--- product_id: 201115513 title: "Philips Hue Play HDMI Sync Box - Requires Hue Bridge - Supports Dolby Vision HDR10+ and 4K - Control with Hue App - Compatible with Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple HomeKit" brand: "philips hue" price: "€ 10.59" currency: EUR in_stock: false reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.gr/products/201115513-philips-hue-play-hdmi-sync-box-requires-hue-bridge-supports store_origin: GR region: Greece --- # Real-time color-accurate light syncing 4 HDMI inputs for multi-device sync Voice control via Alexa, Google, HomeKit Philips Hue Play HDMI Sync Box - Requires Hue Bridge - Supports Dolby Vision HDR10+ and 4K - Control with Hue App - Compatible with Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple HomeKit **Brand:** philips hue **Price:** € 10.59 **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Summary > ✨ Light up your entertainment like never before! 🎬 ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Philips Hue Play HDMI Sync Box - Requires Hue Bridge - Supports Dolby Vision HDR10+ and 4K - Control with Hue App - Compatible with Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple HomeKit by philips hue - **How much does it cost?** € 10.59 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.gr](https://www.desertcart.gr/products/201115513-philips-hue-play-hdmi-sync-box-requires-hue-bridge-supports) ## Best For - philips hue enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted philips hue brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - β€’ **Customizable Ambiance:** Personalize brightness, speed, and intensity of light effects via the intuitive Hue app to match your mood or content. - β€’ **Smart Home Integration:** Effortlessly control your lighting with voice commands through Alexa, Google Assistant, or Apple HomeKit. - β€’ **Seamless Multi-Device Sync:** Connect up to 4 HDMI devices for immersive ambient lighting that reacts instantly to your content. - β€’ **Discreet & Space-Savvy Design:** Compact sync box fits neatly on shelves or cabinets without blocking your screen or cluttering your entertainment setup. - β€’ **True-to-Source Color Accuracy:** Experience premium surround lighting with no lag or color mismatch, syncing directly from the HDMI source. ## Overview The Philips Hue Play HDMI Sync Box transforms your home theater by syncing Hue smart lights with your movies, music, and games in real time. Featuring 4 HDMI inputs, Dolby Vision HDR10+ support, and seamless voice control, it delivers ultra-precise ambient lighting that enhances every scene. Requires a Hue Bridge for stable, Wi-Fi-friendly connectivity and full smart home integration with Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple HomeKit. ## Description The Philips Hue Play HDMI sync box adds premium surround lighting to your home theater by syncing your Hue smart lights with movies music and video games. Watch, listen and play with more excitement as your lights dance, flash, dim and brighten with your screen. The sync box delivers real-time syncing with superior color accuracy. The effects are always in sync with your TV because the sync box receives data directly from the source before it reaches your screen, unlike devices that react to the screen itself. This gives you a premium ambient lighting experience with no delays or mis-matched colors. Use the Hue app to personalize your settings, like brightness and speed of effects, or define a default setting for starting up. Control via the app, on-product control button, or by programming your TV remote with custom commands. Enhance your entertainment center with any combination of Hue color lights and the sync box. Create a TV backlight with a Hue Play gradient light strip or light bars. Add additional ambient lighting with Hue bulbs, light tubes and more. The Hue sync box works only with Hue lights to ensure color consistency and the premium experience you expect from Hue. The HDMI sync box won't block your screen and is designed to fit discreetly on a shelf or cabinet near your TV and HDMI devices. The sync box stays out of the way so you can see the action on your screen with no distracting peripherals. Setting up surround lighting with the sync box is simple: 1) Download the free Hue app 2) Connect your Hue lights and Bridge 3) Connect up to 4 HDMI devices 4) Follow the instructions to set up the sync box and start syncing. The Hue sync box requires a Hue Bridge. Unlock the full power of Philips Hue smart home lighting with the Bridge and enjoy benefits like multi-room control, automations and smart control from anywhere in the world. Philips Hue is the smart lighting system that lights your home inside and out, all without straining your Wi-Fi. Review: Love it - Configuratios is way to complicated, and requires the full thing to work (strip light for the tv, the sync box and the bridge). Is crazy expensive but the quality of what you get is undeniable. A bit sad that it doesn't work directly with the Samsung tv built-in apps, only works with the connected devices via HDMI, or if the Samsung tv is one of the newest models and Qled or Oled versions. A side from that, i think