# \[APP\] Philips Hue - Transform the way you experience light **URL:** \ **Category:** Apps\ **Tags:** app, official\ **Created:** [August 17, 2018, 12:36pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-philips-hue-transform-the-way-you-experience-light/79 "2018-08-17T12:36:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![robertklep](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/robertklep/32/160628_2.png) [@robertklep](https://community.homey.app/u/robertklep)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2021, 5:08am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-philips-hue-transform-the-way-you-experience-light/79/177 "2021-04-08T05:08:28Z")
> [@K\_S](#): > > Not sure what else I can do about it except keep sending support requests, unless somebody knows another way to to get that diagnostics report which avoids triggering the memory error? I guess I misunderstood, but now I assume that you’re trying to generate a diagnostics report when Homey is already is a “broken” state? `spawn ENOMEM` means that Homey is unable to start new processes (including generating a diagnostics report) because of a memory shortage, so that’s to be expected. If the issue happens every 3 months or so, you may consider doing what a lot of Homey users are/were doing already: automatically rebooting Homey every night/week. ---
**Author:** ![robertklep](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/robertklep/32/160628_2.png) [@robertklep](https://community.homey.app/u/robertklep)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2021, 5:13am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-philips-hue-transform-the-way-you-experience-light/79/178 "2021-04-08T05:13:09Z")
> [@Edwin\_D](#): > > If it seems like it is the system itself it may still be caused by an app that is leaking Homey System resources, but then it won’t be easy to find the offending app. It may also be that the app complaing about insufficient memory is not the actual cause. We already established that it’s the “Homey” process that is taking up all the memory, so _it_ is leaking resources. FWIW, Homey’s core leaking memory may be caused by a specific app, but it’s not the app’s fault that the core is leaking memory because the app cannot do anything to mitigate that situation (just like the Beacon app is triggering a memory leak, but that’s because the internal Bluetooth API’s are/were leaking). That’s why I suggested to try and disable apps in turn to see if there’s a specific app that’s causing the core to leak memory. And indeed, just because the Hue app is throwing ENOMEM errors doesn’t mean that the Hue app is the culprit; there’s just no more memory available, and any app will have the same problem. ---
**Author:** ![K\_S](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/k_s/32/11635_2.png) [@K\_S](https://community.homey.app/u/K_S)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2021, 11:51am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-philips-hue-transform-the-way-you-experience-light/79/179 "2021-04-08T11:51:10Z")
Thanks @robertklep , @Edwin_D for your ideas This is what my app memory looks like over the last 14 days: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/2/a/2a5a4b480365b7ae0f5083eacb595b604433cc0b.jpeg) It crashed / hung on the night of Apr 7th. It looks to me as though most of the apps are increasing in their use slightly but when the crash/hang happened all of them went up? Is that what you see too? I’m not sure why they would all request/require more memory all at once ---
**Author:** ![robertklep](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/robertklep/32/160628_2.png) [@robertklep](https://community.homey.app/u/robertklep)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2021, 12:16pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-philips-hue-transform-the-way-you-experience-light/79/180 "2021-04-08T12:16:17Z")
Yes, that’s what I’m seeing too. It might be that each app is temporarily storing/queueing information because there’s something wrong with the Homey core process. It might be worthwhile to send this data to Athom ([support@athom.com](mailto:support@athom.com)) as well. Perhaps they can infer from these charts what might be happening. ---
**Author:** ![Edwin\_D](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/edwin_d/32/136417_2.png) [@Edwin\_D](https://community.homey.app/u/Edwin_D)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2021, 3:11pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-philips-hue-transform-the-way-you-experience-light/79/181 "2021-04-08T15:11:01Z")
If Homey was failing at the last peak, maybe all apps were failing due to memory issues and making it worse in the process, not cleaning up after an exception or something. As far as I can tell Sensative and Hue show the most memory growth. Nest seems to have had a more memory hungry update but quite stable still. Is it an idea to create flows reset those apps both every night to see if it will hold then? This is what the Beacon app looked like for me. Way more pronounced than what you see, but you might witness the sawtooth on each time you reset an app too. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/7/c/7c479b3e94c0a46e7b208b452819242c1a6b4f91.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![K\_S](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/k_s/32/11635_2.png) [@K\_S](https://community.homey.app/u/K_S)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2021, 3:14pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-philips-hue-transform-the-way-you-experience-light/79/182 "2021-04-08T15:14:03Z")
