This is just for the E27 Starter Kit with Hue Bridge and 2 white bulbs. It was $32.40 during Black Friday but this price is still pretty great.
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I only received mine today and haven't set them up to see, but they are warm white (advertised 2700 K) so I'd expect them to be a bit yellow anyway. It's a cheaper way to get the bridge still, and if I ever commit to Hue I'd roll out either white ambience or full colour bulbs across the house anyway.
Yellow? These are warm white around 2700K which is recommended for home use.
https://www.lumens.com/how-tos-and-advice/kelvin-color-tempe…
They're very yellow. Or very warm. I like them in the lounge and bedroom, but much too yellow IMO for the kitchen, dining area, office. I have ambience for those areas.
Kitchen and office are task areas where you use a cooler colour. But in general a warmer colour is best for home use and your health.
The term "recommended for home use" is all subjective. I've had tenants in my rental house that prefer "fluorescent white" inside the house, so when those CFL goes, we buy the cool white ones for them. Nothing right or wrong with that, just preference. Warm white lighting does make you more relaxed compared with cool white lighting with less blue light emitted.
Yes, i find them too yellow too
I did and I am returning sadly
return or sell them? might make a profit if you got them for cheap. but looks like hue is discounting them everywhere
No idea who will want to buy it for a profit
the box says white, i guess they dont label it as warm white and cool white? i do find them a bit yellow. good for bedroom but nothing else imo
says warm white on the box, look a little under the white label, where the picture og the globes is.
These should be warm, so yes yellowish. Good for lounge, bedrooms etc
Very yellow, like an old tungsten-filament lamp. But I'm getting used to it.
Would not want them in kitchen, office, etc, but agree good for bedroom.
Box say warm white, which is a little misleading as anything from 2000-4000K can be considered "warm white". Only when you start digging into the specs, then it mentions 2700K, which is tending towards the red/yellow of the colour spectrum or "warm".
2700K is similar colour to incandescent bulbs. It's good for some places in the house, but for me it's a bit too warm. I prefer something in the range of 4000K or neutral white, which is what you'll find in most LED downlights.
…which is a little misleading as anything from 2000-4000K can be considered "warm white"…
…then it mentions 2700K…
2700K is towards the middle of the 2000-4000K range you've defined as being 'warm white', so how exactly is it misleading?
It's like saying the the water is "cold". It could be at the point just before freezing, or it could be 10 deg, which is still "cold".
Should always state an exact Kelvin or colour temp rating (with +/- rating) for all lights. Warm white is a general range that doesn't really mean much. I would not buy a light if it doesn't state the Kelvin. I've been working in the lighting industry for over 5 years.
@Slugoid: Sounds like you just enjoy being pedantic.
For the average Joe who doesn't work in the lighting industry, 'warm' is a more useful term than '2700K' in describing the character of the light.
Of course the other clue is the picture on the box and photos on the web page that show the light has a yellow hue.
So no, there's no misleading going on here.
You’ll want the Hue Ambience starter kit then. Or this kit, $40 for a bridge and two spare yellow bulbs is good start too.
Yeah, I had a look. The Hue white Ambience is $140, which is stupid money. I'm still looking for smart downlights compatible with Google/Alexa/Homekit. So far I haven't found any. If anyone has any suggestion, give me a buzz. I prefer downlights for my new home and I don't want to put E27 base with reflectors on the ceiling just to have smart controls.
Edit: Phillips has a Hue downlight….for $59. Gonna cost a fortune just to do the bedrooms, ouch!
They are quite yellow. But yellow will do for now, I’ll upgrade them to the ambience white or color bulbs later. Yellow is kind of nice anyway, makes the house feel old fashioned.
i feel it makes the house too old
I’d rather my house feel “old” than like a public toilet block.
Yes, way too yellow.
I am very disappointed, for something at this (regular) price point one could expect adjustable colour temperature. Guess, I should have read up before purchasing, instead of assuming, but they call them "Hue" - I assumed that means adjustable…
I'll stick with my Xiaomi bulbs, thank you!. If I can't find anyone who takes the Philips off my hands I'll likely try to return them too.
i think its not that bad for $16 a bulb, good for bedroom
Just got mine delivered today and did a quick light test to compare them to an incandescent bulb of old…
The Hue White measured at 2774k, so will look like the old-style filament (incandescent) bulbs, which I measured to be 2712k…
https://i.ibb.co/hBDZXc4/Memory-01-2774-K-Color-Rendering.jp…
Unfortunately, the CRI (quality) of light is really low on some of the most important colours, and near exactly the same as Philips lights of 7 years ago! Not a big deal for the bargain price but at the original price of $144, it should be performing better.
How did you measure?
Hi. I used a Sekonic colour meter in a dimmed room without any fixture on the bulb.
@nfr: "SpectroMaster looks cool."
