Philips Hue White and Color Ambiance LED Smart Light Bulb Starter Kit, 3 A19 Smart Bulbs & 1 Hue Hub (Works with Alexa, Apple HomeKit & Google Assistant)

I enjoy this product. They were relatively easy to set up. I just wish the pricing was better per bulb.

I disliked the need for a hue bridge but liked the product overall

hub doesnt work

I bought these lights to have some rgb smart lights to put around the house in a few places, but primarily for the Razer integration features. I own a few Razer products, and these are some of the only lights that work in conjunction with the Razer Synapse App, and products. I had issues with the app recognizing my lights as color lights, for the setting up zones feature, but Hue customer support was reachable through Facebook messenger, and they were super friendly and helpful. After all was said and done, a factory reset (and then update) of each bulb was the fix. If you run into any issues with the bulbs, try searching the instructions for factory resetting the bulbs, and try to reset the setup from there! The feature I think the Hue app is lacking, is the option to have your colors change on a loop. Almost every RGB strip, and smart light Ive seen, has multiple options for this, and its something I dont seem to see anywhere in the official Philips-made Hue app. Theres many different scenes that they provide in the Hue Scene Gallery, but theres not even an option to have it automatically change themes every X amount of time. You have to change the scene through the app manually. Theres several different 3rd party apps and programs that cycle colors of your hue lights automatically, so Im glad that theres an option out there. But for how expensive these lights are, Im blown away by why this isnt a feature in the actual Hue app. Please Philips, add a color cycle feature to the app! Other than that complaint, I really do enjoy these lights. They create a nice ambiance to the room when watching movies, playing games, or relaxing. I probably wouldnt have spent this much on RGB smart lights if i didnt want the integration with the Razer products though, and unfortunately I wouldnt recommend these to others if they werent looking to do the same. There are several other companies that offer similar lights/accessories, and probably have more features on their app. If you want lights that synchronize with your razer products though, these lights work great, and are really easy to use, and setup with other apps!

The color is changeable. However, the light is not very bright.

Since these are based on Zigbee, these lights work wonderfully, the colors look as good as any other current RGB bulbs and the white brightness is on par with other 800 lumen lights. If you do not intend to use the included hub (if you already have a hub or are using an Echo Plus or 2nd gen Show with built in hub) then you must first deregister the bulbs in the box with the hub in the box ( an easy 2 step process) once this is done the bulbs can be detected by any Zigbee enabled hub (the will not be detectable until you deregister them)

Great lights bit on the expensive side and the functionality of the app is spot on

These are a godsend. I can never go back to normal light bulbs. We have timers set to gradually turn on some laps as it gets later in the day and the ability to tell my google home mini to turn on the lights allows my body to retain the fat instead of burning it off from getting up and sitting down every time I need to turn a light on or off. We use these for the bedside lights as well so we can be tucked under the covers away from the cold and never have to lean over to turn off the lights. My only gripe is I wish these sets came with more bulbs. My home has so many lights. Like too many. This house has so many yet there are actual parts of the house I wish had lights but dont. Who built my cruelly lit house????

I really dig these lights. I’ve upgraded all my rooms to Hue color bulbs now. I’ve also integrated them with my Google Home speakers and they’re great. Very convenient. They’re controllable by either Hue app or voice command thru Google Home. Two minor cons I have tho are 1) Google sometimes takes a few seconds to process the request/command, which can sometimes lead me to suspect the command won’t be carried out, prompting me to say the command again only to now see the previous command being already carried out. And 2) some colors aren’t correct. If I ask Google to make the lights pink, they actually look white. Or if I set both nightstands to the same specific scene, the two nightstands side by side look noticeably different. Aside from that, they’re pretty nifty.

I have looked at this product for a long time and then bought the starter package deeply discounted last week. There is a lot of like about these lights but a significant thing not to like. They simply arent bright enough and I wont be buying any more until Philips makes a brighter bulb. I have LED bulbs from ACE Hardware with the exact lumens rating that are much brighter than these.