Philips Hue 5.34.0

Reviews

1 ★, on 2021-07-04
The new app layout is garbage, before this it was so much more intuitive and detailed. Now features I used to use are buried beneath multiple menus and are a hassle to make work. Really a masterclass in what not do for UI design. Before, you could have many different rooms and scenes show up on the first screen you see. Now you have to scroll. Before you could go to an individual light and dim it or turn it off in a few taps. Now you have to create or edit a scene or zone. This needs a rollback.

1 ★, on 2021-07-06
Barely been able to use the app for what feels like months. The words "home" and "rooms" load but the rooms and lights never load in the app. If I ask Google Home to turn lights on and off, no problem. So the system works, the app doesn't. The question is: what are your teams' definitions of "quality" and "done"? You must use customers' definitions, and transition "Agile" towards customer-centricity.

3 ★, on 2021-06-25
The widgets used to be really great, especially the one where you could have 5 or 6 buttons in a single widget and a double tap would turn the lights off again. Now you need a separate one-button widget for each scene and another button to turn the lights off again (why can't that be the same button like it used to be?). The widgets are also incredibly slow to respond. The sunset routine would be a lot more useful if it could be linked to your location (only turning lights on when at home).

1 ★, on 2021-06-27
After the update my lights don't work properly, the bridge keeps disconnecting from my app. I'm working with support, but we haven't had any luck. My lights randomly turn on, when the schedule turns the lights on they aren't at full brightness and I have to ask alexa to set it to 100% The old version worked like a charm. There were a bug here and there, but not like this.

1 ★, on 2021-07-07
The latest redesign has made most standard functionality more complicated, with more taps or clicks, than before. I cannot help but think that it was designed by someone who is not an end user or did not have the end user's experience in mind. As an example, to dim or brighten one light, it now takes at least three taps and finding the light within a horizontal scrolling menu, which is a horrible user experience. I expect more from a company I have invested thousands of dollars in.

2 ★, on 2021-06-30
Just not a fan of the new layout. Instead of on/off and brightness controls for individual lights in the same place, I need to make an additional tap. Then the brightness slider needs to be expanded to use. Dimming a light from 100% feels unintuitive. Also, the app lost its out of home control setting; when I tried to log in with my Google account, I got a 503 error.