Philips Hue Smart Plug for Hue Smart Lights, Bluetooth & Hue Hub Compatible

Having physical controls for smart lights is a must unless you want to constantly be asking Siri (which in some cases is a hassle). This switch is super easy to add to your existing home structure through the Phillips Hue app and easy to physically install to the wall. My only complaint is the lack of a designed ‘off’ button means a little configuration needs to be done within the app in order to set that up. You can still program a button to be the ‘off’ switch, it just took a couple times to get the Hue app and HomeKit to play nicely together.

Hue switches (and devices) are just too expensive. That being said they are very reliable. This switch is the first device from hue that’s actually worth the price. You can actually control 5 lights from one switch. The 4 buttons and the rotary ring can each turn on and off lights separately. There is a little work to figure how to turn on and off a light with a simple alternating short press it by default wants a short press to turn on and a long press to shut off. This is because a second short press (and third and forth) wants to change scenes. It is possible to make it short press on short press off you just have to play with the settings and it not too intuitive. The only other head scratcher is the ring can only be program to one light ( one that has a button programmed to it or a separate 5th light). I figured there would be a setting where the ring would follow whatever light you turned on but no luck. Maybe it will come with a future update. Also there is no way to configure the sensitivity of the ring so it takes too many turns to turn a light fully on and off. Again maybe a future update (are you getting my hints Phillips). Other than these minor downsides the switch is very reliable and convenient and the battery life seems to be good unlike the single button switch for which I must stock up on batteries. I’ll update this if something changes.

Perfect for bathroom lights where I just want to use a switch vs app or voice. Programmed it to warm bright light for default, then energizing, dim, and a custom spa setting. Love it! Easy to use.

Not a normal reviewer. But this product is new, I was excited and a major let down. So I thought I would help you save some cash. 1. This module is “Battery Powered”. It does NOT use the power of the existing house wall switch. 2. Battery claims 5 years, so every 5 years you will spend a DAY removing all wall plates/switches and changing batteries. 3. It cost $40. A Phillips Hue wall switch cost $25 (which doubles as a removable magnetic remote) , and does the same thing, and supports dimming, and all Hue features. Far more features your house switch cannot do, even with this $40 module. 4. This Hue switch module will have you bypass your house switch wiring and connect your house wiring together with a provided wire nut, then connect the module to the house wall switch. THAT’S IT! So, save your money and do what I am about to do (after I return these Hue switch modules to Amazon). 1. Remove your house wall switch completely. 2. Connect the house switch wiring together (same as this module requires). 3. Spend $25 + $5 ($30) for a Hue Wall switch and 3D printed switch cover that works with the Hue wall switch. The $25 wall switch also uses a battery that needs replacing every 3 years (I own 4-5 currently). 4. And now, you have a Hue wall switch that looks nice with your “made for Hue 3D printed switch plate cover”. You have the SAME EXACT SOLUTION PHILLIPS IS OFFERING WITH THIS $40 PRODUCT. WOW! Love Hue, I own 20 of the multi-color lights, wall switches, motions sensors, etc. LOVE THEM. But this new “module” is poorly executed. Does NOT use house power (require battery). Required rewiring your house wires to bypass your wall switch. $40!!!!!! Again, the $25 Hue wall switch does the same thing. You can stick it to the wall next to your house switch, or bypass the house switch, and buy a $5 3D printed wall plate that your $25 Hue switch can use, and it supports all Hue features. This module DOES NOT support all Hue features. Sorry Phillips, but this product was LAZY! Try again. Final comment = Phillips Hue claims to be partnered with Lutron. $40? Why not make a replacement switch that can use the house power (no battery)? That would be worth $40, maybe $50. I spent days, weeks, searching for something like this. And this module was the best Phillips could think of????? Phillips, please make your own integrated wall switch, or use your partnership with Lutron to make it for you.

I liked the old version a lot... I have a couple in the house. I dont care for the new version with the Hue button at the bottom. The buttons on the old version were more responsive and I preferred having on at the top and off at the bottom. The new version buttons are harder to activate and I have no use for the Hue button at the bottom to change scenes. I am constantly hitting it to turn my lights off and having them go haywire instead. Some change color temperature, some dim, and a couple change colors completely. I still need to work my way thru the programming in the app, but the beauty of the old version was that it just worked

We have hue bulbs in almost 80% of our lights and rooms in the house. We manage it through routines and Alexa. Adding this was a great addition as my wife isn’t a huge fan of using Alexa. I highly recommend this accessory to anyone who is going heavy with hue bulbs in multiple rooms.

