Philips Hue White and Color Ambiance A19 60W Equivalent LED Smart Bulb Starter Kit (3 A19 Bulbs and 1 Hub Compatible with Amazon Alexa Apple HomeKit and Google Assistant), (Model: 464479)

I've tried a variety of automated light bulbs and these are the best. They offer ease of setup, the most deeply saturated variety of colors, the best software, the widest variety of third-party software, and they work beautifully with Alexa. On the other hand, they're the most expensive light bulbs I've encountered. My journey with Philips Hue began with this three-bulb starter kit, which included the Hue Bridge. The whole thing was an absolute breeze to set up, where I plugged the bridge into my router and followed the software directions. I installed two of the bulbs in a sconce I have in my office that is reminiscent of Roman ruins of Ionic columns. As you can see by my photos, there's quite a variety of effects you can choose, particularly with a pair of them -- one of these light bulbs is pointing up and the other one pointing down. My only complaint besides their excessive expense is the fact that when you place a lightbulb in a fixture, the switches that previously controlled that fixture are suddenly superfluous. I partly solved that problem with one of Phillips's smart dimmer stitches, which allows the uninitiated to my abode to turn these lights on and off in the traditional way. However, that switch doesn't let you control the spectacular color spectrum of which these lights are capable. Overall, I'm impressed with the color range and quality of these lights, and I ended up adding another to my collection. I only wish that other companies (I'm looking at you, Lutron, which just discontinued its only Hue-compatible switch) would simplify their compatibility with these remarkable lights. Alas, we'll have to wait until the hyper-competitive "smart home" market shakes out and someone creates an easy-to-use control system that rules them all. Even without that, these Phillips Hue bulbs are a worthy addition to my automated lighting system.

I got these for my birthday last year in October, these lights are amazing, I’m going to go through the cons and then the pros. So, they advertise that you can acces the lights outside your house but I find this to not be true it like won’t connect which makes sense considering that the lights connect to the internet which leads me to my other con, you want to go home and just turn on your lights instantly but not all the time but sometimes it will take a while for your phone and the lights and the internet to connect together in order to go to the app and mess with the option of lighting. Sometimes they won’t connect to the internet and this hadn’t happened to me recently more when I first got them but I haven’t had a connection problem on a while, if it does though just reset the bridge and you’ll be fine. The pros, omg when I look back at my old lighting situation I cringe so hard, once you get these lights in your room or specified area, and mess with the settings you will never want to go back to the old light set up. You can make your own settings of neutrals or colors like the one in the photo I provided. I would recommend reading other reviews and watching other vids to see all of the benefits of the app and the lights. I put one in my living room and two in my room, the settings like spring blossom or costom settings are better with two or more lights because you have a bigger area to play and put one color on one side and one on the other, eventually I might want to get more lamps in my room to get more lights to costomize it even more but two is plenty for all the settings. The last bit of information I have to share is that if you want to put colorful lights on, in order to make them look the most vibrant is to put them on at night so no natural lighting is leaking through and weakening the color. I would highley reccomend these lights to anyone looking to spice up their lighting.

First, they work. And they work really well. I mean almost life-changing, best purchase well. We have the Amazon Alexa home situation and the lights perform and integrate wonderfully. We still have wemo switches, but they're basically gathering dust now. I had so many problems with the wemo switches getting them to sync and what not. I would have to resync all three at least 3x a year. The Phillips Hue... plugged it in, turned it on, put the lights in their sockets and everything just worked. I do have a price point limit though. Before you run to buy these, remember, you can buy regular light bulbs for less than $5. Our electric company mails us two to three lightbulbs a year. As I write this review, a single Hue bulb is $50. It changes color, dims/brightens, turns on when my phone connects to the home wifi and more. So these are more than just an average lightbulb. I got them on Prime day for $139. At that price these are amazing and perfect. At $199, I can get off my lazy ass and turn off a light switch myself. I also wouldn't spend $50 on the lightbulbs by themselves. I've seen them come down in price to between $30 and $40. Next time they do, I'll pick up a few more.

The bulbs are really nice. My phone could only connect to 7 bluetooth devices, though. It sounds like this is a limitation of the bluetooth spec, and for some phones the number of connections might be fewer. So if you want to place more bulbs than that or do a multi-room setup, you will need the hub. The hub setup was somewhat complex. It needs to be plugged into a wifi router and the device you want to control them with must be on the same wifi network. The app seems to have some sort of auto-discovery that tries to find the hub, but that didn't work for me. So I had to log on to my router to get the IP address of the hub and enter that manually into the app. They have separate apps for bluetooth and hub-based control if you're controlling them with a smart phone or tablet. It took a bit more work to get the hub to find all the bulbs I set up. It's pretty slick once you get it all set up, but some of the hardware setup can be a bit complex. If you're not familiar with networking, you may want to plan ahead to get some help with the installation.

During Prime Day I saw the Hue Gen 3 starter kit was $139 so it was a no brainer to try it out. I was extremely excited to receive it, so when it arrived I opened the package and saw this: a broken bulb. I was immediately let down and kinda upset. So, I hopped on Amazons chat help line figuring I'd have to send it back. Nope, didn't have to send it back! Instead, a replacement set was overnighted free of charge and all I had to do was send back the two leftover bulbs, plus the rest of the replacement kit. Wow! I was stunned and almost speechless at the stellar customer service. Thank you Amazon! As far as the lights themselves? Near perfect. The automation is a nice feature and the color range is awesome. At the brightest white which is at 6500K I have to turn them down to 80 percent because they are so bright. The colors are a bit dimmer but that's to be expected. I imagine they will get better as new generations arrive but if anyone is thinking about purchasing these lights right now don't hesitate. Before I forget, watch some YouTube videos on how to set them up. The instructions are pretty useless so YouTube is your friend. Also, IFTTT (If This Then That) is a great applet program that sets up some neat light scenarios. Hue Labs is another useful website that allows more automation. For instance, I have 2 white only Hue bulbs in my patio light fixture set to turn on from dusk until dawn. That was set up through Hue Labs. I hope this was helpful and feel free to ask any questions and I will try to answer them!

