Hello everyone,
I recently acquired a pack of Philips Hue bulbs, which I immediately set around my monitors, knowing that Synapse can link the technologies.
But after experimenting a bit with the possibilities, it seems there is a major flaw that I havent been able to find a solution to.
The 'entertainment mode' from Philips' application, that is meant to adapt depending what happens on your computer (music, video, gaming) seems to override everything. And by a everything, I mean both Razer's very lighting profiles but even Hue's own parameters.
What really bugs me is that now, my Blackwidow or Firefly don't even do response lighting layouts : for example, when playing Overwatch, you should have a color depending on the character, along some ingame info appearing on the keyboard (cooldowns and effects among others). But when I actived the sync with Hue to get the lighting ambiance on top, it overrides that. It's not that bad, but now the whole setup is one color rather than having many little things as it used to be, with what I expected to be just the ambiance lighting from the bulbs to increase immersion. Now the whole thing is immersive.
Synapse Studio doesn't allow anything, given it says that Hue now controls the lighting system. It seems a bit reductive given how much effort Razer has put into having a lot games to have special profiles in them, only to see it overrided by some lightbulbs behind a screen.
TL;DR - Hue overrides Synapse layouts in games, is there no fix?
Chroma + Hue - No more custom Synapse layout?
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I have both Philips Hue and Razer Synapse 3 Chroma Keyboard, mouse and mousepad. It took me a while to understand what's what. There a choice do you want the Philips Hue app to control both the Hue and Razer light or do you want Synapse to control both Hue and Razer light. You can install both but the software gets unstable when Razer updates its software. It breaks my Hue configuration more than once.
I would go with Synapse controlling the Hue and Razer lighting as the Hue Playbar is mounted behind my PC monitor and it's mainly to sync with games.
First thing, uninstall both Hue windows software and Razer Synapse. Setup the Hue light using its mobile app, the Entertainment area. Install the latest Synapse 3 on windows 10 and use Synapse's Hue module to connect to your Hue bridge. That's it. The latest Chroma visualizer will take over both the Hue and Razer lighting. You could also configure the Chroma Studio for a more in-depth RGB configuration.
I would go with Synapse controlling the Hue and Razer lighting as the Hue Playbar is mounted behind my PC monitor and it's mainly to sync with games.
First thing, uninstall both Hue windows software and Razer Synapse. Setup the Hue light using its mobile app, the Entertainment area. Install the latest Synapse 3 on windows 10 and use Synapse's Hue module to connect to your Hue bridge. That's it. The latest Chroma visualizer will take over both the Hue and Razer lighting. You could also configure the Chroma Studio for a more in-depth RGB configuration.
joey_sfb
I have both Philips Hue and Razer Synapse 3 Chroma Keyboard, mouse and mousepad. It took me a while to understand what's what. There a choice do you want the Philips Hue app to control both the Hue and Razer light or do you want Synapse to control both Hue and Razer light. You can install both but the software gets unstable when Razer updates its software. It breaks my Hue configuration more than once.
I would go with Synapse controlling the Hue and Razer lighting as the Hue Playbar is mounted behind my PC monitor and it's mainly to sync with games.
First thing, uninstall both Hue windows software and Razer Synapse. Setup the Hue light using its mobile app, the Entertainment area. Install the latest Synapse 3 on windows 10 and use Synapse's Hue module to connect to your Hue bridge. That's it. The latest Chroma visualizer will take over both the Hue and Razer lighting. You could also configure the Chroma Studio for a more in-depth RGB configuration.
Yep, sorry for the late answer, but I figured right after I made the post like an idiot realizing his misconception. You're still free to turn off Hue in Synapse and have Visualizer take over, that will leave the bulbs on their own with the Hue app and keep the effect going.
That matters not now, there seems to have been an update in Synapse with a Hue integrated system. Now it's all customizable directly in Studio using the Environment influence layer thing and assign it to your Chroma devices with desired regions of the display. It's pretty neat and quite accurate for the peripherals (my all new Ornata has all its keys and side LEDs react independently), not so much for the Hue accessories it seems : my bulbs have a very staggered response to colors on screen, and a weird choice at that too depending on what is displayed. Hue would pick a general color in certain areas, but Razer's version of it is pretty much taking one pixel out of the desired area and using that color, which creates that weird unsmooth effect with drastic color changes. It really depends on what is displayed.
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