It’s actually on all Hue bulbs, not just the colour ones. Even the twin packs are included :thumbsup:

£99 for a bulb ?

People voting cold on this are clueless.

good deal.

Watch out on the twin pack of ambiance bulbs for £24.99 - this is an Argos cock up that they aren't fixing on the web. If you order you will get standard white ones and then have the pain to return them.

The problem comes when none of the stores hold 3 in stock as is the case with the GU10 twin pack.

Can't even get three delivered

good deal. title needs edited though as all bulbs are included

25000 years :dizzy_face:
Can someone confirm this when we reach this. :raised_hand:


Ohh Bulb has 25k years VS lamp 25k hours, I bet you would struggle to find a lamp on its on today let alone a decade after.

Try Maplin if Argos is oos, the 3 for 2 has been on there for a while.

Shame it'snot on the motion sensor :disappointed:

Crazy price for a bulb..... Check out some alternatives plenty out there

Too bad you have to buy the same bulb. My current flat has loads of different fittings

I want some E14 type but just can't bring myself to pay £33 per bulb.

Out of stock when I try to order 9 x GU10's.

People paying £99 for 3 bulbs are clueless

I have a mix of bulbs from £10 Xiaomi ones to Phillips hue. Value for money the Xiaomi ones win hands down, but for build and light quality few come close to the Phillips. I use the Phillips bulbs as main lighting and cheaper ones in smaller lamps or outdoors

Lamps! Not Bulbs.....

Lamps glow and bulbs grow ;-)

You can buy the starter pack with hub on Amazon for £119.99. Sell the hub for £25 + postage (like I did) which makes it a better deal IMO

Typical Argos offer. No stock. I want 9 GU10s. Nowhere seems to have more than 2 in stock, let alone 9. Out of stock for delivery, too. Been like this all week (been checking every day).

No colour b22 bulbs in stock anywhere but got 6 b22 ambience in stock for £99 plus another 10% off with my credit card. £15 per bulb isn’t bad for hue bulbs

Fair shout that's a decent enough reason for it I suppose but other people's attempts at humour is as bad as the price of 3 bulbs

Are the gu10s in argos richer colours? Looks like the old silver versions

You didnt mention that you can get 6 for £169.98

scam...not enough stock to complete offer.

Sorry new to these whats so great about them?

Richer sounds are doing them cheaper still

The adaptors add length to the bulb (around 15-20mm) so it's not a perfect fix.

Oh I still think Hue bulbs are moving to permanent price cut. This would tally with the Amazon echo Plus with hueintegration, it would be a win win for Amazon and Philips.

They usually go for £25 on amazon Black Friday sales if you are willing to wait

Same deal from Maplins. Plus Free Delivery. Plus £10 free voucher for £100 spend. So you just need to spend 50p to get a £10 voucher.

For 99 quid I can find someone to create a real, authentic 'sexy time'!

I almost guarentee there will be a price reduction once the Echo is released on the 31st, hense why a lot of these deals are coming out.

The Echo plus becoming an smart hub and partnering with Hue means phillips are going to have to change their price plan next month. Why buy a starter pack for £120 when you can buy an Echo plus with a free lamp for £130?

A price drop just before black Friday will be the catalist to change the lamps in my house I think.

If you want standard GU10s, may I recommend ALIEXPRESS.

aliexpress.com/ite…f0d.
Choice of wattage etc. Very good flicker free and well made. Prices will make you weep. I had some 5W for a room where I watch TV, as higher wattage are too bright. Suggest you order just one lot and see how it goes. MUST NEVER ORDER OVER £15 at a time, unless you want to risk Customs Duty. I pay with VISA card, never any problems. No problem with registering account, choose English and Sterling. Website is brilliant. Delivery will take a couple of weeks, but can be up to six weeks. Always well packed, never had a breakage in hundreds of orders.

Clueless. I think not. The mark up on these is tremendous. People like you want to lay for the air they breath.

Not clued up at all. Just victims of marketing.

How very nice of you. :sunglasses:

Ouch expensive bulbs what do they do make u a cup of tea and cook ur toast for you in the morning and take u to the bathroom clean ur teeth or something. Why not just get a cheap bulb which has a remote they probably around a few quid. With the remote if u can't be bothered to turn the light switch on.

Always considered myself to be quite techy but smart homes seem to have passed me by....

I just bought the Amazon starter kit with regular white bulbs. Think I should try these white ambience versions while the Argos offer is on 'cos I agree they're damn pricey!

