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The best music and screen syncing app for your Philips Hue lights.
Functionality:
– Synchronize your lights directly with the beat of your music from an active Chrome tab, microphone or your entire system.
– Synchronize your lights with the average color on your screen.
– Customize your perfect party atmosphere with a variety of configurable options.
– Turn lights on/off, change the color and brightness of the lights.
– Customize the brightness range of each light. This is especially useful when grouping Hue lights of different maximum lumens.
– Put your lights into strobe or colorloop modes.
– Randomize the color of your lights.
For optimal beat detection you may need to adjust the sensitivity slider on the Music tab.
WARNING: Flashing Hue lights may trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy. Use at your own risk.
FAQ:
Is Huegasm available on other platforms?
Huegasm is available for mobile, but there are better solutions. Th
My lights start to lag or get unresponsive. Sometimes they continue flashing even after I turn off the music. What’s happening?
The Hue system has very real limitations as described here: https://developers.meethue.com/documentation/hue-system-performance#systemThroughput (requires a registered account to view)
The Hue bridge can only handle so many requests a second before it starts to queue any additional, incoming requests to be run at a later time. Try lowering the beat sensitivity if you notice this happening to you.
It is also recommended to not run several Hue applications at once as they may clog your system and cause performance degradation.
For best performance, it’s recommended to use v2 of the Hue bridge.
Huegasm isn’t changing my lights to the music coming from my Chrome tab. What’s wrong?
First make sure that Huegasm is listening to the correct Chrome tab. When you click on the big button on Huegasm’s “Music” tab, a blue rectangle should appear by the tab title indicating that Chrome is sharing its audio stream with Huegasm. If you’ve ensured that this is working correctly, try turning up the beat sensitivity through the slider on the “Music” tab. Do note that the volume of your music also affects the sensitivity of beat detection.
I get a “Uh-oh. Failed to retrieve your system’s media stream: TrackStartError” when I try to listen to “System”. What’s wrong?
This is a known Chromium issue. In one reported case it was caused by connecting multiple monitors via USB and in another it happened on a system with surround sound. Refer to:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=716732
and
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=702433
Why does this extension require the permissions that it does?
“Read and change all your data on the websites you visit” – needed for all extensions that interact with extenerla web pages. Huegasm needs this to be able to listen to to the music from your browser’s tab.
“Capture content of your screen” – needed to capture the sound coming from your system. Also used for screen syncing.
Huegasm does not collect any information about you and has no server component.
Will Huegasm work with only Philips Hue lights or other lights too?
Huegasm will connect and exchange messages with your Hue bridge. As long as your smart lights can be controlled by the Hue bridge, it should work with Huegasm and it has been tested to work with third-party Zigbee lights.
Would be nice if I could disable the flashing on hover.
Also, some options would make all lights blink even though I had selected a specific group. (Which ended up disturbing my partner working in the other room!)
I also could not find a way to change the shades of white on my Hue White Ambiance bulbs…
Worked flawlessly as promised, it is great to control my hue lights from my computer! 🙂
UPDATE:
I just got some non Hue Zigbee lights. Huegasam works with them also!! WOWOWOWO!
That being said, it’s still not 5 stars because I really like how Hue Sync handles the lights. Hue Sync is able to update multiple lights at the same time (or near enough to it). It makes for a much more seemless music sync experience. There is some other stuff that Hue Sync does also, faster transitions etc etc etc.
However, of course Hue Sync only works with Hue lights so, Huegasam it is.
PRIVACY is a big concern because even when I turn off the mic in the extension, the light still respond to voice. I have to cross the light so as to prevent it from responding to surroundings. The extension should not be using the mic once the ‘start listening’ feature has been turned off.
Very good app, nice interface and I love that it is avaliable on so many platform. I really miss the ability to sync lights to music as a group instead of individual blinking lights. What I would like is that all light in a room or a group change to the same color at the same time. Otherwise everything I want
I would give this a five starts but in the first five minutes of me using it with my lights, the music mode got stuck on. I tried unplugging and plugging back in the philips hue hub, I tried turning my lights on and off, I even tried uninstalling the extension but the lights kept flashing. In the end I had to factory reset my hue bridge to fix them. HUGE PAIN. If they can fix that bug I will definitely give this five stars.
Very impressed with this – my lights are definitely flashing in time with the music with imperceptible delay. Just a couple of things: I’m using the Chrome tab to sync to Spotify and playing through my Echo setup, but there is no beat detection on any setting except for the max. I suspect this is resulting in the previously mentioned ‘queued requests’ in the Hue Hub, as I fight for control of my lights back after I switch off the extension.
It would be great if there was a bit of more smarts with the beat detection, such as hitting all the lights together on a major beat (e.g., hard cymbal hit for rock, resumption after a drop for dance etc.)
Výborná aplikace!
Možná by nebyl špatný nápad notifikace pomocí bliknutí. 😉
I have been wanting a hue app I could use on my desktop for halloween/xmas light displays. I have found it. I immediately bought the full version and synced my lights when they arrived. The lighting controls are easy to use. My computer line out has a bit of static so I lowered the sensitivity a bit. I also like that I can chose all lights or independent groups. In future releases I would like the ability to group 2 or more lights to flash simultaneously. Also, a bigger control panel to tweak colors, lights, beat detection etc would be awesome. I can see Huegasm become the leader of hue light control.
I purchased it immediately after my trial was up. I only have 3 hue bulbs right now, but it syncs with them flawlessly. Lights will still pulse after It’s told to stop listening, but I do have the sensitivity up so that could be it. Do not hesitate, definitely worth the $6.
Great product. No seriously, GREAT PRODUCT!!! When I bought my lights originally this was what I had expected out of the box. between this and Synapse 3, (A third party Free software from Razer) all my lighting expectations have been met. **However,** Unless I’ve missed it I have not seen support
for castable devices (Smart TVs, Chrome cast, Roku ect.) with this its easily worth double maybe even triple the price.
This is the best app for linking your screen to your Hue lights with almost NO delay! Don’t hesitate to buy this, it’s totally worth it!
Did the trial, was really impressed. Definitely something will/would recommend to others.
The app version is also pretty cool too.
Searched around and nothing is as easy to use, on beat with no lag, or as good of effects. I looked for Alexa skills, and iOS apps. This is the best.
Really in sync with the music. However it does not turn off when I click “stop listening.” The lights will continue to go until I close google chrome. Only issue that I’m having. Best app for music sync overall tho, after trying many on multiple platforms like android and pc an ipad
Ever since I started using HDMI from my laptop to my surround sound, this is the best thing for hue lights I have ever seen in my life!! The lights beat to the music so perfect and no lag at all! Nothing else comes close to this……This is a great thing to show off when you have friends over chillin listening to music. This is one of the BEST! For Real!
yes the lights cont. when no music is playing but overall really great music sync.. def buying once the trial is over..
I have three lights. The music player works very well when you have messed with the Delay and sensitivity. It can use a tab, the system sound or the microphone(not tried).
Easy to use.
Great extension, excellent support too. Nice to be able to sync the room lighting to movies playing through my chromecast easily.
Nice plugin, but cant buy it. I dont use creditcard because I’m Dutch. Can you sort out like other pay method?
great extension! I suggest to add more customization for the light settings. overall I love it.
The extension is great! When it works… Unfortunately I have four lights, and it loses them randomly, sometimes dropping to to, then three, then 1, very annoying.. paid for pro.
Works great! Best app to sync Hue lights with your music. Perfectly on beat
Lights do not move rhythmically at all. They either flash repeatedly or do nothing.