Bright for Philips Hue
Features:
• Complete control over your Philips Hue lights
• Android Wear support
- control the color and brightness of your lights directly from your wrist
• Groups
- control the color and brightness of many lights at once
• Alarms
- set your lights to turn on or off, or to a specific color, at any time of the day
• Dark Mode
- saves battery on your AMOLED device, and makes the app much easier on the eyes for night use
• Frequent updates
• No in-app purchases, ever
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Use of this app requires a Philips Hue bridge (1st or 2nd generation) and at least one Philips Hue compatible bulb.
To add a group to the Android Wear application, create a group while your watch is connected.
Due to limitations in the Philips Hue API, you must be connected to your home Wi-Fi network when using this app. This can be bypassed in the app by setting up port forwarding with your router and editing your bridge's IP Address.
Category : Lifestyle
Reviews (19)
This app is unreliable to a degree that it is more frustrating than not. Rarely do I use an app to control my lights and when I do so, it's for convenience or to save time. If half the time I have to re- connect to the hub and I'm already tired or in a hurry, this extra step seems that much worse. If you are determined to work through the glitches this app may have redeemable qualities.
Works as advertised. If your group is not showing up on your Android Wear, try deleting and re-creating the group. That did the trick for me. One feature it lacks is state synchronization.
Crashed when selecting the Hub and is missing several bulbs. Several. The room info in the JSON should be used as a starting group, having to create all the rooms from scratch is a pain. ...and maybe not have the menu text in fuchsia.
Suddenly stopped finding the Hue Bridge. Even a reinstall didn't do anything. I cannot get back to any kind of setup phase.
Definitely the most beautiful and simplistic hue app out there but crashes alot. Works nicely with Android wear but crashes whenever I try to open the alarms tab. Would get 5 stars from me if that bug was fixed.
Does what you would imagine. I set up my groups then set up individual bulbs as their own group so I have compete control via Wear. Only complaint /request is that can't do white's via Wear..? Can this be looked at please Dev?
Nice app, fairly simple. I love that there is an Android Wear app though, just wish there was more control of individual lamps on the watch. App does suffer from random crashes on Nexus 5X as well.
Change the color of your lights from your watch. The easiest color selector I've seen, great job!
Great App but keeps crashing! !
But it's not finding my bridge anymore...
This is such a nicely designed app. I recently updated the app but I am still experiencing issues, specifically the crashes that happen whenever I open the app. I have a Nexus 5x running 6.0.1. I do appreciate the fact that the developer communicates to us about new bug fixes so I am hopeful that there will be an update to fix this issue in the near future.
I recently purchased a Hue starter kit and the Phillips app doesn't integrate with Android Wear at all. This app is exactly what I was looking for.
I am very excited with the potential of this app, but it still has plenty of issues that keep it from a higher rating.
It was a great app, but now it can't find my bridge. No choice but to uninstall.
New Android Wear integration is awesome. First party developers have no excuse for poorly designed and functioning apps when well built ones like this are available.
Works well. Looks good. No permissions that are creepy and useless. Love it
Intuitive design and great price.
Bright is a clean and pleasing interface to control your Hue lights. The first proper use of material design in a Hue app which is an important thing in something that is going to see daily usage! Even has a dark mode!
Very quick simple and works with wear 1.5 color changing is easy on my watch I'm happy 😀