Hue Thunder for Philips Hue 9+

Amazing (for a while)

This is an amazing app. The effect is incredible, especially if you’re using multiple lights in the ceiling. I’ve run this at parties and people really love it. There’s one problem though, and it appears to be recent. The sound runs continually but the actual lighting effects freeze up after about 30 minutes. I entertain frequently and want this effect running throughout the night. It’s a quick fix. You just have to pause it and play it again, but when you have a home full of people it’s easy to forget. If they could fix this so it can run continually I’d change my rating to 5 stars.

Edit: Issue still isn’t fixed despite update. Some background noise keeps going but the lights still freeze. I’ve tested it on every scene. Works for 30 minutes tops.

Developer Response ,

Thanks for the amazing review. We updated the app and your issue should be fixed. Please report through the feedback option in the app.

Great value. Clever app.

A lot of fun and could be quite relaxing. For an inexpensive app, it's a five star. My top wish is that there was a lightning on command button. I think that would be the biggest and easiest crowd-pleasing feature to implement. Nitpicky comments: As other reviewers have said, there could be some more settings for tweaking the lightning-thunder time delay (I usually want less time, not more like some others), and I'd like the ability to make lightning even more frequent than the current max. Only other "complaint" is that there are sometimes flashes without accompanying thunder sound. This is certainly realistic to life when sometimes you see lightning but don't hear thunder. But is mildly unsatisfying to me. With the app, I'd want a perfect 1:1 correspondence between lightning and thunder. Otherwise, it's a great idea and a very good implementation of it. I love Hue Disco too by the same developer. Makes owning Hue Lights a real delight.

Developer Response ,

Single shots are now available. Press the thunder icon to trigger a thunder on demand!

Works, Neat for a while, Creates “phantom” light that shows in other apps.

App is pretty neat. The effects are cool with a Bluetooth speaker so the sound is more full. It was fun for 5-10 mins but the novelty wore off quickly.

The app created a “phantom” room or entertainment area or something on the hue bridge called “ThunderG” which I can find no way to remove. It appears on all Hue-supporting apps (including on our Vivint panel… annoying) except the official Hue app. I can find no way to delete it except completely factory resetting the Hue hub.

Worst of all somehow the ThunderG room has been turning on randomly during the day for us despite it not being used in our automations. This continues to happen even after removing the app from my phone so I don’t think it’s specific to the app itself, but it certainly never happened until we tried this app… Now I’ve got to figure out how to fix it because we keep getting woken up at 3am when the lights turn on.