Philips HueWhite and Color Ambiance Base Lumen (60W) Smart Button Starter Kit, 16 Millions Colors, Works with Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, Apple HomeKit 60 Watt (OLD VERSION)

I greatly dislike coming into an empty house and Alexa isn’t always helpful, HomeKit either. I have replaced ALL of my bulbs, except the chandeliers and five bathrooms with Phillip Hue. I have regular bulbs, BR30s, motion detectors, and switches in whites and colors. The sunrise sunset timer is my favorite, especially since I can make it random. The switches are perfect when Alexa doesn’t respond or we just need to be quiet. Set for the kitchen, halls, and stairs, I turn it on or off from the bedroom hall or the kitchen and adjust the the lights.The convenience of the switches, motion detectors, and lights, makes my smart home smarter with the addition of new product. I have gifted Phillip Hue products to family and friends. The theme in 2020 was a Hue Christmas. The last purchase is for my godson. He can command the lights in my house and now his lights are on when he gets home, too.There are lots of cheaper options but you get what you pay for. I’ve had my oldest lights in high traffic areas for over four years. During the pandemic, the everyone (and SIs) came here, and there were four of us working from home. There are at least 22 lights per floor, with more in the basement for the library. I was great to be able to turn off lights on the second floor, or basement, when we were around the fireplaces or hanging out in the family room.

To begin, I bought the started pack with the hub to replace older (about 2 year) smart bulbs that fell off the internet every other month or so and maybe came back on and maybe not. I figured I would invest in the version with the hub instead. The setup was easy and everything worked as advertised. I connected to my Alexa and that integration went well. Everything works flawlessly. If there is a complaint it's with the phone app. Twice I had to google how to do something because the app was not intuitive enough. That said, it was a great buy, though pricey. If you are using these bulbs without the hub you are better off buying cheaper bulbs that serve the same purpose though as I said my two year experience was bad because every time the internet hiccuped, my connected smart devices took a long time to reconnect. Since these bulbs connect through a wired hub they seem much more reliable.

Sure, the bulbs are expensive. But I almost exclusively buy Hue bulbs when I need smart bulbs. I got this set on sale because it was a damaged box (like, soaking wet damaged!) but everything worked fine. I like the smart button, too. I have these bulbs working alongside the Hue TV light strip and Hue TV Sync box so my entire living room's lights sync with the colors on the TV. It's a great experience!

I had to hit a bunch of those "I agree, lets get on with it" buttons and do x, y, and z for the setup. It was easy just a little monotonous. Then I spent probably about 20-30 minutes tweaking the settings, setting up both Siri and Alexa on it and positioning my lights.I actually really like the button and would prefer if they included two instead of just one so that way I could use both the smaller and larger mag mounts plus have one next to my bed and one at my computer desk or near my conventional light switch.Either way, I think this works pretty well in multiple rooms and the bridge is easy enough to setup.Probably about as good as you can do on both price and function for something like this.Great!

These light bulbs are incredible! From your phone you can change to any type of color. Holiday we turn them red and green. Halloween - orange. Easter - pink/purple. Incredible! Highly recommend!

The lights themselves arent as bright as I had imagined, you definitely need a few to light up a whole room. I bought the white and color starter pack that came with 3 white and color bulbs, a wall button, and the hue hub and set the whole system up in the living room, where the router is.First thing I noticed was the lights worked good but the wall button wasn't working right. Thankfully the fix was just updating everything, although that did take about 4 hours even on gigabit wifi and I had to keep the lights on the whole time.After updating things, though, everything works as advertised. Tons of colors, cool features in the app, a whole lot of good stuff. Only issue I had was the Hue Sync PC app. I had found nothing will show even when connected unless you go into the app on your phone, go to settings, and create an "entertainment area" via a selection in the settings. Only then will that entertainment area pop up on your PC app, but once that happens, you can do some really, and I mean REALLY cool stuff like sync to music with variable settings and custom color pallettes along with the game mode that syncs colors to whats on your screen and can be set to react to sound as well with variable intensities.Other than that, my only lasting complaint is the price. The kit is really cool, but I dont feel completely satisfied considering how much I spent on the kit. I want to buy more bulbs, but those too are insanely pricey and I will most likely wait to catch them on sale or buy them used.

5 stars. The colors are very accurate. Brightness could be better as my wife complains about how the cheaper ones are way brighter. But the brightness percentage is very accurate. A cheap light bulbs 50% brightness is not actually ½ the brightness whereas the Hue brand, it actually is. Pretty pricey though. Makes me reconsider switching out all of lightbulbs for these.UPDATE: above still stands true minus the last sentence. The Philips Hue app is what makes these great. The transitions into colors is so smooth. Lights make a huge difference in the vibes. And you can that plus much more with Hue Labs.I totally recommend these lights.