Philips Hue White and Color Ambiance LED Smart Light Bulb Starter Kit, 3 A19 Smart Bulbs & 1 Hue Hub (Works with Alexa, Apple HomeKit & Google Assistant)

Super easy to set up using the philips hue app and seamlessly integrated with Alexa and Siri (Apple Home Kit). I did notice that Alexa sometimes didn’t work with voice commands. This seemed very finicky as it would happen from time to time but not on consistent basis. I would say the exact same voice prompt and Alexa sometimes would work or not. I never did figure out why this was. Surprisingly I found using Siri was the easiest since I have my Apple Watch on most of the time and I only have a single Echo Dot 3rd generation in my living room, so it wouldn’t pick up my voice commands if I was in a different room. I did not have the volume turned all the way up on my Echo Dot so that might account for this. I noticed Alexa would respond immediately to my voice commands while Siri most times took a few seconds but nonetheless still eventually did what I wanted; just had a little lag time. One annoying issue I encountered was that Apple HomeKit added one of my zones twice, and when I synced Apple HomeKit to my Hue Hub via Philips Hue App, it showed my outside lights zone twice. It didn’t affect my lights outside; they worked just fine, it just always showed I had a double zone outside. There’s probably a way to fix this but I never bothered with it since the lights still worked fine and it didn’t affect any of my schedules I set for the lights to turn off and on. This is a great starter kit for anyone wanting to take a dive into making their home smarter. Great value for the money! I also like that each of the bulbs communicate with each other via zigbee; rather than each bulb trying to connect to the hub or your router. That gives you a lot more freedom to add bulbs throughout your house or outside without worrying whether the WiFi signal will reach or not. I plan to purchase additional Philips LED Smart light bulbs to add to my other rooms and would highly recommend! FYI, the bulbs that come in this kit are the soft white not the ambiance white (different shades of white).

These things are gorgeous when they decide to work. Pros -Alexa is amazing with them -cheap to run -colors are incredible! Cons -the hub has to have a hard connection, no wifi option that Ive found -synching them to my computer made the lights flicker on and off like crazy and the only way to stop it was to disconnect, unscrew them and hope it worked -the price is super high for a product that has almost no support

I love it and want every bulb I have to match.

This is our second set of smart light bulbs and first one from Philips Hue. We have iPhones and iPads almost everywhere in the house (an iPad for each one and an iPhone for each adult) so we dont need to invest in extra voice control devices ( the idea of buying an Echo for each room sounds awful, though currently we have one in the kids room and I like it). Before having this Hue Starter Kit, as most people considering their 1st smart light bulbs, I didnt understand either why a hub (or bridge) is required while some light bulbs say they dont need to. So I purchase my first set of smart light bulbs from another brand, without a hub and claiming it supported Siri. But it didnt have a HomeKit code so it was just a fake ad. As a tech guy (installed all kinds of hardware and software in data center for years and also a developer) it took me more than a couple of hours to try all 3 paring methods to make it work with Alexa, and it was super annoying and felt unsafe to be asked to share my location all the time, not to mention I also had to input my complicated wifi passcode several times for a single try. The Philips Hue Hub, originally just for Siri control, tuned out a big surprise. It made it super easy to setup, almost worked out of box. All you need to do is to read a few lines of instruction, plug in two cords (power and network cable) and scan HomeKit code from your iPhone. The only difficult part for me was to find where the HomeKit code was among a mass of words and numbers on the hubs body. But that was all. Before purchasing, I was worried about the light bulbs in this starter kit were previous version and not white ambience as a couple of reviews pointed out. When they lighted up I found 2700k color was perfectly for me, both in living room and bedroom. Plus the watts is even slightly bigger than the current version which has a flat top and bluetooth. I even prefer this version over the bluetooth version if next time I need more bulbs because of the brightness. What a great deal that you get the hub and the lovely bulbs for just a bit more than 60 dollars. Highly recommend it especially if you want to utilize Siri you already have and dont want to waste your intelligence on figuring out how to connect a single bulb to your wifi for multiple bulbs.

GENERATION 2, not 3 or 4!that is why it is cheap, do not buy, not only is this seller misleading but the gen 3 is significantly brighter and higher quality w additional features.

These are great! I will definitely buy more bulbs to add to this

You need this in your life, or at least I do, I didn’t realize how much. I received this for Christmas and am obsessed! I got the starter kit with 3 color bulbs, the bridge and the light switch. Within two days I went and bought the Hue Go lamp (LOVE!), a plain white bulb (dims only for garbage) and two ambient white bulbs for places I don’t need color. It was so fun to set up and play with different light scenes. I use Apple HomeKit (built in iphone app) and can control the lights with Siri. I’ve created scenes which are calming, euphoric and energizing. I have found this improves my mood and calms me. When I get home from work and have a soft rose gold sort of glow in the room Ive found I’m more likely to put on music and tinker than go straight to the TV, which helps my mood as well. It’s fun to have guests over and say “Hey Siri, red moon” and have my lights dim down to a pink-red glow while their eyes widen with surprise, then I say “Hey Siri, arrive home” and the lights return to the warm and calm glow that is my favorite so far. I’m hooked.

My house is shine like a dimond.

Great set up BTW Hue and Bridge are the same thing. Hope this clears up some confusion.

I have some of my own and love them so much I decided to get them as a gift for a friend.