it work as expected, but I'm sure I'm missing features due to incompatibility or lack of available public user data. Review: Marvelous technology Read this if you want to know how to use it. - I bought the Philips hue sync box with the LED strip for the top of the back of the TV and the bar that goes along the bottom of the TV. This TV is a Sony 77-in A80L and is mounted beautifully on the back and creates a magnificent juxtaposition of the light that is being cast from the scene and then emits from the scene around your room without distracting from the shot. You have to have an external stream box if you want streaming content to be affected with the hue system. It's also very touchy with 4K blu-ray players in that if you have a Sony, it doesn't work. You have to have the top of the line Panasonic DP UB820 which I'm just ordering. But back to the streaming issue, TVs do not send video they send audio through their eARC HDMI port. Now some people look at the back of the unit and see 4 HDMI inputs and one output and the software switches those inputs to the output. If you use it in this fashion you will be wasting your money. It does not work that way. It is very clunky and completely puts everything out of sync. The correct way of using it is having an AVR with dual outputs and use the secondary output to feed the input number one of the Philips hue box. If the AVR does not have a dual HDMI output then you need to have a HDMI splitting amplifier so that you have two HDMI outs of your AVR. The other point is that you should not run it in and out to the TV as it affects the signal going to it and it's another thing in the past that that usually screws up and end up regretting it. This set up I got is around $500 for the two lights and the sync box. Yes that is very pricey but the technology required to strip the metadata out of the HDMI input for the video signals is quite extensive so it works really well if you hook it up correctly. You have a full multimedia sound system to hook it up to correctly. It doesn't really work with single systems. Good luck ## Features - WHAT'S IN THE BOX - Includes one Hue Play HDMI Sync Box one power adapter, and one HDMI cable; Perfect for an immersive media experience - REQUIRES A HUE BRIDGE - Unlock the power of Hue and enjoy automations control from anywhere in the world, and a secure, stable connection that won't drain your Wi-Fi. Use Matter to connect your smart home devices to your Hue smart lighting system. - SYNC LIGHTS TO ANY HDMI DEVICE - With four HDMI inputs the Play HDMI Sync Box allows you to connect your media devices to your smart lights, resulting in a seamless, colorful display that responds to and reflects the content you watch or listen to. - SET UP - Easily connect to your Hue Bridge and use your sync box immediately with any TV and any HDMI device. The Hue sync box can be placed on a TV cabinet or shelf without blocking any part of your screen - VOICE CONTROL - Convenient smart control; Set up voice control in the Hue app and use simple voice commands to control your lights with Alexa or Google Assistant. - PERSONALIZE YOUR LIGHT - Use the Hue app to customize the way your lights react to the content on your TV: control the speed and intensity of the light effects adjust the brightness of the room, and more ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B086ZJLCTW | | Best Sellers Rank | #198,918 in Tools & Home Improvement ( See Top 100 in Tools & Home Improvement ) #189 in Home Automation Hubs & Controllers | | Brand | Philips Hue | | Built-In Media | 1x Philips Hue Play HDMI Sync Box, 1x PSU & cable, 1x HDMI cable | | Color | black | | Compatible Devices | Television | | Connector Type | HDMI | | Customer Reviews | 4.1 out of 5 stars 3,479 Reviews | | Finish | Hdmi | | Global Trade Identification Number | 00046677555221 | | Input Voltage | 240 Volts (AC) | | Item Dimensions | 24.06 x 45.68 x 5.46 inches | | Item Weight | 1 Pounds | | Item dimensions L x W x H | 24.06 x 45.68 x 5.46 inches | | Manufacturer | Signify North America Corporation | | Mfr Part Number | 555227 | | Model Number | 929002275801 | | Number of Items | 1 | | Number of Ports | 4 | | Package Quantity | 1 | | Power Plug Type | Type B - 3 pin (North American) | | Smart Home Compatibility | Smart Home Compatible | | Specific Uses For Product | TV | | Unit Count | 1 Count | | Warranty Description | 2 years | ## Product Details - **Color:** black - **Compatible Devices:** Television - **Connector Type:** HDMI - **Item dimensions L x W x H:** 24.06 x 45.68 x 5.46 inches - **Specific Uses For Product:** TV ## Images ![Philips Hue Play HDMI Sync Box - Requires Hue Bridge - Supports Dolby Vision HDR10+ and 4K - Control with Hue App - Compatible with Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple HomeKit - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61bwj6uGNQL.jpg) ![Philips Hue Play HDMI Sync Box - Requires Hue Bridge - Supports Dolby Vision HDR10+ and 4K - Control with Hue App - Compatible with Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple HomeKit - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71GYNtFW3jL.jpg) ![Philips Hue Play HDMI Sync Box - Requires Hue