Absolutely amazed. These are awesome. 6/5 stars. Can be paired with smartphone control as well. Color, timers, on/off can all be controlled through the app on Android or iPhone. The only drawback was my fault, I sat one on the table for split second to pull a shade off office desk and one of the bulbs hit the wood floors and exploded. Kinda sick to my stomach, when you lose a $45 lightbulb. My fault still didn't make me feel better about it. lol They work as advertised, and very neat. Only nitpick is I kinda wish they went a little bit brighter on the highest setting on white. Like in the 100W incandescent range. As-is they are really meant for mood lighting only. Which is cool, but would've been neat to have a set of bulbs to do "every need"

I bought these on a whim, not really knowing what to expect or how I'd actually put the system to use in my house, but it was a good deal on Prime day, so I pulled the trigger. (Knowing good and well my wife was going to hate it). Setup is as easy as screwing in a light bulb & pushing a button. I haven't had any issues pairing bulbs to my hub or things not showing up in the mobile app (on android or iOS). The colored-light aspect of these is a little gimmicky, but I suspect if you know what you're doing with colored lights, you could do special things with these. The real magic in these for me is the ability to control the brightness and warmth - they're great for having some light in my living room at night while watching TV & for having some light in the morning while waking up without being blinded. I'm not sure if the white+ambience-only lights can match the range of warm light the Color Ambience bulbs provide, but I'll be picking up a few of those next to give them a try. This is a fantastic product an great starter kit, well worth the cost at full price if you can afford it.

A few weeks in and I really like the lights. They worked perfectly when I first got them, now a few weeks in am starting to have some issues. The problems appeared around the same time I installed a couple Echo apps(skills) to play around with but I don't know if they're related. I won't "un-star" until I try some uninstalls and reset my kit and see what exactly in my set up is at fault. (Will edit post discovery) So for now, when they work, they work good and are loads of fun! When they don't, its pretty frustrating (but I don't yet know what is at fault, might not be a Hue issue at all) EDIT: No idea what the issues were, I uninstalled/reinstalled and everything has worked fine for months now, even with more new hardware additions

Estas luces las compré para que el cuarto de mi hijo de 5 meses; solamente hay dos contactos en su cuarto así que terminé poniendo el 3er foco en la sala de tele. Son lo máximo, le dan un ambiente muy padre a la habitación, las paredes son blancas, entonces los colores se ven increíbles. La opción de degradar la intensidad a las tu gusto podría ser lo mejor, podemos entrar en la noche a revisarlo y cambiarlo con una luz azul muy tenue que no lo despierta. Los colores azul-verdes lo tranquilizan mucho y con algunos de los App que te recomiendan puedes poner secuencias de colores que lo entretienen mucho. Además mi cuarto de la tele parece sala de cine con la ambientación que le puedo dar con el foco extra, estoy pensando en comprar otro juego para completarlo y otro para la sala. Creo que fue muy buena compra. La recomiendo.

Hola a todos, muy buen set de accesorios, la verdad un poco elevados, pero tengo ya con ellos 9 meses, y han funcionado de lo mejor, la app ha tenido ya un major upgrade, y le añadieron nuevas caracteristicas, me encanta poder controlar las luces de la casa sin tener que estar ahi, nos da tranquilidad cuando estamos en compromisos sociales y desde nuestros smaftphones controlamos las luces, ademas tiene muchas otras caracteristicas que te ayudan a generar ambientes, etc, la verdad vale la inversion porque es un elemento mas de seguridad al hogar.

Esta es sin duda, la mejor forma de dar el primer paso hacia una casa inteligente. En todas las casas que he rentado en mi vida, siempre hay una instalación eléctrica extraña, no apegada a estándar y muy complicada de automaticar mediante sistemas que requieren estar cableados. Pero la solución de HUE es fácil, rápida y no requiere conectar nada, más que el hub a la luz y a tu ruteador. Configurarlo es una delicia y una diversión desde el inicio. Integrarlo a Apple Homekit no fue difícil, pero requiere un poco de creatividad. El único problema es que ahora vas a querer que todas tus luces sean controlables por HUE.

Esta versión de Bridge y lamparas Hue, son las más actualizadas, y tienen una excelente variedad de colores. El cambio desde la app, es muy bueno y suave pasando por toda la gama de colores, comparado con otras marcas de lamparas wifi creo que tienen la mejor funcionalidad con respecto a eso, y sobre todo con respecto a la conexión a través de su app Hue. Al utilizar la app HomeKit de Apple, sigue teniendo varias fallas con desconexiones. Creo que aquí el problema es el desarrollo de la app Philips y la compatibilidad con respecto a la app de Apple.

Han sido super útiles y convenientes. Una sola bombilla es suficiente para iluminar un cuarto pequeño. Uno de los principales usos que tengo con estas bombillas es en cuarto de los bebés. Las ambientaciones han sido muy útiles y la opción de configurar el foco como luz nocturna ha sido perfecta para este cuarto. No molesta para nada la luz y puedo ver perfectamente a mis bebés sin despertarlos con una luz molesta. En mi cuarto principal me han ayudado con la opción de despertar con una luz más natural que imita el alba. Son fantásticos estos focos. De lo mejor en iluminación inteligente.