Hue Scintillator

I love this app. I have so many more choices for my house compared to other apps. If you like choices try it and you will see

I was so worried you guys abandoned this app. Please don’t! I can’t find anything that can even compare. I love it! Plz plz plz don’t ever abandon this app.

I have been using Scintillator for over a year now and I love all the different animation modes, I especially love being able to create different bulb sets as not all of my hue bulbs reach the same brightness or produce the same ranges of color. Scintillator allows me to have 3 sound reactive presets running simultaneously for the different types of bulbs I have in my hue setup. Running 3 presets allows me to create a evenly lit, sound reactive, color changing environment timed to whatever I'm listening to, with different color sets tuned to the differences between friends of hue products and the hue led bulbs. If you want or need granular control of different types of hue products this may be the best solution for complicated hue installations.

I like to change my lights almost daily to coincide with holidays (think Empire State) this app lets me do that easily and with great animations. I run it on a dedicated iPhone and even if the lights are turned of from a timer, they pick right back up with the current theme of the app is still running. [EDIT: IT APPEARS IS IF THE APP LOSES COMMUNICATION WITH BULBS THAT ARE TURNED OFF FOR A ERIOD OF TIME. WHEN THE LIGHTS COME BACK ON YOU NEED TO REOPEN THE APP TO CONTINUE RUNNING A SCENE. NOT SURE IF THIS IS A LIMITATION OF THE APP, OR HUE LIGHTS, BUT IT WOULD BE NICE IF THE SCENE RAN AUTOMATICALLY. I’LL HAVE TO TEST IF I LEAVE THE BULBS ON IF THEY WILL RUN THE SCENE FOR MORE THAN 24HOURS.] Minor things I'd like to see added by the developer. A visualizer that can be exported from the app to display a design on a website or social media. A collection/DB where users can share designs besides email. (This would work best with the visualizer feature)

Revised: It now works in the background which is great, I will add another star. Just can't understand why I need another app to turn off my lights, the off button in the app just halts the animation, how about a button to halt the animation and turn the lights off! Orig. review: This could be a great app with updates! It doesn't run in the background so you need the app running on your phone with the screen on to make the scene animation run. If you added the feature to run in the background, added an alarm so I can wake up to the flashing red lights or fall asleep to the flickering lights, and made it start on the last scene when opening the app so you can turn on the lights with one button press or a Siri command I would give it 5 stars, until then it is overpriced and 2 stars.