Sync lights with music

Turn your bedroom into a concert hall. Crowd surf in your living room. By using Philips Hue lights that sync with music, you can watch sound spill over from your speakers into the room around you.

Sync music with your Philips Hue lights

Hear, see and feel the music

Music is an emotional experience. Whatever you listen to, you feel. By syncing your lights with music, you can create your own personal mood music — no matter the genre.

Dance with the lights syncing to your music

Match light to the beat

We use specially created algorithms to ensure that each light script, which tells your lights how to react to the music, is perfectly tuned to each song — not just the beat but the overall feeling.

Select the light colour theme in your Hue app

Personalise the experience

Make every listening session your own. Customise the way your lights sync with music: change the intensity and brightness of the light effects or even their colour palettes to vary the look.

Sync lights and music with any sound device

Play on any device

Whether you’re relaxing on your bed with headphones or using a full-fledged sound system, you can sync your smart lights to music with any audio device.

How to sync your lights with music

There are four ways to get lights that sync with music, so choose the one that fits your audio setup best. All you need are colour-capable Philips Hue lights and a Philips Hue Bridge.

Philips Hue + Spotify

Philips Hue + Spotify

Have a Spotify account? Just go to the Sync tab in the Philips Hue app to let your lights react to music playing from the Spotify app.

SmartThings audio sync

SmartThings audio sync

Connect your Samsung Galaxy device to Philips Hue via SmartThings and let your lights react to your favourite music on your device.

Philips Hue Play HDMI sync box

Philips Hue Play HDMI sync box

Connecting your HDMI devices to a sync box doesn’t just give you surround lighting — it lets you sync with music, too.

Hue Sync desktop app

Hue Sync desktop app

Sync music directly from your PC or Mac with the free Hue Sync desktop app.

Using the Spotify app to sync the light to your music

Philips Hue + Spotify

Enhance the music experience by using Philips Hue + Spotify. The first of its kind, this deep integration features more precise light scripts and an even easier way to link your accounts directly in the Philips Hue app.

Phone screen displaying light syncing settings

Philips Hue + SmartThings

Get Hue Sync directly in your SmartThings app! Let your lights sync to your favourite tunes from your Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

Colour lights and Bridge required

To sync your lights to music, you need Philips Hue White and colour ambience smart lights and a Philips Hue Bridge.

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Questions & Answers

What do I need to get LED lights that sync with music?

For Philips Hue, all you need are White and colour ambience lights and a Philips Hue Bridge.

What's the difference between sync with Spotify and Music Mode in the Philips Hue app?

Philips Hue + Spotify analyses every song and creates a custom light script on the fly to deliver the best light experience. Music mode in the Philips Hue app analyses the audio and uses our entertainment algorithm to give generic, randomised light effects.

Get to know Hue

Need to know more about syncing your smart lights? We’ll point you in the right direction

Entertainment

Entertainment

Discover all the different ways smart lights can enhance your entertainment experience at home.

Sync with TV

Sync with TV

Make movie night at home a cinematic experience! Transform your entertainment space into a cinema.

Sync with PC

Sync with PC

Level up your gaming by letting your lights sync to your character’s in-game actions.

*When a bulb displays "Up to" a certain number of lumens in its specifications, it displays the maximum lumen output of the bulb. It shows how bright the bulb can get at 2700 K (White bulbs) or 4000 K (White ambiance or White and colour ambiance bulbs). Learn more about brightness