Hue Essentials

SmartFusionLabs

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About this app

Imagine unlimited possibilities in your smart home. Set scenes and fast effects to your mood.

Experience Dance Sensation in your entertainment area with Philips Hue Entertainment. Enjoy a more colorful ambiance on your IKEA TRADFRI gateway.

Feel more in control with schedules and automation from sunrise to sunset. Widgets, Shortcuts, Quick settings, and Wear OS help you get more out of your smart lights.

Control multiple bridges simultaneously without switching between them.

Supported devices
• Philips Hue bridge
• Philips Hue Bluetooth lights
• IKEA TRÅDFRI gateway
• deCONZ (ConBee)
• diyHue
• LIFX

Scenes & effects
Create the perfect ambiance from your photos or the included photo library. Experience special animations like lava, fireplace, fireworks, or lightning.

Wake up at sunrise and go to sleep at sunset with fading lights.

Get into the party on the beats of your music. Sync your lights for a night of disco with strobe effects (updates 25 times/sec).

Quick access
Create rooms and groups to organize your lights. You can even put a light in several groups. Place widgets for temperature sensors, easy control of lights, setting color and brightness without opening of the app.

Add shortcuts to your home screen for quick opening of your room. Control your lights through an optional notification in the notification panel.

Control your lights from your smartwatch. Switch on your lights right from your watch face. Create complications & shortcuts for quick access.

Smart lights & controls
The unique ‘Touchlink’ search allows you to find new (3rd party, Zigbee) lights. Use included wizards for easy setup of your devices.

You can set scenes, actions, or even multiple scenes on a button to make your switch a real investment. Experience the right ambiance during different times of your day with your motion sensor. All of your creations are stored on the bridge. Easy for you and your family.

Advanced
Automation allows you to have greater control of your smart home. Turn on your lights when the door opens. Adjust your ventilation when the humidity gets too high. Open or close blinds and curtains based on temperature or sunshine. Configure endless automation possibilities through the Tasker plugin.

Make it look like you are at home using 'Away from Home' (out of home control).

Communicate directly with your Hue bridge using the API debugger. View technical details of your Hue bridge and update its resources like lights and sensors.

You want it all?
Fast performance with ad-free experience. Purchase the premium version to unlock full content.

Share your experience
Community: https://community.hueessentials.com

Ratings and reviews

Paid for Automation to schedule a simple event such as turning on/off at a certain time, tried it multiple times following online instructions and examples but they DO NOT work. Tried all time zones in my area and tried other time zones adjusting the time, it simply does not automate and does not turn on/off at the time set.

Great app overall, but not perfect. Biggest issue is that while the widget features are great, it also has to be refreshed. Meaning I have to reopen the app to refresh the widget, which seems to have something to do with being connected to 2 bridges. This is defeating the purpose of having the widget, at times. Once refreshed, the widget becomes responsive again and is fine. Hoping this gets tweaked in the future to alleviate this issue and make the widget more seemless to use. Still recommend.

Issues with the Tap Dial Switch. 1: After adjusting the settings for the Dial of the Tap Dial Switch, app crashed and can no longer edit that switch's settings at all. Had to reconnect it. 2: On a separate Tap Dial, the battery became "unknown". 3: Using Dial to decrease brightness does now allow it to "Decrease to Off". // Will uninstall for now, but will keep an eye on updates.

What's new

• Fixed scenes not working on old bridge software and Hue V1 bridge
• Fixes for the Effect Creator when using palettes and scenes
• Fixed colour picker not working for automations or power-on behaviour
• Fixes for entertainment programs
• Fixed rename/delete device not working
• Bug fixes