Deciding now on singles (3 bulbs) or twins (6 bulbs).

Those of you that are on board with Hue....do you find yourself changing as many bulbs as possible in your house?
Is it a case of once you're drawn in to the tech you can't stop yourself upgrading all your rooms?

Err no. £50 for 1 - richersounds.com/phi…tml

thank you just ordered 3 packs of 2 white bulbs for around my house
£49.98 great price .

I started off buying a 2m Lightstrip on a spur of the moment deal on here. Was gonna sell it when i realised it needed a bridge to work it! Left it lying for a while and bought a bridge when i decided to put a glass bannister in the stairs with the strip underneath the handrail..

Have now spent a fortune buying Hue colour bulbs for each room and i don’t regret it one bit! Totally transforms the room in my opinion

Oh awesome! Bet the bannister looks the bees knees :sunglasses:
You're hooked then!

For some reason i expected it to light up the panes of glass but it doesnt (obviously now that i thought about it) so only lights the edges but still looks fresh!

Get yourself some colour bulbs and i guarantee you’ll be as hooked as me, hard not to haha

Looks cool!

I have a cheap colour bulb arriving from overseas just to test the water.

Thing is I don't want to get hooked...it's an expensive hobby :stuck_out_tongue:

£49.99 for a bulb? in terms of a deal it gets heat but it's like paying 1000 for a phone, completely un-necessary pricing by cash grabbing companies. Why don't people have more resolve and not fork out for it! They will lower prices if they don't sell.

waldolf makes joke about hot water on a log fire to make a bath, but these don't solve anything. They are a nice to have only...

Xiaomi bulb £6.87...

The English language would disagree with you.

dictionary.cambridge.org/dic…ulb

Its like saying "not a shoe horn as it doesn't make sound"

Thanks for this - my order has just been dispatched and going via avios they are doing double points at the moment as well - 8miles per £1.

You keep telling yourself that, if it makes you feel better and superior. You and some others on here seem very obsessed about what people spend their money on, all seems very salty.

I'm sure better deals will come again sincere they seem to have run out of stock. I bought a starter kit on boxing day, £90 for three colour bulbs and I got to update my hub to v2 at the same time. My entire downstairs lighting system is Hue (although I couldn't bring myself to pay for the GU10 bulbs). I like the automation, use them with IFTTT.com as well for extra features, but no way would I have paid full price for them.

I did buy a Yeelight to test, good build quality but the colours/brightness not as good as a Hue bulb (but then they are 20% of the price). They still work with my Echo and IFTTT.

As for being clueless, I drive a newish car (it isn't an expensive German one). Should I go everywhere in a twenty year old clunker because it appears to do the same thing?

No problem,...great minds as that's exactly what I did last week only I just got the 4 per £. Nice job! :thumbsup:

Much the same here, although I went for a load of gu10's this time around...came across Stringify the other day and have found it as good if not better than IFTTT. It allows you to create your own flows with multiple triggers, actions and conditions. Check it out.

Is this error on the GU10s too?

I'm not playing a game so can't get salty.

They were when I posted. We have the colours but never use them. The white are good we send off signals to them every 15m at night to turn lights off if kids leave them on.the kids like the hue disco affect tha 3P app though

Go on then, convince me that 99 quid for bulbs is worth it. Sell it to me, I bet you cant.

The worlds gone mad

Go for the Osram Lightify E14 bulbs - they’re fully compatible with Hue hub, sensors, switches etc. Only difference is they’re not Apple HomeKit compatible. £22 I think on amazon but they are regularly reduced to £16 each - put a notification check on camelcamelcamel for it.

Doubt anyone cares enough to try to sell it to you.

Agreed. It reminds me of when some guy brought out a steam powered carriage. I mean what is wrong with a good old horse? It's a solution looking for a problem.

They were market innovators initially and it was a niche market. I doubt they could've priced it much lower at the time.
Things have changed since then (thank you Alexa ) and that market isn't quite so niche now, the price will drop...

But even when that £49.99 bulb becomes a £19.99 bulb haters will hate.

Do they have the colour version though?

Agreed! Problem solved by Thomas Edison in 1879.

Pfft waste of time. Candles were good enough.

Do people really pay this much for bulbs?

Hmm I ordered and paid for the white ambience bulb on 3 for 2 but got these delivered instead :thinking:

exactly. ive got a couple of yeelights for lamps at home and they are spot on. hoping and wishing xiomi produce different styles of bulbs and i'll be replacing other bulbs in the house too. £6 for a yeelihgt. no bridge and stuff required. excellent app.

