How To Set Up Alexa With Hue

How to Connect Philips Hue Lights to Amazon Repeat

Connecting the Philips Hue lights to the Amazon Repeat or Repeat Dot—or whatsoever of Amazon's Alexa-enabled devices—is adequately like shooting fish in a barrel, but if you want to do more than than just dim and burnish your lights, it volition accept a few more steps. Here's how to practise it.

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1. Open the Alexa app, and select the Smart Domicile tab in the bottom correct corner (the piddling house shape).

2. Select the plus sign in the top right corner.

3. Printing the push on the Philips Hue bridge. Notation: If you take an Echo Plus, y'all can skip this step, as the bulbs can connect directly to the Plus. However, we recommend using the Hue bridge (and the Philips Hue app), equally it allows for much greater control over the lights.

4. Select "Add Device." A screen will appear, saying Alexa is discovering devices; afterward, your Philips Hue bulbs should appear in the Devices section of the Alexa app.

5. Group lights with other smart abode devices. Nether the Groups tab in the Alexa app, you lot tin can select multiple smart home devices so that you can control them as ane. This is peculiarly handy if you're group them past room. Yous can either add your Hue lights to an existing grouping, or create a new group.

6. Control Philips Hue lighting scenes. If you've created a scene in the Philips Hue app, you can discover and control it through Alexa. Select the Scenes tab, "Discover Scenes," and coil to the one yous desire. This tab also displays scenes created past other apps, such as the Logitech Harmony remotes, so it can get confusing every bit to what scene you want to activate.

How to Change the Color of Your Philips Hue Lights Using Alexa

If yous have Philips Hue lights that can alter color, you can control what colour they change to from inside the Alexa app.

1. From the Devices menu, select the light whose color you wish to modify. Here, you can also turn the light on and off, adjust its brightness, and change its name.

ii. Press the Set up Color button at the bottom.

3. Select the color you want. Note that the Alexa app limits you lot to xvi colors; if you are looking for more than options, you can verbally say one of the hundreds of colors that work with Alexa, utilize the Philips Hue app itself, or ready up a custom command using IFTTT.

How to Modify the Colour of Your Philips Hue Lights Using Alexa and IFTTT

You tin besides change the color of your lights past linking your Alexa account to IFTTT, and creating an applet.

half dozen. First, Authorize Alexa to work with your IFTTT account.

7. Open the IFTTT app (or website) and select Create an Applet.

eight. Press the This button. This will let y'all select a trigger.

9. Select the Amazon Alexa icon.

ten. Choose "Say a specific phrase." This will actuate the Echo when you lot say "Alexa trigger…"

eleven. Enter the phrase yous wish to use. If you want the lights to turn blue, type "lights to blue" and press Next.

12. Select "That".

thirteen. Scroll down and select the Philips Hue icon.

14. Choose Alter Color. Here, you tin can select not simply the color you want the lights to change to, but as well which lights y'all desire to modify color. Then press Next.

sixteen. Press Finish in the following screen to actuate the applet. Here, you can also specify whether or non you desire to receive a notification every fourth dimension the applet runs.

Continue in mind that if you want to but turn the lights on or off, you take to say "Alexa, plough living room lights on." However, if you're going through IFTTT, you'll need to say "Alexa, trigger lights to red."

More: For more than Alexa-related tips, tricks, and how-tos, cheque out our complete guide to Alexa.

Michael A. Prospero is the deputy editor at Tom'due south Guide overseeing the dwelling, smart home, drones, and fitness/wearables categories, besides as all ownership guides and other evergreen content. When he's not testing out the latest running watch, skiing or training for a marathon, he's probably using the latest sous vide machine or some other cooking gadget.