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How to Setup OnSwitch Premium Family Plan
The OnSwitch Premium Family Plan is an upgrade to our regular subscription that enables sharing between up to 6 people in your Apple Family group. Here’s how you get set up with our Family Plan.
Game-Sync Quick Tips
Tips for how to set up OnSwitch for an exciting sports viewing experience. Includes methods for setting the optimal sync
How to Run Scenes on a Schedule
Many users want to run OnSwitch scenes on a regular schedule. This post explains how to use Siri Shortcuts to do it.
We Love (Lava) Lamp!
Lava lamps project colorful, fluid light animations. Our album of Lava Lamp scenes capture that essence and let your whole room become a moving, fluid color experience.
Fire Album Gets a Tune up
Many of the Fire album scenes were created when the Hue V1 Bridge was the only option. It had limitations we can forget about now. This tune-up delivers a subtly smoother, more organic flame animation.
How to Use the Groups Screen
Learn how to use the most common features of the group screen.
Stripes: Stylish Color Rotations
Color rotations get used for Flags and Team colors. When a user suggested “stripes” as an album concept, it got our creative energies going, giving old-school color rotations a classy new job to do.
Advanced Dimming: Better Simulations of Circadian and Incandescent Lighting
In nature, color temperature and brightness are related. But the default Philips Hue scenes keeps these values independent. OnSwitch advanced dimming options emulate both Sunrise to Sunset lighting and the “warm dimming” behavior of incandescent bulbs.
Crystal Fire: Animated Sparkle
Chrystal Fire is a fast moving, white-light scene in the Fire Album. The scene changes color temperature based on brightness creating a sparkling effect. It works on Hue Color or White Ambiance devices.
Lights Out! Turn off your lights with style!
“Lights Out!” is a set of fun and stylish ways to turn off your lights. And they work awesome with Siri Shortcuts.
How To Use Siri Shortcuts to Start Scenes with Your Voice!
OnSwitch has added Siri Shortcut support. With this support you can start OnSwitch scenes with your voice, but also can combine OnSwitch Shortcuts with other app shortcuts to create personal automations in the Short Cuts app,
Music Pulse: Beats for Your Lights!
Music Pulse effects are flashing color scenes with a preset rate that you can match to the music you are listening to!
Lightning 2.0: More Claps, Peals, Rolls and Rumbles
OnSwitch’s new Lightning scenes are design to create a more realistic and immersive soundscape along with a richer vocabulary of light flashes to communicate what type of lightning is occurring.
Home Theater's Color Science
OnSwitch 1.1.2 adds Home Theater scenes. This post explains why they do what they do!
OnSwitch Blog: Behind the Scenes.
Our Blog, “Behind the Scenes” gives you a view into our technical and creative process creating our top rated app.
How To Troubleshoot Your Hue/LIFX Connection.
If you're having trouble getting OnSwitch to find your bulbs, start here.