Philips Hue

“i can't even meaningfully control my hue smart lights without requiring the manufacturer's app”

“It is for this reason that my lights (Hue) and switches (Inovelli) are bound in ZigBee groups.”

“Especially with multiple people living in the house with different behaviors, that becomes annoying.”

“Easily one of the best Zigbee implementations out there.”

“The only fine zigbee stuff for him was the Hue lights though.”

“they're at least not the dodgy nonsense you can find on Amazon and Wayfair”

“I've had a number of Hue bulbs starting back in about 2018 and have yet to lose one”

“Hue seems to be one of the most if not the most stable ecosystems for smart lighting”

“Philips suddenly starts requiring a log in to control its bulbs via bog standard protocols”

“Philips tried to push an app update that required you to log in to an account to manage your Zigbee Hue hub and devices”

“I recently introduced some Zigbee bulbs (hue and cheapos from Amazon) and they've been mostly "fine"”

“using the same Phillips Hue bulbs for going on 8 years without any issue”

“I have probably around 60 Philips Hue bulbs or lamps, I bought the first one over a decade ago, and so far, one lamp has failed”

“I've never had a Hue bulb fail in about a decade of using them in every fitting.”

“3 bulbs stopped shutting off completely. When I would turn them off they would stay around 5% brightness.”

“Did my whole house in Hue and have only had one failure (early on) in 5 years.”

“have Philips Hue bulbs for the past 10 years, some 50 of them and only had one failure unrelated to the LEDs themselves”

“I started with Philips Hues but then gave up and migrated to Cree light bulbs with Lutron Casetas because the Hues kept dying”

“all my Philips hue bulbs are going strong after 7 to 8 years”

“my Philips hue bulbs have been going strong for about 7 to 8 years now I'm not a single issue”

“started dying within a couple of years or less and the replacement costs were ridiculous”

“my Philips Hue E27 bulbs last far longer than any of the China Zigbee clones I've bought”

“they're the only bulbs I've had with zero connectivity issues ever”

“It forces me to use hue bulbs plus a Lutron aurora in the 80 percent of locations where that actually works”

“I love Philips hue, probably the only light smart automation that is really worth it.”

“while they're extremely convenient and better than most, there is sometimes a slight pause”

“If you name your Hue light "House Music" and you're confused when you ask to "turn on house music", you've played yourself.”

“No issues but I bought my last one like 2022 and didn't need to replace any of them.”

“Philips does this with their hue lights every time. Hilarious in how obvious it is.”

“I've had some of my Philips Hue bulbs for close to ten years.”

“it really pisses me off when I spend money on something, and then after that it enshitifies”

“my Philips Hue system (hundreds, maybe thousands of euros I spend on that), ads ads ads”

“the official app is now just a popup requiring me to create an account”

“The account login crap is ridiculous, considering you don't even need internet to use their stuff.”

“make the best smart lights money can buy and works as expected locally even if the internet or my HA server were to go down”

“Just buy Hue, maybe Aqara sensors, use zigbee2mqtt with Home Assistant and be happy”

“they make plugs but label them all as lights in the app, which is more annoying than it sounds”

“That would be annoying and could well have pushed me off the platform.”

“the Philips Hue hardware and software was superior to the Ikea ones (logarithmic vs linear dimming curves)”

“They started requiring an account to use the lights, and support started stating stating that the bulbs will not be usable without an account or the app”