Title says it all, Alexa splashed all over the place here, but it works great with Google too. All the Philips Hue stuff is unreasonably expensive - seriously. However! It does all work very well. I got this v2 dimmer switch and half a dozen light bulbs and a light strip for my house for Halloween and it was friggin sweet. The app is solid, works very well. Setting up the account online was dumb - had to disable the VPN on my phone (enabled by default cos Google Pixel phone uses the Google One VPN to secure my interwebs) cos it couldnt detect the bridge with it on. Once I figured that out, though, it found and connected it to my account quickly. The good thing about Hue products is they just work. Products are good quality. But damn do you pay for it. And Im an idiot so I plan to get more. Going for the Sync box and some lights for the TV. Cos pretty lights. Do it for the blinkies.

Ive owned Hue products for about 10 years now, I think. Always innovative, but often expensive. I owned several of the old version of these switches and needed another one so I decided to go with the V2 one. I like it. Unlike the old one, where I would have to instruct guests to press the power button repeatedly to change scenes/brightness levels, now I can tell them the power button turns it on or off and the Hue button on the bottom changes scenes. It makes a little more sense to people, I think. You can, of course, customize the power and Hue buttons. I love that the Hue button can be pressed up to five times for different scenes. The separate brightness buttons are good, too. I like the V2 switch more than the V1 one for sure.

I wanted to like this product. Unfortunately, Philips switch module has some problems. For background, I have a ton of the Hue products, and I love the Philips Hue brand. But this is one of the rare exceptions where I think they have really missed the mark. Lots of other reviewers have covered the basics, so I wont rehash that information too much. This thing is NOT terrible, which is why I still gave it 3 stars. The switch module isnt too hard to set up, and it USUALLY works as advertised. I think they are on the right track, if they could address a few issues, described below. PROBLEM- Switch does not work reliably. The switch module intermittently fails to respond at all. The lights will not turn on/off, as though the message had never been sent to the hub. I can try again, flipping the switch back and forth, but once it gets stuck like this, the switch module will usually not work correctly for the next 10-20 seconds, no matter how many times you flip the switch. I have isolated the problem, and it is definitely an issue with the switch module- The exact same lights respond immediately when I pull out my phone in frustration, to turn the lights on or off from the app. This same problem DOES fix itself automatically though. When I try to use the same switch later that day, it will usually work, without me having to fix anything myself. As an engineer myself, I tried to do my own troubleshooting first. But I have been unable to figure out a specific pattern, or any likely cause for these intermittent problem. Maybe the switch goes into some sort of sleep mode to save battery power, and doesnt properly wake up? It shouldnt be a range issue. This switch module isnt too far from the hub, certainly much closer than several of my other Hue lights. I suppose it could be a signal/interference problem... but I dont have this same problem with any other smart home stuff in my house. Maybe I have really unlucky timing, and my neighbor is always using their microwave at the exact moment I try to flip my light switch? Maybe my switch covers are secretly made of Faraday cages? PROBLEM- Switch configuration is based on toggles, not state. This is much less severe than the reliability problem above, but is nonetheless still a pretty annoying design flaw. Basically, you can configure the switch to either change scenes or toggle on/off. The problem, is that the Hue Switch module use physical changes of the switch position as a signal back to the Hue hub. Why is that a problem? Because it results in some weird inconsistencies, whenever the switch misses a message (which happens relatively frequently). Sometimes the up position means off, sometimes it means on. I would much rather have the option to configure the switch for something like When I flip the switch to UP, go to scene A. When I flip the switch to DOWN, go to scene B. Instead, you are stuck with When I change the switch, go to the other scene. I understand why they chose the design they did- Handling scenarios where someone else is changing the state of the same light, from the app, or another switch. But it would have been nice to have it as a configuration option. This would be LESS of a problem, if the Switch Module worked more reliably, but it frequently misses switch events. So I like what Philips was trying to do here, but until the reliability problems are resolved, I cant recommend this product. Hopefully these can be addressed in a v2 model.

I have several of these switches in the house so that we can turn lights on and off on opposite sides of a room. We used to have to go to the bedroom to turn on that light, go back across the family room to the opposite wall to turn off the family room lights and then use the bedroom light to find our way back across the family room to the bedroom. Now, we have switches on both sides of the family room so one sits right outside our bedroom door and the other where the regular switch sits. We also bought acrylic covers for the switches that are no longer needed because theyre replaced by these remotes.