
If you have a sound bar or AV receiver, setting things up gets more complicated, but not impossible. Plug all of your devices, like your game console, streaming stick and satellite box, into the former, then connect the box to your TV with the latter, using the included HDMI cable. The Hue Sync Box has four HDMI inputs and one output. It requires the Hue Bridge (if you don't have one already), which connects to your router and acts as a control unit for all Hue lighting in your home.
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That means video game consoles, streaming sticks, satellite boxes, Blu-ray players, and anything else you consume video from. It can be controlled by speaking to Alexa, Siri or Google Assistant, and works with anything plugged into your TV using an HDMI cable. At its simplest, the $230 Philips Hue Play HDMI Sync Box – we'll go ahead and shorten that to Hue Sync Box – is a device that controls your smart lighting to match whatever is on your television.