It was such a nerdy thing but I figured if I don't upgrade my phone for a while I can justify it, and it got me a huge step closer to understanding good lighting for photos/videos. :)
Add an Echo Dot (3rd gen) and it's only $8.20 extra.
Coming up as $48.10 total for both items
You're right! Thanks!
I had $10 discount from Amazon, so managed to get both for $38
I couldn't find the add a combo button, it l add them individually the discount doesn't come up?
Does at checkout
thanks
Not doing it for me for some reason…
Quite frustrating
Did not work for me :-/
ur amazonAU staff ?
Thanks!
Thanks for that tip! These Echoes just keep getting cheaper. Already have a bunch of them, but can't resist another for $8.20.
is there anything else you can add on and get discounted? (substituting the Echo Dot) - is there a list of available stuff anywhere?
I think adding any of the Echo devices will generate some sort of discount. The Dot was the cheapest.
thanks, grabbed it. had $5 credit as well from the grass jelly deal.
oops i already ordered before i saw this, but just put through a cancel.
edit now its back to $139 so i missed out again.. oops
What am I missing… comes up as $75.90??
Too slow.
Does't show that offer if you already own an Echo Dot registered to your account. Wish it had. We want more for the other rooms.
On the bright side I did score another Hue kit.
Gah! Do I get this or wait for that very slim chance that JB might re-stock before the 15th for $28!
Wouldn't count on it
Neither would I. Same online. Supposed to run until the 15th. They stopped click and collect and online availability within a couple of hours, and the item page had been pulled by evening.
According to my local store, they sold out walk-ins within an hour of the publication of the promo. The demand is there, just not at $144-
Buy Amazon Echo + This
Pay $48
Sell Amazon Echo on Ebay for like $35-40 (Also, gonna sell the bulbs as well just wanted the bridge)
Not sure how the discount gets applied, but with the Dot included after all the discount l have ($30GC, staff dis etc), l end up paying on 0.60c
https://imgur.com/9W9Iuun
Thats really damn good for 60 cents
You said it yourself, staff discount
Staff dis is only like 10%, no where can bring down that much
There is a promotion when you buy Hue products with an Echo device. It's on the product page
Wow! What's the promo code?
wont be a promo code - will be something associated with his account
Ah, I see! Thought there was a generic code!
This is overall a better deal than JBHIFI if you do the combo with the amazon echo and sell that.
Will one bridge work for multiple devices over a large home, or do you need multiple bridges? Got the Starter Kid A60 price matched to 80% off - 2 globes, bridge and dimmer for $34 at Bunnings. Wondering if this deal is worth it for the 2 x globes?
Yes they will, and yes it is.
Dont even know the connections on my lights at home, purchased anyways
So can only order one?
Yes
Thanks OP - got this along with an Echo Dot for $48.10
It's coming up as $75 at checkout for me…
In that case…remember your username!
are you a prime member? it might be that
I'm a Prime member
@dontpanic: i think it might be that.. trying to do it on a prime account and because it has a deal with prime delivery it doesn't seem to do the deal with the bulbs?
$48 deal is OZB'ed. I am a prime member and the price just changed in cart from $48 to $75
Yeah, no deal for $75. Got enough globes and Alexas around the house for now.
Sad to see Philips having fallen so low. The once prestige brand does not mean much anymore.
Plenty brighter bulbs out there to listen to Alexa etc. Btw the echo Spot is 48 and the Show 78 at OW or Bunnings.
It is what it is. Warm white 2700k E27. Doesn't suit you? Good. Don't buy it. More for me.
Plenty of use in our home for voice & android dimmable & auto switching warm white E27. Ambience from the HT Room floor standers, Hall table lamp, Dining area side table feature, Formal lounge ambience standers, bedside table lamps etc.
Think it got fixed
When I checkout, the total comes back with $139.00… WTF ?
add echo dot and it is $75 now?
If anyone is worried about these being too yellow, please don't.
As an ex lighting designer allow me share some unsolicited advice: natural sunlight has a much warmer colour temperature than fluorescents or LED lights that are 'cool white'. When designing lights for theatre the go-to gel to use to mimic natural light was called 'straw' if that gives you some indication of the colour of sunlight.
These bulbs is much less stressful on the eyes, especially for extended periods, than a cooler colour.
Ideally you shouldn't expose yourself to the more blue colour lights for a few hours before bed if you have any trouble sleeping as it is the more similar to the midday sun and will keep you awake longer.
The only circumstances I would use the cool white LEDs is for a factory floor or if I was a business owner trying to stop my employees falling asleep on the job. For home use, I wouldn't have anything else but these warm whites.
Of course taste is subjective so if you prefer the cool whites, more power to you (you're probably just used to the shitty cheapo fluorescents that flood every damn office and McDonalds) But your body probably doesn't agree with your taste.
As a current light user I fully agree. Tried the daylight in main living areas and hated it, so changed to warm white. The Daylight gives a clinical non homely look. I now use daylight only in the study, bathrooms, walk in robes etc and warm white in bedroom & living areas.
