Halloween is coming and if you have a house full of Philips Hue bulbs, now is the time to really put them to use. Here are some great ways to use these lights to make your home a little haunted.
Take Advantage of Hue’s Terrible Greenery
If you have 1st or 2nd gen Hue bulbs then you might be familiar with how poorly they produce real green — it’s more like a hideous yellow-green but it’s good when you’re on Halloween .
By changing the lighting to a dull yellow-green, you can make your home look like a scene straight out of the Saw movie. Use the color picker in the Hue app to fine-tune color if needed, but it can quickly transform any ordinary room into a fantastic spooky holiday.
Use Hue Disco to strobe your lights
You can create cool effects with your Hue lights, like strobe them to mimic lightning. Hue Disco is a great app for this (available for Android and iPhone). It’s mainly designed to sync light tones with your music, but it also has a dedicated strobe feature that randomly generates bright white flashes of light.
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Set this for all your lights, and from the outside it will look like your house is just one big creepy thunderstorm. Or you can get a room at the end of your long hallway that will swing open and the door will open, creating an eerie sight.
My favorite, though, is to put the lamp on the floor and light up the shade of light built into it, simulating the lamp falling and malfunctioning.
