Hue Lights - v3.7 Release Notes

Advanced control for your Hue Personal Wireless Lighting System

Hue Lights brings you the perfect marriage of hardware and software. Get the most out of your Philips Hue System with fast widget support, shared Scenes and Groups, comprehensive scheduling, customized sequences, Apple Watch support, powerful light controls, and remote control. Hue Lights offers excellent support for the latest Philips hardware including Hue motion sensor, Hue dimmer switch, and Hue Tap. Create multiple time intervals for motion and non-motion events. Control separate Hue dimmer switch buttons using long-press and short-press actions. Scene details, schedules, motion sensor time intervals, and switch details are stored directly on your bridge for easy sharing with other devices on your WiFi network.

Enjoy spectacular choreographed audio/visual background animations and sequences! Bring your Hue Lights to a whole new level with multi-track, synchronized, and visually appealing light animations. The "Hue Lights" third-party app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch gives you fast, accurate, and complete control of your Hue Personal Wireless Lighting System. Create personalized categories, scenes, and favorites. Access frequently used lighting scenes with just one tap. Set up your favorite colors with precise control over all possible light attributes. Apply favorites to lights, scenes, and groups for quick set-up and changes.

What's New in Hue Lights v3.7?

Take time to make time. This release has several improvements to the Apple Watch app. Quickly access your favorite groups and scenes from your wrist. There are also time saving enhancements in the main app.

Apple Watch Enhancements:

App Enhancements:

Recent Features:

The Richer Colors and Scenes In-App purchase is recommended for Philips Hue Generation 3 bulbs. It includes 10 new scenes: Arctic Mist, Autumn, Big Sur, Coral Reef, Cornucopia, Glacier, Jordan Almonds, Lilac Garden, Pastel Valley, and Seaside. Tap Settings → Upgrade → Richer Colors and Scenes to purchase this In-App item. You can use this In-App purchase on all of your other iOS devices. Use the Restore Previous Purchases option on the new device to unlock all of your In-App purchases.

Identifying Philips Hue Generation 3 Bulbs

The very first Philips Hue bulbs released in October 2013 were A19 form factor bulbs. These bulbs are Generation 1. The latest version, Generation 3, uses slightly different internal LED components. These allow for richer blues and greens. The bulbs also dim much lower, so they work well when used as night lights together with a motion sensor. Look for Richer Colors on the outside of the retail box.

You can purchase various Generation 3 bulbs via these Amazon links. Note that the Philips Hue Lightstrip Plus and Hue Go produce the same colors as Generation 3 bulbs, so these are all great choices for the Richer Colors and Scenes In-App purchase:

Compatible Model Numbers

You can use the Hue Lights third-party app to see the exact model number of every bulb connected to your bridge. Sometimes it can be hard to quickly determine which generation of bulbs you are using. The following table shows the current bulb types and model numbers that support the Generation 3 colors:

Product Model
Hue Bulb A19 LCT010
Hue Bulb A19 LCT014
Hue Bulb A19 LCT015
Hue Bulb A19 LCT016
Hue BR30 Richer Colors LCT011
Hue Go LLC020
Hue LightStrip Plus LST002
Hue Color Candle LCT012

Alexa Tips

You can create precise scenes with the Hue Lights app that let you configure every possible value of each light attribute (hue, saturation, color temperature, brightness, on/off status). To make your Amazon Echo device recognize a custom Hue Lights scene follow these steps:

  1. Create a User Defined Scene
  2. Within the scene detail screen tap Scene Effects
  3. Tap Room and assign a room from the ROOMS section
  4. Save this scene on the bridge by tapping Share on Bridge
  5. Launch the Amazon Alexa app and tap the 3 horizontal bars at the upper left of the screen
  6. Tap Smart Home → Scenes → Discover Scenes
  7. Your new scenes should show up once the search completes
  8. If your scene is named Mars, activate it by saying Alexa, turn on Mars

If there are no rooms listed in step 3, then you should create a group with a Room group type. Rooms are currently required for correct Alexa operation. Once you save a Hue Lights scene on the bridge it will also be visible in the native Philips app.

Since a single scene can turn some lights on and other lights off you can trigger dramatic changes with a few words. The scenes created by the Hue Lights app store some information on the bridge and other information directly on the Hue bulbs. This makes it possible to have all bulbs react at the same time. Give it a try! If you have any questions, you can always contact support within the app.

Contact

Please send suggestions, questions or feedback to the support contact at http://huelights.com. If you are stuck on a particular issue, please check our FAQ for help.

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