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Hue Essentials

Size： 13.00M
Versions： 2.2.0
Updated： Jan 02,2025
Tags： Music Entertainment System

Introduction

With Hue Essentials, users can truly transform their living space into a dynamic environment that adapts to their preferences and needs, providing an immersive and unforgettable lighting experience like never before. Hue Essentials truly unlocks the full potential of users’ smart homes, making it the must-have app for anyone looking to elevate their living space to the next level.

Features of Hue Essentials:

Versatile Lighting Effects: Hue Essentials allows users to design scenarios and lighting effects to suit each individual’s mood, turning ordinary experiences into unforgettable ones. With a wide range of colors and effects to choose from, users can transform their space according to their preferences.

Device Compatibility: This app offers support for a variety of devices, including Philips Hue bridges, Philips Hue Bluetooth Lights, IKEA TRDFRI gateways, deCONZ (ConBee), DIYHue, and LIFX. This compatibility ensures that users can create a seamless lighting experience across all their devices.

Immersive Lighting Experience: The ability to adjust lighting to meet context and effects is an immersive experience in the intelligent lighting world of Hue Essentials. Users can create dynamic lighting displays that change with their moods and preferences, enhancing their overall experience.

Tips for Users:

Create Rooms and Groups: Set up rooms and groups inside Hue Essentials to efficiently manage lights and create separate lighting conditions for each space. This feature allows users to easily control the lighting levels for different activities.

Experiment with Lighting Effects: Try out different color schemes and lighting effects to create unique atmospheres for various occasions. From static colors to dynamic effects like fireworks and strobe lights synced to music, the possibilities are endless.

Utilize ‘Touchlink’ Feature: Take advantage of the ‘Touchlink’ feature to easily connect new lights from third-party manufacturers to your lighting system. This feature ensures that users can customize their lighting setup without the hassle of additional hardware or complex processes.

Conclusion:

Hue Essentials is a versatile and immersive app that offers users endless possibilities for creating dynamic lighting experiences in their smart home. With versatile lighting effects, device compatibility, and easy-to-use features like room and group setup, users can personalize their space to suit any mood or occasion. Whether you’re looking to enhance your entertainment area, automate lighting, or create a productive workspace, Hue Essentials is the perfect partner for all your smart home lighting needs. Experience the magic of intelligent lighting with Hue Essentials today!

Rating： 4.3
Votes： 241
Category： Others
Language：English
Developer： SmartFusionLabs
Package Name： com.superthomaslab.hueessentials

Comments

Jeff G

Paid for premium to use the hue sync functionality. It works, but it's not as good as the actual Hue Sync app on PC. I have six lights synced with it (two behind the TV and four spaced behind my seating), and honestly... well, I sort of like it, but it's got some major frustrations. First, there's no option like in the official app to have lights fully turn off when the screen is dark/black. Instead, when the screen is black the lights turn dim white, and for some reason if there's something bright in the center of an otherwise dark screen, all six lights go full brightness white. It's really jarring. Second issue is the intensity options are a bit weird. Low is barely functional and transitions too slowly, but anything medium and above has a lot of flickering, like the zones are too small based on the screen portions in the entertainment zone. All told, I'd probably recommend this, as there's no other alternative on Android now since Hue Stream is the only other option and it tends to crash and hasn't been updated in over a year. But I hope the developer continues improving the hue sync options.

Jan 04, 2025 11:15:40
A Google user

Great app but I am having trouble with setting a schedule for a scene. I want to set the Christmas scene in a schedule but under the scene drop down menu nothing is listed, it just says none. EDIT: You are correct and I am very happy to hear that you are working on implementing this feature. Great work, love the app.

Jan 04, 2025 08:41:21
Renán O'Dugan

Absolutely phenomenal little app. Gives much better control over the system than any other app I've used in the decade or more that I've been amassing my hue collection. It allows you to set complex rules that can control various things, and even set all of the lights to turn on to their last state! So your light switches are back in business!

Jan 04, 2025 06:14:10
A Google user

One of the best so far. I have the premium version. Just few comments if you can consider them: 1. When change the name of the quick setting tiles, it does not change up. 2. It would be really good to add option for the remotes similar to "prepare me for sleep. Update#2 Thanks a lot for responding. However, i could not assign the go to sleep to a button or action of the remote. Good that you added the sliders, although the circle to me better, but it would be beneficial to add marks to the sliders.

Jan 03, 2025 20:49:10
Alex L

I bought the premium version of Hue Essentials on my Sony Android TV to see my Hue lights sync with on-screen content. I felt compelled to by the premium version because the trial is an absurdly short 30 seconds - barely enough to launch any kind of media. It doesn’t sync with Netflix or Amazon Prime, and it doesn’t sync to my Xbox via HDMI so it’s pretty useless to me. I understand that there are content control issues, but this isn’t made clear in the Play Store or when you try to run the Entertainment sync. You need to signpost to potential users the limitations imposed by the major content providers, so that we can make informed decisions.

Jan 03, 2025 10:45:25
S

Issues with the Tap Dial Switch. 1: After adjusting the settings for the Dial of the Tap Dial Switch, app crashed and can no longer edit that switch's settings at all. Had to reconnect it. 2: On a separate Tap Dial, the battery became "unknown". 3: Using Dial to decrease brightness does now allow it to "Decrease to Off". // Will uninstall for now, but will keep an eye on updates.

Jan 03, 2025 05:47:04
A Google user

It would be the most comprehensive & best Hue app on the market but its best features lack depth. The "Dance sensation" mode—which I use the most by FAR—has a confusing layout, making it feel impossible to get it *just right*. Furthermore, it doesn't have different presets or support multiple custom setups. That is unacceptable. If you don't care about the Danse Sensation feature that much, it's the best overall app. But I'm tempted to buy a different app.

Jan 03, 2025 04:56:07
A Google user

Great app! Only thing missing is Alexa! If you have your lights set up with Alexa, this app overrides that function in my experience. You can't turn the lights off by voice if this app is running. I'm sure that feature is coming and then this app will be perfect. The disco is cool. I really love the color changing/ fading and hope more color schemes are added.

Jan 03, 2025 01:20:14
A Google user

I've bought the app with the one purpose of using it together with Tasker for automation, and for that I would give zero stars. I made a simple profile to turn on living room lights when my phone connects to home WiFi, and the results are really poor. Initially it seems to work when testing, if the app is opened. But on a real life situation, when I'm coming from outside the house, I often get "unable to connect to the bridge". I've done some testing and can elaborate but space here is limited.

Jan 03, 2025 00:10:33