Back in February, I was able to make a pleasant discovery on the Hue website: Philips Hue is planning support for multiple Hue Brigdes linked to one account later this year. So far, Philips Hue has only issued a rather brief statement: Have more than one Bridge? Later this year, you’ll be able to add multiple Bridges to one account and sort them into Homes to keep your system organized.
Synchronising the light to match the content on the TV. Philips pursued this idea several years ago with Ambilight and Philips Hue has had its HDMI Play Sync Box at the start for some time now, and I'm expecting the successor with HDMI 2.1 this year. But why additional hardware, couldn't it be simpler?
Over the past seven years, Philips Hue has repeatedly tried out small and useful new functions and made them available in Hue Labs. Some of the features made available there for testing even made it into the Hue app. But that's all over now: As Philips Hue has announced in a support document, Hue Labs will be discontinued in June 2024.
This morning I received an email from Amazon. “Philips Hue has published information on the product safety of a product you purchased on Amazon.de due to the following risk: manufacturing defect,” it said about an outdoor lightstrip I bought years ago. I was even more surprised by the fact that several internet blogs reported shortly afterwards that Philips Hue had launched a new replacement programme.
The Philips Hue Bridge is known to be designed for 50 lights. What was a pretty generous mark ten years ago is now exceeded by miles in many households. The only way out so far, as long as you want to remain loyal to Philips Hue, is to install a second or third Hue Bridge.
Over the last few days and weeks, I have received an increasing number of messages about Siri shortcuts. These can be used to create practical little automations and widgets for the home screen of the iPhone and iPad, especially for Philips Hue. However, some users are now experiencing problems with this.
We haven't talked about the Hue Bridge for a long time. For many users, this is still the bottleneck of the system, as it gets really tight when you have around 60 lights at the latest. But accessories, scenes, rules and routines can also reach the limits of the Bridge even before that.
This week I would like to deal with a question that I have probably already answered several times. But there are always new readers – and they should also be familiar with this basic function. The impetus for this is a question from Hannah in our small community area: I have some outdoor lights that switch on automatically in the evening and then switch off again automatically when controlled by Hue.
Philips Hue has various channels on social media. Among others, the colleagues from Italy also post new content almost daily under the account @philipshueitalia. We normally see normal Philips Hue product photos on the Instagram profile, usually in a chic lifestyle style. On Monday, however, a picture appeared there that kept me guessing for a long time.
As we all know, Philips Hue is just one of Signify's many projects. Until a few years ago, Signify was still called Philips Lightning and was also active in many areas in 2023. You can see a great overview of the manufacturer's various “construction sites” in the video below. “2023 was a challenging and exciting year in which we at Signify were able to celebrate many milestones.
Fabian