Bridge - Supports Dolby Vision HDR10+ and 4K - Control with Hue App - Compatible with Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple HomeKit - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61XFFLQMAmL.jpg) ![Philips Hue Play HDMI Sync Box - Requires Hue Bridge - Supports Dolby Vision HDR10+ and 4K - Control with Hue App - Compatible with Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple HomeKit - Image 4](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/611+7DxUPBL.jpg) ![Philips Hue Play HDMI Sync Box - Requires Hue Bridge - Supports Dolby Vision HDR10+ and 4K - Control with Hue App - Compatible with Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple HomeKit - Image 5](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71I6NzzFTlL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Style** options. ## Questions & Answers **Q: Hi, how can i use this when netflix or youtube apps are built in smart tv?** A: In this case you won't be able to sync video, but you might be able to sync audio if you plug the sync box to a HDMI ARC port on your TV. To have video synced you must have the source plugged into the sync box, which obviously you can't do if the source is running on your TV. **Q: Hi I have the sync box connected to stereo receiver. The video and gaming features work fine but it won’t sync to music. Help please?** A: It would be great if you had described exactly how all your devices are chained together. The best way to think about all these HDMI connections is that both audio and video flow from your source devices, at the end of the chain, through the sync box and then to your TV. The sync box can only sync with what flows through it (audio or video), so you must connect the output of all the source devices you want to have the lights synced with to the inputs of your sync box. Particularly for audio, you could also have the sync box plugged into a HDMI ARC port on your TV and sync with audio from a source that is not directly plugged to the sync box, e.g. a music streaming app running on your TV. This likely works because the TV would be sending its audio down to the sync box through the ARC port. In my home I have a streaming box (e.g. Roku) connected to my sync box, and my sync box connects to my TV on a regular HDMI port. I also have a soundbar connected to my TV's ARC port, so it can play whatever my streaming box is sending. **Q: what is the input voltage? is it supports 220v?** A: Yes. It supports 100v-240v input **Q: Can you use this with a A/V receiver with video and audio switching?** A: Take the output of the receiver into 1of the inputs on the Philips bar, then output of the bar to the tv. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Love it *by R***O on January 7, 2025* Configuratios is way to complicated, and requires the full thing to work (strip light for the tv, the sync box and the bridge). Is crazy expensive but the quality of what you get is undeniable. A bit sad that it doesn't work directly with the Samsung tv built-in apps, only works with the connected devices via HDMI, or if the Samsung tv is one of the newest models and Qled or Oled versions. A side from that, i think it work as expected, but I'm sure I'm missing features due to incompatibility or lack of available public user data. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Marvelous technology Read this if you want to know how to use it. *by C***E on January 17, 2025* I bought the Philips hue sync box with the LED strip for the top of the back of the TV and the bar that goes along the bottom of the TV. This TV is a Sony 77-in A80L and is mounted beautifully on the back and creates a magnificent juxtaposition of the light that is being cast from the scene and then emits from the scene around your room without distracting from the shot. You have to have an external stream box if you want streaming content to be affected with the hue system. It's also very touchy with 4K blu-ray players in that if you have a Sony, it doesn't work. You have to have the top of the line Panasonic DP UB820 which I'm just ordering. But back to the streaming issue, TVs do not send video they send audio through their eARC HDMI port. Now some people look at the back of the unit and see 4 HDMI inputs and one output and the software switches those inputs to the output. If you use it in this fashion you will be wasting your money. It does not work that way. It is very clunky and completely puts everything out of sync. The correct way of using it is having an AVR with dual outputs and use the secondary output to feed the input number one of the Philips hue box. If the AVR does not have a dual HDMI output then you need to have a HDMI splitting amplifier so that you have two HDMI outs of your AVR. The other point is that you should not run it in and out to the TV as it affects the signal going to it and it's another thing in the past that that usually screws up and end up regretting it. This set up I got is around $500 for the two lights and the sync box. Yes that is very pricey but the technology required to strip the metadata out of the HDMI input for the video signals is quite extensive so it works really well if