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Hue Lights

Submitted by Faceless1, 18 February, 2016
Last updated on 4 October, 2017
Category
Lifestyle

Description of App

Teach your lights new tricks with Hue Lights! Completely customize each button on your Hue dimmer switch or Hue Tap. Control 8 scenes from a single Hue dimmer switch, change brightness speeds, or select groups based on duration of button press. Hue Lights leverages the latest firmware to store scene details directly on the bridge. You can now view and edit shared scenes from any device on your network. The updated UI offers improved visual feedback and easier on/off/brightness controls directly from the home screen.

Try the sequences feature to see amazing possibilities at your fingertips. Use your Apple Watch to activate scenes, adjust group brightness and trigger alerts. Experience amazing thunderstorms (In-App purchase) with customized controls for lightning strikes, rain density, bird songs, wind speed, sleep timer, brightness and sky color! Simulate realistic fires (In-App purchase) with dedicated controls for fire type, fire size, flare-ups and brightness.

If you have any problems with previous In-App purchases, tap "Restore." Please see the comprehensive FAQ and documentation at http://huelights.com for App help. The free version allows control of lights 1 and 2. In-App purchases can unlock all lights and special effects.

Hue Lights brings you fast widget support, shared scenes and groups, comprehensive scheduling, sequences and powerful light controls. Create multiple "On" and "Off" schedules per scene. Each scrolling list has one-tap "On" and "Off" controls. Tap on the leftmost light image to turn on a light, scene or group. Tap on the rightmost power button to turn them off. Tap in the middle to make changes.

Save scenes from any third-party app and use Hue Lights to activate these on your Apple Watch or widget. Dynamically animate or schedule any scene from third-party apps.

All screens are optimized for your favorite iOS devices in portrait and landscape mode.

Hue Lights works well with any third-party app that saves scenes or schedules on the SmartBridge. Do you have a favorite scene from another app that you use frequently? With Hue Lights you can turn this scene on or off with one tap! Hue Lights will show every schedule saved on your SmartBridge from any app and give you the option to disable or remove unwanted schedules.

Features:
- Hue dimmer switch/Hue Tap support
- View/edit scenes and schedules on bridge
- 3D Touch on app icon
- TouchLink for finding lost bulbs
- Sequences
- Apple Watch support
- Fast Widget for scene and group activation
- Alerts and brightness changes from Widget
- Apply 11 dynamic animations to any scene
- Apply scene themes to any group
- Supports multiple ZigBee lights including GE Link
- Multiple On+Off bridge schedules per scene
- Tap bulb image to apply a favorite color
- Localized VoiceOver support
- Heuristics for working around common errors
- Create transition times up to 90 minutes
- Designed to work well with 50+ light deployments

Experience multi-track, synchronized and visually appealing light animations and sequences.

Purchasing the "Unlock 100 Scenes" In-App item includes 10 hand-crafted scenes that work great with the animations. It also includes 15 new favorites. Have fun!

Requires "Hue Personal Wireless Lighting Starter Set" to operate.

"Hue Personal Wireless Lighting" is a trademark owned by Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., see www.meethue.com for more information. LapApps, LLC is in no way affiliated with the Philips organization.

Follow @HueLights on Twitter and like our Facebook page for the latest news and updates. See http://huelights.com for more documentation and supported hardware.

Version

2.0

Free or Paid

Free

Apple Watch Support

Yes

Device(s) App Was Tested On

iPhone

iOS Version

9.3.1

Accessibility Comments

Sad to see that version 2.0 has introduced a number of accessibility issues to an app which had previously been very VoiceOver-friendly.

There are now many unlabeled buttons; some elements reported as buttons but which don’t appear to do anything; select status of checkboxes not always being announced; some slider controls which don’t have any labels to say what they are for; toggle switches not always reporting the status of the toggle; and possibly a few other issues that I haven’t encountered yet.

The app can still be used by VoiceOver users, but the nature of the problems and the fact that you are dealing with a very complex interface will require you to have lots of patience and time to figure things out.

Based upon the previous level of VoiceOver support in this app, I am hopefully that this is just the kind of temporary dip that we occasionally see with major updates and will be corrected soon.

VoiceOver Performance

VoiceOver reads most page elements.

Button Labeling

Most buttons are clearly labeled.

Usability

There are some accessibility issues with this app, but it can still be used if you are willing to tolerate these issues and learn how to work around them.

App Store Link

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hue-lights/id762009425

Developer's Website

http://huelights.com

Developer's Twitter Username

@HueLights

Recommendations

1 people have recommended this app

Most recently recommended by Faceless1 7 years 9 months ago

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