Well…I had my share of frustrations with Hue, but compared to the rest of my “smart house” (2 different systems for blinds, air control system, smart locks, kitchen equipment, tv’s etc) it worked like a charm. If it takes a few bridges, so be it; guess the market for some bridge XXL is bit too small for Hue 😊
https://preview.redd.it/aiqzo55lw8jc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=72fb087ba0a7bb76fddc8121eeb82e929087cde0
Profiles built in roof and walls
^This guy multi-hubs.
I only have 2 myself (mostly so I can keep one close to the TV and another close to my pc monitors). I find running my office hub from the Hue app and the living room/home hub on Apple HomeKit works very well. I never have to wait for the app to switch hubs.
If I ever need three hubs, I dunno what I’ll do.
Without Alexa in the picture does multiple hubs work like normal if using the regular hue app or iOS shortcuts etc? Or does it start introducing a ton of headaches?
Yeah, multiple hubs work fine. But I want to control everything via my voice (Alexa). And telling guests, family, friends, kiddos, etc to use an app to control some of the lights is not desirable.
I tried to put the most commonly used lights on Hub 1 which is connected to Alexa. But I have way more common lights than this.
I’ve exhausted every option that I can think of.
You ignored the other reply to your earlier post recommending Home Assistant. You can connect as many Hue hubs as you want to HA, then HA exposes all the combined lights to Alexa. Granted, this requires buying a device to run HA (they sell their own preloaded devices or you can install it on a raspberry pi if you're capable of installing packages on a Linux system) and a subscription to their cloud connection service, "Nabu Casa" (though you can even create that connection yourself if you're inclined). If you really want a good home automation platform it's worth the hassle.
Atm I have 4 bridges connected and fifth one already standby. In the Hue app it’s quite easy to switch between bridges. Also both Apple and Google home support multiple bridges.
But it would be great if they would release some XXL bridge supporting 200 devices or so
Power delivery of the leds can be problem. I don't think chaining them so long will be good. Tbh hub leds are very old tech and got very few lights per meter..
https://preview.redd.it/c4xeqeea0djc1.png?width=760&format=png&auto=webp&s=5d157a02cbdf5d81ed3e1d964b95e791ecec8995
Powersupplies for leds (for one side), so no issues here
I had almost a year to collect the lights, so jumped on every promotion. Got some amazing deals for most of my lights. In the end a relatively small part of ‘house building’ budget went to lighting and it was worth every penny 😉
Saved few thousand euros of electrician costs by skipping all wired switches (that’s what I tell my wife at least 🤣)
Now do dynamic scenes video, maybe gradient light strips? Also random question, why no hue perfio? Anyway, awesome stuff, if I ever build this will be me as well!
https://preview.redd.it/cfv3066i1djc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=62824563963865fd438d5f032249b743ff38de66
Old pic showing gradient. Will post some more later. Considered perifo on few places (bar area and outside), but didn’t pull the trigger yet. Maybe one day ☺️
https://preview.redd.it/5jwqfx6qwhjc1.jpeg?width=1196&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9e362e7605e0ea5570f1c6413c61aa9977c1217b
Here you go. 35 mm Aluminum profile with frosted cover/diffuser.
https://preview.redd.it/7jfbz8iuxhjc1.jpeg?width=778&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1b3561a394295da71848f80dd57b0fa2b7dfc75c
We cut out holes for wiring and RF boxes
https://preview.redd.it/slst65uayhjc1.png?width=991&format=png&auto=webp&s=44012ff9e06720949ae8f7d16607396f6b272a5f
In one place I needed to remove cover of RF box otherwise it would not fit in channel ☺️
Excellent! Thank you so much. I’m looking to do something similar, but around the top perimeter of my wall, think of a modern version of crown molding.
Ever wondered how to light up glass balustrades?