> [@robertklep](#): > > send this data to Athom ([support@athom.com](mailto:support@athom.com)) as well. Perhaps they can infer from these charts what might be happening That’s a good idea - it seemed to me to be quite a significant thing if your OS/System clogs itself up to the extent that you can’t even generate a crash log / diagnostics report to work out why. But Having sent the charts and info, they didn’t offer any insight, just suggested to reboot once per month. ---
**Author:** ![K\_S](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/k_s/32/11635_2.png) [@K\_S](https://community.homey.app/u/K_S)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2021, 3:14pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-philips-hue-transform-the-way-you-experience-light/79/183 "2021-04-08T15:14:25Z")
> [@Edwin\_D](#): > > idea to create flows reset those apps both every night to see if it will hold then I’ll try that too ---
**Author:** ![Otter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/otter/32/11467_2.png) [@Otter](https://community.homey.app/u/Otter)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 5:56am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-philips-hue-transform-the-way-you-experience-light/79/184 "2021-04-13T05:56:30Z")
Anybody got some issues with displaying the right colours using gledopto hardware? When I turn on the gledopto it will turn to standard white while it was set to warm white. When controlling the gledopto via the Hue app it has no problems at all. Got any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![jolerius](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jolerius/32/7907_2.png) [@jolerius](https://community.homey.app/u/jolerius)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2021, 11:17am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-philips-hue-transform-the-way-you-experience-light/79/185 "2021-05-23T11:17:19Z")
I got big problems with this app now. It just keeps crashing and leaving my homey without only unavailable hue devices? I tried restarting both the app and homey, but still the same. Anyone have and idea or solution? ---
**Author:** ![victoroos](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/victoroos/32/8344_2.png) [@victoroos](https://community.homey.app/u/victoroos)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2021, 7:51am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-philips-hue-transform-the-way-you-experience-light/79/186 "2021-06-09T07:51:25Z")
After the update of hue, it seems the app looses connection all the time somehow… Anyone else? It is missing a capability; listening onoff ---
**Author:** ![Stanci\_TyIO](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/stanci_tyio/32/16758_2.png) [@Stanci\_TyIO](https://community.homey.app/u/Stanci_TyIO)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2021, 7:25am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-philips-hue-transform-the-way-you-experience-light/79/187 "2021-07-05T07:25:18Z")
I got no reason disconnected hue hdmi sync box, after removing and try readd, its not anymore visible to add, restart app, rest connection sync box with hue bridge also not help ---
**Author:** ![milkplus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/milkplus/32/35755_2.png) [@milkplus](https://community.homey.app/u/milkplus)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 11:28am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-philips-hue-transform-the-way-you-experience-light/79/188 "2021-07-23T11:28:57Z")
hi. is anyone else having issues with the Hue app since upgrading to the latest Homey firmware? Once a day all my hue bulbs become unresponsive via Homey and i can’t seem to get them back online. I try restarting my router, Homey, the hue bridge and nothing specific seems to work - eventually some combination of these things fixes it but i’m at my wits end as to what going on. The bulbs work fine when controlled via the Hue app during these “downtimes” and my Home Assistant-controlled bulbs all are fine. Coincidentally, this also coincides with two Wyze cameras being offline during this period. I’m wondering if Homey is somehow gunking up my wifi channel trying to connect to the Hue bridge. ---
