Philips Hue 468942 Single Premium BR30 Smart Bulb Downlight for 5-6 inch recessed cans, 16 million colors (Hue Hub Required, Works with Alexa), Old Version, White and Color Ambiance

I am amazed by the colors you can get with Hues lights. This BR30 bulb is for ceiling canned lights. I did not have to replace my dimmer for these bulbs. You can dim them on your app or by using Alexa. You could adjust the lights to any type of color and any type of white. They are expensive but totally worth it. Also the hue system is easy to set up and whether your using the app on your phone or Alexa it is a great addition to your smart home

I think I just rcvd a bad light with no WIFI connection. I went to Best Buy the next day and bought the exact same light and it worked without a problem.

I’m slowly replacing all my lights in the house with these things. They’re the only smart lights I’ve used that don’t give me any problems. I just wish they were cheaper. Damn Philips, these are old now, can’t you drop the price yet???!! I need my entire place to glow red like I’m in a tv show!

Philips Hue lights are great! Can set home when away and return to a well lit and safer house. Good for kids rooms too, since they are dimmable, and can set program to turn off at a certain hour without worrying abour forgetting.

I bought three bulbs that are apost to be hue color, but they arent... and thay all didnt fit in the box they came in to.....

Beautiful colors and Phillips technology is constantly improving.

There was no network cable in the packaging and I couldnt set up my lights! I have to now purchase one of my own.

Update: Also noticed, took a while because there’s often sound in the room, but at any usable brightness these lights are LOUD. Imagine some light on a pole outside that makes a very audible hum.. now imagine that in every recessed can, which only act to amplify the sound. Using a decibel meter, I register 36-37 dB with lights off and only ambient noise, in an acoustically treated room, making it all the more annoying (outside, rest of the house is 39-45). Turn on the lights, and it measures between 45-47, pretty much a 10 dB jump, if measuring near the light. That’s frankly terrible. No other LED lights make this sort or level of noise, including competing full-color options. My normal, $5 LEDs made 0 noticeable noise, so when you spend $200 for a 4-light room, it’s pretty bad when it sounds like there’s a fly buzzing around. It’s not a fan of anything either, it’s a distinctly electric buzz. How such a product gets through QA I don’t know, let alone it’s third generation. I haven’t found a downlight from a competitor, so maybe that’s the one thing they have. I’d rather put an A19 size that isn’t so loud rather than these, though, but since the hub does work with other accessories (strip works great), I guess I’ll keep these until the sound drives me nuts. If there’s another color downlighting option, take it, it can’t be worse than these. I can’t speak to the white-shade only bulbs, maybe they’re better.. but I don’t care that much about changing the color temp, everyone generally has a preference, and you can stick with that. Unless colors are a must, I’d do likd the rest of my house and get smart dimmer switches, that work with any dimmable LEDs. Overall cost will be slightly less, and none of Hue’s headaches. If color is a must, then just be aware of the issues. If you’re lighting a loud space, perhaps the noise will not be noticeable, but a quiet office or something, it will be blatant. I can see retail applications and other stuff where the color ambiance is key - then I guess this is your best bet, if you have BR30 cans. Really though, for most ambient lighting, I’d go with the Hue strips or spotlights, desk lights, etc... you can still make great looks with those, without using these, and be very happy with Hue. Also, the strips do colors like blue brighter and in a more ambient way - think like a T-mobile store’s pink glow. These don’t even make the room look that much like the set color. As well, blues / purples / greens etc. are all pretty dim at 100%. This does mean less noise, as it’s only loud when bright, but full blue at 100% is almost as dark as off. That means lighter blues only, which are louder and start to look like ultra cool white. Do yourself a favor - if you use Hue, don’t use these! You’ll start hating Philips and distrusting even the things that work okay. The regular A19s have the turn-off issue mentioned below also, and definitely some noise, perhaps a little less (or the can just amplifies). Original review: So, I like the Hue system a lot. I left a review on the Hub and it continues to work just fine. Unfortunately, these lights and the A19 lights (at least) have a major issue. They get hot quick, and once they’re too hot they start acting weird. Specifically, if you turn the lights off - via remote, via phone, via Alexa, etc. - they go off for a second and immediately come back on. This will occur as well when the lights are working on a schedule, meaning they’ll never turn off. The only way, besides flipping the original switch which defeats the whole purpose of the Hue ‘ecosystem’, is to turn the lights very low, especially it seems a low blue cools it down the quickest (plus if you aren’t worried about every last drop of electricity, 1-5% blue is basically off, you could easily sleep with it etc.), and once cooled it will go off when told. So you can program a fade down or just switch to low blues for an hour or so, but that’s a step in your schedule you shouldn’t need to add. The strip LED Hues and other Hue lights that aren’t these really hot bulbs where everything is crammed in aren’t effected, so I doubt anything but bulbs would be, given the cause. A quick search will show LOTS of people have this problem. If you also have smart switches it’s less of an issue, but that again defeats the purpose. Hue’s benefit is the integration of these downlights and A19 bulbs so you can easily convert most of your house if it has standard lighting, but this problem really negates that. If this were a $20 first gen light, I’d be understanding, but it seems that this had been a known issue sincegen 1, and this is gen 3, and it’s $50 a light. That’s fairly disappointing of Philips, considering it seems so well made, it’s a significant issue that should have been addressed. Perhaps they can do a firmware update to fix it, somehow catching this and not allowing the lights to turn right back on. Fixing it in another generation, idk if I’ll bother. Having colors in the ceiling is cool, but far from necessary. The strips also give you more bang for your buck in terms of adding ambiance, etc.. With this problem, these are my least favorite of the Hue lights, but unfortunately the most significant in a condo like mine (All recessed cans, I had one lamp that broke, so now it’s literally all ceiling lights. Tried these in the office.. will not be getting more for elsewhere, not the bulbs at least, unless they manage to fix it with an update, which I’m not holding my breath for.

I originally had these lights with the hue hub and they didn’t always work which was very very annoying. I was going to give up on them then gave the echo plus a shot because You can control the lights without the hue hub. Problem solved. Moral of story: if you buy these get the echo plus.

Very disappointed in the customer service here Ive received. I was a happy customer and have 12 of the flood lights, 6 of the regular bulbs, 4 light strips and was heavily considering the Lily outdoor lights. I have 8 of the flood lights connected to a dimmer switch that was in the house when I moved in. We do not adjust the dimmer as we have a smart home and just use Alexa, Apple HomeKit or my Harmony remote to dim, turn off, change colors, etc. Only one of the eight is having a problem and is buzzing very loudly until turned off. Ive moved it to different receptacles and the buzzing follows the same bulb. It is obviously that single bulb that is the issue, not the dimmer switch. Phillips has flat out refused to help with the bulb and did so in a very nonchalant way. Amazon however, has stepped up even though the return window is far passed and issued me a refund. At least they did the right thing.