wouldn't expect it to be any more than up to 1 to 2 Watt per hour. Someone mentioned above about the LIFX bulbs having WIFI. Well so do the Hue ones. Hue uses a wireless system called ZigBee which should in theory be less power consuming but I have yet to see that confirmed. So there shouldn't really be much if any difference in these re consumption. The LIFX colour 1000 are rated 11Watt and produce over 1000 Lumen. The Hue are 10 Watt and produce 800 Lumen. This is all on paper however.

I haven't seen any.

ive always gone lifx find them absolutely perfect and no bridge to set up/keep plugged in so power consumption is not something ive measured.

https://www.cnet.com/uk/news/smart-home-showdown-philips-hue-vs-lifx/ have a read of this and some other articles if your interested.

mine will always be a lifx house.

All gone in less than an hour!

None, Amazon have had them for £30 twice in the last couple of weeks. I would expect better new year deals.

buy a converter for a couple of quid

What's the likelihood of being able to make the money back from selling the bulbs?

No B22, eurgh. I assume these are far more power efficient than the much touted lifefx bulbs? Given that they don't have a wifi unit built in.
I have no problem with investing in a bridge/starter kit. Makes sense to me.
But shame there's no B22 deal currently. ~£100 is far more palatable.

Thanks op ordered!

Thanks...Wouldn't have known about this unless you posted.

Got mine. Thanks again OP
Delivery on Tuesday
:smile::smile:

50% claimed in a minute!

Ordered! Cheers :smiley: 60% claimed within the first couple of minutes!!

Thanks ordered

Any idea if there are any cheaper compatible bulbs that work with hive hub? I've just got a free hub and lights kit for taking out British gas homecare. Surely all hubs and bulbs should work as aren't they all just doing the same job? It doesn't make sense if you have to buy into a certain brand.

Don't think so. Find out what category the harmony is in and use the filters on the deals page to see if there is anything upcoming.

Just change it back to a simple on/off switch, couple of quid.

Nice alternative to the overpriced colour bulbs from philips HERE

Got one on Saturday, connected to my Philips Hue Bridge without any problems and it works great. Worth noting that it might not work with Apple Home Kit (I don't use it so that doesn't bother me much).

Thanks to OP for posting this deal and to Zarjaz2000 for pointing out that Inner also do coulour bulbs in e27 and b22 (currently unavailable)

Can you search upcoming deals? I've tried but can't figure it out. I'm after a Harmony Elite

Fair comment.
Any ball park figure for something that is good value rather than just cheap?

as with everything there are good products and there are bad ones. With these adaptors it's the same. Loads of people mention adaptors for £1 or less, but have you noticed that there are adaptors that cost 2 to 5 times more? That is not just because the seller wants to make more money per unit, those adaptors should be safer to use.
The cheap ones are very fragile. This is not just the plastics these are made of but more inportant the metal used within. some have contacts that are so thin that once a bulb has been in the deformation is such of the contacts that the next bulb is likely not to work.
The main problem is that smart bulbs as usually wider and longer to accommodate all the electronics and heatsink features. Now, if you use also an adaptor the whole combo adaptor + bulb are even longer. An adaptor is usually around 50mm or 5cm. If your lamp is shallow then you might see the bulb sticking out or the bulb doesn't fit at all anymore.

For the future to you all out there.... when buying any type of lamp buy them with bulb fittings that are E27 AKA ES. This type of fitting is used all around Europe, so when manufacturers make bulbs it is likely that they will manufacture many more of the Edision Screw (ES or E27) type of bulbs. This is why you see these becoming more popular with deals at Amazon. In the UK and because B22 AKA Bayonet fittings are more common you won't see these any cheaper, why would you?

Thank you :smiley:

E14

Can anyone help please, i've got 2 lamps that have bulbs that look like E27 but they look like a slimmer version. Does anyone know what kind of bulbs they are if they are a slimmer version of the E27?

Unfortunately the bulb code doesnt show on the lamp so struggling a bit.

Thanks

​I bought a load from IKEA as you would have thought you could trust them. Also you get 2 for only £1.

Interesting info i have bayonets all over my house so need convertors.
Hopefully my maplin one i bought for a fiver yesterday will be ok.

I used £20 off £80 spend at Ocado to bring the price down, just added some other essential items to make up the £80 requirement.

Any chance any fellow Hue users know where to get cheap Bloom? Cheapest I've found right now is £49.

Colour, yes, cool and daylight white, yes, warm white, yuck. :smiley:

Mailed from Philips? Or Amazon?


Also: Does anyone know if there are 'good' B22 > E27 converters and 'bad' converters with regards to quality? I've read some posts saying these thing have melted or caused the bulbs to blow.

Onswitch is a great app.

I wish I could find a deal on LIFX bulbs, Amazon don't even seem to stock them very often. :disappointed:

FYI, you can buy an B22 > E27 converter kit from Amazon for about £1, which works out £3 total for the three bulbs in the Kit.

Still saving quite a bit.

Guessing this deal is not just for Prime members?

I got 2 a couple of weeks ago in a lightning deal for £30 each. Hue+ and tasker for android and iconnecthue ios

Much cheaper on lightning deal last year. Pretty poor offerings from amazon on Hue this year

For those of you who have kids - check out the Hue Disco app. Our little one loves to have a disco in our lounge every now and then!

Need a couple of colour bulbs. Got this a few days ago and loving it. Paid £150 though :confused:

Do the single colour bulbs ever get discounted much?

Also anyone know a good free app for effects? Or is any app worth paying for. Feel a bit limited with the Philips App and free scenes available so far. Want some warm flame scenes <3

fingers crossed for 5pm. I can't see hue under any of the links posted, but will certainly look again at 5pm.
edit ooooff yes I can, scroll down loads under upcoming deals. 30% off.

I had a Phillips 25pc code yesterday mailed to me you might want to check

I really want to get this, to work with my Echo. My only concern is that the lights fitting with 3 bulbs, where I wanto place this, is already on a dimmer switch. Will this make things difficult at all?

Can you use your existing switches to them on and off if needed.

do people actually use the different colours or just revert to a warm white?

awesome price. normally £150.

These don't work on a dimmer switch unless you put that switch to 100% and don't touch it

Okay thank you! This deal is going to fly on Prime Early Access

This link should take you to a filtered page showing only this deal.

Hot especially as these are the newer bulbs with better deeper colours.

Nice! How did you know what price they are doing the Lightning Deal for?

Why is the GU10 never on offer :disappointed:

Excellent thanks, I've been waiting for this!

desperate for the gu10's....

Hot deal, thanks OP.

Oops, thank you! :smile:

Didn't see this till after the price had gone back up. And it's 1 of my HotUKDeals alerts, which didn't alert. Oh well, hopefully next time. Heat anyway.

ooh coloured light bulbs

Very hot

Good deal paid £140 for this

Very hot. :confused:

See the pauper cold voters are online :stuck_out_tongue:

Hot from me but I am all Hue'd out, well apart from some Lightstrip Plus's

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