Thunderstorm for Hue

Really like this app. Great for Halloween. Lots of settings to play around with to get your desired effect. Even the background sounds help make for a great atmosphere. One question. Is there a way to have better control over the pulse rate or turn it off completely. Sometimes the pulse is to overwhelming even on lowest setting. Otherwise perfect.

So far it is a cool experience. I can't seem to find a way to have the sound effects play through another speaker other than the phone. If one could select speakers on the WiFi (like most apps now) then that would be great. The effect of a thunderstorm is somewhat dimished coming from a phone speaker.

I have found this App to be very good and I do like it very much. One feature that appeals to me is that even when the App is closed (not switched off) it still runs, that enables me to cast various images or videos to my TV. I use it on a Samsung Tab and cast using Google Home. This all works well but is a bit fiddly to set up. Future thoughts: ° To cast directly from the App. ° Add an image page so that a select image/video could also be cast, including a 'blank' screen. 4 stars as it could get even better.

Seems to work best with fewer lights. I've greatly expanded my hue bulb collection and now notice that there must be a lag between syncing all of them and the sound from the app. It went from the lights flashing and soon after hearing the thunder (correct) where now with all lights going (about 20), you hear the thunder first followed by the lights flashing a few seconds after, which is backwards. Delay Thunder does not resolve it. Any tips for this issue outside of using less lights?

Awesome app, light effects and audio are perfect. Only issue is that only philips hue COLOR bulbs react and not the white ambiance ones. I understand them not being able to perform the color cues but should be implemented for the lightning effect. I'm intrigued by the other apps you have as well but the white lights might stoo from from purchasing others.

I love this app! I live in the desert where it infrequently rains. Now it rains/storms whenever I want. (Update Complete user error on casting. I had the volume turned very low on my phone. Casting works great if you do it right and turn up the volume.)

Its ok but the lightning color adjustment needs work, you can't make bolts 'slightly' any color, any color chosen displays with heavy saturation. Like lightning on Jupiter or something. Also, there is a highly annoying, repetitive gap between loops. Must either eliminate gap or randomize routine and make it endless.

I definitely needed to adjust the default settings before it felt anything like a real thunderstorm. It was worth it. Played through the home stereo, this app very realisticly imitates the thunderstorms we have here. Even my dogs want to go hide from the rain, lol. Dropped a star because it did take a lot of tweaking and there's room for improvement but overall I'm impressed with this app. I just noticed the cats running for shelter when the "lightning" strikes, lol

gee thanks for resetting all my customizations back to their really terrible blue sky defaults. yes, I haven't used the app in a while. I'm guessing it was a app update that blew out my customizations. the app should mimic normal thunderstorm effects upon installation/default settings. put a demo mode in if you want to show off what the app can do. also, put in a function to backup user's customized settings so when garbage like this happens, one can simply restore their customizations.

This is just plain fun, and works out of the box. I can tell it's a lot of work, so it's a steal for the price. Planning a thunderstorm for our indoor camping adventure and this seemed perfect when I tried it just now. Have grabbed the other apps to shake up the isolation days with the kids. Looking forward to our volcano adventure! Great app, give it a shot!

This is a neat app. I had to connect my phone to my sound system to get the full effect with thunder. Aside from that it provides some nice thunderstorm ambiance.

Cool app, but missing video option on TV after I cast my phone to TV via GHome to get sound from phone trough my home sound system. It's kinda lame to see lights & sound create nice atmosphere, but then the phone screen without anything cool matching cast to TV. Can't you add a video in the casting from the GHome app too (not just sound)? Fix this good Sir, and that last star will come flying in! :)

Absolutely brilliant app! I use Bluestacks on my computer and running through that.. So not to drain my phone's battery. Works perfectly, I love the customization as well.. Putting the settings on random gives the best experience with the lightning. Well worth the price!

Works and will sync lights (flash all at once) to thunder. Great level of control, customisation (intensity, light selection, volume, background rain, background sounds etc). Tried several others and nothing compared.

Amazing app! The idea of an indoor thunderstorm popped into my head this morning and thank God Scott had already had this idea before me! It's everything I was hoping to find in this app (the fault is in Alexa. She can't open apps.) The light effects are so natural and lifelike. He really nailed this one. The thunderstorm takes me back to my childhood. I love the whole thing! The app creator is pretty swell, too.

This is one of my favorite apps. And I have tried a lot of lightning apps. Everybody loves it when I demo Thunderstorms at parties! You have to use the Google Home app to Cast the sound and it works well. I don't know how to get 5.1 sound, but i imagine that is Google Home thing. Can the storm sounds go to more than 2 home speakers?

I love the app but I must keep pushing the button on the Hue bridge every time I use it. I live in the basement and the bridge is upstairs. I read a similar review from someone else.

No way to slow down or make the pulses feel more attached to the audio... acts like a strobe light without even hearing any thunder.

App works great. Lighting strikes are on point. I used a soundbar for audio & the delay function worked seamlessly keeping the strikes on que with the flashes of light on the bulbs.

I just bought the app tonight to use in my steam room. It was great! There are lots of settings to make the lighting just right. I used my Bluetooth shower speaker for audio. Really cool app.

Awesome app, you need Google home app to complete the casting of the thunder to speakers but the lightning part is complete. PS. Needs it's own casting button for ease of use.

Best 2.99 I've spent in a long time. Easy to setup, easy to configure. Perfect for outdoor Halloween effects!

Using this for atmosphere in my D&D games. The changing weather over time is excellent, I can set it to run and have nice dynamic changes throughout the evening. Love this!

Any idea why the lights randomly turn red despite not having any setting to red...? Would be 5 stars otherwise.

Impressive experience. Audio beamed to bluetooth speaker, synched perfectly with light effects. Great way to fall asleep!

the user interface is very confusing... how are you supposed to select a group of it doesn't show as a selection.

Takes a bit of effort to get the sound casting to the speaker but once done you get amazingly realistic lighting and thunderstorm effects!

amazing app, works exactly how it should, i was so impressed i also purchased the fire and music sync apps. outstanding!