**Author:** ![tb1962](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/tb1962/32/7888_2.png) [@tb1962](https://community.homey.app/u/tb1962)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 12:20pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-philips-hue-transform-the-way-you-experience-light/79/189 "2021-07-23T12:20:39Z")
Some times ago i noticed strange effects after an update of the philips hue app in Homey. After turning on lights some lights turned off after a few minutes. Or or it took minutes before they turned on. All happend randomly. I decided to remove the Philips hue app and build a nodejs service on an old macmini. The same i did in the past with Sonos. That’s working extremely well. Much more flexible. ---
**Author:** ![milkplus](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/milkplus/32/35755_2.png) [@milkplus](https://community.homey.app/u/milkplus)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 12:32pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-philips-hue-transform-the-way-you-experience-light/79/190 "2021-07-23T12:32:42Z")
Yeah, honestly, it’s a bit of a shitshow. Not only are all my Hue bulbs unresponsive but Homey drops in and out of Wifi so it’s impossible to troubleshoot anything. I can’t for the life of me understand why there’s no ethernet port on the thing, if only for stability to the local network. After futzing around with it for yet another hour today, I could see that the Hue app was taking up over 50MB of Homey’s RAM which doesn’t seem normal. I deleted a few apps that I’m no longer using after having half-migrated to Home Assistant and now things seem to have stabilised a bit. Bulbs are back and Hue app is only using 10-15MB. I keep meaning to move most of everything over to Home Assistant full (except a few things like the Hyundai homey app which works brilliantly) but it would be a hell of a job, and the MQTT client/hub on Homey made it so easy to pass everything over without having to start from scratch. I dunno, if this issue with Hue keeps happening I may just bite the bullet and take a day to move everything over. ---
**Author:** ![tb1962](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/tb1962/32/7888_2.png) [@tb1962](https://community.homey.app/u/tb1962)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 12:39pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-philips-hue-transform-the-way-you-experience-light/79/191 "2021-07-23T12:39:34Z")
Great job, I’am planning to do the same. The macmini is 10 years old, but more than capable enough to run Home Assistant. ---
**Author:** ![Philip\_Montgomery](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/philip_montgomery/32/12434_2.png) [@Philip\_Montgomery](https://community.homey.app/u/Philip_Montgomery)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2021, 9:14pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-philips-hue-transform-the-way-you-experience-light/79/192 "2021-10-14T21:14:17Z")
Since update to 7.15 RC, hue’s response seems to be slower. Many Hue devices connected via Hue bridges. Problem seems to be mainly with switches and restarting the Hue app will fix temporarily. ---
**Author:** ![Thilo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/thilo/32/30303_2.png) [@Thilo](https://community.homey.app/u/Thilo)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2021, 3:53pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-philips-hue-transform-the-way-you-experience-light/79/193 "2021-10-16T15:53:20Z")
Hi, does anyone know how to activate automations on the hue bridge? Tried it by webhook flowcard , but not sure what I am doing 🤪🧐 Can‘t find them in the clip editor Thx Thilo ---
**Author:** ![Rocodamelshekima](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/rocodamelshekima/32/8209_2.png) [@Rocodamelshekima](https://community.homey.app/u/Rocodamelshekima)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2021, 4:05pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-philips-hue-transform-the-way-you-experience-light/79/194 "2021-10-16T16:05:17Z")
What u wanna achieve with activate an automation? ---
**Author:** ![Thilo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/thilo/32/30303_2.png) [@Thilo](https://community.homey.app/u/Thilo)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2021, 6:18pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-philips-hue-transform-the-way-you-experience-light/79/195 "2021-10-16T18:18:30Z")
Put my presense mimiking fron Hue Labs to Automation. Now I want to switch that on and off by Homey, using Geofencing. I can make a webhook, but I can t find the reference of the automation (using the clip editor) Thilo ---
**Author:** ![Rocodamelshekima](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/rocodamelshekima/32/8209_2.png) [@Rocodamelshekima](https://community.homey.app/u/Rocodamelshekima)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2021, 6:26pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/app-philips-hue-transform-the-way-you-experience-light/79/196 "2021-10-16T18:26:45Z")
That sounds more like [this topic](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-trigger-hue-labs-formulas-in-homey/44274). [Previous page](https://community.homey.app/t/app-philips-hue-transform-the-way-you-experience-light/79.md?page=8) [Next page](https://community.homey.app/t/app-philips-hue-transform-the-way-you-experience-light/79.md?page=10)