iLightShow for Philips Hue

Nicolas Anjoran

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About this app

Live an amazing lighting experience! Create your own ambiance, from chill to party, it's all up to you.
iLightShow connects your favourite streaming service to Philips Hue, LIFX and Nanoleaf Aurora lighting systems. iLightShow supports the following streaming services: Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Amazon Music, YouTube Music and Deezer. Perfect to make your home parties really awesome! Transform your apartment or house into a real dancefloor. Simple but efficient, iLightShow does not need many options, you just need to login to Spotify or select a streaming app and link your Philips Hue Bridge, we do all the rest for you.

Why should you use iLightShow?

During parties with friends, turn on your LIFX / Philips Hue / Nanoleaf lights and transform your house or apartment into a festive place.
Relax while listening to music and create your own ambiance, from chill to electro, iLightShow will create light effects on all musical styles.
Want to stay awake while working at home? iLightShow can provide you with a lot of powerful energy.

Features:
• Real-time lights synchronization (Philips Hue, LIFX and Nanoleaf aurora smart lights)
• Automatically syncs the lights to the official Spotify music player
• Stop / Resume Spotify playback as much as you need
• Add / Remove Hue / LIFX bulbs during the show just with one click!
• Control the brightness and intensity of the show
• Either let the app control the colors or select the colors of your choice
• Automatic Light effects, like strobe and flashes (mimics Stroboscope)
• Delay the sync when using external accessories
• Philips Hue multi-bridges support
• Sonos speakers synchronization
• Synchronisation to the following music apps: Amazon Music, Apple Music, Deezer, Tidal, YouTube Music (you need to play the music from the app).

Requirements:
• Philips Hue Bridge and some Philips Hue Smart Bulbs (for more information, see http://meethue.com). Also works with TRÅDFRI bulbs, linked to the hue bridge.
• OR/AND LIFX lights (no bridge required)
• OR/AND Nanoleaf Aurora panels (no bridge required)
• A Spotify Music Account or one of the listed streaming apps.


Need some support? Contact me on Twitter or Facebook at @iLightShow

Ratings and reviews

I really want to love this app and the sheer level of control it gives you over the light show. However, it has recently broken in functionality, being completely unresponsive to local songs added on Spotify that had worked literally the last time. Which is a shame, because all of a sudden one of my favorite songs will come on, but then the lights will stop. I would also suggest adding some form of on-screen metronome for setting up delay.

I've been using the Hue Sync app for desktop and have really been enjoying it. I wanted to find an equivalent app for my Android device and this app was exactly what I was looking for. It was the only one I could find that syncs with Spotify without having to use the device's microphone. I use it when listening to my bluetooth headphones and it's awesome! The free version only lets you use one light and is mostly just a way to test out the app to see if you like it. Upgrading to the full version was definitely worth it for me. It offers a lot of customizeability with the light colors and effects. It even lets you set a delay if you feel that the sync is slightly off. I recommend this to anyone looking for a mobile version of the Hue Sync app.

Really enjoy the app a lot! A really useful feature would be to be able to tap your screen in rhythm with the music in order to help calibrate the delay. The delay is a nice feature to have to make sure everything stays in sync, but it is a little difficult to set up manually and I find that it often needs adjustments so it would be nice if they were easier 😊

What's new

- Spotify login bugfix
- Now forces the Hue stream to stop when ilightshow is disabled
- Improvements for the purchases system
- Some fixes with the background mode