HOME
  • Blog
  • About
  • Contact
  • Blog
  • About
  • Contact

Smart
Things
Europe

Finally a remote/wall switch to make Hue practical?

28/8/2015

3 Comments

 
Picture
Not too long ago I refurbished my house. I really wanted to use Hue bulbs throughout, the Lux white bulbs mainly so that I could do dimming throughout the house and stacks of integrations without having to spend thousands on replacing old cables. The problem was the lack of a decent switch. I already had the Hue tap and I was not about to put one in every room (It lives in the guest room as the furniture covers the regular switch) It is noisy, and because it requires more force than a "tap" doesn't always work

I ended up using a Philips Dynalite Antumbra, as shown below with then the capability from an app to control as well and just recently added in the control from my Harmony remote via Smartthings, thanks Tim!
Picture
Picture
I am very happy with this solution but will absolutely be buying the new addition to the Hue family. A lot of the reaction I have seen questions this product, "A switch to control when I already have an app" But apps are not something that every member of the family uses or visitors; so now I believe this brings Hue out from (in my opinion) being just a hobby product. It could feasibly be used across the whole house and with the US pricing indication, $40 for the switch and a bulb, it should fly off Apple store shelves. I just hope it gets sold seperately!
3 Comments

    Author

    Just a guy with lots of smart home tech:
    Philips Hue
    Logitech Harmony Ultimate Home
    Harmony Companion
    Smappee
    Philips Dynalite Lighting
    Samsung Robot vacuum
    Apple Watch
    Nest thermostat
    Nest protects (3)
    Philips POE lighting
    Smartthings
    Wemo plug & sensor
    Ring doorbell
    Synology (Plex)
    Fire TV, Fire TV Stick
    Apple TV
    Roku
    Boxee 
    Slingbox
    Wemo Maker
    Automatic OBD2
    Misfit Flash 
    NEET HDMI over Cat6 

    Archives

    August 2018
    June 2016
    January 2016
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015

    Categories

    All
    App
    Apple Watch
    Baby
    Dynalite
    Energy Saving
    Harmony
    Hue
    IFTTT
    Lighting
    Retail
    Smarthome

    RSS Feed