Ambilight Settings
Ambilight Brightness
With Ambilight Brightness, you can set the level of brightness of the Ambilight.
To adjust the level…
1 - Press and press (left) Setup.
2 - Click Ambilight > Brightness and click inside the slider bar to adjust the value.
3 - Press BACK repeatedly if necessary, to close the menu.
Ambilight Saturation
With Ambilight Saturation, you can set the level of colour saturation of the Ambilight.
To adjust the level…
1 - Press and press (left) Setup.
2 - Click Ambilight > Saturation and click inside the slider bar to adjust the value.
3 - Press BACK repeatedly if necessary, to close the menu.
Ambilight+hue
What You Need
With Ambilight+hue, you can set up your Philips Hue lamps to follow the Ambilight colours of the TV. The Philips Hue lamps will expand the Ambilight effect across the room. If you don’t have any Philips Hue lamps yet, buy the Philips Hue Starter Kit (includes a Hue Bridge and 3 Hue bulbs) and install the bulbs and Bridge. You can buy extra Philips Hue bulbs separately.
To set up Ambilight+hue on your TV you need…
•a Philips Hue Bridge
•a few Philips Hue bulbs
•this TV connected to your home network
You can do the complete Ambilight+hue setup on TV and don’t need the Ambilight+hue App.
If you do download the free Ambilight+hue App on your smartphone or tablet later, you can use this App to adjust some Ambilight+hue settings.
Configure
Configuration Steps
To configure Philips Hue bulbs as Ambilight+hue bulbs, follow the steps on the following pages…
1 - Network
2 - Hue Bridge
3 - Hue bulbs
4 - Configure bulb
Network
In this first step, you will prepare the TV to find the Philips Hue Bridge.
The TV and the Philips Hue Bridge must use the same network. Connect the Philips Hue Bridge to the router with an Ethernet cable — the router of the network the TV is using.
Switch on the Hue bulbs.
To start the configuration…
1 - Press (Ambilight) and click on any Ambilight Style. 2 - Press and press (left) Setup.
3 - Click Ambilight > Ambilight+hue. and click Switch On. 4 - Click Configure.
5 - If the TV is connected to your home network, it will start looking for the Philips Hue Bridge immediately.
If the TV is not yet connected to your network, the TV will start the network setup first. You must connect the TV to your home network.
With the TV connected to your network, go to page Hue Bridge.
For more info on connecting the TV to your home network, press the colour key Keywords and look up Network, wireless.
Hue Bridge
In the next step, you will link up the TV with the Philips Hue Bridge.
The TV can only be linked up to one Hue Bridge.
To link the Hue Bridge…
1 - With the TV connected to your home network, it will show the available Hue Bridges. If the TV did not find your Hue Bridge yet, you can click Scan again.
If the TV found the only Hue Bridge you have, click Next.
If you have more than one Hue Bridge available, click on the Hue Bridge you want to use and then click Next.
2 - Now go to the Philips Hue Bridge and press the link button in the middle of the device. This will link the Hue Bridge with the TV. Do this within 30 seconds. The TV will confirm if a Hue Bridge is now linked to the TV.
3 - On this confirmation, click OK.
With the Philips Hue bridge linked to the TV, go to page Hue bulbs.
Hue Bulbs
In the next step, you will select the Philips Hue bulbs that have to follow the Ambilight.
You can select a maximum of 9 Philips Hue bulbs for
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