Helpful tips and tricks about Philips Hue make life easier with your own smart home. Whether it’s switches, apps or bridge settings, you can often get even more out of Philips Hue with a few little tricks.
Ikea revamped its smart home series at the end of 2025 and launched numerous new products with Matter over Thread. I have already tested some of them and paired them with a Homey Pro mini. You can watch the video here. But can you also use the Ikea bulbs from the new Kajplats series with the Philips Hue Bridge?
I used my little weekly review on Sunday to draw attention to a small bottleneck that many users are experiencing after migrating their second or third bridge to the new Hue Bridge Pro. The rules, which are button assignments or actions of switches and sensors, quickly reach the unchanged limit of 250 available rules.
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Today, I would like to address a question that has been asked several times and has certainly been answered in eight years of Hueblog. However, it recently popped up again in our community, and my father-in-law also asked me the following question a few days ago: How can you turn on a Philips Hue lamp or the Hue Smart Plug at the touch of a button and have it turn off automatically after a certain amount of time?
Philips Hue launched a bunch of new light strips this fall – at least in Europe. One of them is the Hue Flux, which comes in two different versions. In addition to the “normal” Flux light strip in five different lengths from 3 to 10 meters, there is also the particularly bright Hue Flux Ultra Bright Lightstrip.
Last week, the Philips Hue OmniGlow Lightstrip was launched in Europe. It is available in lengths of 3, 5, and 10 meters. The new premium light strip is also already on sale in the US, but so far only in the shortest version. One question has kept cropping up over the last few days: where can the Hue OmniGlow Lightstrip be shortened?
In recent weeks, I have received several questions about Philips Hue motion sensors. At first glance, it seems as if the daylight sensitivity setting has disappeared. Fortunately, this is not the case, but Philips Hue has made it much more difficult to find. However, there are also new possibilities. How to find the daylight sensitivity First, you need to open the desired sensor.
At the beginning of September, Philips Hue introduced the new MotionAware. When used in conjunction with the Hue Bridge Pro, multiple lights in a room can detect motion and turn on the light as if by magic—without the need for a motion sensor. Today, I would like to explain in detail how you can set up a motion zone in the Hue app and use MotionAware.
Sonos Voice Control supports Philips Hue. While this may sound relatively uninteresting given that voice control with Alexa or Siri has been available for quite some time, it is actually quite exciting upon closer inspection. Sonos Voice Control works locally on Sonos speakers and does not require a cloud connection.
For me, the migration from one of my two old Hue Bridges to the new Hue Bridge Pro went smoothly. But that’s probably only because I didn’t pair my somewhat outdated Philips TV with Ambilight with Philips Hue. Because it is precisely this function that causes problems with the Hue Bridge Pro.
Some of you have already received the new Hue Bridge Pro, while others may still be considering purchasing it. After returning from Berlin, I took half an hour this morning to start transferring data from one of my old Hue Bridges to the new Hue Bridge Pro. I have summarized exactly how this worked in this short guide for you.