Hue Camera for Philips Hue app for iPhone and iPad

4.0 ( 3680 ratings )

Utilities Photo & Video
Developer: Erwin Zwart

3.99 USD

Current version: 1.4, last update: 1 year ago
First release : 18 Mar 2015
App size: 4.22 Mb

"It is most impressive when working with live video, as it does a good job of keeping up with changing action happening on screen" - TechCrunch.com

Hue Camera creates an Ambilight-like effect using your Philips Hue lights and your devices built-in camera. The custom build algorithm of Hue Camera continuously analyses all individual pixels and takes hue, saturation, luminance, occurrence and many more factors into consideration to determine which specific colour is the most contributing to the overall ambiance. Your house will for example turn green when watching movies in the forest and turn blue for underwater scenes.

Because Hue Camera uses the built-in camera, its not limited to a specific device and can be used for content on televisions, Apple TV, gaming consoles, BluRay/DVD players and even things off-screen like photos and paintings. Although Hue Camera was designed to work within a wide range of situations, you can change the speed of colour transitions and the intensity of the colour to your liking.

Pros and cons of Hue Camera for Philips Hue app for iPhone and iPad

Hue Camera for Philips Hue app good for

Took that app just after Hue FB page push it on a post and I do not regret it! This is pure magic!

Simple, very effective right-out-of-the-box! Got Hue lights? Get this app!!

Great experience I wish I didnt have to buy the app to do it (come on Phillips) but glad its available and it works.

Its divided into left, right, up or down, and requests to change the color.

I dont get the animosity people are having. This is supposed to do one thing, and I think it does a great job. Without more than 30 seconds of setup and tweaking, it was making my lights match the screen hue quickly and accurately. It has one job, and it does it well.

I just deleted the app and reinstalled it and it works great now. I think this works well with my new Hue bridge and use it a lot when Im gaming. No complaints, Id just like to see more bells and whistles.

Some bad moments

Doesnt work. The outline around the screen on my iPad changes colour with regard to the TV, and it provokes some slight change in the shade of the lights, but nothing matches. After 2 full minutes of nothing but green football pitch on the TV, the lights are still yellowish. Complete waste of money. I tried with last model iPad Pro running latest iOS and an old model iPad 2 running iOS 7 -same thing on both. Useless.

It works but im not really happy for the price. this app should be $1 or free.. It should been great if they have access to the photos too..

Wont connect to network and nothing in options to make it connect.uses only front camera which doesnt work for iPad with a case as it only tilts Down

This app is useless unless you hold your phone directly inform of the screen

I didnt think it was going to work this well but it does! The only request I have is an option to boost the brightness. I was playing Evolve and the lights were a bit dim. It could be the game is a bit dark though but it would be nice to have a slider or option to increase brightness / saturation.

I didnt think this would work but its great. Each of the first two reviews asked for a manual brightness option, one wanting to increase the brightness, the other to decrease it. I came to write this review specifically to ask for this option, wanting to dim the lights manually. However, I could have been coming here wanting to brighten the lights, if Id been watching something different during the hours that I used the app.

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