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Philips Hue Sports Live for the NFL, NBA and NHL?
Short answer: no. Sports Live, the feature Philips Hue added to its app in 2026, follows soccer. To make Hue lights flash for football, basketball, hockey or baseball, you need a separate service. Here's what Sports Live does and what works for US leagues.
What Sports Live does
Sports Live is built into the Philips Hue app (with a Hue Bridge) and the WiZ app. You pick a team and the lights to use, and during a match the lights react to goals and to yellow and red cards. Between those moments they show your team's color, the leading team's color, or warm white when it's tied, and Hue says the effects are timed to allow for broadcast delay.
It launched in May and June 2026 for that summer's international soccer tournament and runs on third-party match data.
What it doesn't cover
Signify's announcement and the Hue app's help page describe soccer only. As of November 2026 there's no Sports Live for the NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB or college sports, and no plans for them have been announced. If that changes, it'll show up in the Hue app first.
What works with Hue lights for US leagues
illumiscore
- Lights
- LIFX, Govee and Philips Hue (with a Hue Bridge)
- Sports
- 975 teams: NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, WNBA, college football and basketball and 16 soccer leagues including MLS and the Premier League
- How
- Website. Paste a LIFX token or Govee API key, or sign in to Hue, once; it watches games for you around the clock
- Cost
- Free for 1 light and 1 team; paid plans from $4 a month or $29 a year
- TV delay
- Up to 60 seconds per light
OnSwitch
- Lights
- Philips Hue
- Sports
- NFL, NBA, MLB, EPL (Game-Sync)
- How
- Phone app with light shows and themes
- Cost
- Free trial, then paid
- TV delay
- Check the app
ConnectedRoom
- Lights
- Philips Hue, Govee, LIFX, Kasa, WYZE, SmartThings
- Sports
- Many sports and leagues, games scheduled up to 14 days ahead
- How
- Web app; also drives scoreboards, sounds and buttons
- Cost
- Monthly or yearly subscription, or pay-per-game credits
- TV delay
- Anti-spoiler delay up to 120 seconds
Home Assistant + TeamTracker
- Lights
- Anything Home Assistant controls
- Sports
- The leagues ESPN covers
- How
- Do it yourself: a free custom integration plus an automation you write
- Cost
- Free (you run Home Assistant)
- TV delay
- Whatever you build in
Details of other products are from their own websites as of November 2026 and can change; check with them before you buy. (We make illumiscore, so weigh that.)
Set it up on Hue with illumiscore
Sign up free
With your email or Google. No card needed.
Connect Philips Hue
Press Connect Philips Hue and sign in on Hue's own page. Your lights need a Hue Bridge set up in the Hue app. More on Hue.
Pick your team
Find it here (or by league: NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB), press Test flash, and set a TV delay if your stream runs behind.
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Questions
- Does Philips Hue Sports Live work for the NFL?
- No. Sports Live follows soccer, and Signify hasn't announced other sports. For NFL touchdowns on Hue lights, illumiscore (free for one light and one team), OnSwitch and ConnectedRoom all work with Hue.
- Does Sports Live work for the NBA, NHL or MLB?
- No, not as of November 2026. illumiscore flashes Hue lights for every NBA, NHL, MLB and WNBA team, plus college football and basketball (975 teams in all).
- Do I need a Hue Bridge?
- For Sports Live in the Hue app, yes (the WiZ app's version works with WiZ lights and no bridge). For illumiscore, yes too: it reaches Hue lights through Hue's cloud and your bridge.
- Can I use Sports Live and illumiscore together?
- Yes. Sports Live runs inside the Hue app during the soccer matches it covers; illumiscore runs on its own and flashes your lights whenever a team you follow scores, in any league it covers.
- Is illumiscore made by Philips Hue?
- No. illumiscore is made by Thompson SWE LLC and isn't affiliated with Philips Hue (Signify). It also works with LIFX and Govee lights.
illumiscore is made by Thompson SWE LLC and isn't affiliated with Philips Hue (Signify), WiZ, OnSwitch, ConnectedRoom, Home Assistant, or any league or team. Names belong to their owners. What Sports Live covers is from Signify's announcement of May 6, 2026 and the Hue app's help page, as of November 2026. Flashing lights can trigger seizures in people with photosensitive epilepsy.