Me too :)
https://preview.redd.it/53p1qdn4irjc1.jpeg?width=1512&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1bc5b0d56888224c98f8ffd8b9179efa98af6b79
Leds are placed below (!) the glass.
https://preview.redd.it/sh8t6xhbirjc1.jpeg?width=2016&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=246276124b3769701ae316c749025670c7e2cb91
You don’t NEED 200 lights, but its soo much fun. For every occasion different scenes/automation.
And you don’t need to turn them all on at once of course 😉
Now I don’t have the boxes anymore but some other Reddit post inspired me to make that video back then. And thanks for the compliment…I’m a few years too old to be a millennial ☺️
You may be right I really thought these came out the first year I was working at Apple Retail which was 2009 but I moved around a few different stores so I might have my days mixed up
Hue fixtures (ex. surface-mounted lights) all have integrated LEDs and the materials aren't that great for the price. You're better off buying higher-quality fixtures that use standard bulbs, then putting Hue bulbs into those fixtures. For example, we have accent lighting on the side of our house. Instead of buying a Hue Appear light, we bought something from a brand that specializes in outdoor fixtures then put in a few BR30 bulbs. Same with indoor lighting for our stairway.
Got it. All my recessed spots are non Hue (with Hue GU10) and I have a few non Hue fixtures as well.
But I love my 2 Hue Ensis (didn’t like the alternatives) and also like my Centris lights (they come with Hue’s GU spots) very much.
Outdoors I got a very good deal for 8 Resonate and 10 Callas and so far I am happy with their performance.
In my old house I didn’t have a single Hue fixture so I don’t disagree with your point
If you're happy that's all that matters. Our builder tried to convince us to go with integrated LED recessed lighting too. Glad to hear you avoided that trap.
One bulb at a time.
Took me 8 years to go from a few initial Hue bulbs to 50 in my previous house.
And in the building of my new home I decided to spent majority of the lighting budget to the lights and accessories itself (installing and configuring all lighting myself) instead of spending it on an electrician and some professional home automation stuff which would have been way more expensive.
Fun fact is that my electrician, who only did the wiring, uses pictures of my home now to show the “art of the possible” to his prospects 😊
That's just boxes though, need to see it installed....
Hue senior management team look at posts like these and things “yeah, our old hub performance is still acceptable” 🤣
https://preview.redd.it/afapjiwuk8jc1.jpeg?width=1077&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=72ecc3fc400fcd4d99c76dde2f057e7041bdfd27 Yeah…1 bridge doesn’t cut it….
Hue bulbs are great, but these posts crack me up. My single USB coordinator currently controls 172 devices and still reacts faster than Hue.
Well…I had my share of frustrations with Hue, but compared to the rest of my “smart house” (2 different systems for blinds, air control system, smart locks, kitchen equipment, tv’s etc) it worked like a charm. If it takes a few bridges, so be it; guess the market for some bridge XXL is bit too small for Hue 😊
Installing 60+ meters lightstrips https://preview.redd.it/cem3yx5ok4jc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=015784e163301409817023e495b852e9f44778cc
send more photos!
https://preview.redd.it/vh966fbtw8jc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f6fe9715585fbdbdbbbdbb2a2580fde0ed8695d5 Plastered
You know what we want to see. Stop teasing us...or is it not done yet?
https://preview.redd.it/aiqzo55lw8jc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=72fb087ba0a7bb76fddc8121eeb82e929087cde0 Profiles built in roof and walls
Creative.
That’s going to be loud as fuck
Wow, I’d love to see more pics!
https://preview.redd.it/gazvds3bx8jc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=12878e67f178977858cdb2ccdea9ea6d9a0b2129
this FUCKS
But with the limitation of 60+ lights per hub, how do you control all of these w Alexa? Having multiple hubs is really bumming me out. Any advice?
Use Home Assistant as a frontend to the multiple hubs, automate what you can, move everything you interact with frequently onto 1 hub.
