Are you doing anything with Hue?

They’re all dimmable. You get 3 options.

White - normal white dimmable bulb
White ambience - dimmable but can also go from cool white to warm white
Colour- anything you could think of


Depends on your fittings. If you’re handy it may be worth changing your fittings for consistency so you can buy multi-packs.

Starter kits are on offer at the moment. The cheapest you tend to get is 3 bulbs and a hub for £80. Best to buy lots of those and sell the hubs and you’re at ~£20/ bulb.

Very rarely get good deals on GU10 bulbs. But Argos had 8 of the plain white ones for £80 which was decent.
 
Our kitchen and bathrooms are gu10 I believe.they are spot lights so I assume so. Not sure if there are other types. All other rooms are bayonette bulbs
 
utajoker said:
Our kitchen and bathrooms are gu10 I believe.they are spot lights so I assume so. Not sure if there are other types. All other rooms are bayonette bulbs
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If it's a recent house chances are any spotlights may be integrated fire rated units.. ie not separate bulbs.

You can swap them for bulb holders and put GU10 bulbs in them but it requires a little bit of wiring.
 
matt100 said:
If you want to use physical switches then you're probably wasting your time going smart.

Personally I've given up on switches altogether and gone with motion sensors and voice assistants so I never have to go into the apps.

Pricey to set up I guess but once you have the hub it's a one time thing.
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Voice control and motion sensors are the game changers for Hue, I found it pretty clunky up to that point.
 
took a couple of pics of the lights in the kitchen, there doesn't seem any way to get the bulb out. i tried a gentle twist but they didn't want to move so i didn't force anything in case i broke them :p

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What do?
 
utajoker said:
took a couple of pics of the lights in the kitchen, there doesn't seem any way to get the bulb out. i tried a gentle twist but they didn't want to move so i didn't force anything in case i broke them :p

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Remove them completely and rewire/replace them with bulb holders.

Those are fire rated integrated units, no bulbs, it's a complete unit.
 
Yeah, they might damage the ceiling a bit, there's normally some sort of spring loaded thing. You'll obviously need to turn the electric off properly and then you'll need to find fire rated lamp holders.

Yours will look something like this:

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Also maybe ask yourself how much you want to do this. I considered it and stopped short of pulling 10 downlights out.
 
Yeah the GU10 colours are the same deal for 120. I need three for the hallway. I'm super tempted but has been an expensive month already!
 
I have 4 of them in the kitchen. They're not as good as the richer colour variants of the B22/E27's etc I know, But they're still pretty good. It's only the green and yellow that isn't all that.

I have 3 normal GU10's in the hallway that I want to replace with Hue. :)
 
Anyone here using the Android app?

(Settings > Light setup. Press and hold to drag.)

I can't rearrange the order of my lights in each room anymore, I used to have the main light at the top and lamps under it in a logical order. Now They won't stay in the order I drag them into.

I'm on the Q beta so it could be that but I'm not sure, I'm just after a sanity check! Ta.
 
No, works fine.

Not at home on wifi though, just connected on the app over the cloud and it stays in same order. Tried 2 different rooms, although stupidly forgot to take a SS of the order I have them in, so will have to sort when home now :D
 
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