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 bulbs are very bright. Much better than I expected. Very pleased...!

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.

I am a fan of Hue products. I have an assortment of the products. We have candelabra style lightbulbs in outside lights. Do notice the bulb itself is white, not clear, so if that could alter the visual appearance of where you have clear basic candelabra lightbulbs, it is something to consider, but the ease of use and the ability to control this lights in so many ways is worth the slight change in "look" for us!

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!

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.

Summary: It's another great bulb for the Hue system, but I wish I could give it 4.5 stars because it's slightly longer than any of our existing candelabra bulbs and sticks out of the lamps in a funny way where our old bulbs didn't... If you have a different lamp with a slightly bigger shade, then this is definitely a 5 star product for you. When I bought my starter pack of hue bulbs a few years ago, I had no idea how much I was going to fall in love with the system. Slowly, room by room, I've been converting the house to Hue. However I've been waiting years for Philips to release a candelabra base bulb in the US, and I ordered as soon as they were available. They just arrived and I was eager to swap them out so I could finally get some smart dimming into the bedroom... Setup: I ordered three bulbs and all of them were synced to the app within a minute. Setting up Hue bulbs is always the easiest smart device setup- no changing wifi networks or entering passwords. You just open the app, tap on Search, and a few moments later they show up. I'm pretty sure the longest part of the process is me figuring out what to name the bulb.

We purchased 6 of these lights for our two outside carriage light figures on both sides of our garage door. We have an existing Phillips Hue System with hub. It couldn't be easier to install and add to our existing HUB. Our outdoor garage lights now go on and off at sunset and sundown without needing to buy or install a timer. Really is "set it and forget it." I only wish they were less expensive and were a little brighter. One observation: Our garage door area is fairly distant from our Phillips HUE HUB / wifi. It is best to first plug in each light into a socket that is NEAR the hub and then ADD them to your system using the Hue software. Once added, we moved each light to the garage door fixtures. We have done this for several lights and never had an issue.