Philips Hue Light Effects

Transform Your Room with Light

HueCommand includes a library of animated lighting effects that turn your Hue lights into dynamic, atmospheric experiences. These aren't just static colors — they're real animations that make your lights flicker, pulse, flow, and dance.

Whether you want a cozy candlelit dinner, a crackling fireplace ambiance, or the mesmerizing glow of the northern lights, HueCommand creates it using the Hue lights you already own.

Available Effects

• Candle Flicker — Warm, gentle flickering that mimics a real candle flame. Soft orange and amber tones with subtle brightness variations. Perfect for dinner or relaxation.
• Fireplace Glow — Warm orange-red dancing light that recreates the feel of sitting by a fire. Deeper and more dynamic than the candle effect.
• Ocean Waves — Rolling blue-green transitions that evoke calm ocean waters. Slow, rhythmic color shifts between deep blue and seafoam green.
• Northern Lights — Flowing green-purple aurora patterns. Ethereal color transitions that move across your lights like the real aurora borealis.
• Thunderstorm — Dramatic white flashes against deep blue ambient light. Simulates lightning with sudden bright flashes for a moody atmosphere.

More effects are added with app updates.

How It Works

Pick a room and an effect. Effects come in two kinds, and the app labels each one:

• Stays on — Candle Flicker and Fireplace can run natively on your Hue Bridge. When every color light in the room supports Hue's built-in candle or fire effect, HueCommand hands the effect to the bridge, and it keeps running after you leave the app.
• Live — Ocean Waves, Northern Lights, and Thunderstorm (and Candle or Fireplace on lights without the native effect) are animated by HueCommand's animation engine on your device, which sends color and brightness changes to your lights in real time. Live effects run while the app is open and stop when you leave it — or tap Keep it on to save the effect's colors as a dynamic scene on your bridge.

The animation engine runs the effect across every color light in the room, with each light slightly offset in time so the room doesn't move in perfect lockstep.

Works with Any Color Hue Light

Effects work with any Hue light that supports color:

• White and Color Ambiance bulbs
• Hue Play bars
• Hue Lightstrip Plus
• Hue Go
• Hue Iris
• Any other color-capable Hue light

The more color lights you have in a room, the more immersive the effects become. A single bulb running the fireplace effect is nice. Five lights running it together transforms the entire room.

Free Feature

All light effects are completely free. No HueCommand Pro subscription required. Every user gets full access to the entire effects library at no cost.