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Phillips Hue Bridge [BRIDGE ONLY] €39.95
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26-11-2015 10:27am#1
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Summary: If you have to ask, you don't need this particular item.
If you have an existing Philips Hue lighting system, with an existing bridge, then this replaces the bridge, to give you integration with Siri on an iPhone. That means on you iPhone you can do things like say "Siri Turn lights on" and your Philip Hue lights turn on. Or you might say "Siri change light colour to red" and the colour changes to red, etc.
But this only works with Philips Hue lights.
If you don't already have Hue lights and you are interested in this, then you would be better off buying a bundle which would include some lights + the bridge.
Thanks for getting back, like everything here on boards bargains I didn't know I needed it until I saw it on here
In relation to the lights themselves, I'm guessing you leave the light switch permanently on and your phone plus lightbulb controls the switching?
It wouldn't work in a kitchen with GU10s or in a 5 bulb lamp or something like that?0 -
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Thanks for getting back, like everything here on boards bargains I didn't know I needed it until I saw it on here
In relation to the lights themselves, I'm guessing you leave the light switch permanently on and your phone plus lightbulb controls the switching?
It wouldn't work in a kitchen with GU10s or in a 5 bulb lamp or something like that?
The Philips Hue is an entire ecosystem of different lights, all of which can be controlled by a bridge.
They do in fact have GU10 lights and they will work perfectly fine in a GU10 fitting (they should do, I haven't actually bought one of these yet myself). They also have a variety of other standard bulb fittings that should fit various lamps.
I believe they come in two types. Ones that are white only (can be dimmed and turned on and off remotely) and ones that do both white and 16 million colours (a bit more expensive).
My understanding on how these work is that you can use the normal light switch. When you switch on the light switch they default to a soft white colour.
You can then use your iPhone to change the colour of the bulb, etc. (awesome you buy the coloured ones).
Turning them off by the light switch to turn off like normal bulbs, but obviously you can't turn them back on by the iphone then, so yes, you would normally leave the switch on if you want to control them fully by your iphone.
If you really get into these, you can get rid of the light switch and replace it with a hue switch which works like a light switch turning them on and off as normal, but adds the advantage of mobility of the light switch (can be removed from the wall and walk around with it) and even when off, you can still turn back on with the iphone.
Personally, I only have 3 Philips Hue Blooms, which are bedside type lamps. I just bought one bulb from Amazon lighting deal to try out how the bulbs work in real life. I'll let you know how it goes. I can for see me replacing most of my lights with these in the long term!0 -
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So i have four livingColor lights...three spot lights and one lamp. I got the bridge, and Its plugged into the router. (Is it not meant to be wireless? You don't seem to be able to take it out of the router). Anyway the bridge connected to my network. Then I tried the Light Scan, but it doesn't work. So I tried manually entering the serial codes (some had the 6 digits serial codes, some did not) , but apparently those that did are 'too far away from the bridge'...(they are all in the same room). So instead I tried to use their remotes to synchronise them.
I have one remote which is synced to my four lights which is great. I tried to synch that to the bridge but it didn't work. I found two old remotes for the small spots, and I synchronised those to the bridge and they connected. But that basically un-synchronised them from my master remote...
So then I could switch two off with the App, but the other two had to be unplugged last night (it was late, and I was tired)
Anyway, I'll play with it again later. Im probably doing something wrong but its a bit of a mess!! and all because I wanted a bargain
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Can the bridge not connect wirelessly to the router? Mine is due to be delivered tomorrow
No, the bridge needs to be connected directly to your router by ethernet all the time.
The bridge does support Zigbee wireless to communicate with the lights and remotes, but it doesn't support wifi to talk to your router.
You could however use power over ethernet adaptors or even a wifi access point to move the bridge to a different room from your router. But I can't see why anyone would bother doing that. After the initial setup (or adding new lights), you pretty much never touch the bridge again, just leave it sitting next to your router.marcus2000 wrote: »Anyway, I'll play with it again later. Im probably doing something wrong but its a bit of a mess!! and all because I wanted a bargain
It sounds like everything has gotten mixed up and are communicating with the wrong devices. I suspect some of your remotes are communicating directly with some of the lights, rather then the bridge. I'd recommend resetting the bridge and connecting each light and remote with the bridge again.0 -
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my partner had a great laugh turning the lights on and off at his Christmas party last night, while I sat at home..... I thought it was broken.........it was 'HILARIOUS?'.... He only rang me a few minutes ago asking if it had worked cos he forgot to ask!!! Well worth the 30quid!!!
(it'll be half as hilarious when i do it tomorrow night!!)0 -
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