Hello, I'm Tristan from Smart Home Point. In today's video I have a Philips Hue
bulb installed overhead and I have a Philips Hue light strip
installed around my desk, and I wanted to walk through loads of different lab
formulas that exist for Philips Hue lights. Now
the reason this is important is that by default if you launch the Philips Hue
app after you've just installed a bunch of Philips Hue products, you'll probably
be left disappointed, and that's because the app by default
only allows you to change color once or to select a scene and that's it.
It's static. This so... there's no dynamic effects built
into the Philips Hue app, which is a bit rubbish.
But thankfully there's something called the Hue labs that has loads of dynamic
effects which they call formulas this is to rival things like
LIFX app which by default has loads of different dynamic effects,
so I wanted to show all these different Hue lab formulas in this video.
Let's take a look. Before we get started the first thing to note is that if you
want to experiment with the Hue lab formulas,
you cannot use the Hue Bluetooth app. You must use the main
Philips Hue app with the Hue bridge. And to get started you open the app you,
go down to explore, and then you go to Hue labs. If we go
into there, you can basically see all your lab
formulas here and you can go in and try any out
that you want. So the first effect I wanted to look at is the Color Loop lab
formula which I've set up to be vibrant and fast. what that means is there's a
lot of different colors shown and they flick
between them very quickly, as you can see on the screen. You can
however set this up so there's less color variation,
and the colors move around a lot slower,
but for the purpose is this I just want it to be quite an in your face
configuration, just so you could see exactly how this lab formula works.
Okay the next one I wanted to look at is Living Scenes. Now this is a more
subtle effect and I set this up to be dinner party - there's basically different
palettes... colour palettes... and effects you can choose.
So for dinner party
- as you can see - this is a lot more of a subtle and softer
effect compared to the previous one.
You can see there's some color variation, especially in the light strip and
there's a little bit on the bulb overhead, but there's not as
much variation with the dinner party effect.
Alternatively I also wanted to look at the over the rainbow
Living Scenes effect - or palette - so you can see that's selected now,
and immediately you can see there's a bit more variation.
This feels a lot more vibrant, and there's a bigger range of colors as
you can see.
So certainly if you're looking to set the scene you know in the background, you
might want the dinner party effect. Whilst if you're looking for
something a bit more in your face, you might want over the rainbow or
something like Color Loop.
The next effect I wanted to look at is Outdoor Living Scenes and I set Soho
as the effect, but you've got quite a few different ones here.
And you can see the effect here,
it looks kind of like daytime or potentially it's moving into night time.
there's some nice different colors here which you'd probably expect on a busy
street like Soho,
and as you can see there's some flickering there's some color changes
but it's quite subtle so this is again quite a nice of background effect.
Next up is Cozy Homes Living Scenes and I set Scandinavian here... there's three
different choices for the effect...
and this feels like a - sort of - daytime color but with some warmth which you'd
expect for a cozy home type effect.
There's some variation, especially in the brightness to get some sort flickering
type effect, and a little bit of color changes but again this is quite a subtle
effect, if that's what you're looking for.
Next up Phillips you have a Diwali effect lab formula
called Festival of Lights it basically mimics a candle-like
effect as you can see on the screen.
This is quite a nice - sort of - soothing effect
both the bulb and the light strip are dimming and brightening up.
The next one I want to look at is Autumn Living Scenes, I've got to set the
Thanksgiving effect,
and I set it so it changes color every 15 seconds.
This is yet another fairly subtle lab formula, it's a bit like the
dinner party effect really. You have some color and brightness changes, but
not that much. Tthis one's slightly brighter overall than
the Dinner Party Living Scenes effect.
Okay so some color change there but again nothing dramatic.
The next effect I wanted to look at is called Heart's Sesire
Living Scenes. There's again different effects here and again I set it so it'll
change the transition time will be fairly small -
15 seconds between different color changes -
and as you can see there's nothing again... this is another fairly subtle
lab formula. There's some color variation as you've just seen.
The main thing with this though is brightness shifts - you know - the
brightness moves around more than the color does,
and it's a nice background effect.
Okay the next one's interesting, this is Choose Your Path, it's a Star Wars one,
and the way this works is basically you fill in this quiz that's on the screen
and then at the end it chooses a color for you. So as you've seen it's decided to
change to red, and you can see me filling in this quiz,
but based on my quiz answers it decided that I'm in the dark side so
now this particular effect is just set to
red, and that's about it. There's not much color variation or brightness variation.
It's more a fun quiz essentially,
and that's that's basically it. You fill in this quiz and then you've got that
choice of color. It chooses it for you.
Next up Halloween Haunted House. This is a fun one.
So I've chosen the haunted house effect and basically
I've got itset so there's a lot of variation in brightness,
so it's changing the color and the brightness quite a lot to make the house
seem a little bit haunted. This is quite a nice one for
halloween, as you can see, it's quite a creepy one and sometimes it
does completely turn off the lights as well
which is quite a nice effect. Okay the next effect is Sunset
Simulation and this is quite nice, you can set it to run over two hours but in
this case I've got it set to be quite quick - so it starts out with a sort
of a daylight type effect, as you can see but then bit by bit it's
becoming darker and darker - you know - less bright,
and also a bit more orangey (as you can see). And whilst this can run
as I said over two hours, I have it set to run over,
well, barely any time at all so it's a very rapid
uhm simulation.
Next is Holiday Living Scenes: again there's different effects here,
and as you can see on the effect itself, in this particular one
you've got a blue type effect to begin with, but it does flick
between colors, you can see that now this reflects more
of a pinky type color, and there's some brightness variation.
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This is quite a nice effect overall. Next up, Meditation Lights. The way this
works is basically you configure it how you'd like,
but then it basically brightens up and dims down
to actually simulate breathing. So the idea here is as it dims down
and brightens back up you're meant to inhale and exhale,
so this is for effectively visual guided meditation.
It just dim it back down,
and then it brightens back up, and that's for helping you control your breathing.
The last effect I wanted to cover is Candlelit Romance,
which is a bit like Festival of Lights. This will look... you can configure it...
and it basically mimics candlelight,
so as you can see it's - sort of - an orangey yellowy type effect and there's
a lot of brightness variation.
Yes, this is quite a nice effect as well and very similar to the Festival of Lights
lab formula. Okay that wraps up today's video, thank
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