Yep! "I'll just get a couple" turned into every room in the house (except the kitchen- 10 gu10s- I'm not THAT silly yet).
Then you move into smartthings...
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shakerstevens
4 May 17#1
Brilliant price, have some heat
The Edison screw version is also available for the same price
BigCheeseGlenni
4 May 171#2
Extra £10 off for new Amazon prime members with code also
revdesol to BigCheeseGlenni
4 May 17#12
What code?
techno79 to BigCheeseGlenni
4 May 17#23
Great shout on the extra £10 off although it forced me to add a £2 tip which I didn't understand?
roly
4 May 176#3
Be careful. ..hue is so very addictive.
borosidf to roly
4 May 17#4
lol I feel your pain, expensive addiction :laughing:
ianjw to roly
4 May 173#5
Yep! "I'll just get a couple" turned into every room in the house (except the kitchen- 10 gu10s- I'm not THAT silly yet).
Then you move into smartthings...
dragonline77
4 May 171#6
it's not all that
justonemorepie
4 May 171#7
Anyone looking for white bulbs needs to look at the IKEA bulbs. When it comes to coloured the are a few other makes on Amazon. still this isn't a bad price. heat added.
borosidf to justonemorepie
4 May 17#9
I want bridge compatible colour ones. Heard maybe Oshram. Any suggestion?
damadgeruk to justonemorepie
4 May 17#31
Ikea do smart lamps now? Also thought they only did warm white/yellow which I dislike.
kpmatthews
4 May 17#8
Take a look at sonoff for the kitchen
hjonesjr
4 May 17#10
thanks for sharing. good price :smiley:
flynne123
4 May 171#11
Excellent, I have finally purchased. Thank you.
bojangles
4 May 17#13
was just about to post this deal.
techno79
4 May 17#14
Really hot deal. I've already got a bridge, is there a benefit having a 2nd bridge when I have just a dozen bulbs? If not then how much could I sell the bridge for?
I have a couple of innr ones, seem to work OK with the hue bridge
5Rivers79
4 May 17#16
Where is the best place to get coloured gu10s that fit into standard down lights? Thank you.
shakerstevens
4 May 171#18
10NOW40
Its £10 off a £40 or more spend to new customers only of Amazon prime NOW.
techno79
4 May 171#19
I bought the Innr ones as well (one white one and one colour). The white one only goes to warm white (yellowish) and then just dims. I prefer a crisp cool white look which the colour one can provide. But comparing the Innr colour to the Hue colour, there is something different about them but I can't exactly tell what. They both have the same lumen output but the Hue seems to throw light more evenly around the room. The Innr doesn't seem as good. Also, I noticed some features with the official Hue app (and 3rd party ones) that the Innr bulb doesn't work completely the same as the Hue. E.g. when using some affects like cycling through colour looping or disco mode, the Innr bulb doesn't work with those. Small issue for me but each to their own.
LOL_is_stupid
4 May 17#20
Shame PrimeNow has such limited availability :disappointed:
foggy
4 May 172#21
Flipping 'eck. First Sonos drained me now Hue has its meathooks into me...
timdp
4 May 17#22
Hot price. Ordered one E27. Suspect I might eventually want 6 bulbs, very tempting to order a second.
shakerstevens to timdp
4 May 17#25
You could do that and sell the hub (as you won't need 2) for anything between £30 and £45 on ebay :smiley: helps towards the cost of a 2nd set of bulbs.
shakerstevens
4 May 171#24
You can over ride the tip to 0 or any other value.
I always think if I put 0 will the driver not be so friendly and accidentally drop my items ! So I usually put a £1 tip, still its daft really. Amazon should pay their drivers well but I suppose its only like tipping a taxi driver...
iammienta
4 May 171#26
I'm in exactly the same situation. Probably going to go for innr gu10 ones . Have seen them at sub £15 each and £150 doesnt's sound that bad to finish the set up. Got them on camelcamelcamel and just waiting to drop another £10 for the set.
meathane
4 May 17#27
For any newcomers, hue is great with the Philips app, and with Siri too, but poor with Alexa with complex setups (can't speak for Google Home)
kpmatthews to meathane
4 May 17#30
Can you elaborate? Alexa works fine with Hue for basic on/off, dimming and activating scenes which I assume is all most people will need. Perhaps I'm not making the most of it...?
techno79 to meathane
4 May 17#32
It works really well with Google Home. You can control a single light, a single room or all lights. There's even some implicit grouping of rooms so you can control all bedroom lights. Unfortunately, I haven't figured out a way to control all downstairs or all upstairs (or any other grouping of your choice). Also, you can't use Google Home to use preconfigured scenes. But I love that you can use a single command to turn on a light at a specific brightness (regardless of the brightness it was last used. You can also specify most common arbitrary colours and it even works with things like "light blue", "magenta", "cool white", "bright white", "warm white" and just "white" (each of these being a different colour).
