Philips Hue Tap Dial Switch (White) $57 + Delivery ($0 with Prime/$59 Spend) @ Amazon AU

140
Philips Hue Tap Dial Switch (White) $57 + Delivery ($0 with Prime/$59 Spend) @ Amazon AUAffiliate
Go to Deal
Cashback
Tacooo on 10/02/2025 - 11:44 amazon.com.au (875 clicks)
Last edited 10/02/2025 - 11:46 by 1 other user
This post contains affiliate links. OzBargain might earn commissions when you click through and make purchases. Please see this page for more information.

Lowest price ever according to the 3 camels.

Control up to three Rooms or a Zone with each individual button of the Tap dial switch, available in black or white. Turn the dial to dim and brighten the lights. Mount it to the wall, place it on a magnetic surface or use it as a remote control. Control your entire smart lighting system from anywhere in your home — without your phone or tablet. Connect your Philips Hue lights with the bridge and start discovering the endless possibilites. Control your lights from your smartphone or tablet via the Philips Hue app or add switches to your system to activate your lights. Set timers, notifications, alarms and more for the full Philips Hue experience. Philips Hue even works with Amazon Alexa, Apple Homekit and Google Home to allow you to control your lights with your voice. For precise lighting levels, turn the dial slowly to dim or brighten in smaller increments. Turn it faster to quickly brighten or dim the room. Attach the Tap dial switch to the wall with its adhesive backing, place on any magnetic surface or simply remove it from the wall plate to use as a remote control.

Personally I'm buying a few for my Home Assistant setup. Seems like a good way to be able to control multiple rooms as well as the brightness with one simple device. Gonna take a bit of scripting but should be worth it in the end. Combine it with the adaptive lighting integration and it's basically all you'll ever need.

Price History at C CamelCamelCamel.
Electrical & Electronics Philips Smart Home Smart Light

Related Stores

Amazon AU
Amazon AU
Marketplace

Comments

  • bargaino on 10/02/2025 - 11:55
    +1

    Seems like a good way to be able to control multiple rooms

    Even without HomeAssistant, you can do similar with the other Hue switches. Just needs a 3rd party app, Hue Essentials, as the official app is very limited.
    You can have one button for a zone or room, and multiple presses or hold to select a scene.

    I've always found the "brighter/dimmer" buttons to be useless on a modern setup - it is just a holdover from the analogue days. Instead, define all the "scenes" you want for a room, and cycle between them.

    • isthisreallife22 on 10/02/2025 - 11:59

      I have a lot of those older hue switches and havent got around to setting up a sensible control scheme (using Hue Essentials or HA or otherwise). Would love some tips on how folks have seen them setup in ways that works well for them

    • Tacooo on 10/02/2025 - 12:01
      +3

      Why would I want to do it without HA though? That just means another stupid app on my phone, and another setup that's segregated from my HA (which I use for everything). Plus with HA I can also use it as a media remote for my TV with rotary volume control and such (if I wanted to), all while still having it function primarily as a light switch (and this is only an example of what I could use it for).

      • bargaino on 10/02/2025 - 12:07
        +1

        Some people don't have HA. Shocking, I know.

        You can do what I suggested either in HA, in the Hue Bridge, or a mix. The "stupid app" is still a lot easier to configure than Home Assistant. And the Bridge is more reliable than my HA server. Though I seem to have HA working more reliably now - maybe it was the old ZHA setup.

        • Tacooo on 10/02/2025 - 12:08
          +2

          Fair enough. Thought you were directly referencing my setup.

      • MerlinKlendatu on 10/02/2025 - 12:50

        Can you provide guidance on hot to use the wheel for audio volume control, please?
        How would HA connect to eg a Sony soundbar or AppleTV?

        • Tacooo on 10/02/2025 - 14:27

          You need to find the ZHA event (or MQTT event) of the wheel by using the dev tools. Once you know the specific event ID you can use automations to trigger upon an event ID that contains what you pulled from the dev tools.

  • bargainshooter on 10/02/2025 - 12:24
    +2

    I have a bunch of the original kinetic tap switches - they are rock solid compared to the dimmers

    • bobbieb on 10/02/2025 - 19:53

      Agree. I got one of the original kinetic switches when I first started out with zigbee - I hated it at first, but I grew to love it & it's been rock solid for years. Wish I'd grabbed more at the time.

  • Zimbyzim on 10/02/2025 - 12:52
    +2

    Got a few of these and both the dimmer types and these are way more reliable.
    Prob gonna pick up a few more.
    Setup in Home assistant is a bit tricker, but with some blueprints you can get things working almost the same as native hue app.
    There are some weird limitations on commands per second so the dim up and down is very slightly jerkier than the smoothness of hue, but very much acceptable.
    Also found Z2M to be much more Reliable than ZA for these.

    Cheers

    • Zimbyzim on 10/02/2025 - 12:53

      Also officeworks price match for some extra savings

  • gazer on 10/02/2025 - 13:01
    +1

    other than the dial for dimming/brightening one zone only, I can't see how these have much advantage over the regular 4 button dimmer switch. I have both.

    • Zimbyzim on 10/02/2025 - 13:10
      +2

      More reliable, but yes it’s a dial, that’s the benefit :)

      • gazer on 11/02/2025 - 14:41

        woulda been great if they could've implemented it for each 4 buttons, but limitiations.

  • mitch01 on 10/02/2025 - 14:08

    For home assistant, wouldn't you be better off buying $10-15 switches and dials from Ali Express? I'm using them and it's working out great, trying to figure out what justifies $57.

    • stuffandthat on 10/02/2025 - 14:28
      +1

      Which ones are you using?

    • Tacooo on 10/02/2025 - 14:29
      +1

      For me I've had issues with cheap switches and sensors all the time. More prone to failure from temperature, batteries run flat faster, lower build quality. Besides the very first generation of motion sensors, all my Hue stuff has been absolute rock solid.

    • SickDmith on 10/02/2025 - 15:11
      +1

      I'm using them and it's working out great…

      Links. Or it didn't happen. :))

  • Commodore64 on 10/02/2025 - 16:33

    These are the bees knees. There's a good blueprint for home assistant.

  • Man10United on 11/02/2025 - 11:16

    available in black or white

    I can't find the exact black one.

Login or Join to leave a comment
Login Join