Home Automation
Home automation is the residential extension of building automation.
It is automation of the home, housework or household activity.
Home automation may include centralized control of lighting, HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), appliances, security locks of gates and doors and other systems, to provide improved convenience, comfort, energy efficiency and security.
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I'm using around 85~ bulbs with two hubs and a Lutron RadioRA 3 system. The hubs are connected to Home Assistant, and I use automations to set the Hue lights to "off" when the switches are turned off to keep everything in sync. It works quite well. I can't speak for using HA as a hub since I don't do that, but with the setup I have I can turn the lights on and instantly request a color change or set brightness and it works very reliably.
I've had Hue for around 10 years now and have never had any issues with it. I've even written some apps to do things I wanted since they have a very well-documented, local API on each hub.
The quality seems to be pretty high. I've had bulbs mixed into the bunch that have survived 5-7 years and several home moves.
Expensive, yes. Quality seems to be decent though.
This is my experience too. I only buy Hue bulbs based on my experience this far. They just work.
Hue bulbs just work. I've used other wifi bulbs (no competing Zigbee bulbs yet) in the past and you have to work around their flaws and drawbacks. The Hue bulbs just feel like they're behaving exactly how you'd expect them to. Can't really compliment a lightbulb much more than that.
10/10 would buy again!
My whole house is hue, I would recommend them to a friend.