Bridge, Unlock The Full Potential of Hue Bridge System, Multi-Room and Out-of-Home Control, Create Automations and Zones, Smart Lighting Hub, Works with Voice and Matter-Compatible

I didn't even want to buy this since I don't have much use for colored lights in the first place, and all of my smart devices are at the switch level anyway, but... I'm also impulsive and technologically silly, so I bought it in order for a computer to interact with them for a specific reason - watching Formula One races through the MultiViewer app. (See pic) The MultiViewer app allows you to watch Formula One races beyond just a single broadcast of the race - instead of just the television broadcast you can also see multiple driver cockpit cameras, track information, position of cars on the track, the leaderboard and tire information, track violations and penalties, and even tune into specific driver radios. Basically it gives you a fully immersive racing experience outside of "just watching the race on tv". In addition to MultiViewer, there's a companion app called F1MV Lights Integration - which is awesome - and well... I simply had to have it. The companion app will take the data being pushed through MultiViewer and use it to control smart lights, so the lights reflect the race conditions such as green flags, red flags, safety cars, fastest laps, chequered flags, etc. In my picture someone had just hit the fastest lap of the race so far, usually indicated with the color purple on the leaderboard. As such the Philips lights changed to purple. The same happens for red flags, yellow flags, etc. Is it necessary? Nah... Cool as hell though? You bet. I originally tried this with the cheaper Govee lights, but although they were wi-fi capable like the Philips, they didn't have the API necessary to work correctly with the MultiViewer system. Those were returned and Philips lights were were purchased instead, and they require the hub to work with MultiViewer. It sucked that I also had to buy a hub to make it all work, but I'm silly and bought it anyway. Through the hub and the app, all it worked flawlessly and painlessly, connected easily, and does what I need it to do. All of it was generally easy to configure, and the app gives you quite a bit of control over a simple light. The lights dim from zero to 100 without issue, and the color range is everything I personally could ask for. (Although maybe others would be more demanding than myself.) All in all it was rather expensive, (compare to the Govee lights and you'll see the price difference!), but I hope that the extra expense means all of it will last a long time with no problems. They were all purpose-bought and they serve their purpose excellently.

Needed for full control of the Hue lights. While I think that is kind of lame that you ‘have’ to have it, it does make them work faster and give you complete control to set up individual rooms, scenes and groups of lights controls. Set up was easy and provides a noticeable increase in speed and smoothness for control of the lights. Without it you can still control the lights to some degree using the app, but not with grouping or rooms which was super important for us, and the hub enabled that.

Due to scarce availability, I had to wait quite a long time for the updated Hue Bridge Pro, but it was worth the wait. All my issues with misbehaving lights and inconsistent performance were resolved with the new hub. I was over the suggested number of devices with my old hub, and now everything works exactly as expected. The new sense-aware feature works very well for rooms with several Hue bulbs. This is a worthwhile upgrade for larger Hue implementations. For those with only a few Hue bulbs/devices, I'm not sure the extra cost is worth it.

It’s a great product but I found imposible to connect it to the wifi, plugged by ethernet works great tho

