The Philips Hue Go is a simple design that makes it a portable light. It features only one button, and that’s on the bottom of the unit.
That button allow you to control your lamp. Tapping once quickly will cycle lamp through its color modes. That way, you can set mood anywhere in room. But it doesn’t turn the thing all the way off by tapping the button.
How to Properly Shut Down
The bottom surface hold the main control for the user.
Here’s how to shut it down properly.
The primary control is on underside. Not your typical on/off switch here. It is a multi-function button that can absorbs or be held, depending on action you want to take. That’s good because that saves some battery time.
Tap the button if you’d like to change colors. Press and hold the button if you would of like the lamp to stop.
Press and hold bottom button to power the unit down. Hold it for several seconds. The light will go out completely.
What’s happened? Well, you’ve put it in a low power mode. It is more efficient than just leaving it on standby. Once you learn how long to hold the button it’s simple. You don’t need to remove battery or pull the cable. It is simple. Simply hold that button till the thing shuts down. Well it has put itself in a low power mode. More efficient then just leaving it on standby. Once you learn how long to hold the button it’s simple. No battery removal, no cable pulling. Simple. Simply hold that button till the thing shuts down.
The execution is clever, and once you do it one time you get hang of it. And no, walking around with lamp won’t accidentally turn it off. Bumping into walls isn’t going to kill power either.
Unless you purposefuly want to shut down light, you need to physically press on the button. For a portable lamp like this, that makes total sense. You can take it wherever and move it as you please without worry.
To preserve its battery for later, just turn it off. Leaving it on drains power quicky. Use this trick and you’ll see how long it lasts. It is simple, but it makes a big difference.
There’s no need to go into any menus or interact with an app. Just one physical button handles everything.
Hardware are fast and reliable. Sometimes software controls will not register, or they will be laggy. Hardware buttons are always what you expect them to do. You have confidence that when you directly interacted with your smart home device something happen.
The light went out, and there’s nothing more to it. You don’t have to wait for a notification or a confirmation signal. Just immediate results.
Control the lamp’s power status.
This is how you’re supposed to do it. There are no firmware tricks and no secret settings. It’s a button that, well, acts like a button.
How do you get it to work? Hold it down. That way you won’t forget to switch the light off and waste your battery’s life. Before storing the lamp, always hold button in place first.