Wish I could find a complete list of all the colours Google Home recognises.
SewerSide
4 May 17#28
Has anyone tried the Sonoff Touch with Alexa? I'm curious. I'm currently trying a Wifiplug Glass 3-gang, only the first gang works with Alexa.
Stratosphere83
4 May 171#29
Can't decide between B22 for the main lighting (and having to remove the current dimmer switches) or E27 for various lamps around the house. I think hue might work best when the colour is localised.
shakerstevens to Stratosphere83
4 May 17#38
I would say lamps. I tend to use lights controlled by wall switches still by their wall switches, as do other members of the family, so once switched off via wall switch you can't turn them back on via the hue app/timers.
Whereas table/side lamps that you use for secondary lighting tend to work better with App control and never turn off at the wall socket. Thats how its worked for me, but I can see it being different for other people.
meathane
4 May 171#33
My problem with Alexa is the 3 ceiling lights are called Front Room 1, Front Room 2, Front Room 3, with Front Room Lamp Light, all in a group called, surprisingly, 'Front Room', and so if you ask Alexa to 'turn the front room lights off', it comes back with 'you have more than one device with the name front room. Please give them uniquue names'.
I guess I should call the bulbs, Dennis, Richard, and John, then maybe it wouldn't struggle so much. Anyway, it's pretty dumb (but that's Alexa, not Hue).
mkaikon
4 May 17#34
I had a similar issue as well, I just renamed the bulbs eg Living Room 1 to LR1. Then I set Alexa to forget the connected devices then re-added. But I agree it's stupid how Alexa has so much trouble with similar names.
meathane
4 May 17#35
I was thinking exactly the same thing, FR1 etc. I have a bulb in the Hallway too, called Hallway (it's the only one), and recently installed a Nest, and set that to Hallway too (Nest give you a bunch of preset options to name the stat), and then when I asked Alexa to 'lower the Hallway temperature by 1 degree', I got the same feedback about giving devices unique names, despite that one is a bulb and one is f'king thermostat.
To say the word 'smart' is thrown around to describe all this stuff, it's really stupid.
Echelon
4 May 17#36
I recently got Ikea's offering at £9 a bulb, works great with SmartThings if you just want to control the bulbs remotely.
I was tempted by Hue but not really interested in all the colours. Still hot though.
ml55 to Echelon
4 May 171#39
is it compatible with Apple Home ?
Stablemate
4 May 17#37
I bought a total of 7 'Innr' GU10's for my kitchen as doing the rest of the house with genuine HUE lamps had hit my bank balance badly! I found two things with the Innr units:- (1) the light output seemed lower and (2) they seem less reliable wi-fi wise. This means that when I press the Philips remote, sometimes all of them work OK, but another time maybe 5 of the 7 units light up. A second click of the button usually gets them all lit. It's not the end of the world, but I would certainly pay the extra for the genuine item from now on.
techno79
4 May 172#40
You can buy little plastic switch guards that prevent the physical switch from being turned off. And then buy something like Hue Tap or Hue Dimmer to replace the switches. The Tap and Dimmer can even control multiple bulbs/rooms so you wouldn't need as many as the normal switches.
shakerstevens
4 May 17#41
Yes true, but it does confuse the older generation if they can't find a normal looking light switch. I like the dimmer switch that I have, but find the tap expensive for what it is.
thanks for the info.
wacko911
4 May 17#42
Do you need anything other than the smartthings hub to control the Ikea bulbs? Sounds like a much better deal than £40 a bulb from hue
spruceyb
4 May 171#43
ST can control the IKEA bulbs without the additional bridge.
But Ikea ones aren't that much cheaper really, £9 (£9.50 if you need B22 as IKEA only do E27 and you'll need to buy adapters) compared to around £14 for equivalent Hue. There's much better system based around Hue than the Ikea bulbs too, like 3rd party app support etc.
damadgeruk
4 May 17#44
Further to my earlier question, Ikea lamps are warm white, no good for me then. :smiley:
Midnight.Tboy
4 May 17#45
Anyone know of any nice light ceiling fittings for a living room for things like these. Just about all the types of ceiling lights tend to see now are the likes of G9 bulbs
grahambeale
4 May 17#46
Awesome! Was waiting for this. Thanks!
