Philips Hue Dimmer Switch v2 - Review (English)

[@aimeeaaw]

First off, your English is perfect, so there's no need to worry about that. Secondly, thank you for the video. I just picked up a couple more switches because I moved, and now have more rooms in the apartment, and they only had these new-style switches for sale, so I was curious to see the differences. Your video was very informative. Keep it up!

[@matthew4f]

Hey, I just wanted to let you know that you actually have good English! So don't worry about having trouble.

[@big-ted-01]

Great first video in English, there is nothing wrong with your English, hope you will do more English videos

[@appgefahren]

Thanks :) I hope for some more Hue stuff in the future, what do you think about the new Wall Switch Module?

[@jamiemoorcroft2166]

Your English is actually perfect so easy to understand and also extremely helpful video thankyou

[@phosphor112]

You did great on your first english video. The only thing I could add is that you should definitely have an outro for your video. It just quickly ends with saying you recommend the new switch.

[@licanueto]

If the intros and outros are just a "welcome" and "hope you liked it" I always appreciate a video not having them

[@netherrack7059]

Your English is amazing!

[@Dave_D]

Your English is easier to understand than some native English speakers so no need to apologise there! I wasn’t too keen on this new dimmer but it is definitely growing on me.

[@GamingwithMusa]

Your English is clear and understandable

[@vidarg75]

Nothing wrong with your English. Very easy to understand. Good articulation. Very informative video. Short and insightful. More videos in English, please.

[@williamhickerson4316]

Your English is perfectly fine! We'll done making a great video, no problem understanding you. Cheers!

[@martinyfelix]

Vielen dank für das video.

[@RobG5659]

Thanks for this video, your English is great.

[@NFawc]

...and you didn't show the dimmer button behaviour?

[@vittbos1762]

Great job I really love this English video xD m, I’m actually in Germany but I do not understand German yet.. so this was very useful, thanks a lot 💪💪, and very great English by the way

[@juliancatala7171]

Your english is great! Nice video.

[@SAS2022]

Does this only work on Phillips Bulb ??

[@tthornock]

Thanks, found exactly what I was looking for about the product.

[@IPv6people]

Nice video. Strange conclusion - it is much better. It is different, but some things have gone in the reverse direction: 1. The previous one could be stuck under a table, to have it close and invisible in some rooms as an extra. The new one has a magnet that does not really allow for this, when you touch the switch not extremely careful, it just falls. 2. When you have the switch visible on the wall, the HUE logo is much too apparent. 3. When you use the switch in an invisible place, the very smal tangible strip that was added, is not enough to operate the switch without seeing it. On the old and new I have solved this by sticking smal transparent rubber bump protectors of different sizes to two of the 4 buttons, but Signify should have understood that in all cases it would be nice to operate the switch without having to closely look at it. To make a long story short: I was lucky to find some old versions at Mediamarkt yesterday and bought some extra for when it will be completely out of stock.

[@sum1sw]

Thank you very much. What light bulb are you using?

[@davidsoldatic1661]

Hi, great review. I have one question...Can I connect/pair three Hue Dimmer Switches to one Philips E27 led bulb? so I can turn on and off the bulb with either of those three switches. thank you in advance

[@kinocchio]

Nice review. Can't seem to buy it yet in the UK.

[@appgefahren]

Hopefully soon available here: www.philips-hue.com/en-gb/p/hue-dimmer-switch--latest-model-/8719514274617

[@danewag]

It’s available on Amazon 😁

[@AM-pi7jy]

They could easily program the old switch to do the same, it's just how the Hue bridge interprets it. But i guess they want us to buy new switches. ;)

[@simulation8083]

Does the new dimmer fit in the old case as I mounted my Dimmers in adapters to cover the light switch underneath? Thanks

[@simulation8083]

@@dan9700 I sorted it in a way... Took off the old cover and stuck the new cover over.

[@hessulipoika13]

Can you control other than hue devices?

[@eeymanjones]

Great job and your English is very good.

[@GregoryTrout]

Can you customize the action of the long press? E.g., set the lights to a specific scene? I'd like an easy way to go to a "default" scene. Thanks for the video.

[@Hr.Kolding]

It would have made more sense if they tied the time based click with the on button, so when I turn the light on it would go straight to the scene I chose for the specific time frame.

[@christians6843]

I am searching the entire internet for this issue. I wonder why so few people complain about it. When I press the power or hue button it uses a brightness I have not configured anywhere. Then you have to press the hue button (but only once!). Even though I configured time based lighting and not the scene cycle, clicking the hue button again does cycle between the scenes. Did you find a solution?

[@Hr.Kolding]

@@christians6843 no I don't even use my hue dimmer switch. I just use friends of hue

[@patrikluxemburk9742]

Can you let me know how to pair 2 dimmer remotes, please? I have pair of remotes and I would like to pair both with one light...

[@NelsonLoja9]

Amazing we can use the HUE button on this DimmerV2 to switch between scenarios, like the HUE SMART BUTTOON !

[@edc2517]

nice video

[@AA-zy2cc]

can you set up for each philips hue 1 dimmer ? i dont want the dimmer to put all light out, only 1

[@mactibi]

Hi, can I control EVE Energy with Philips Hue v2 as a remote control?

[@ethanv7330]

I actually prefer the V1 because it's smaller. And functionally almost nothing really changed. It's different not better. Unless you prefer the magnet on the remote.

[@tobygroves2112]

So, if you put it over a bare European wall socket instead of the existing switch, what are you supposed to do with the bare wires? Solder them together?

[@jamiemac4208]

You'd want to put them in a screwed connector block behind the switch so that power is constant, but also you can revert back to a standard switch in future easier than if there were soldered.

