In fact i think i will sell my LC2 that i have with a terrible hallgen bulb in my bedroom to replace with some LED Hue lighting.

I can use the V1 to pass commands to the BLGW and even access home control on the screen.

All we need now is a nice wireless keypad that can have different words printed on the buttons

 

In my place (And this room) 95% of the bulbs are Hue bulbs in their various forms.  I can go from a bright white to a mix of whites, blue, pink etc depending on the content of the TV I am watching. Hue Bulbs are one of my favourite tech purchases of all time. Both the hardware and software is very reliable.

I highly recommend them.

Seanie_230 wrote:

God I love this hue stuff it doesn't half integrate really well since you can import scenes etc.

Today I purchased the White ES bulb and new new dimmer switch which is really much nicer than the hue tap.

I think this might be the way forward for cheap simple automated lighting for me. BLGW - Rekindling the love of ML

Hue is ace isn't it! I bought a couple of the white bulbs (can't justify £50 for every bulb, but £20 isn't too bad) for the bedroom and had he Beo4 controlling them in no time via the BV11 and BLGW. Up for on, left for my lamp only, right for my wife's, down for off. Amazing.

I have some OSRAM Lightify bulbs in the living room joined to my Hue bridge, but I have to say - they don't turn on or off as smoothly as the Hue bulbs.

Hi Chris

You have given me some inspiration with the right for right lamp left for left lamp etc.

Question from me have you worked out how to step up in brightness and down in brightness ?

Is it possible to change the brightness of each bulb independently in your bedroom?

Where are you getting bulbs for £20

😛

Seanie_230 wrote:

Hi Chris

You have given me some inspiration with the right for right lamp left for left lamp etc.

Question from me have you worked out how to step up in brightness and down in brightness ?

Is it possible to change the brightness of each bulb independently in your bedroom?

Where are you getting bulbs for £20

BLGW - Rekindling the love of ML

Hey Seanie,

I can change the brightness (of a room group and individual bulbs) via the onscreen interface on the BV11. I haven't played with brightness via the BLGW yet. At the moment I'm just calling scenes that I've created on the Hue Bridge.

I just checked and £20 wasn't right! The White hue bulbs are £25 on Amazon. The osram lightify ones are slightly cheaper (£23) but you can tell, they're not quite as slick. I needed them small though and to fit an e14 screw fitting which hue don't seem to do yet.

Seanie_230 wrote:

Today I purchased the White ES bulb and new new dimmer switch which is really much nicer than the hue tap.

What dimmer button did you get? The work on my house is starting soon so I'm going to have to figure out the best keypads to get in place of light switches!

Hi Chris

Check out the new hue dimmer switch

http://www.diy.com/departments/philips-hue-automated-dimming-switch/1266382_BQ.prd?gclid=Cj0KEQjw4827BRDJvpbVuKvx-rIBEiQA2_CzsI8KJvCLYmyfL_uSfQvGCg9HpRxsKBT-hS0s7hmNDG0aAtSY8P8HAQ&ppc_type=shopping&ecamp=SEAPLA1266382_BQ&ss_kwcid=AL!3454!3!%7Bcreative%7D!%7Bmatchtype%7D!%7Bplacement%7D!%7Bnetwork%7D!%7Bproduct_partition_id%7D!%7Bkeyword%7D&CAWELAID=120147360000498558&CAGPSPN=%7Bifpla:pla%7D%7Bifdyn:dyn%7D&CAAGID=%7Badgroupid%7D&CATCI=%7Btargetid%7D&ef_id=VOd7lwAAAIStr0RI:20160629155745:s

It's pretty good

Maybe B&O must re-think the Beolink 5000 and 7000 to the new World....

Hi, enjoyed reading this thread before buying some Hue products. Just installed a pair of Led strips, Go & Bloom integrating with BeoLink Gateway in our showroom today. I must say I'm very impressed with the straight forward yet very flexible installation. I was doubtful when I read the 4 step "instructions" but it does exactly what it says on the tin. Within an hour or so I was getting creative by for example setting the bloom to throw colour up the wall behind a BeoSound 35 relative to the source sensed: Bluetooth (blue), Spotify (Green), etc Having worked with only Lutron Homeworks for a time it's nice to have so much flexibility without the complexity: while I do appreciate they are very different products I can see why Hue will do well for lots of people, especially when integrated with BLGW and IFTTT.

A few people have mentioned personalising the coding to take to the next level, what kind of things can be added/achieved?

Dave

Seanie_230 wrote:

Hi Chris

 

Check out the new hue dimmer switch

 

 

http://www.diy.com/departments/philips-hue-automated-dimming-switch/1266382_BQ.prd?gclid=Cj0KEQjw4827BRDJvpbVuKvx-rIBEiQA2_CzsI8KJvCLYmyfL_uSfQvGCg9HpRxsKBT-hS0s7hmNDG0aAtSY8P8HAQ&ppc_type=shopping&ecamp=SEAPLA1266382_BQ&ss_kwcid=AL!3454!3!%7Bcreative%7D!%7Bmatchtype%7D!%7Bplacement%7D!%7Bnetwork%7D!%7Bproduct_partition_id%7D!%7Bkeyword%7D&CAWELAID=120147360000498558&CAGPSPN=%7Bifpla:pla%7D%7Bifdyn:dyn%7D&CAAGID=%7Badgroupid%7D&CATCI=%7Btargetid%7D&ef_id=VOd7lwAAAIStr0RI:20160629155745:s

 

 

It's pretty good

This new dimmer switch is pretty cool. And with apps like iConnect HUE, each button can be programmed with 4 f