Philips - Hue White Ambiance E12 Wi-Fi Smart LED Decorative Candle Bulb - White

I have a lot of Hue lights. ALOT. However I had one lamp that couldn’t be hure’d... until it could!! Works great, easy setup and reliable multi year LED performance. Only thing that could be cooler is if it was color-capable and (as always) the taxedAF Philips price. However, if you’re already in the Hue game.. may as well go all in.

These are great because my front porch fixture can only hold the Candle Bulbs. This allow me to keep my house well lit at night.

Due to the lighting fixture above the mirror in the bathroom having restricted sizing for how tall a bulb can be, I addition to being an E12 / Candelabra socket size, it was not possible to install a Phillips Hue bulb into this fixture. Now that Phillips has an E12 socket type of bulb I can do this. Note that I cannot use the dimmer switch with these (or any Phillips Hue bulbs) so I have installed the Phillips Hue Motion Sensor to trigger the lamps to turn on to the 6,500k color temp upon entering the room. Then I use a Phillips Hue Dimmer switch to adjust brightness and also turn them off. NOTE: This bulb does NOT offer COLORS. This is only for the white spectrum between WARM WHITE (approximately 3,000 Kelvin color temp) and DAYLIGHT WHITE (6,500 Kelvin color temp) and anything between those two. Also, just like the other Phillips Hue bulbs, when you cut power to them from a light switch, then power them back ON, they will default to the WARM/YELLOW color temp unfortunately. However, if they defaulted the lamp to the last color setting used, then no one would bother making much use of their ability to alter their color or scenes. So it seems to be by design that they are fighting lazy human behavior so that their product gets used properly.

Great product. I been using this for over a year now, and its still going strong.

For the Positive: These little guys are great if you manage to buy the wrong fixture and not pay attention. The bridge is a bit limited with capacity and not linking 2 together however they just work out of the box and give you a bulb that will last 20 years. I give these bulbs a five and the phillips hue system a 4. Now on to the negative: The final 4 lights in my house to complete and BB ships me one and schedules the other 3 for in store pickup which was not selected on checkout. I should have just done in store pick up which was in stock. So now I have to go to the store anyways and I have one bulb. I will be buying form Amazon from now on as they delivered all five of the bulbs directly to my door the next day.

I purchased these to put in an outdoor light enclosure at my front door that has a dawn to dusk sensor that no longer works. I didn't want to replace the whole light enclosure, so I used these to replace the bulbs. I already had the Hue hub and some other bulbs in my living room, so I thought this would be the easiest work around the non-working sensors. Once I installed these I set the sunset to sunrise feature in the Hue app, and now the lights are on at dark and off during the day. I can even set the brightness and white color so it lights up my front door without annoying the neighbors! The only thing is that sometimes my wife forgets to use the app, or Alexa or Siri to turn off the lights, and turns off the switch instead which deactives the auto features. Overall, I love these bulbs and I am waiting for some of my other "dumb" bulbs to burn out so I can replace with Hue bulbs!

Love this! Bought 2 to go in the lights above my eating bar. The light switch was on the other side of the room and not easily accessible. Now i can tell Alexa to turn on the dining room and both come on. Super convenient!

When these are on sale they are a great value. They offer multiple shades of white/yellow so they fit nicely with my Edison bulbs. These will last many years in your average accent or desk lamp.