HUE SYNC BOX NOT CONNECTING TO WIFI UPDATE
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There’s Video, Music, and Game presets, with varying levels of intensity and speed of light changes. This works best with content with solid blocks of color, such as the cartoon above, but it’s just as nimble with things like lightning flashes or explosions, changing the colors in a split second to correspond with the onscreen action. Once the Hue Play HDMI Sync Box detects an input, it’ll start changing your attached lighting accordingly. Once connected, you then make a “Hue Entertainment” room, where your lights are, and drag the representations of those lights around so they approximate where they are in relation to your TV. Then you connect the Hue Play HDMI Sync Box to your Hue Bridge, but you need to use the Hue Play HDMI Sync app, not the normal Hue app to do so. Oh, and it’s worth mentioning that the sync box won’t work if you’re using the inbuilt apps on your TV, you need it connected to an external source such as a Roku.

That way you get the lighting sync, while still keeping your quality audio.

Now that the Sync box has HDR10+ and Dolby Vision support, the only real reason you’d put it after your AV receiver is because you want to use audio formats such as Dolby TrueHD or DTS-HD Master Audio. If you’ve got an AV receiver, you can leave everything plugged in how you already have it and put the Sync box between the video-out socket of your AV receiver and your TV. HDMI cables go in from your sources, and one HDMI goes into your TV. Once you’ve figured out which Hue lights in your room are going to be synced to the box, it’s time to plug some wiring in. Oh, and there’s a power socket, but the interesting part is that the power brick has three sockets, so you can plug two Hue Play light bars in as well from one plug. There’s also a micro USB port that you can connect to your TV, which lets the box detect if your TV is on or not and change its own power accordingly.

HUE SYNC BOX NOT CONNECTING TO WIFI BLUETOOTH

The box connects to your WiFi network via 802.11 b/g/n on the 2.4GHz band, supports CEC for control via other HDMI devices, and has Bluetooth 4.2 which is how you connect to it on the first setup.

HUE SYNC BOX NOT CONNECTING TO WIFI UPDATE

That update also enabled voice control for Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant, so you can tell your lights what to do, and support for external remote controls via the IR receiver on the front of the box. All of these now pass HDR10+, Dolby Vision, and HDR10, while syncing the lights according to what’s onscreen, thanks to a recent update. These are all HDMI 2.0b with HDCP 2.2 so things like Netflix content protection works when passed through the connections. The Play HDMI Sync box is a little like an oversized streaming box, with four 4K, 60FPS HDMI inputs, and one output.

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