you hook it up correctly. You have a full multimedia sound system to hook it up to correctly. It doesn't really work with single systems. Good luck ### ⭐ super expensive, not updated or current, buggy device with bad software *by C***S on July 8, 2021* super expensive, not updated or current, buggy device with bad software, multiple apps required. Problem 1: There are confusingly 2 listings for this item on Amazon. Both appear to be the same exact item. 1 is listed as 555227. Both appear to be the same old device. Problem 2: The listing for this item itself says "Smart Lights Required" -- this is technically incorrect. If all you wanted to do is use this device as an HDMI splitter, it would work for that (as long as the devices are HDMI2.0 or prior). So NO, lights are NOT actually required. Problem 2: Old tech. Not HDMI2.1 compliant which could be a problem for newer video game consoles, PCs, AV Receivers, TVS or any other device requiring HDMI2.1. This means this device will kneecap your better, faster HDMI2.1 sources. They'll work worse, slower or maybe in some cases not at all? I don't know everything about HDMI2.1...4K@120, 8K@60??? Whatever that standard gives you, this device won't be cable of splitting it... Problem 3: Incredible amount of confusion that this device won't work unless an HDMI SOURCE is connected. I'm NOT CONFUSED ABOUT THIS but many of you are. Obviously, this device sucks up video info from an HDMI source and spits it out to the lights. People can't seem to understand that If you connect this thing to a TV and they play an app ON THEIR TV, that the app doesn't communicate with this Sync Box...So maybe change the listing from "Smart Lights Required" to "HDMI Source Required" because lights are NOT required but an HDMI source is! Problem 4: It's actually kind of slowish. For a $200-$300 device, the lights don't exactly update super-fast with what's on screen. I mean...it's okay...UNDERWHELMING for $500+ (after you buy this thing, hub, lights)...You can buy an average 4K 55" or mediocre 4K 65" TV for that price... Problem 5: Bad software. 2 different apps required?? There is the HUE app itself (just for lights) but an additional HUE Sync app is required to get this thing to work for almost no reason. Why not just add this device activation to the main HUE app? The HUE Sync Box app itself is so basic, why have it at all?? It forces the user to have multiple apps open to use/modify everything and that's not intuitive. It's very clunky and stupid. The fact that there are 2 apps can cause install issues. I initially failed to get this device to work possibly because I'd added the Sync lights to the HUE app first (because they're in there as an option and that was an intuitive thing to do), but didn't create an "entertainment zone" (what the hell is that even and how would I know to create one?) The HUE Sync app could not get to the point where it tells me to go back to the other HUE app (again why are there 2 apps?? -- so stupid). Setup failed repeatedly. It just hangs and doesn't tell you what's wrong. I had to restart from scratch multiple times, delete lights in the HUE app, and it failed multiple times. Installation is NOT straight forward. Setup is NOT a breeze...I'd call it hot trash. MANY people will give up here and just return the device. I'm not even sure how I got it to work. Everything seemed to be connected and should have worked but my main HDMI source would not stay connected (or connect at all). I couldn't initially figure out whether this was an HDMI2.1 issue or just this buggy device...Another reviewer said it took him 2 days to get it to work. 2 DAYS???!!! Oh my god, get rid of the thing at that point. Problem 6: TOO EXPENSIVE. The Phillips HUE ecosystem is ridiculously expensive for devices that are old tech, using old standards, requiring extra devices (HUB) that other far less expensive (but still good) ecosystems do not. THUMBS WAY DOWN. ## Frequently Bought Together - Philips Hue Play HDMI Sync Box - Requires Hue Bridge - Supports Dolby Vision HDR10+ and 4K - Control with Hue App - Compatible with Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple HomeKit - Philips Hue Bridge - Unlock the Full Potential of Hue - Multi-Room and Out-of-Home Control - Create Automations and Zones - Secure, Stable Connection Won't Strain Your Wi-Fi - Works with Voice, Matter --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - πŸ›’ **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** β€” Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** β€” Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - πŸ’° **No Hidden Fees** β€” All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - πŸ”„ **15-Day Free Returns** β€” Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - πŸ”’ **Secure Payments** β€” Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** β€” Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.gr/products/201115513-philips-hue-play-hdmi-sync-box-requires-hue-bridge-supports](https://www.desertcart.gr/products/201115513-philips-hue-play-hdmi-sync-box-requires-hue-bridge-supports) --- *Product available on Desertcart Greece* *Store origin: GR* *Last updated: 2026-05-10*