New in iConnectHue 4.8
Two words: Gradient support! This is our biggest release in 2021, with many improvements under the hood as well as on the outside.
These are the changes:
- Gradient support
- Halloween animations for members
- Apple Family Sharing for Pro available
- New motion sensor supported
- Additional improvements
Gradient support
We are proud to present you full gradient lights support – and EVERY type of them! You can apply Magic Scenes to individual Gradient lights with a single tap, as well as in the group – which still puts a gradient on your gradient lights (you can disable this in the settings, if you wish so). In addition to this, you can now create and use scenes with gradients all over the app – for timers, switches and coming/leaving, for example! Drag & drop between gradient lights works as well to transfer a gradient. The Pro light migration wizard to replace old lights with new ones supports them. You can use them in your widget as well as in Siri Shortcuts.
This still has some caveats: This doesn’t work remotely, also using gradients to fade won’t work due to a bug in the bridge firmware. We expect both things to be available over time. We’re also limited by the bridge: You cannot update existing scenes with gradients, and scenes containing gradients can only be created in zones or rooms. It needs more memory: If your widget doesn’t work, try disabling widget gradient support in iConnectHue’s settings.
Pro members can apply Magic Scenes to individual lights via Siri Shortcuts.
(Available for all members or w/ 2021 Upgrade or purchase after February 2021; Requires current bridge firmware)
Halloween animations for members
Since several of you asked, we extended the availability of our Halloween scenes until mid December, and we will now make available Halloween scenes for our members over the full year! Of course they will be available the next Halloween for everybody else, as you know it.
Apple Family Sharing for Pro
From now on you can share your Pro membership easily via Apple Family Sharing. As consequence, the old sharing via Airdrop is not available any longer. If you haven’t set up family sharing yet, please refer our FAQ on how to do it! In case you run into problems, don’t hesitate and contact us from the menu!
New motion sensor supported
There’s a new motion sensor with “hue” added on the top instead of just saying “Philips”. It has more sensitivity levels and can “see” further – 5 instead of 7 metres. It also has IP 42 level of protection.
Since it only requires some changes on our side, its support is included for free this time. Still, new devices mean work, this is an exception, and we’d be happy if you would support us for our work, with a good review or a purchase.
Thank you!
Additional improvements
Don’t judge a book by its cover: This version has A LOT of changes under the hood – about 400 indiviual changes! Here are the ones important to you:
- Improvements to Animation, Magic scene and timer editor
- Improvements to color selection pages
- Several menus improved or reworked
- Several views slightly reworked
- Resolved several small problems