

Between my iPhone and my Apple Watch, I can use Siri to control everything. And of course Siri turns on my individual Insteon powered and Lutron powered devices, scenes, rooms, zones and more. Siri can dim individual lights by percent and more. (And I can even tell Siri to set the Kitchen to Pink if that is my current mood).Īnd I’ve got a bunch of color scheme scenes for the stairway going from the first floor to the second floor. I’ve got a daylight and blue light scene for my kitchen. I’ve set up some scenes, defined by color and lights, so when I tell Siri to turn on TV time, I get red and blue Hue Bloom lighting turned on. It sure was great to push a button on my Apple Watch and let Siri turn on some lights, especially from my car as I was pulling up to my front door. I already had Insteon and Lutron HomeKit enabled bridges and products and went rushing around to buy the new bridge. Then Philips released Bridge 2.0, a HomeKit enabled device that added Siri voice control from iOS devices and the Apple Watch.

The original Philips Bridge enabled me to control lights via an iPhone app and a few third party iOS apps let me sync to music and movies.

Philips Hue has some awesome lights and devices for decorating your home with light and providing home automation.
