With Halloween just around the corner it is a great chance to get creative with your hue lighting system. Give trick or treaters a fright with scary lighting or give your home a haunted lighting show that will make you stand out on your street.

The set ups below use the indoor Hue bulbs, however this year Philips released a range of outdoor bulbs making it even easier to create lighting setups like below.

Hue Halloween

We have rounded up some videos of people that are having a Philip Hue Halloween party and turned their home into a haunted house.

Amazing Hue set up that also uses a projector to for the ultimate halloween scene!

Halloween with Philips hue lightning strobe light and a great way to use your garage.

Hue lights, scary sound effects and a spooky living room.

Scary for kids and adults and perfect for a halloween party! Not sure you would want to be left in the darkness here!

No scary props, just clever lighting and some scary sound sand music. Simple but effective.

Lights with props and cleverly placed bulbs make this fun and 100% halloween!

Great use of Philips Hue Bulbs and Hue Halloween App.

Thunder with Hue!

This has posted on Reddit comes to life this Halloween with a range of lights used in the windows and music coming from a speaker in the porch.

A halloween light show using Philips Hue.

Spooky Haunted House effect using Philips hue and the huedynamic app for halloween.

Hue Halloween Apps & Scenes

Tips for your Hue Halloween Lights

Here are some of out top tips to using Hue lights to transform your home into a haunted house for Halloween.

Positioning your lights

With the new Hue outdoor lights it allows you to position the lights where you want, the Hue Lily spots or Calla posts are great, moving to areas so they are hidden allows them to suddenly light up when people are not expecting them and also cannot see where the light is coming from.

Combining this with the Hue motion sensor you can suddenly start all the effects on any unsuspecting people coming to your door.

Adding white paper to a window and placing your hue lights behind can create a silhouette effect with objects placed in front of the lights.Pumpkins, skeletons and strange toys can work great.

Sync to spooky music

There are some great apps that will sync your Hue bulbs with music, so your bulbs with some haunted halloween music and sounds can create an impressive and spooky look to your home from outside.

Flickering Candle Effects

If you don’t want music and perhaps something a little more subtle then a candle effect can look great, apps such as OnSwitch for Android and iPhone works really well. Link this to your outdoor Hue color bulbs, or perhaps a lamp positioned on the window cill inside.

With the release of the filament bulbs you can make this effect look even better with those stylish old vintage bulbs.

Strobe flashes

Use quick strobe flashes to create a scary effect in dark rooms, turning lights on and off quickly creating a bright flash of light is a clever way to add a spooky effect for halloween. Hue Disco allows you to create a strobe lighting effect perfect for this.

Spooky colors

Without creating flashing effects you can easily change the colour of your hue bulbs to create a spooky feeling, dim your lights, set them to dark deep greens, oranges or reds.