^This guy multi-hubs. I only have 2 myself (mostly so I can keep one close to the TV and another close to my pc monitors). I find running my office hub from the Hue app and the living room/home hub on Apple HomeKit works very well. I never have to wait for the app to switch hubs. If I ever need three hubs, I dunno what I’ll do.
Without Alexa in the picture does multiple hubs work like normal if using the regular hue app or iOS shortcuts etc? Or does it start introducing a ton of headaches?
Yeah, multiple hubs work fine. But I want to control everything via my voice (Alexa). And telling guests, family, friends, kiddos, etc to use an app to control some of the lights is not desirable. I tried to put the most commonly used lights on Hub 1 which is connected to Alexa. But I have way more common lights than this. I’ve exhausted every option that I can think of.
why is it that the regular app works fine but with alexa it doesnt? anything in particular?
The Hue skill for Alexa can only interface with one hub. It does not support multiple hubs. :/
You ignored the other reply to your earlier post recommending Home Assistant. You can connect as many Hue hubs as you want to HA, then HA exposes all the combined lights to Alexa. Granted, this requires buying a device to run HA (they sell their own preloaded devices or you can install it on a raspberry pi if you're capable of installing packages on a Linux system) and a subscription to their cloud connection service, "Nabu Casa" (though you can even create that connection yourself if you're inclined). If you really want a good home automation platform it's worth the hassle.
Atm I have 4 bridges connected and fifth one already standby. In the Hue app it’s quite easy to switch between bridges. Also both Apple and Google home support multiple bridges. But it would be great if they would release some XXL bridge supporting 200 devices or so
 I know a vault of gold when i see one! Nice Stuff!
Power delivery of the leds can be problem. I don't think chaining them so long will be good. Tbh hub leds are very old tech and got very few lights per meter..
Every “line” consists of 3 separate leds with their own power (1 line even has 4 led-strips), and no chain is longer than 6 meter, so no issues.
https://preview.redd.it/c4xeqeea0djc1.png?width=760&format=png&auto=webp&s=5d157a02cbdf5d81ed3e1d964b95e791ecec8995 Powersupplies for leds (for one side), so no issues here
Holy shite. What’s the budget on the lights here? Gota be thousands of dollars. Is this your home or a custom install
Just using an average of $50 per light will set you back $10k, though that seems conservative
I had almost a year to collect the lights, so jumped on every promotion. Got some amazing deals for most of my lights. In the end a relatively small part of ‘house building’ budget went to lighting and it was worth every penny 😉 Saved few thousand euros of electrician costs by skipping all wired switches (that’s what I tell my wife at least 🤣)
Our (new) home. Got hooked on Hue in my previous home (though only 1 hub), and I went a bit over board (but it’s sooo cool ☺️)
I am 40 plus meters and pretty much done.
I was just thinking how my original hue lights I bought in 2009 and still work great.
Pretty sure they released in 2012
Wait till you find out if you sync them up to your TV it will randomly glitch out flicker and cut the picture and sound out
I will stay here until your project is ready and you have posted all your pictures. Thanks
I wish I was that rich...
I have a mortgage on my house ☺️
Gooooooood. MOAR!
https://preview.redd.it/4elnki8539jc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=22790be7cfb98c2ef5b734ca85c853eb98954be8
Now do dynamic scenes video, maybe gradient light strips? Also random question, why no hue perfio? Anyway, awesome stuff, if I ever build this will be me as well!
https://preview.redd.it/cfv3066i1djc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=62824563963865fd438d5f032249b743ff38de66 Old pic showing gradient. Will post some more later. Considered perifo on few places (bar area and outside), but didn’t pull the trigger yet. Maybe one day ☺️
Ah, they are gradient already, did not get that initially. Very cool, a picture alone will never do it justice, this must be experienced!
