My 3-month-old Philips Hue bulb started flickering at 2am and I fixed it with a paperclip of all things

So I'm sitting in my living room in Austin around 2am last Tuesday, just winding down, and the overhead light starts strobe-flashing like a bad rave. It's a Philips Hue color bulb I bought back in April. At first I thought it was a wiring issue or maybe a ghost lol. But after I swapped it with a working bulb from the bedroom and the problem followed the bulb, I knew it was the bulb itself. I looked up the error code pattern (3 short flashes then pause) and found a thread about the reset hole on the base. I poked a paperclip in there for 5 seconds and bam, it paired fresh and hasn't flickered since. Has anyone else had that specific blink pattern or did I just get lucky?

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ryan6536d ago

Paperclip reset" is honestly a lifesaver, I had the same exact 3-flash pattern on a bulb I bought in March. I was about to toss it before I found that reset hole too, it totally fixed my flickering issue. I feel like that little trick should be printed on the box or something, saved me from buying a new bulb.

eva_lewis6d ago

Wonder if they hide the reset hole on purpose to make people buy more bulbs before figuring it out.