How To Set Up Hue With Google Home

Philips Hue bulb (Image credit: Joe Maring / Android Central)

Philips Hue makes some of the best smart light bulbs coin can purchase, and as luck would have it, they work great with Google Banana. You can turn private bulbs or unabridged rooms on or off with a unmarried command, alter colors, dim the lights, and more. Here's how to make sure Google knows what lights to talk to.

Products used in this guide

Best A19 bulb: Philips Hue White and Colour Ambiance (opens in new tab) ($50 at Amazon)
Best smart speaker: Nest Sound (opens in new tab) ($100 at All-time Buy)

How to add Philips Hue to the Google Home app

Setting up your Hue bulbs with a smart speaker similar the Nest Audio is every bit easy as signing into your Philips Hue business relationship in the Google Home app. Once you lot're in, it'll automatically configure all of your bulbs using the same rooms yous've set up in the Philips Hue app.

Open the Google Abode app.
Tap the Plus button in the upper-left corner of the screen.
Nether Add together to Home, tap Set up device.

Setting up Philips Hue in the Google Home app — Source: Android Central (Image credit: Source: Android Primal)

Tap Works with Google.
Scroll down to find Philips Hue in the list of services, or tap the magnifying drinking glass icon in the upper-right corner to search for it.
You'll be taken to an in-app browser page to sign in; select your country, and then sign in using either an associated Google or Apple account, or your Philips Hue username and password.
One time signed in, grant the Google Home app permission to control and monitor your Hue organization.

Y'all tin can reassign your bulbs to different rooms from inside the Google Domicile app if you desire, which volition permit you to control multiple lights at a time with commands like "turn on the living room lights." Unfortunately, the options for colored lighting and, more importantly, presets, is fairly limited within the Google Home app, and so if you lot're someone who likes to switch between complicated presets oftentimes, you may want to handle your colored lighting through the Philips Hue app directly, leaving just on/off performance to Google.

Creating scenes in Philips Hue

Scenes are like presets for your rooms, automatically switching your lights to stock-still colors and brightness levels.

Open the Philips Hue app.
Tap New scene in the upper-left corner of the screen.
Choose the room to assign the scene to.

Creating new scenes in Philips Hue — Source: Android Central (Prototype credit: Source: Android Central)

Enter a name for your scene.
Drag the slider under the scene proper noun to conform global brightness (this affects all lights in the room).
If you lot have more than 1 light, you'll initially see merely one slider, labeled with the number of lights in your room. Y'all tin drag this slider to apply the same color to every light, or tap the slider to meet each bulb, then adjust each as you wish.
Tap the checkmark icon in the upper-right corner to confirm your settings.

Deleting scenes in Philips Hue

Not every lighting scene works out. Mayhap you moved your bulbs to a new room where an existing scene doesn't wait as prissy, or maybe you're just sick of a certain preset. Whatever the example, deleting scenes in the Philips Hue app is every bit easy as creating them.

Open up the Philips Hue app.
Nether Your Rooms, tap the room you wish to edit.
Tap the scene you want to delete.

Deleting scenes in Philips Hue — Source: Android Fundamental (Paradigm credit: Source: Android Central)

Tap the pencil icon in the upper-right corner of the scene shortcut.
Tap Delete.
A confirmation window will pop upward ensuring you really want to delete the scene. Tap Delete.

Our peak equipment picks

Both Philips Hue and Google offer a variety of products in their respective categories to meet different needs and homes, but nigh people volition be best off with the White and Colour Ambiance bulb paired to a Nest Sound. This gives y'all enough of flexibility with your lighting, plus bully smart controls through the excellent Google Banana, and the Nest Audio's loudspeaker makes it great for listening to music throughout the house.

Best A19 seedling

Philips Hue White and Color Ambiance

Bright, colorful, and works with a broad range of accessories
The White and Color Ambiance bulb is Philips Hue'south halo product, able to display millions of colors and controllable via your telephone or vocalization assistant. You'll demand a Hue Bridge to command information technology remotely, but the accessory back up and smart features are well worth it.

All-time smart speaker

Nest Sound

Great sound, way, and smart dwelling controls
The Nest Sound combines modern pattern with great sound quality and, of course, support for Google Banana. You tin apply the Nest Audio to control your lights and play back music — and as you lot expand your smart dwelling house, you lot can control much more than.

Ara Wagoner was a staff author at Android Central. She themes phones and pokes YouTube Music with a stick. When she'due south not writing most cases, Chromebooks, or customization, she's wandering around Walt Disney Globe. If you lot encounter her without headphones, RUN. You tin can follow her on Twitter at @arawagco.