They're good bulbs but way overpriced - Phillips really are taking the p with the pricing of their colour bulbs. I don't mind paying a bit of a premium for the best but there's a limit.

Also, it's a saving but not really a £50 saving... since few people pay the retail price of nearly £150 for 3 of these. For example the 3 bulb gen 3 kit including Hue hub is on Amazon for £120 at the moment.

If you don't have the need for the extra bit of brightness / colour accuracy these offer there are better value alternatives such as Innr or Yeelight.

BTW, I own Hue, Innr and Yeelight colour bulbs.

I love these Hue Bulbs. The coloured ones work well in the living room and bedroom, where you might want the light adjusting depending on your mood.

I also have the white ones on the stairs, coupled with motions sensors they now act as night lights. When I go upstairs when it's dark and it's before 11pm, they come on full brightness, but if I get up in the middle of the night to go to the loo, they come on dim as night-lights. Enough to see by but not enough to destroy my night-sight.

When linked to Alexa and IFTTT they can do some magical things. I have a routine set that if it's looks like it's raining and it's daytime, they flash a couple of times... warning to bring the washing in. I have other similar routines set to aware/alert me to events, even as trivial as someone important has sent me an email.

I'm about to set up a routine so that if motion is detected outside when we've gone to bed, all the downstairs bulbs flash red. There's a built-in routine to simulate someone being in the house, ideal for when you're actually out or on holiday.

When I get the right fixture, I'm putting one of these outside as a welcome light. It'll be motion or app-activated, and I can adjust the colour depending on my mood.

Okay, £33 a bulb is a lot, but these are a million miles away from 'just' bulbs.

There's a serious stocking problem at the moment for the Edison ambience single bulbs - for some reason, the product codes are all over the place. Go into your local store and get them to check out the code for the Bayonet type bulbs (569/8857) as some numpty at Argos has put both the Edison and Bayonet bulbs on the same product code.. the problem is nationwide too.

Ring Argos helpline afterwards, they'll refund your delivery charge and give you a £10 voucher.

Source: happened to me on Saturday.

Yep, 3 stickers on each box none of which habe the correct catalogue number on.

Well, I got an apology and another delivery and collection for tomorrow :angry:

I did tell them I was afraid that would happen again as the boxes are stickered wrong.
But I was assured the correct ones will arrive :unamused:

Grounds for a higher level of compensation when they inevitably mess up again :wink:

That is a fantastic use. I have set my mums up so that if the doorbell rings the lamp in the corner of the lounge (with the loud TV next to it...) comes on bright green for 2mins so she knows.

I read one person who has set up an ITTT so that if their nest carbon monoxide detector gets activated, all of their Hue bulbs come on 100% brightness, in Red. Hope they never need it, but a great idea.

The most I have done so far is lot of timers (love the variable on/off setting), zoning and Echo.

How have you set the motion sensitivity to give different results depending on time? Is that standard within the hue app?

£99 bulbs and you want o save on adapter? :thinking:

You can set different motion routines at different times of the day, it's limited to 2 time slots iirc. I needed more slots and special scenarios involving dimmer switches etc. just didn't work for me. The Hue Labs "recipes" let you do much more but they're in beta and don't always work as you expect and you can't run several recipes at the same time to have true automation as I wanted it.

Sold all my Hue stuff on ebay this wkend, mostly at a profit teehee (buy during sales. black friday etc. then sell just below rrp.)

My kid liked the colour light in his room so I picked up a cheap chinese bulb with a remote instead, £7 delivered from amazon. so much easier to work then having to open an app and risk the hue hub not connecting etc.

Bought the set with the hub and 3 bulbs for £120 and 3 Echos for £80 when they did Amazon Prime Day sale.

Its great being able to just say Alexa turn on the lights or to dim the light to the right % when eating or relaxing, watching TV.

The lamp stand is behind a corner sofa, so tricky to get to. Would have to put knees in sofa to get to light or bend awkward to get to switch. I figured, if it saves premature death of my seat on the sofa, or the risk of being of work a few days with the increased likelihood of a pulled back, then it has paid itself back.

I do find Alexa challenging at time and wish she would respond to general questions (May look at a Google Home), but though the bulbs are expensive and seem a gimmick, I find anywhere, where you may want a light on for any length of time, with the ability to dim....these are spot on