Philips 468926 Hue White Ambiance E12 Decorative Candle 6W Equivalent Dimmable LED Smart Bulb (Compatible with Amazon Alexa, Apple HomeKit, and Google Assistant)

Need a hub. Return bc it got to expense. With the hub

I have a number of Philip Hue lights and wanted to turn an antique stained glass lamp into a smart light. Just screwed these lights in and they took off. Only issue I have is there default setting is a harsh blue light when they first get turned on but I changed it in the settings so now when it turns on it is blue then changes to the soft white.

Very dull

I bought three bulbs at the same time for the ceiling fan in my kitchen. One bulb is already burned out and I bought them less than a year ago. It appears on all of my devices as “unresponsive”. Nothing I do makes the bulb respond to anything. The other two work great! And the one that’s acting up was working when I first installed it, but it stopped about a month or two after installation.

This product has died with 1.5 years and is gauranteed 2 years. Highly disappointed.

These work perfectly for our outdoor (covered) candelabra bases. Its so nice to finally have some automation on the front porch lights.

The lights work great. Setup was as easy as my other he bulbs and the light quality looks just as good. The only issue is the bulbs are a bit long, probably half an inch longer than the previous (non Hue) bulbs. They stick out just a bit past the end of the light fixtures I have them in. Its not too bad because the actual lit part of the bulb is fully within the fixture. Only the diffuser sticks out. Make sure you check your fixtures first. The bulb measures 3 and 7/8 inches from the white base (excluding the metal part that screws in). My previous bulbs were only 3 and 1/2 inches.

Able to turn lights on and off using Hue app.

I bought several Hue products to act as a system for automating my household lights in certain rooms for daily use, & also to give the illusion that someone is at home when no one is. The products included the one for which I am posting this review, and I will be posting the identical review for the other products I bought. The products involved are the White Ambiance Decorative Candle 40 W dimmable, the White Ambiance 60W Dimmable, the Dimmer Switch with Remote, the Motion Sensor, and the Hue Hub. I use these products over an eero based WiFi system, with the Apple HomeKit app operating on my Apple TV4. I control them remotely from my iPhone and my iPad, using the Home app from Apple and the Hue app. (You really need to use both to set the system up, because it maximizes your options to do so.) Setting up the system was quite easy, and all of the accessories work as one would expect. Nevertheless, there is room for improvement, which is why I’ve rated all of them, together, as 4 rather than 5 stars. The biggest problem I have with the system concerns our chandeliers. Both of the ones we have are dimmable, and one of them is controlled by switches at two different doorways. Both of them take 3 light bulbs, and neither of them will function reliably if all three of the bulbs are Hue bulbs. The problem is that when all three of the bulbs are Hue bulbs, they flicker on & off, rendering it impossible to use the chandelier at all. This is a known issue with certain light fixtures which are dimmable, and Phillips is upfront with the likelihood that this could occur. Unfortunately, you won’t know if you have the problem till you try it out. The best solution is to rewire the chandeliers so that they are not dimmable. But pending having that done, I discovered that the living room chandelier works just fine if one light socket is left empty. Not true for the dining room chandelier, but for that one, I discovered that if two of the bulbs are Hue, and the third is a refrigerator light bulb, the flickering does not occur. The problem is that in order to use the scheduling & remote features for the Hue bulbs, the socket the bulbs are in have to be switched on all the time, which means that in the dinning room, the refridgerator light winds up being on all the time. A minor problem I have with Hue lights is that they are all 60 watts (or less). This is not bright enough to read by. For instance, I had three 100 watt bulbs in both our chandeliers, and even when I get three Hues to operate correctly in them, it’s not quite bright enough. I’m hoping that Phillips is working on higher watt versions of the Hue bulbs. The remote device and the motion detector work just fine. Oddly, the motion detector also gives the temperature at the place where it is positioned. For what it’s worth, the ordinary Hue bulbs will work outside even when the temperature drops as much as 20 degrees below zero. At least, that’s been my experience after about a month of use involving a lot of subzero temperatures.

LOVE these! Easy/quick to configure and fit perfectly into my candelabra fixtures.