The apartment-friendly aspect is definitely one of the important pros that I meant to mention. It's also why I mentioned that apartments seem to be the situations best-suited for the Hue system due to price and the limitation on the number of devices. The $40 price tag is actually pretty good now. A $10 Cree bulb is much cheaper, but adding another home automation solution would bring the price back up to at least that. The only time it would work out as more expensive is for large circuits of recessed lights.


Fair enough. I have no problem with the color capabilities. I want more options for users. I just want all these devices to work together.


There definitely needs to be more info on this, though. The reason I ask is because in order to accomplish what they're talking about, where you say "time to go to bed" or whatever, there needs to be a great deal of setup in order for that to work. Your phone needs to know that this means to lock the front door (and other doors), turn off the lights you want to turn off (my goodnight scene doesn't turn off all my lights), and set the thermostat to what you want. What I'd like to know is if all that is set up on the phone, in which case I'm wondering how that would be shared with another resident. Or a guest. I'll definitely be watching to see how this is implemented.


That's how I figured they worked. And I don't think you'd buy the bulbs accidentally when there's a $10 bulb right next to them


I should mention one more minor issue I have with the Hue bulbs, at least the A19 model: they don't look like bulbs. Like I said, it's minor, but it can be a problem in certain situations.


Good to know!