Hue LUX is a suitable solution here. Simply connect only the bridge contained in the starter set with the wireless router and turn the lamps into the socket. With the accompanying free app on your smartphone or tablet can control and dim the lights from now. Practical: No app work the Hue-LUX bulbs like normal light bulbs - "light switch on" is a highlight, and "light switch" deletes logically as before the light (the lamps to remember the last selected brightness level when turned on again the pear in full brightness not, that is only turned on and off via the app).
When you install only one of the pears with me initially been recognized, because I had already taken care of myself. In such a case, but you can in the app also manually type in the serial number of the non-controllable bulb (available on the printed version). After that, everything went smoothly.
Pears to have a great shape and look in my lamp of very high quality.
This sometimes causes confusion: Hue LUX makes no colorful light in red, orange, green, blue, ... There is only one, fortunately not too cold whiteness, in which you can determine the brightness itself. Those who want the full scoop color spectrum, have to resort to "Philips hue" (without LUX).
If you do not always want to handle on smartphone or tablet with the app, the lamps with a LivingColors remote control you can (from the 2nd generation), the "Harmony One" -Universalfernbedienung Logitech or the optional accessory "hue tap" . taxes For Mac computers, there is also the App Store even small applications for the menubar.
About my actual purpose of dimming, many other functions are still available: timer options, control of off-site, Geo-Fencing (light automatically goes on when the home approaching) ... I personally almost eerie. But thus should both friends of technical gimmick as well as for people who like it simple and practical, what to attend.
I also have a colorful "Hue" bulb in use - the whimpers softly but sometimes noticeable when I turn off the app, but the light switches allow to stand "on". My two "hue LUX" bulbs do not have that error, fortunately.
My conclusion: Simple, practical, but unfortunately also quite expensive.