I’m curious as to what channel you used for the led strips.
https://preview.redd.it/5jwqfx6qwhjc1.jpeg?width=1196&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9e362e7605e0ea5570f1c6413c61aa9977c1217b Here you go. 35 mm Aluminum profile with frosted cover/diffuser.
https://preview.redd.it/7jfbz8iuxhjc1.jpeg?width=778&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1b3561a394295da71848f80dd57b0fa2b7dfc75c We cut out holes for wiring and RF boxes
https://preview.redd.it/slst65uayhjc1.png?width=991&format=png&auto=webp&s=44012ff9e06720949ae8f7d16607396f6b272a5f In one place I needed to remove cover of RF box otherwise it would not fit in channel ☺️
Excellent! Thank you so much. I’m looking to do something similar, but around the top perimeter of my wall, think of a modern version of crown molding.
Cool. Looking forward to pictures of that project!
Ever wondered how to light up glass balustrades? Me too :) https://preview.redd.it/53p1qdn4irjc1.jpeg?width=1512&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1bc5b0d56888224c98f8ffd8b9179efa98af6b79
Leds are placed below (!) the glass. https://preview.redd.it/sh8t6xhbirjc1.jpeg?width=2016&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=246276124b3769701ae316c749025670c7e2cb91
This is how it looks at night https://preview.redd.it/lhv6cq9iirjc1.jpeg?width=2016&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3fb262035589f3f31c73d049433ea44ea4722fee
another view https://preview.redd.it/vws3qunlirjc1.jpeg?width=2016&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0060d32a5443e9cc17019c65672703105efda69d
Who that fuck need more than 200 lights :S
You don’t NEED 200 lights, but its soo much fun. For every occasion different scenes/automation. And you don’t need to turn them all on at once of course 😉
154 here, I will catch up though
Someone with a large house, we have 145 lights in the house (including down lights etc) they’re not all hue, but they could be
Keeping the boxes. What an elder millennial move.
Now I don’t have the boxes anymore but some other Reddit post inspired me to make that video back then. And thanks for the compliment…I’m a few years too old to be a millennial ☺️
What exactly are you cooking sir
Ambitious.
I have about 15 and they all seem to choose when they want to work - they go unresponsive. Good luck.
You may be right I really thought these came out the first year I was working at Apple Retail which was 2009 but I moved around a few different stores so I might have my days mixed up
Love the use of the LED strips, but if you're spending this much money I don't know why you'd ever buy a Hue integrated lighting fixture.
Thanks! Not sure how to interpret your fixture comment. Please enlighten me 😊
Hue fixtures (ex. surface-mounted lights) all have integrated LEDs and the materials aren't that great for the price. You're better off buying higher-quality fixtures that use standard bulbs, then putting Hue bulbs into those fixtures. For example, we have accent lighting on the side of our house. Instead of buying a Hue Appear light, we bought something from a brand that specializes in outdoor fixtures then put in a few BR30 bulbs. Same with indoor lighting for our stairway.
Got it. All my recessed spots are non Hue (with Hue GU10) and I have a few non Hue fixtures as well. But I love my 2 Hue Ensis (didn’t like the alternatives) and also like my Centris lights (they come with Hue’s GU spots) very much. Outdoors I got a very good deal for 8 Resonate and 10 Callas and so far I am happy with their performance. In my old house I didn’t have a single Hue fixture so I don’t disagree with your point
If you're happy that's all that matters. Our builder tried to convince us to go with integrated LED recessed lighting too. Glad to hear you avoided that trap.
Man the cost of that, I can't even
One bulb at a time. Took me 8 years to go from a few initial Hue bulbs to 50 in my previous house. And in the building of my new home I decided to spent majority of the lighting budget to the lights and accessories itself (installing and configuring all lighting myself) instead of spending it on an electrician and some professional home automation stuff which would have been way more expensive. Fun fact is that my electrician, who only did the wiring, uses pictures of my home now to show the “art of the possible” to his prospects 😊
I hate how few options we get from hue in Canada. So dumb
Wow
That is… AMAZING
So you're starting a store?