upstatemike
Senior Member
I'm thinking of putting some color changing lights in my living room but I'm struggling to decide if I would be better off with Lifex bulbs or Philips Hue? I will be using 8 bulls in wall fixtures and 4 bulbs in lamps for a total of 12. This will be the only lighting in the room so I need the white light mode to approach that of standard bulbs which would tend to push towards Lifex. Lifex is also generally reviewed as having the deepest colors.
On the other hand Philips HUE has a hub which provides more control options. Nobody in my house is ever going to pull out a smartphone to turn on the living room lights. I will have Alexa control but feel I need some kind of switch as a backup if Alexa is not cooperating for some reason. With HUE I can put a couple of those tabletop switches around as my backup but only at the expense of using the dimmer and less colorful HUE bulbs.
I'm kind of annoyed that the wall switch for HUE is an odd size that is not practical to gang with other switches and Lifex doesn't have any physical control options at all. How practical is a lighting system with no option for a light switch? I don't want to over complicate things by translating Insteon switch actions to HUE commands via Homeseer or some such as that goes against the definition of a resilient backup control which should have fewer potential points of failure not more.
Is there some simple control option that I am missing that I can use here? Are there other factors that I should be considering to help select between HUE and Lifex?
On the other hand Philips HUE has a hub which provides more control options. Nobody in my house is ever going to pull out a smartphone to turn on the living room lights. I will have Alexa control but feel I need some kind of switch as a backup if Alexa is not cooperating for some reason. With HUE I can put a couple of those tabletop switches around as my backup but only at the expense of using the dimmer and less colorful HUE bulbs.
I'm kind of annoyed that the wall switch for HUE is an odd size that is not practical to gang with other switches and Lifex doesn't have any physical control options at all. How practical is a lighting system with no option for a light switch? I don't want to over complicate things by translating Insteon switch actions to HUE commands via Homeseer or some such as that goes against the definition of a resilient backup control which should have fewer potential points of failure not more.
Is there some simple control option that I am missing that I can use here? Are there other factors that I should be considering to help select between HUE and Lifex?