Pedestals for the current Philips Hue dimmer remote

Philips has sold two different remotes under the name Philips Hue Smart Dimmer Switch, and they do not sit in each other's pedestals. This page is for the newer one. Look at the bottom button: if it carries the hue wordmark, you are in the right place. If it reads OFF, yours is the earlier remote, the taller one with the rounded end, and it has pedestals of its own.

On its wall plate the remote is easy to find. Off the plate it is a small flat thing on a large surface: it slides when you press it, turns face down, and disappears under the first thing set on top of it.

This remote already has a magnet in it, so the pedestal carries the steel slug that magnet grips. The earlier remote is the other way around: no magnet of its own, so the magnet goes in the pedestal. Either way it sets down at an angle you can read and press without picking it up, and lifts straight off for a battery change.

Six sizes. Five are one straight row: a single is 54 mm (2.1 in) wide and each further slot adds 42 mm, up to 222 mm (8.7 in) for the quintuple. All five are 111.8 mm (4.4 in) deep and 42.4 mm (1.7 in) tall, so a longer one takes more of the shelf edge but no more of the shelf. The sixth is the 3+3 sextuple, the only one that grows backward: 138 mm across, the same as the triple, and 213.7 mm (8.4 in) front to back, its two rows level rather than tiered. If the surface is deeper than it is wide, that is the one to measure for.

There are more than 20 colors. Each filament is either matte or glossy, so the finish comes with the color: White, Cool Gray, Chocolate, Seafoam and Pistachio are flat under a lamp, Jet Black and the reds and blues catch the light. Speckled Black is a graphite base with shiny white specks in it, and Cookies & Cream a cool-white base with black specks. Glow-in-the-Dark is a pale gray in daylight and glows green once the lights are off, the one color the preview cannot show - its swatch says so.

We also build combination pedestals that hold two kinds of remote on one base, so a Hue and a Lutron Caseta Pico can share one. If you do not see the size, mix or color you want, drop me a line on your favorite of the social links below - most of what the shop makes started as a request.