Dim? The Hue bulbs I used were a lot brighter than the 'dumb' bulbs I replaced. This was a couple of years ago (before they had Bluetooth), not sure if they've changed the specs in the meantime.
It depends what you start out with of course, if you had low wattage incandescent bulbs for example you can replace them just fine with connected ones.
But currently, commercially available dumb bulbs go into much higher lumen ranges than connected ones. Ours were in the 2600-3000 lumens range before the change if I recall correctly.
> Ours were in the 2600-3000 lumens range before the change if I recall correctly.
Wow, that's very bright! IIRC ours were standard CFL's you'd buy at any store at the time (at least here in the Netherlands), but definitely nothing in the range you're stating.
