Philips Hue Smart Plug for Hue Smart Lights, Bluetooth & Hue Hub Compatible

Title says it all, Alexa splashed all over the place here, but it works great with Google too. All the Philips Hue stuff is unreasonably expensive - seriously. However! It does all work very well. I got this v2 dimmer switch and half a dozen light bulbs and a light strip for my house for Halloween and it was friggin sweet. The app is solid, works very well. Setting up the account online was dumb - had to disable the VPN on my phone (enabled by default cos Google Pixel phone uses the Google One VPN to secure my interwebs) cos it couldnt detect the bridge with it on. Once I figured that out, though, it found and connected it to my account quickly. The good thing about Hue products is they just work. Products are good quality. But damn do you pay for it. And Im an idiot so I plan to get more. Going for the Sync box and some lights for the TV. Cos pretty lights. Do it for the blinkies.

I wanted to be able to control my Hue lights through the physical switch along with the app. The installation was really easy and at first, everything seemed great. However, a couple of weeks in, Im noticing that the switch only turns on / off the lights about 75% of the time. You may be thinking well thats not too bad but oh, it is. A light switch is binary, and needs to work 100% of the time - without fail. Nobody wants to be fussing around with a light app when the physical switch should be working 100% of the time. Im not sure if there is some connection or sync issue, but its annoying, and I would not recommend this product. Another minor complaint is; when you flip the switch on or off, the lights slowly fade on and off. Its not instant, how I want it, or how a normal switch works. So, you always have this 2-3 second delay, and you never really know if its working before then. As far as I can tell, this cannot be configured any other way. Your lights and physical switch will become out of sync - Let me explain. I guess there is no real way around this, but if youre OCD it might bother you. Say you turn on the light through the app, but the physical switch is in the down off position. Next, you flip the physical switch to the up on position, this will turn off your light. So now the physical switch is opposite of normal light behavior. Its in the up on position, but the light is off. Im guessing this is working as intended, so I cant really complain.

Switch works well. You need the latest app to be able to recognize and setup. After that the setup is easy. I bought two. Enjoy having a rotary switch for the dimmer. I replaced the orignal, square ,white version 1.

I use these plugs to control and automate lamps. Theyre easy to install and configure. They work seamlessly with my Hue bridge. They replaced plugs from another brand that used a cloud service that constantly failed. Thank you, Philips!

Ive owned Hue products for about 10 years now, I think. Always innovative, but often expensive. I owned several of the old version of these switches and needed another one so I decided to go with the V2 one. I like it. Unlike the old one, where I would have to instruct guests to press the power button repeatedly to change scenes/brightness levels, now I can tell them the power button turns it on or off and the Hue button on the bottom changes scenes. It makes a little more sense to people, I think. You can, of course, customize the power and Hue buttons. I love that the Hue button can be pressed up to five times for different scenes. The separate brightness buttons are good, too. I like the V2 switch more than the V1 one for sure.

Works well. Sticks to the wall and the remote itself is magnetized, which is a really nice touch. The instructions are a little outdated however, but once I looked them up on hues website setup was very quick.

Keeps my fat but from having to give a reach around to the Christmas tree to plug and unplug it. Not sure what else to use it for but works well for why I bought it.

My home project earlier this year was converting a lot of my home lights to Smart lighting. For a while these were backordered and I had the simple one push smart buttons but mostly because I just couldnt access these. I wish I had started with these! I was able to obtain three of them. The plate was easy to install and looks nice with the existing hardware for a 2000s constructed house. It involves just screwing in a base plate and snapping on the top plate. The remote easily attaches with the magnet to the base and is very portable, attaches strongly to stay put but isnt so strong you have to wrench the remote off. Sometimes in the dark I have flailed at it and knocked it out of the groove but thats pretty infrequent. The settings are interesting - the top button can be set to either be a specific single brightness for a room/zone/set of lights, dimmer works well but is a bit slow in speed. HUE switches between a set of up to five scenes that you can program for the zone or room. I have my home exit switch which is in my mud room area set to turn off all lights after holding for three seconds and this easily lets me shut off all lights in my house on my way out. The HUE button is whats most convenient for my uses, because of all my rooms my bedroom has eleven separate lights (in a variety of towers, nightstand, accent lights, and torch). There are some times I just want to turn on a few lights when Im zipping in to grab something and dont want every single light on. The power top switch I have set to a nice incandescent color. For the scenes, I set the first one as a limited scene with just one tower and the torch so I get enough light to see by but dont have to turn on every single light. Multiple presses then go into my favorite four scenes afterwards. In essence this is a like a two button on switch where I can use the Hue to get to a more efficient pattern, all from one single switch site. I have these also set up for my living room, where power is the full shebang and then HUE is only a overhead light over my computing desk - which makes it super convenient to use one single switch site to control multiple looks of lights. Its so easy to swap things around once you have the switches in place. So far so good!

Perfect for bathroom lights where I just want to use a switch vs app or voice. Programmed it to warm bright light for default, then energizing, dim, and a custom spa setting. Love it! Easy to use.

Very simple……It works