mart321
4 May 17#47
I have 10 spotlights in my kitchen, I want a full set of colour hue bulbs for these I can control with phones etc but still set to plain old white. What setup do I need for this? Prefer some first hand knowledge rather than reading the blurb on the hue site
texaspetey
4 May 172#48
Do I need this?!
mart321
4 May 17#49
What's happens if you have a set of these in the kitchen and you switch the lights on? Are they set to white. Or can you preset a specific colour
smurkenstein
4 May 171#50
We have some rooms where the light is triggered by a PIR sensor - no need for a switch. For example, movement in the bedroom triggers the under bed light strip and en-suite to turn on. The brightness is keyed to the time of day so that during the night, just enough light comes on to navigate around the bed without waking anyone up. It saves on bruised knees and stubbed toes. The sensors are quite cool.
rob85
4 May 17#51
Set to a standard white colour. Same if you switch them off at any point and back on again, they basically function like a standard bulb when not using an app.
mart321
4 May 17#52
Brilliant, thanks. Only problem is I can't remember what fitting I have in my kitchen bulbs now and I'm at work, damn. Is there a standard fitting for ceiling spotlights
ZapGod
4 May 17#53
have both Amazon Echo and Google home and have the exact reverse experience.
You just have to get your Alexa rooms names so they don't reflect the similar names to your bulbs
mart321
4 May 17#54
Screw it, I've ordered two packs of each fittings so I can at least do half kitchen and my front room/middle room. If you want more than one bulb is the only to keep purchasing starter packs? Seems better viewed than £50 a bulb
niconelove
4 May 17#55
any recommendations on best app to use as there are loads to choose from and the Phillips one has awful reviews
kiish
4 May 17#56
Do I need the E27 starter kit if I wanted to replace my existing living room/dining pendant lights?
mart321
4 May 171#57
check your light fittings, the deal ends at midnight. How many bulbs do you want.
mart321
4 May 17#58
My lights are all down lights that fit flush with the ceiling, are the hue bigger than normal, hoping they are not going to pretude
steveex
4 May 17#59
You'll be able to sell the Hub(s) you don't use for £30+ each a pop all day long on the site that can't be named also.
I have 4 Go's, 4 Iris, Lightsrips, Fair hanging Ceiling lamps and these lamps here. I really do appreciate the ambiance Hue offers.
You would normally expect them to be 12v dichroics (2 small straight pins) or 240v GU10's (2 small pegs that twist into the socket) You can buy Hue GU10's. Dichroics you cant replace without removing the transformer and replacing with a GU10 fitting.
nekoangel
4 May 17#62
Lifx over hue ever time for me. No bridge, good app and never a problem with them.
5Rivers79
4 May 17#63
Hue colour gu10s don't fit into downlights. Only normal white ones that are called perfect fit.
Dingo.Dave.69
4 May 17#64
Hue or hive bulbs for existing hive user? Any owners of both?
mart321
4 May 17#65
Oh well I've purchased two packs of e27 and 2 packs of b22, the gu10 aren't in the offer aswell. I will at least get my front/ middle room done and I will send them back if I don't have the fittings
mart321
4 May 17#66
Damn oh well, how do you get colour hues to fit these then. Sure I've seen phillips adverts where they have flush hue spotlights
mywife
4 May 171#67
I have found it more worthwhile to leave the main ceiling kitchen lights either on a normal switch or standard PIR.
Install the Hue Lightstrip under the kitchen units for a more effective use of the lights dimming and colouring capabilities, works out cheaper too. A lamp or a single E27/B22 light is also handy to set mood lighting options in a kitchen.
Each situation I guess is different.
mywife
4 May 17#68
Could have been an American setup in the advert... they seem to use E27 bulbs for their downlights.
mywife
4 May 17#69
Ikea do cheap B22 to E27 adapters. Better quality than ebay I find.
Found it best to stick to E27 bulbs as most lamps seem to be going that way.
smurkenstein
5 May 17#70
Hue do sell a full downlight unit - this might be what you saw.
There was a comment on GU10 spot bulbs - just worth mentioning there are two sizes - regular and longer (70 mm, something like that) for deeper fittings.
spruceyb
5 May 17#71
The Hue app is okay, it's had quite a few updates recently adding more functionality and restoring some features that had previously been removed (which may account for a portion of the poor reviews).
All4Hue works okay too (but it isn't exactly pretty), it has some extra features that could be handy but costs £5 to unlock those.
