Author: Jason Fitzpatrick / Source: reviewgeek.com
Whether you’re thinking about experimenting with smarthome lighting or you want to expand your existing Hue system, the Philips Hue Dimmer Kit is the best value in smart home lighting—hands down.
What makes the Hue Dimmer Kit such a great value? Let’s break it down based on the kit as your first lighting purchase and the kit as an add on to your existing Hue bulb ecosystem.
The Hue Dimmer Kit Is Perfect For Inexpensive Dabbling
Smart lighting is expensive and we’re not remotely going to operate under any other pretense. When you can buy LED bulbs on sale for $1-2, the prospect of shelling out 10 times that (or more) for a single smart bulb and $80-200 for a multi-bulb starter kit, it’s a tough sell to suggest somebody should jump from such an inexpensive purchase to such an expensive one without motivation.
The Hue Dimmer Kit is a perfect way to see if you’re even interested in more advanced lighting schemes in your house without breaking the bank and—we’re smart lighting fans, clearly—we think it’ll give you enough of a taste that you’ll find the motivation to expand your smart lighting system.
The kit includes one Hue warm white bulb and one four-button dimmer switch. The arrangement retails for $34.95 (but if you frequent home improvement stores you’ll often find them in the neglected smart home section for $20-25’ish which is a steal).
There’s zero setup with the kit, it’s configured right out of the box. Just screw the bulb into a socket (like a night stand reading lamp) and mount the included mounting plate and magnetic switch wherever you wish—but we recommend installing it right next to the actual light switch in the room, like so:
You can pull the switch off the plate with a firm tug and use it as a hand held remote or leave it on the wall all the time. Either way, right out of the box, your Hue bulbs can be remote controlled for on, off, and dimming functions.
As a stand alone purchase (or slightly expanded with a few extra warm white Hue bulbs), it’s a perfect and inexpensive way to see if you’d even…
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