iLightShow for Philips Hue
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lifestyle | Free | Nicolas Anjoran | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
Why should you use iLightShow?
During parties with friends, turn on your LIFX / Philips Hue lights and transform your house or apartment into a festive place.
Relax while listening to music and create your own ambiance, from chill to electro, iLightShow will create light effects on all musical styles.
Want to stay awaken while working at home? iLightShow can provide you with a lot of powerful energy.
Features:
• Real-time Philips Hue / LIFX lights synchronization with Apple Music or Spotify Music
• Super accurate - works on top of Spotify audio analysis
• Stop / Resume Apple Music or Spotify playback as much as you need
• Add / Remove Hue / LIFX bulbs during the show just with one click!
• Control the brightness and the intensity of the show
• Either let the app control the colors or select your owns
• Automatic Light effects, like strobe (Stroboscope)
• Delay the sync when using external accessories
• Sonos speakers synchronization
Requirements:
• Philips Hue Bridge and some Philips Hue Smart Bulbs (for more information, see http://meethue.com) or some LIFX lights
• An Apple Music account OR Spotify Music Account
Need some support? Contact me on Twitter or Facebook at @iLightShow
Reviews
Used to love this app
DARTHVADER6107
I used to love this app but for some reason this app rewrote my HomeKit setup and reset my lights.
Genuinely Impressed
Fr33 ch1ps
I’ve tried a LOT of apps for hue. This one rules them all on music syncing. There are a few features here and there you wish you had you’ll find along the way, but many of them are limitations of hue itself. The best results after many hours, days, and settings have been to only use lights in a single visual plane. If you use lights all over it may look sporadically unreliable because some of the complex beat matching it does will bounce around behind you where you aren’t looking. Makes it appear like it “tried” where the impact is fully apparent if everything is kept visible like on a dedicated music wall (this is a limitation of PHYSICS AND BIOLOGY....not the app or hue). My personal preference is to set the intensity around 25-35% and it seems to be dynamic enough without the overwhelming nature of higher settings (the strobing and white flash placement is what I set it JUST UNDER the level of). The strobing is in good spots, just a little muddy and timed to the music, but not synced in terms of beat count for the speedy spot it wanted to strobe on. The white flashes are in the right WINDOW to do it....just kinda unevenly placed in that window where the first one is where you’d expect and following ones feel kind of random). THESE ARE THE MINOR COMPLAINTS I JUST RESOLVED BY PLAYING WITH SETTINGS. THE APP IS STILL AMAZINGLY WELL DONE AND SUPPORTED. I use the TestFlight version and have been surprised at the consistent updates and notable improvements even within the last few months. Don’t see it disappearing from my party prep anytime soon. Also, tied for the MOST SURPRISING THING aside from the syncing is that the app DOES NOT add a huge battery drain on your phone. Extremely efficient AND effective. Glorious. To the developer: if you could get hired at hue, you could RUN THE JOINT in a year if they have half a brain collected among them. They and 100 other people have tried to do what this app does automatically just by opening and going about your business (once configured to liking of course). Huge fan. Keep that you know what up!
More Lights support needed
YogaJoeAustin
Right now the way it works only up to 10 bulbs. Is there a possibility of adding more lights to the app? I currently have 26 hue color bulbs grouped in 3 to 4 bulbs per group. Trying to select each light individually can become a pain within a group. It would be nice when I open the app that you would save the last settings. So I don’t have to keep reassign the bulbs. Any suggestions? Otherwise all in all One of the best light apps!
Absolute Garbage
Tedu94
Garbage. Stopped working with my Sonos speakers, Spotify and Microphone after a month :) There’s no support team either :)
Liked WAY better before update.
Jaywolfe1
I have to say I'm disappointed with the new update. Doesn't seem to sync as well as previous version. Not getting my bright flashes of white lights at peaks. Maybe I'll look at differnt apps now. Keeps getting worse.....need to find another app. Don't waste your money.
Really disappointed
Love History
It used to work. In all fairness, it was slow because I had a lot of non hue lights, but it worked and was I enjoyed it with company on occasion. Last night I tired to show off my lighting to music and it no longer works, even in the legacy setting. Everything I tried failed. It’s a shame as my friend I was looking for an app to use in his home, now this one is on the “nope” list.
Control for 1 bulb is free
2dab$
You can control 1 single bulb for free. Useless. I think the reviews are fake. Edit: Yeah. Reviews are from bots. Sadness
Best lighting app for music on the market
Anthanine
I looked for a while and tried a few different options before i settled on this app! The developer is amazing! this one has be been using for almost a year now and i’ve had very little issues with it. it syncs up to my spotify directly so i can be listening from any device and still have my lights sync. i had an issue with something in app once and i emailed the dev and he patched it immediately. 10/10 experience and if you’re reading this Nicolas i appreciate you tons for that. Thanks for the great experience man
