PHILIPSHue Smart Dimmer Switch with Remote (Installation-Free Exclusive for Philips Hue Lights) (Old Version)

Pros:-- Seamless functionality-- Easy to set up; easy to use-- Attractive switch to hang on the wall-- Removable, remote control very usefulCons:-- None evident at the momentWe have Philips hue light bulbs and a hue light switch in the bed room. We've been controlling them through the Amazon Echo. Echo and Alexa work well, but after a few months it grew wearisome to make the command each time we walked into the room. (The bulbs are in nightstand lights, and we don't have an overhead light.) Enter the Hue Dimmer Switch. It's great. We hung it at switch level, and we can trigger and/or dim the lights upon entering or leaving. So much easier than voice commands. At night, we detach the switch from the magnetic plate and leave it on a nightstand. I only wish we had purchased this earlier.Set-up was super easy. Dependability has been perfect.

We have multiples of these in our house. It's helpful so we don't need to carry our phone around or others when visiting can turn the lights on and off. I especially like that you can program the button to change the scene up to 5 times when hit quickly in a row. Our living room displays blue colors for morning and night when we don't like bright lights but need the way lit but if we press it a few more times we get bright white light throughout the room, very convenient and easy to use/customize.

With me already owning 4 of these and having just ordered another, it’s fair to say I like these devices. To be honest, unlike some people, I haven’t really gone all in with Hue ‘stuff’. I’m currently using a Hue Bridge (2nd gen) a Hue Go, a few Dimmer Switch and some basic Warm White Hue bulbs. These bulbs are in an area frequently used by mother-in-law, and as such I need her to be able to control the lights without using the original switches – which as you may know – disconnects the smart bulbs from Hue & HomeKit. Not much point in smart bulbs if they’re disconnected right?So this is where these dimmer switches come in handy. They’re stylish enough to blend in to most places, and they’ve got just enough buttons to both please the techies, but also not too many for those that don’t really care! These switches hit that middle area perfectly for her, and now that the old light switches are disconnected, she knows to use these new ones, and she loves them (if it’s possible for an octogenarian to love something like this…).Anyway, of those that don’t know, these aren’t exposed as HomeKit devices in and of themselves, much like Hue bulbs, so you do need the Hue Bridge in order for them to be exposed and appear in the Home app. Once they are, in the standard Home app, you can assign four different actions or scenes, one to each button. If you really want to get more out of them via HomeKit, then some 3rd party HomeKit apps will allow different actions/scenes to be associated with the different buttons at different times of day, so the amount of functions can be multiplied quite easily.Why you can’t do in these 3rd HomeKit apps control things with short, long or multiple presses. These kind of things can really only be achieved in 3rd part Hue apps, probably the best one being iConnectHue. With this app, you can program each switch to do something with each successive press; so for example, press ON once, and it turns on the lights at 50%, press again and it brightens them to 100% and maybe a third press to set them to only 10%. You can even program successive long presses with various actions too, like turning on whole sets of lights. The tradeoff here is that these functions only work with Hue devices, not Homekit only products.back to the switches themselves, they come with a faceplate that sticks to the wall with 3M built-in CommandStrips, or you can screw them into the wall if you think they’re going to stay in one permanent place. The button section also acts as a remote, so it can be taken off the plate and taken with you. I don’t personally do this as they can easily go missing, just like any remote control, but you have that option.The four buttons are by default labelled as ON, OFF Brightness Up and Brightness DOWN, but as already mentioned, you can assign any type of action to these button – for example you could even use on of the middle buttons to turn on a fan or coffee machine!at around £15-20 their priced quite competitively and so I definitely rate them as the best for overall quality, price and customisability.

This works exactly as advertised. It's easy to set up and once it's set up it keeps on working. The only trouble that I've had, and this isn't really the fault of the manufacturer, is that I have one switch in my basement floor, which is farthest away from my WiFi router -- once every 20 times I try to turn on/off the corresponding light using this switch, I get the error light -- this is most likely owing to poor connectivity back to the hub. That's OK, I just hit the button again and it works.

This is not the old version of the product. The old version is better and actually the same height as regular switches rather than the new garbage ones. Why sellers get to just lie to people is beyond me. Amazon clearly doesn't give a crap and neither do the sellers. Immediately am returning this. Don't lie on your product page.

I absolutely love these switches. I have them at the entrance to almost every room in my house, and one on each of our nightstands. I know that it's popular these days to use voice commands for everything, but sometimes I don't feel like talking to an assistant. Sometimes it's faster to just tap a button as you walk in a room. Sometimes you're climbing into bed late and don't want to wake up your wife. That's what these switches are for.I don't use these switches as dimmers. I don't even use them for anything in the Hue app. These are purely for activating scenes in HomeKit through the Home app. In each room the top button activates the most-used (usually brightest) scene, the bottom turns everything off, and the ones in the middle are in-between brightness levels or alternate scenes.I like these more than the Tap switches. I love that the Tap switches don't require batteries, but the sacrifice is that they're difficult to push. Clumsy, even. The dimmer switches are just a light tap on the button, and while their plastic construction could be tighter, it's less clumsy than the Tap.The only reason I give this 4 stars instead of 5 is that they're annoying to set up in HomeKit. This might be Apple's deal but I'm not sure. Every time I added one of these switches, they would show up just fine in the Home app, and I could assign a scene to each button. Then, I could push the button and the app would even register that the button had been pushed...but nothing would happen. Not a single light would be controlled. Each time, I had to restart my Apple TV (my home hub) in order to get it working, but this was annoying and it took forever to figure out that first time.

Let's be honest, officially this product is worthwhile if you're into the Philips Hue ecosystem and have their hubs and bulbs. It works great in setting scenes, changing brightness and turning bulbs on/off. However that's where it ends.However if you install Home Assistant, you truly open up its potential. I have 4 such switches for 4 rooms. The first button cycles through different color temperatures in the non hue lights (cool white, warm white and daylight white) and different scenes in the hue lights - keep tapping the button to keep cycling. The second button I use to toggle the fan on/off while the third button toggles the AC on/off. Pressing and holding the second button increases fan speed while pressing and holding the third button decreases it. Finally pressing the last button switches off the lights while pressing and holding it turns off everything - lights, fan, AC, TV, Home Theater. Yes, you need other smart devices but what I'm saying is that this switch is so amazing given its size, weight and tactile feel, it's a shame limiting it to just hue lights. Free your automations with this switch. It's a bit expensive though and it'd be better if the price was lower.

Es muy fácil configurarlo y en mi caso mi esposa lo agradeció pues no le interesa tener una aplicación para controlar las luces por lo que tener un control para poder tener acceso a las luces Hue es una excelente opción.Aunque no tienes tantas opciones como en la aplicación para lo básico (intensidad de las luces, así como prendido y apagado) sirve perfectamente.

There is no use for this switch i learnt the hard way. Don't buy

funciona bien y controla dispositivos sin problema, lo que si es que si pulsas muy rapido los botones no responde bien, hay que darle su tiempo entre pulso y pulso.

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