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Apple Health Very Low Move Value

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Symptom

Suddenly, the value of the Move (Active Calories Burnt) is very low. The Move ring is much lower than normal while your other rings for Exercise and Stand are normal.

Apple Heath Screen on iOS with Low Move Ring

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Check the settings in Apple Health to see if your recorded weight has changed. Sometimes the weight can unexpectedly change to a very low value. In the example below the weight was recorded as 9kg which was far too low. After correcting the weight, the Move ring in Apple Heath returned to normal behaviour.

Apple Heath Settings with Very Low Weight

Philips Hue Issue – Older Bulbs Can’t Be Found by new Philips Hue Bridge

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A typical Philips Hue personal wireless LED lighting setup consists of a Philips Hue bridge and one or more Philips Hue bulbs. The devices connect to each other via the ZigBee communication protocol and therefore should be backwards compatible.
Over the years there have been 3 generations of Philips Hue released:

  • Generation 1 (2012)
  • Generation 2 (2015)
  • Generation 3 (2016)

There are 2 variants of the Hue Bridge. The new version has a number of improvements such as support for Apple HomeKit.

Philips Hue Bridge 2.0

Philips Hue Bridge 2.0

If you own(ed) an original Hue Bridge and wish to install a new Hue Bridge you will likely wish to continue to use the older bulbs possibly with some additional new bulbs if you avail of one of the starter kits.
The old bulbs and new Hue Bridge are compatible however you may experience some issues when using standard methods to try to find the old bulbs from the new Hue Bridge.
Read on for more information on the standard methods then alternative method to detect and connect to the old bulbs.

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