Remotification: Philips Hue
Requirements
- WiFi connection
- Philips Hue Bridge
- Philips Hue light
General
Remotification: Philips Hue makes operating your Philips Hue lamps even easier. Connect the app once with a Philips Hue Bridge and all rooms and scenes are taken over in Hue Notification Control. In addition, it is possible to create your own groups and scenes. You can then choose which rooms and scenes you want to control from the notification. This notification will disappear when you leave home, and will appear again when you arrive. All of your creations, rooms, scenes and settings, are synchronized on all of your devices. You just have to sign in using the same Google account.
The app has a smart background service that always reflects the current status in the notification and in the small status bar icon. A change of the lamps will always be reflected in the notification, so you will need to wait a maximum of 10 seconds. The service is battery-friendly by only being active at times when its necessary: your screen is on and you are connected to a Philips Hue Bridge.
Features in Notification
- Select groups
- Turn on / off lights in a group
- Set the brightness of lights in a group
- Activate scenes. Note: scenes are not applied to the selected group, but
on the lights configured in the scene.
- At a glance, see what the status of the selected room is (color, brightness and
on off)
Features in the app
Settings
- Enable / disable the notification manually
- Automate display of notification
- Customize notification to your own preferences (bèta) *
- Show the names of rooms in the notification
Manage Rooms
- Add your own rooms!
- Select lights for all your rooms. Lights can even be placed in multiple groups.
- Enable rooms that can be selected in the notification
- Set icons for groups displayed in the notification
Manage Scenes
- Select any scene known on the Philips Hue Bridge
- Be creative and make your own scenes with ease (bèta)
- Enable / disable scenes to display in notification *
- The scene will be displayed in the collapsed display of the notification, the icon
indicates the average color of the scene.
What I'm working on
- Change group color in notification*
- Translations (Dutch, French, German and Spanish)
- Support for multiple Hue Bridges at a time
- Feel free to contact me with ideas and suggestions
- And more..
* In the near future, these features will be offered against payment or viewing an advertising video.
Category : Lifestyle
Reviews (18)
Works mostly I guess but didn't bring anything new or even make anything easier or save me any time which was the entire purpose
This app is great when it works. But the notification constantly stops working entirely or says it needs to reconnect. Launching the app reconnects it until shortly after exting it seems to freeze up again. I've been using this app with my Philip's hue lights for a few weeks. I've uninstalled the app twice and nothing really has fixed the issue. While the app is working it is by far the best I've used. I will wait for a fix.
It works when it is connected but it's constantly trying to re-connect. The dim slider bar doesn't work either. Currently still trying to reconnect.
Worked, ish, but I can't use the notification slider since it just drags the notification itself
Has been great up until Oreo when once connected it will randomly trigger my phone's vibrate function as if to warn me it has reconnected. Not sure what's causing it so 3 stars until we get a function to disable app vibrations as is unfortunately unusable for me right now.
Just amazing! It's soo much better than having to unlock my phone every time I wanted to change the brightness of the light! I've got only one minor gripe with it: the notification doesn't stay extended on the lock screen, so if I wanted to change the scene, I would need to swipe down, then select the scene. Other than that, it trully is perfect! Edit: Also, connecting the bridge required quite a bit of faffing about untill I realised that I had to push the button while it was searching for bridges, otherwise it would give me an error about a tag not triggering...
Super convenient and fast - I've tried other 3rd party Hue apps and this is the only one so far without any lag. Only issue is the scenes aren't appearing in the notification even though I've enabled several in the app. Maybe there's a setting I'm missing somewhere, but I can't find it. It looks like the developer is very open to feedback, though, so I'm optimistic it'll be fixed quickly!
Update to previous review. Error in connecting is now fixed (very quickly by the developer btw) but still doesn't work on my pixel 2. Notification shows and the app connects so seems ok but the notification buttons can only be pressed once and then the app locks and needs a force quit. I'm guessing this is all Oreo related so will await an update.
Will not allow me to connect to the bridge
So far it works great for the simple task I use it for. Only recommendation I have (which I don't know for sure is possible) is have the option to turn off the notification icon when at a normal screen. I prefer to have no notification of it unless I swipe down to see it. Like I said, I don't know if it's possible, but the app currently is fantastic.
Great app but when I click on scene in notification, the scene color is not exactly the same than Hue app scene color. A bit more Orange. Relax scene for example.
It pairs up with the Hue app, so you don't need to set your rooms up again, but it randomly turns on lights and only works to turn them off manually about half the time. Great idea, but not quite there yet.
Nice when it works, but rooms keep disappearing, scenes never show up, and when it asked me to give feedback, saying yes asked what app I would like to open to do so.
Very convenient. Love the ease of it so far... is there a way to get the dimmer slide on the notification screen to actually slide? Other than that, great app!
Simple to the point. Works great. Needs to tell the use to tap bridge to pair.
Its good but I just didn't like the notification in the top left...
Always updating
This app has gone from excellent to bad to unusable. When it worked, it was brilliant. Now, trying to use it, either the buttons will do nothing (or even stop working while cycling through the rooms) or will persistently say "connecting" even though going into the app, it says it's connected.