Before you reset your individual bulbs or even your entire system, try one of these apps.
I can say with confidence that the Hue app is really great.
For example, here’s one of those phantom problems right from thesmart lightingtest bench that is my home.
A few months ago, I bought somenew Hue bulbs.
Shortly after, I ran into the weirdest problem.
The old bulbs would turn on at random.
Yet when I looked in the Hue app, nothing seemed amiss.
Every bulb was in the right room and zone.
No random bulbs or bulbs were paired with Hue switches in ways I wouldn’t expect.
The Hue system was the first really polished off-the-shelf consumer smart lighting system to market.
Third-party apps sprung up to fill that void and offer more granular control over the Hue system.
The ability to do so is exactly what helped me solve my lighting issue with no resets.
The Hue Bridge software had the misbehaving bulbs grouped together into a room grouping I didn’t recognize.
Some of the old bulbs that were changing to seemingly random colors outside my home weren’t changing randomly.
They were changing whenever somebody triggered scenes in a current room where the bulbs had formerly been.