[@plasmachicken]

@@jamiemac4208 soldering is illegal to do in 230V PLEASE DO NOT!

[@jonbrownisamazing]

Great video. Ty. Any idea when these are avail to purchase?

[@appgefahren]

Should be availably anytime now. Where are you from?

[@jonbrownisamazing]

Los Angeles. Can someone send me one?

[@SAS2022]

Does this work on any Light Button ???

[@Lanhoj]

*Question* I've already got the old one, is it worth upgrading to this new one?

[@Arthur_StJohn]

I have like 20 of the gen 1 switches and definitely will not be making the "upgrade"

[@appgefahren]

I like the new one, so I would upgrade. It's not expensive and you should get some bugs for your old one, too.

[@IPv6people]

I have 8 of the old and 1 of the new and tried it for some months. Bought some extra old ones yesterday, to be able to avoid the new ones for the rest of my life.

[@youdig-detection]

If you buy v2 you are downgrading actually read my comment above

[@makhoka]

Can you control rooms separately with this switch? I have 2 rooms and 1 old switch but I can't turn of 1 room without also turning of the other room.

[@alexanderpasnl]

Two rooms to be controlled separately on one remote would be kind of weird. When you press 'on' on the remote, which room would you want to be switched on then? And how would the remote know which of the rooms it should control at that moment? So no, only one room. But you can control a ZONE. If you make a zone containing lamps from both rooms, you can control them at once, so not separately. But you can also do that with the old dimmer switch, you don't need to get the new version for that. There are dimmer switches from Friends of hue so different brands, which might be able to do that. There are some that have four buttons that I believe can control different rooms or zones. But those are 80-140 euro's each. You might be better and cheaper of placing two Hue switches next to each other. The only thing I can think off with only one remote to control 2 rooms separately is by creating a zone which contains lamps from both rooms and make scenes which switch on or off the lamps per room. In scene 1 you only light up lamps in room A and in scene 2 you put lamps from room B. But that limits the possibilities of course. You can't choose for a lighting scene per room that way. It can be handy for some people perhaps. If you for instance have a hallway downstairs and a hallway upstairs. You could place a remote downstairs. Then you make a scene with the lights on in only the downstairs hallway and place that under the first press. Then you make a scene with all the lights on, so downstairs and upstairs and then a new scene with only the lights on at the upstairs hallway. At no 4 you could choose one light upstairs and one light downstairs completely dimmed as nightlight. Now when you are pressing the on button, the lights will go on downstairs. Pressing it again will switch on the lights upstairs too. Pressing a third time will switch off the lights downstairs while leaving on the lights upstairs. You could place another remote upstairs with this the other way around. When you press the button upstairs at first only the lights upstairs will go on, 2nd lights downstairs turn on ass well and 3rd upstairs go out. But I think this is only handy when you use regular white lights, since you can't control the colours any more because you used scenes to 'kind of' separate the rooms.

[@alexanderpasnl]

Okay, dat is best raar. Ik schrijf net een heel verhaal en na het op enter drukken zie ik je naam en denk... heeej, die ken ik hahaha. Heel bijzonder dit ;-)

[@makhoka]

@@alexanderpasnl haha das echt grappig idd xD maar zoiets als met die zones is wel een goeie.. want het is in principe 1 ruimte, maar ingedeeld in keuken en woonkamer. Ik gebruik verder ook maar 1 scene dus ik had eigenlijk gehoopt dat als je 2x op de uitknop zou drukken dat die dan een bepaalde ruimte uit zo doen;)

[@christians6843]

One important thing one should notice. The time-based feature doesn't work as one might expect. When you click the power or hue button you won't get the desired brightness, instantly. You have to click the hue button again...

[@lopesdavid8240]

I hate the V2 because it move 20% when i press and the old one move 12% and it’” was VERY practical. My house have many’s strip-led and for exemple on bedroom kids it was perfect for just signal the floor and no wake up. It’s a bigger difference 12% vs 20% and offer mores possibilities to dimmer. Can i change it ? I

[@techdeckmad100]

Hi, What options does it give you when you go to the set up in the HomeKit app? does it still show as 4 different buttons? thanks

[@TwanJaarsveld1]

Batteries last probably longer than the product does

[@Itsjack66]

Arresting video especially considering it’s your first review in English

[@Prolinium]

The new V2 is rubbish. I've had 2 of these and they simply will not connect. Even after using the rest button. Reverted back to V1 and the Hue button. Much better.

[@AndreasRP.]

There’s literally no reason to get the “new” version if you have the “old” one. It’s the exact same but with a bigger housing and a slightly different remote lol they could’ve at least added some more functionality to it

[@youdig-detection]

It’s not better than the v1. V1 got : a reset button, ability to pair 2 remote without the hue bridge , magnet on the base and the remote . V2 got : coin slot to open the battery and none of the above. so for me the V2 is bad in comparaison of v1 which got way more convenient feature.

[@sBonny_]

Wäll sats greit senn.

[@Trotzicke89]

Schlechtes Produkt...wenn ich im Internet nachsehen muss wie ich die Batterie tauschen kann...bei einer so bekannten Firma erwarte ich mehr!!!

[@chion2477]

People that swallow INSANELY loud...

[@patrickstevens2473]

dont care about ur life's story. get to the point...

[@michruz]

When the lights are on and the remote is idle, when you press the hue button, does it change the scene after the first or the second press? Mine changes on the second press as if the first press wakes up the remote. I would like to know if this is normal. Thank you.

[@christians6843]

Similar behaviour on my device. The bulb gets on with the first press, already. But not with the inteded brightness. I have to press again (but not a third time as it will cycle through the other scenes instead. Even though they are not within the current time frame...)