Philips Hue bulbs are almost certainly the most popular smart bulbs in the world. They were among the first, they have a great brand behind them and, in addition, they have a very good quality.
But still, Philips Hue have always had some issues. The first, the price, but also very old software bugs, like the one that has been fixed with the last update.
Version 3.11.0 of the “Philips Hue” app adds the long-awaited function that it will prevent the bulbs, after a power cut (pun intended), from turning on with the brightness to the maximum. Regardless of whether before the blackout they were off, low brightness, blue or whatever.
This, if you have lived it -as I have-, is a nuisance. If you are sleeping and the power goes out, when you return, they will turn on. This is annoying. But if we are not at home, the lights, after recovering the current, will turn on and stay on indefinitely, consuming more energy.
Thus, now you can go to the app settings and find the new menu "Power on behavior", where we can define what we want each of the bulbs to do after the power has gone. Remember to activate it, since the default option will continue to be to turn on the lights -all- at maximum brightness.
Still, the default behavior, the current one, can also come in handy. Well, a lot of people use traditional switches (which, after all, for the light bulb is like going out if we use it) together with virtual switches. For example, visitors who turn the lights on and off in the traditional way, etc.
If we keep it as before, the bulbs will work in the traditional way. If, for example, we choose that, after a power cut, they turn off, we will not be able to use traditional switches.
Nor does it tell you not to turn on again, it tells you to keep the lighting you had or to turn white to the maximum, but there should be an option to leave them off after the power outage.
It is that they recognize the last state they had before the cut. So if they were off when the light was cut off, when the light returns, they will be off again.
Good solution, but if we don't have the philips hue and we have them through alexa, how are they updated? any suggestion
As you have reset the hue, the same thing happens to me after a blackout I can't get them to turn on in any case and it works with Alexa Echo plus, it doesn't detect them, they don't turn on, they don't blink, I don't know how to reset them
thanks Juancho
How long did it take you to update your lights? They have been downloading for several hours and only one has been updated ...
As you have reset the hue, the same thing happens to me after a blackout I can't get them to turn on in any case and it works with Alexa Echo plus, it doesn't detect them, they don't turn on, they don't blink, I don't know how to reset them
thanks Juancho
Of the eight bulbs that I have with the second generation hub (compatible with Siri), only 4 have been updated and I have already done the app update for a week. Does anyone know what can be done to force update the others?