Hue Widget app for iPhone and iPad


4.2 ( 5952 ratings )
Productivity Lifestyle
Developer: Marcel Dittmann
1.99 USD
Current version: 2.9.4, last update: 4 years ago
First release : 12 Oct 2014
App size: 66.65 Mb

The hue control for everyday life.

Switch your lights on or off from the Notification Center - This is the idea of Hue Widget.

Turning on or off of your Hue lights has never been so easy. Just select a group , and your actions are limited to this group. The innovative widget allows you to control your lights through different views using its vertical Tabbar. So you can decide whether you want to manage your groups, individual lamps or scenes.

The integrated brightness control of the groups or lights view provides you for every situation in your daily life an appropriate brightness level. So you can use your lights quickly as a nightlight, subtle lighting while watching TV, as normal lighting or very bright lighting. In addition, the widget contains a random button. Be inspired by the random button by leaving your lights shine in random colors.

The app itself allows you to configure your widget. The widget uses the connection to the bridge that you have set via the app. In addition, you can control and manage your lights, groups and scenes. As in the widget you can quickly select between different views by the Tabbar. In each view for controlling the lamps, groups or scenes you can tap the left button to turn your lights on or off. By simply swiping over one row you can control the brightness precisely. With a tap on a row you will reach the detail view of a lamp, group or scene and can configure more detailed settings.

Addon Store
Expand Hue Widget with addons. You can find the Addon Store in the settings menu of Hue Widget. Currently you can purchase four addons.

- Buttons Plus Addon
The Buttons Plus addon includes additional features for Hue Widget.

Alternative Functions
The control buttons of the widget provide alternative functions if you tap them twice . For example you can tap the ON button twice to activate lights in your favorite color.

Fade
If you hold a Control Button you activate its function in a transition. For example you can use the OFF button to turn off your lights slowly over time.

In the app you can use the additional functions by tapping the „more button“.

- Color Schemes Addon
With this addon you can create your own Color Schemes and manage them. The widget receives an additional button to circle through your Color Schemes. In the app you activate a Color Scheme in the detail view of a light or group. A Color Scheme represents a set of percentage distributed colors. If you use a Color Scheme, the specified colors are randomly assigned to your lamps.

- GUI Color Addon
With this addon you can use your favorite color to give your widget a personal appearance.

Follow Hue Widget on social to stay updated.
Facebook: www.facebook.com/HueWidget
Twitter: @HueWidget

Pros and cons of Hue Widget app for iPhone and iPad

Hue Widget app good for

It constantly disappears from my Notification Center. The widget is there and active but all the toggles are left blank. End up having to close NC and reopen it for the switches/toggles to reappear. Can be annoying.
Previously I asked for a off button in scenes, but the new Hue app fixed that issue by having an off scene. Now, I know Im asking for something a bit ahead of schedule but I recently started using iOS10 betas. I absolutely love the widget but its broken on the beta. I think all you need as an expand button for it to work on iOS10! If you could get this done early for the betas, that would be magical!!!
Its my most used today widget but it makes the today screen laggy ):
This can replace two of my current apps including the stock hue app.
At first it took time to set up, many problems but since then it works like a charm.
One of my most (if not the best) widget I use. Easily turn my group of lights (zones or rooms or the whole house) on/off. On every family members devices.

Some bad moments

Id give it zero star if I could!! All other 3 apps are connected to the bridge by this one never connected correctly! I wanna my money back.
Worked in the beginning but no more. Cannot get it to connect and it just seems to endlessly search. Sadly, non paid apps work far better. Can I get a refund?
Takes very long to discover the bridge. Doesnt control individual lights. OFF command doesnt function. Resets the scene to default white when activate ON command. New version 1.1 has no improvement. An attempt to contact developer at the email address provided bounced back. Not cool.
Allows you to turn all lights on or off from notification centre. Does not allow you to specify individual lights, rooms or scenes like it says it does. To the developer: if you say youve updated the app to allow for individual scenes perhaps add instructions to your website or the app itself telling the user how to do this. Dont believe the screen shots... This app will turn all lights on or all lights off. The worst part is that the lights only turn on in "concentration" light mode meaning the light is a very bright blue style light and not the default warm soft yellow glow of the "relax" or "reading" setting.
Paid $.99 and doesnt even work on iOS 8.02, just updated to version 1.1 and it still doesnt work, keep up the good work!!
Who decided that it was a great idea to have the intensity buttons to turn the ENTIRE set of hue lights!?!?!? When I press an intensity button, I want to affect ONLY the lights there already on, NOT to turn the other lights as well. Who was the genius??

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