Yeah I'd use cool white in the bathroom / laundry too, easier to spot zits and stains. But I'm the kinda guy that spends as little time in there as possible.
For the kitchen I think you're better off just adding more warm bulbs, which also makes the light more diffuse as well as intense.
Maybe if I was trying to pick larvae out of white flour I'd use a cool white but thankfully that doesn't happen often.
Full daylight is about 5700-5900K. Is that "much warmer colour temperature than fluorescents or LED lights that are 'cool white'." !?
A lot of people prefer this natural colour, or at least something over 4000K, for kitchen, bathroom and work areas.
The 2700K bulbs are popular with oldies like me because it mimics the yellow colour of incandescent bulbs. (Or just after sunrise / before sunset ).
I'm guessing that figure includes the light reflected from the atmosphere, which, obviously, is pretty blue.
Over 4k is better for productivity but not for relaxing, either the mind or eyeballs.
The warmer the colour temp the more it releases,I dunno, hormones, which put you to sleep. This is why melanin (what your body produces naturally when exposed to sunlight) is prescribed for insomnia
Hello. I interestingly enough did a test of these bulbs you may appreciate :)
https://i.ibb.co/hBDZXc4/Memory-01-2774-K-Color-Rendering.jp…
To everyone interested: What they show is the red (R9) value being extraordinarily low, bad news being R9 is what your body needs to sleep. These bulbs pump out the other colours to emulate R9 to the human eye, but the real effect on cellular level is akin to me giving you a photo of water after you did a big run, it's won't help at all to quench your thirst.
A friend also showed me his Philips Master Series bulbs, and as soon as they switched on it made a massive difference to the room, colours looked true to life. I wish they came as smart bulbs :) I only started getting suspicious of Philips Hue when I noticed a distinct green shift across all series of Hue, unfortunately after I decked the whole place out. I am thrilled with the features, except poor R9 colour rendition (for the price).
@Heaps for Cheaps: If you want the true reds you need the Cree red diodes that they use for flowering plants in hydroponics. They're amongst the most expensive you can get but have a perfect red spectrum. Wasted on us humans though, unless we start photosynthesing.
that figure includes the light reflected from the atmosphere, which, obviously, is pretty blue.
Yes, assuming you mean "scattered", but that makes little difference and should not be discounted.
As you will notice from a total eclipse, most of the blue light reaches you directly.
But whether it illuminates directly or indirectly, it is still part of the illumination.
Yes, the yellow shade of the Hue lights is good for putting you to sleep.
@bargaino: Yeah I think it's actually the colour gradually getting warmer that releases whatever it is in your body that relaxes you and makes you sleepy, mimicking dusk.
And obviously the reverse is true with light getting cooler (bluer) mimicking dawn and making you more alert. I'm looking forward to getting all colour changing bulbs in my living areas and programming slow colour temp changes and seeing if it has much effect.
I'm no scientist but my understanding of sunlight is that it has all the colour temperatures (besides fluorescent colours I think) this is how rainbows work. Most of the colours we can see, and some we can't, like Ultra Violet. So perhaps the predominant colour temperature to the human eye is 5700-5900K, but the sun is actually putting out everything. And every different creature (including plants) see the colour of the sun differently.
The atmosphere absorbs a lot of the blue, which is why the sky is at it's bluest at midday, and at its warmest, or most red, at dawn and dusk.
my understanding of sunlight is that it has all the colour temperatures
No. Why not just google it instead of making wild guesses?
Colour temp refers to black body radiation, not a single wavelength.
The atmosphere absorbs a lot of the blue
Completely misunderstood also. It scatters. If absorbed, the sky would be black, not blue.
@bargaino: Oops yeah I meant reflects not absorbs. It's fricken 40 degrees here and I wrote that sitting on a bus.
My understanding of colour temperature comes from Lighting Design, not physics.
But even me, with my primary school level understanding of physics, knows that what colour we see light as (what we call colour temperature in design) is not the only colour said light contains. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispersive_prism)
To oversimplify, no object actually has a colour, it's the light source that determines the colour that our human eyes perceive.
I think wild guesses is about the best you can expect on an ozbargain discussion about the perception of light. If that offends you go find a physics forum and knock yourself out.
@CitizenCane: FYI:
- for old incandescent bulbs, the colour temp is the actual filament temperature.
just ordered the kit - app was telling me 80% odd stock already gone…. who knows if accurate, but move quick if true..!
Cheers OP. Looking forward to giving these a go. Been using a tp link coloured bulb and have had nothing but issues with it being not available about half the time .
All gone. only waitlist now
waitlist not too long, ordered one from waitlist
Might be in luck when I get home and find out I've got B22 fittings, haha.
i got this from the last jb hifi deal. Anyone else find the lights are a bit yellow?