Philips Hue 4+

The guidance the App gives for initial setup is doable without being overwhelmed. I like the control sliders but transitioning between functionally identical modes that are presentationally different feels wrong. I wanted to send feedback without signing in to Facebook or Twitter and now I can on this invitational prompt. All the X widgets for backing out from a place in the App need to be consistently placed on one side. Sometimes the X is upper left or right, hate that. Once the lights are set, different tree layouts for architectural blueprint room mapping would be neat. The razzle dazzle effect gets old fast in the UX, suggest dialing that down after initial magical encounter. Maybe box and wiring diagram approach is more intuitive than plus or minus tile approach. Thank you Phillips Hue.

Hi Hue Team, Some constructive feedback for a wonderful product. 1, please have a way to add a hue labs function on a scene page. Eg in my living room, one of the scenes should be the saved automation which has the living lights. Maybe in the labs page, have a add to a room option. 2, Is automations, you can select a scene. Now read point 1 above. Ie at 6pm, Hub labs setting 1 to start Eg colour loop. 3, with love, the hue labs entire layout is complicated and confusing. Make rating a button at the bottom, not something you have to scroll past. The enabling of the labs should be on the main page, then the edit button should make adjustments. My family needs me to edit labs. It is a mess. (With kindness) 4, ordering scenes on a room. This is hard to get where you want. They shuffle with each other. Would be nice to be able to leave gaps and not have it shuffle around. 5, if I order the scenes on the iPad for a room, they are not in the same Order on my phone. I get that you did this so all Members of the family can order their pages in the order they want, and too their scenes. But can you make a link feature in case you want them the same. My partner gave me her phone and I had to sort the scenes like I did on my phone. She wanted the same. 6, pretty please. Sensors, have staggered steps. Eg - light a and b on, Light a off after 3 mins, Light b off after 6 minutes (for example) I hope Some of the above is helpful.

I used to love this app. In many ways I still do, but the shine is wearing off. It seems that every new device is released with very buggy software, and also uses more and more of the bridge’s very limited resources. The aspirations of the system developers is far outweighing the basic design of the hardware. The result is that I now need three bridges to support my system, and because the developers never allowed for this I also have to have three accounts, and because there is no communication between the bridges I have to manually swap between them in the app. Worse still, no communication between bridges means that a switch or sensor cannot activate lights on different bridges.

I get constant notifications of new scenes, each of which uses more precious memory, but a memory upgrade or interconnecting bridges seems not to be a priority. I don’t have a particularly large house, yet I still need 3 bridges. As it stands, it looks like the Hue system is realistically limited to a one or possibly two bedroom apartment if 100% of the lights are to be controlled.