App Profile: Hue Halloween for Philips Hue

johngameropa

Rating: 4/5

When thinking of all the holidays and the question “Which holiday do I want my Hue lights to behave irrationally on their own?” Halloween becomes the only recurring holiday. Memorial Day, Labor Day, and 4th of July I believe come in as a close second to Halloween if you are looking to bathe your home in Red, White, and Blue. But you can’t blame ghosts for your choice of Reds, Whites, and Blues everywhere in your home, your tailer, or your in-laws trailer. - Halloween and the ghosts changing the lights. - Halloween and the guy in the secret room below the basement who’s drawing power from the lights. - Halloween and the witches, who’s mobile phones changed the lighting, they are on their way to the house so hide. This app is dead💀on perfect. It does exactly what the zombies 🧟‍♀️🧟🧟‍♂️, witches 🧙🏻‍♀️🧙🏻, ghosts 👻,and goblins👺👹need to make the place welcoming to them.

D-llama

Rating: 5/5

I never used to be into Halloween. Then I got this App to utilize my Hue lights and now I can't resist expanding my decorating every year. I've been using this app to great effect for the past 3 Halloweens. We always get lots of compliments from trick-or-treaters and friends and my two toddlers LOVE playing with the spooky sounds/controlling the lights on the iPad app! It's a fun party trick for friends as well. Hooking it up to a Hue motion sensor works perfectly to trigger spooky sounds right as people approach the house. One warning: start with a fully charged phone and keep it plugged in, since it will drain the battery like crazy. I recommend using the headphone audio jack to sync audio to the lights perfectly, if possible. One of Hue's updates for the bridge nearly broke the app for Halloween 2018. I was SO happy when the developer fixed the compatibility update in a June 2019! I'm really looking forward to using this again next year. I've bought other apps/add-ons for this App from the developer and would have happily paid much more for this App because of how FUN it is.

deanerdeaner

Rating: 3/5

Synced effortlessly. Easy intuitive controls. Sounds and light effects are great. For a $2 app, it's everything I had wanted and hoped for. So much fun. Halloween will be so much more interesting this year. We have 10 hue bulbs. This app can put them all through so much more variations than I can on my own. The sounds are Bluetoothed to a remote speaker for that added scary fun impact. Set it on "continuous" and then it's all set. The problem I see is that unlike the Christmas and New Years apps, this one doesn't sync to a user selectable song. Even if it did, the Christmas and New Years versions are EXTREMELY unpredictable as to the song the app will play. The vast majority of the songs in my collection (1000's) simply gets generic "can't play" error message. Frustrating.