Philips Hue v Hive Lighting

tizerbelle

giraffe69 wrote: »

The bulbs are not from the bargain basement but why do you have to pay £6 pm? I use a couple of hive bulbs and don't pay them anything.

I thought you had to pay to use Hive, they certainly have a Home Plan on their site that is £6pm to turn your lights on. Didn't realise that you can buy the bulbs outwith the plan - but for me at least, having already paid out to replace all my bulbs to LED.

giraffe69

I thought you had to pay to use Hive, they certainly have a Home Plan on their site that is £6pm to turn your lights on. Didn't realise that you can buy the bulbs outwith the plan - but for me at least, having already paid out to replace all my bulbs to LED.

You can have a plan if that is your wish but no need to and it works fine without. I suspect if it continues you will end up paying more than if you just pay up when you buy.

zolablue25

I recently purchased a Google Home mini for my wife mainly so she can listen to music in the kitchen and ask it various questions.

Anyway, now we have it I'm considering adding in a couple of the smart bulbs that will work with it and, I think, its probably a choice of Hive or Hue.

I'm tempted by Hive as it has a greater range of other devices that I could add to the hub later if I so desired but the bulbs are more expensive than the Hue ones. I'm also rather confused by the "registration" of the Hive. I have read that you can't sell on a hub as its been registered to a user and can't be re-registered. Is that correct? If you aren't a British Gas customer do you still need to register the hub? Does the Hub come pre-registered to you or do you have to register on first use?

Does the Hue hub need to be registered?

Cheers

mr_fishbulb

Neil49 wrote: »

Another option is the new range from Ikea.

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/products/lighting/smart-lighting/

Gets good reviews and prices are good.

Although they don't seem to do bulbs with a bayonet fitting. Yes you can buy a converter, but they may not be suitable because they make the bulb longer.

RumRat

mr_fishbulb wrote: »

Although they don't seem to do bulbs with a bayonet fitting. Yes you can buy a converter, but they may not be suitable because they make the bulb longer.

If you buy TPLink bulbs, they come with an adapter for bayonet fittings.
I have a couple and they work well, either screwed in or bayonet fitted.