Hue Camera for Philips Hue

I have my entire home integrated with some sort of Home Automation, Philips Hue being the center of the Entertainment TOM as well as the living room. It has a hard time while watching 3D movies on my set in the living room. Reading other reviews I concur with the '... could use microphone in conjunction...' like other apps like 'DISCO' or 'SYNC MY LIGHTS'. I'd pay a little more for advanced controls like the ones in the apps listed above. It's a little hard for a phone to get the entire screen into the camera without getting some of the hue lights in it as well. Trying to get the camera lined up with the TV is a little cumbersome but that's not the apps fault, it's a wet ware problem. This app gets great reviews from CNET as well as some other highly respected consumer sites. I agree! Again if somehow you could integrate the use of the microphone and maybe a list of movies that have already been SYNC'd so that we [the consumer] could pick the movie on a list and begin there as well... again I would pay extra as well as many a friend would too. Keep up the updates and maybe a beta test app would be great as well. 🤘🏻as well as a 👍🏻.

I’ve been looking for something like this. Yes you have to point a camera at the screen, how else would one expect to control dynamics. Future features and light fixes would be great. 1. Default settings should be no lights, not everyone. My whole house light up when it synced with the bridge..very minor. 2. Could it work with the new HUE entertainment zones? So if I set up a entertainment zone with four lights, two on the left and two on the right. The lights would change according using left and right sides, based on the picture. 3. Would be nice to cap the intensity of individual lights. The lights behind the tv are awesome the way you have it. But other lights in the room would be nice to cap at different intensity level, making them a lot more subtle and less bright. Great work!

This app is pretty cool. I think it could be better if the lights weren't always on. For example during a horror movie most scenes should be dark so the lights should be off with flashes of color as the scene ramps up. I was watching a scene where it was flashing back and forth between two people talking in the same room. The lights kept flashing back and forth with different colors. The scene was constant so the light should be constant. I think it would be better suited to recognize motion more than just color. Every scene doesn't need to flash colors, just the important parts. Keep the lights off until there are explosions then flash the lights yellow, white, orange, etc....I think this would bring in the mood more. If the app could use the microphone as well to listen for variations in noise it could then flash with thunder, or beat with a heart, or flash when someone screams. Another suggestion might be to add movie categories so it knows not to keep the lights on during a horror movie, or to brighten up with colors for a kids movie. Overall, still a really cool app and worth the money to have fun with friends and family.

This app seems pretty barebones and in its early stages right now. There are suggestions that other reviewers have pointed out, like using the microphone to help set the scene and using the Hue Zones that most users will already have set up. My biggest complaint is the amount of color sampling the app does, which is one color at a time. Other apps like Hue Sync for the computer will sample as many colors as you have lights (on each side of your screen). In conjunction with audio cues this can lead to some impressive light shows completing movies and especially music videos, but unfortunately Hue Camera doesn’t do that. It will just pick out one color and make every light that color. It also forces light to constantly stay lit, even if the scene it is aimed at is nothing but darkness. This wouldn’t be that big of an issue except for the app for some reason sets the lights to a white color, which depending on how bright you have the app set will light up your entire room. Having the lights turn on in the middle of a movie isn’t exactly something most people would enjoy. If the developers can fix some latency issues and add features that honestly should already have been present, this app would be worth its cost and then some.

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The system does work and for a few bucks the average Joe might be satisfied, but I am not. I’ve tired it a few times and it’s more of a hassle that rewarding for me. Part of it is the lag but I expected that. It’s the phone/camera positioning, without buying some stand it’s almost impossible for me to position this thing to only pickup the TV. In the end it was a waste of money for me.