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#319332 14-Apr-2025 15:18
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It's giveaway time and now we have a Philips Hue Set to give away to one of you lucky folks!
 
The whole prize package is a Philips Hue starter kit for your home (it includes Hue Bridge, Hue White and Colour Ambiance A60 smart bulb and Hue Go light)
 
New to Philips Hue? Here is what you need to know:
 
- Hue Bridge: It’s the heart and brains of your smart light system that connects to your router. A hub that unlocks the full suite of exciting features – away-from-home control, voice control, automated lighting and more immersive entertainment experiences.
 
- Hue White and Colour Ambiance A60 smart bulb: Use this smart LED bulb in any standard fixture with a bayonet (BC) or Edison screw (ES) fitting to get millions of shades of white and colour light. With wireless dimming, this bulb lets you set the mood instantly.
 
- Hue Go portable accent light: Take smart light with you with the Go accent light. From a splash of colour to a mood-setting centerpiece, the Go accent light lets you set the perfect ambiance. Use it as a standalone light or add it to your smart lighting system with the Hue Bridge.
 
This package retails for NZ$448.
 
Keep reading for instructions after the photos.

 

 

 


 
How to Enter: You just need to reply here with the brightest idea on how to use this kit. It can be just describing how it will be used in a kid's room or lounge, or how you plan on integrating the kit with your home automation. Double entry if you post a related photo. Be creative here folks.
 
General rules: one entry per user only in our competition (double with a related photo). One winner will be randomly selected. This giveaway is open to NZ residents and closes Saturday 10 May 2025 (New Zealand time). Winner will be selected in a random draw and contacted via PM. After confirmation we will post winner's username in this topic. Once confirmed, winner's details will be shared with Philips so the prize can be shipped directly. The photos are illustrative.
 
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  #3363985 14-Apr-2025 16:00
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Building a new home and I would love to add this to our in-coming exposed ceiling for some mood lighting!







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  #3363989 14-Apr-2025 16:17
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I miss my Hue, previously when we lived in the North Island I had changed all our light to Hue, they were the best, loved the scenes and the automations, fast forward to now, living down south in a rental, as soon as we uy down here were are going to Hue'ify the house, This would make a great starter for us :)

 

 


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  #3363994 14-Apr-2025 17:00
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I'm being forced to work from home for the next year or so. On these dark, wintry days in the south, I've realized that the lighting in my makeshift office isn't great. I'll use these lights to brighten up the darker corners of the office and add controllable lighting to my Teams meetings so I can look my handsome best on camera.




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  #3364004 14-Apr-2025 17:51
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I'd use it for some lighting in the living room while watching movies - integrate it with my home assistant setup!


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  #3364005 14-Apr-2025 17:53
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Never, ever had any home automation. This would be a great start to explore the possibilities.


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  #3364016 14-Apr-2025 18:44
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I had Belkin Wemo setup but the hub recently died. This would be great as a replacement system to get started on


 
 
 
 

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  #3364073 14-Apr-2025 19:21
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Would be great to use to light up the stairs to make them easier and safer to use at night.





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  #3364076 14-Apr-2025 19:40
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I think I'd like to try out some colour based reminders pushed out of Home Assistant.





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  #3364078 14-Apr-2025 19:46
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Would like to try out some coloured lights to create some mood lighting.





 

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  #3364082 14-Apr-2025 19:55
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I dont know what all the Hue and cry is about.

 

But it would be nice to own lights that can change colour just because I tell them to.

 

And I'd start by replacing this one in the office...

 

 

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  #3364083 14-Apr-2025 20:06
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I have fair bit of automations around lights & presence detection in my home especially in all rooms except bedrooms. As that's a bit of hard one to crack. I have planned my kids room for automation, but haven't done yet as budget constraint is real. I would like to have lights gradually turn brighter in the morning around 7am weekdays & 15min after sunrise on weekends. Lights could be warm white to cool white, so that kids knows it's morning. Just for fun I can do colored lights or something if its a holiday and disco lights on birthdays. Something similar in when bed time is there. Gradually lower the lights in interval of 5-10mins. That way they know it's time to sleep. I can use presence detection along with it for night outs & holidays to not turn the lights on. 

 

Another cool idea during weekends is to limit screen time. Turn/blink lights red 5 min before turning wifi off on the kids profile and do same with green lights when they can use screens again. Love how much you can do with Home Assistant. Maybe add lunch/dinner ready reminders with alexa & colored lights.


 
 
 
 

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  #3364086 14-Apr-2025 20:17
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Would love to win this Philips Hue Set and would take it with us when we visit Vietnam later in the year. It would be great to see Philips Hue in Hue - it would fit in extremely well and it would be fantastic to be able to do our bit for the city. Obviously the Hue Bridge in particular would be right at home.

 

 

 





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  #3364095 14-Apr-2025 21:16
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I would like to win them because I never win anything in any of the competitions that I enter.

 

As for what I would do with them, I have absolutely no idea!

 

Perhaps I could sell them on Trade Me and use the money to take the wife out to a posh restaurant for our 33rd wedding anniversary early next month. 

 

A bit anti-geek so will probably get disqualified from this competition. Oh well, such is life.


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  #3364102 14-Apr-2025 22:10
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I would use it in our dining room. The warm & inviting mood lighting combined with my acquired skill of reheating takeaways to the perfect temperature would give us a restaurant style atmosphere at home!

 


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  #3364103 14-Apr-2025 22:14
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Would love to setup these in my bedroom to create adaptive lighting that changes throughout the day. So in the morning the lights automatically turn on gradually with warm lighting. I understand Philips hue lights can be controlled through the app to do this as add shown by the attached photo from the Philips hue website. Seems the image uploader displays a 500 server error or maybe it can’t handle apples webp files


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