Customer Ratings & Reviews

When the Hue and the app work the way they are supposed to, these is a 5-star product hands down. The reason I gave 3 stars is because it doesn't always work fine all the time.

It takes for ever to setup, it fails quite a bit and has to be reset. I have two of these in different locations with the same issues.

Works fine, but the fact you require a hub to pair the lights to, is unnecessary, their are other products where the bulb itself works off your network

Setup is pretty simple, but ended up returning it because I couldn’t connect it to HomeKit and the color temp was too warm

These lights work great, can connect to your phone or google home, and you can add more lights with colors, strips, ect but they become very expensive very fast.

The lights worked well at first set up with white function but colors are hard to get. The whites are also very dim. Be nice to have a higher lumens.

It's not a friendly system, you need to check on youtube to see the tutoríal. I hope that they co a better software to be sure that works properly

There are a lot of difficulties with this. Haven’t figured out Alexa and pairing it is hard. I’d say ask for help.

I'm starting to transition to automating quite a few items around the house. I figured I would start small and begin with lights, especially since we've had to leave our lights on 24/7 while away for a week on our most recent vacation. After researching the Philips Hue, I went ahead and made the purchase. The installation instructions and process is extremely easy. Simply connect the base station, install lights, install the app, and away you go. The HUE app recognized the base station and lights very easily. There are some customizations you can do with the app, but I chose to download the IFTTT app for even more customization and integration with other products (e.g. Nest). I've been using this for well over a month now and the only issue I encountered (only once) was the outside light not being recognized. This is due to the distance of the basestation and internet router to the back of my house. No worries, as I installed a Wi-Fi extender and problem solved. Both front and back lights go on and off on schedule.

I've been thinking about buying into the Hue line for a while but de died I could do without. After de idling it would be convenient, and cool, to remotely control my floor lamp I first bought the Hue Wireless Dimmer and once I realized how nice that worked started salivating for real deal. I got this kit & 6 additional BR30 color changing bulbs for the kitchen & now I'm thinking about how I can put them in places I don't even have lights! Setup was simple & automatic for 7 of the 8 lights, though there was 1 that was stubborn & I had to manually enter the serial number but after that it's worked flawlessly. For the uninitiated, the official Hue app does have a bit of a learning curve but with practice it comes easy. There are plenty of other apps to choose from which are both free & paid. Siri, sadly, has issues but that's more of an Apple issue with voice recognition as I have no problems with voice recognition on my Samsung Edge+ phone. I haven't had any problems setting up the hub to work on any of my devices, even my Harmony Elite remote works great with it. Of course, this starter kit just includes the hub & 2 non-color changing bulbs & I'd say that $80 just for this kit is well worth the money but I bet you'll quickly crave color changing bulbs in other lamps. As a reminder, if you plan on installing these on a circuit that has a dimmer switch that switch must be compatible with LED lights or the bulbs on that circuit won't function properly or at all. Also, all the bulbs are at least as bright as the equivalent wattage incandescent and maybe even brighter. Finally, if you're debating whether these are worth it then stop knocking yourself out--they are well worth it IMHO so just go to your local BB & get them!

The hub sucked and wouldn't 't connect to anything, not impressed.

This is ok but you will eventually want the color changing bulbs and it will cost you more. Get the color changing light kit

Not sure why the lights turn back on when its its turned off in the app. Yet to call Philip's Hue support!

The lights were a little challenging to install at first with the hub. For the most part I prefer the LIFX bulbs.

All I wanted it to do was turn on a lamp at a specific time and to turn it off. Can't really figure out how to do that. The phone app is really confusing and when I set up the routine, it didn't work. Can't really find any help online either. Took awhile to finally get the app to connect to the bulb because it couldn't locate the bridge. Now all I can do is turn it on and off from the app. Not impressed!!

This is a great computer and the touch bar is a nice feature. The only downside is USB-c and the expensive adapters.

When installing in a kitchen with multiple lights alexa gets confused which one you want on

The lighting quality is poor. The hue is yellow in comparison to my LED bright white lights in the house.

It works, however, the signal isn't so good that sometimes I can connect to the hub, sometimes not.

Turning the lights on and off using voice commands is fun at first but can be extremely spotty at times.