Hue Stream

Bullbash

About this app

Brings Hue Sync desktop app experience to Android devices including TV.

Hue Stream application uses entertainment API to stream colours to Hue lights almost instantly. This makes possible to sync screen picture with your lights with shortest possible delay. Application is easy to use. All you need is to discover Hue bridge, select your favourite entertainment group and press Start button. Hue Stream runs as a service in background while you can play Android game or watch movie, youtube...

Doesn't work with external TV video inputs (hdmi...).
Designed to work only with Android apps.

Please use official Philips Hue app to create entertainment setup. Placement of lights in entertainment setup is used to define part of the screen picture from where colour will be extracted.

Highlights:
- Works only with second generation bridge.
- DRM content is not supported e.g. Netflix...
- People with epilepsy should use carefully.
- Exclude the app from battery optimisation.
- Doesn't support external video inputs like hdmi.

Ratings and reviews

love the potential. it works incredibly well (on shield), with little to no latency. couple small asks 1) can you allow lights to not turn off? its annoying during a scene when its basically a disco. i'd rather have wrong color lights than it turn off and on and off and on 2) ability to adjust the sizes of the screen areas. the screen size doesnt let me adjust it, so its off. the boxed overlap a lot. so if we could adjust the sizes manually that would be awesome. overall a great app

Works great! Would be nice if it could turn itself off when the shield goes to sleep. My lights are unresponsive if Hue Stream isn't turned off before sleeping the shield. Its annoying when I turn off my shield with my voice and then have to find the remote to turn it on and find the app and turn it off every time i'm done watching.

Lights stay on when I turn off the Nvidia shield. Worse, it doesn't release "hue sync" so I can't control my lights even with the hue app or hue switch. I have to turn everything back on, launch the app, stop sync, then power off. Also no option to not color change and doesn't make use of full brightness of the light strip. In the end, makes using the shield worse.

What's new

Possibility to search bridge by IP address.