Hue Pro also has some nice features, it has a nice way to do presets for all of your lights and WiFi detection to turn your lights when it connects to your home wifi.
damadgeruk
5 May 17#72
Hue Gu10 lamps do fit in Gu10 fittings. Not all though some fittings have the space/design to allow various sizes of lamp.
mart321
5 May 17#73
It appears that the smaller ones which will fit flush ceiling lights only come in white. It's seems this is the only hue bulb that doesn't have a colour version. Strange. I want flush colour downlights!
Echelon
5 May 171#74
There's a separate post on here about it which is what inspired me. When I was in Ikea I just bought a £9 E27 bulb and put it in a lamp when I got home. I was a bit skeptical but it did work, you just need a custom device handler which people have shared on the ST community, you just copy and paste it which then allows you to dim it and such like.
Hue probably has better features and native support but switching them on and off is all I want, dimming was a bonus! You save £6 a bulb by going with Ikea and don't need a bridge, that's good enough for me.
wacko911
5 May 17#75
Thanks, I've 5 ordered from Ikea. Sounds ideal for my needs also. You just saved me £70.
Spriggsy
8 May 17#76
Replace the Replace the housing with aurora long can or similar to accommodate hue gu10.
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Richer colours too.
E27 at the samemprice too (thanks shakerstevens)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01K1WP7Z4/?tag=ho01f-21&th=1
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The Edison screw version is also available for the same price
Then you move into smartthings...
Its £10 off a £40 or more spend to new customers only of Amazon prime NOW.
I always think if I put 0 will the driver not be so friendly and accidentally drop my items ! So I usually put a £1 tip, still its daft really. Amazon should pay their drivers well but I suppose its only like tipping a taxi driver...
Wish I could find a complete list of all the colours Google Home recognises.
Whereas table/side lamps that you use for secondary lighting tend to work better with App control and never turn off at the wall socket. Thats how its worked for me, but I can see it being different for other people.
I guess I should call the bulbs, Dennis, Richard, and John, then maybe it wouldn't struggle so much. Anyway, it's pretty dumb (but that's Alexa, not Hue).
To say the word 'smart' is thrown around to describe all this stuff, it's really stupid.
I was tempted by Hue but not really interested in all the colours. Still hot though.
thanks for the info.
But Ikea ones aren't that much cheaper really, £9 (£9.50 if you need B22 as IKEA only do E27 and you'll need to buy adapters) compared to around £14 for equivalent Hue. There's much better system based around Hue than the Ikea bulbs too, like 3rd party app support etc.
You just have to get your Alexa rooms names so they don't reflect the similar names to your bulbs
I have 4 Go's, 4 Iris, Lightsrips, Fair hanging Ceiling lamps and these lamps here. I really do appreciate the ambiance Hue offers.
This is the pack I'm referring to: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Philips-Triple-Bulbs-Bridge-Starter/dp/B01MTV1ELE/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1493934170&sr=8-8&keywords=philips+hue+colour+gu10
Additional bulbs are £50 each so for a room with 10 bulbs its not going to be cheap! You could buy more of the starter packs with 3 bulbs and 1 bridge and sell the "spare" bridges
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Philips-Personal-Wireless-Lighting-Single/dp/B00IHZJ51A/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&qid=1493934128&sr=8-11&keywords=philips+hue+colour
I've got a few hue bulbs but not the GU10 ones. Love the set up I have so far.
Install the Hue Lightstrip under the kitchen units for a more effective use of the lights dimming and colouring capabilities, works out cheaper too. A lamp or a single E27/B22 light is also handy to set mood lighting options in a kitchen.
Each situation I guess is different.
Found it best to stick to E27 bulbs as most lamps seem to be going that way.
There was a comment on GU10 spot bulbs - just worth mentioning there are two sizes - regular and longer (70 mm, something like that) for deeper fittings.
All4Hue works okay too (but it isn't exactly pretty), it has some extra features that could be handy but costs £5 to unlock those.
Hue Pro also has some nice features, it has a nice way to do presets for all of your lights and WiFi detection to turn your lights when it connects to your home wifi.
Hue probably has better features and native support but switching them on and off is all I want, dimming was a bonus! You save £6 a bulb by going with Ikea and don't need a bridge, that's good enough for me.
Replace the housing with aurora long can or similar to accommodate hue gu10.
Bayonet B22 fitting - https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Light-Bulbs/Philips-Colour-Ambiance-Wireless-Bayonet-Starter-Enabled/B01LF9G9HC/ref=sr_1_1?s=lighting&ie=UTF8&qid=1494371528&sr=1-1
Edison Screw E27 fitting - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Philips-Ambiance-Wireless-Lighting-Starter/dp/B01K1WP7Z4/ref=sr_1_2?s=lighting&ie=UTF8&qid=1494371528&sr=1-2
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