I struggled with what to include in this review as the product itself is pretty straightforward and really has no meaningful functionality to "review," per se: it either works or it doesn't. In my case, the hub worked just fine, setup was easy enough, and I haven't had any actual trouble with the hub. Since most people looking at the hub are likely considering diving into the Hue system as a whole, my review, instead, will focus on my experience with a relatively built-out Hue system after a few weeks. My current setup includes two BR-30 multicolor lights in my theater room, three of the same in my kitchen, a LightStrip with multiple extenders in the bedroom, and two A7 lightbulbs for our nightstand lamps in the bedroom. The only "smart" home product that I've owned prior to the Hue lights was two Nest thermostats and a Ring doorbell, so my experience with this category of technology is fairly limited. Overall, this lights are just fun. Adding lights to the system was straightforward, the automatic detection worked well, and it was easy to get individual lights assigned to rooms and scenes set up. The Hue app itself is fairly easy to use, though some of the UI decisions in the most recent version of the app are a little annoying (for example, having different "tabs" for individual lights and scenes). I've had some hiccups with getting individual lights to "group" together for color changes when setting up scenes, though this has been relatively rare. Setting up scenes was straightforward, though I'll admit I almost immediately deleted most of the included presets since I thought they were a bit strange. But setting up individual scenes with custom colors and brightness was a breeze. Getting used to using an app - rather than light switches - has been a bit of a challenge. This isn't a fault of the Hue system itself but is something relevant, I think, to the experience of switching to a smart lighting system. A few weeks in, I still accidentally use my light switches at times. I'm looking forward to getting some of the Hue motion sensors to see if this can make the system truly automated; I love the idea of lights turning on and off automatically based on need, and I imagine that this will improve my experience with the system immensely. For now, though, there's definitely a bit of a learning curve to getting used to using an app (and carrying a phone around) to turn your lights on rather than the much more convenient light switch. The main problem I've had thus far is having individual lights being "unreachable" for, sometimes, long periods of time. Interestingly, the lights still respond to scene changes even when they're listed as "unreachable," but I can't control "unreachable" lights individually. I haven't quite figured out what the issue with this is, and I've verified that all of the firmware for the lights and the iOS app are up-to-date. This seems to mostly happen with the bedroom lights, which are located upstairs while the hub is downstairs, and I wonder if this is part of the problem. Perhaps it'll be less of an issue as I continue to expand the system and have a stronger mesh network throughout the house. But I will say that this has been quite an annoyance that I haven't been able to sort out completely. Not enough to say that I won't continue to buy Hue lights, but certainly something to be aware of if this might be enough to cause you to think twice. Because of this issue, HomeKit integration has been spotty for me. While the Hue app will allow me to change the lights via scenes even when they're "unreachable," this isn't the case in HomeKit. As a result, I rarely use HomeKit, and frankly I just find the Hue app easier to use. Since I don't have a ton of smart products, I don't necessarily need the deep integration and automation that can be achieved with the HomeKit system. The brightness and color setting are very granular, and you can create just about any lighting situation you can imagine. You're really only limited to your creativity. For day-to-day use, most of these features are a bit unnecessary, though even at times it can be fun to use some of the different colors. The adjustable brightness and color warmth are incredibly useful on a regular basis. But I can imagine this being a very nice touch for parties or big get togethers. Overall, do I think the Hue system is work the admittedly high cost? After about $600 to be able to light three rooms, I have to say I don't think so. It's a very fun toy, and I'll continue to expand the system, but I don't see this as a huge game-changer. Maybe it's because I'm not using the system to its fullest extent (e.g., integration with a smart thermostat), but I see this as a very expensive amusement and nothing else. Hopefully the lights will last quite a while: at $30-40 for each replacement, this can very quickly become an expensive system. But for those looking for the ability to fine tune your home lighting setup and are willing to pay the high price, I would definitely recommend it, although perhaps try setting it up in just a room or two to see how it goes before you spend a ton of money for whole-house lighting.

Everything works great! I have about 75 lights indoor and outdoor, and the motion aware feature is the best upgrade! I have it activated on my stairs and outdoor lights and it works flawlessly, just make sure to upgrade software on all your lights before using. The lights detect motion almost instantly and turns on all the lights that I have programmed to turn on when it detects motion. Very happy with this upgrade.

Philips Hue Smart Hub (Compatible with Amazon Alexa, Apple HomeKit, and Google Assistant) This little bridge box transfers your existing Philip hue lightbulbs, from Bluetooth-only control, to Zigbee wireless controlled bulbs and to the cloud. When you set up this hub, you pair with your phone then "transfer" existing BT hue bulbs to the "hub". Then from there, your lights are now controlled by the zigbee wireless controlled system. No need to be "near your lights" anymore because it doesnt use bluetooth from phone. You also need to log into (create an account) philips hue cloud account in order to be able to remotely control the philips hue smart lights/plugs from outside your house. Commands go from phone to philips cloud to this smart hub and then out thru zigbee local network to your philiips bulbs/plugs. Overall it's pretty slick and works. Very fast reaction. Seems pretty darn reliable. Much more reliable than other systems that have direct wifi connection to the internet (tplink kasa , other brands). Since Hue relies on a zigbee wireless system LOCALLY in your home, it doesnt need "wifi" connectivity which can often be really spotty and not reliable. Zigbee is lower frequency and can get to ALL your lights from my basement to third floor NO PROBLEM. The philips hub uses WIRED connection to your home router. Therefore can connect to cloud instantly with ZERO connectivity issues. This is why Philips hub works so well. Combines wired connection to internet, and then bridges out to your smart hue accessories via a much more reliable zigbee system --- by the way zigbee has been around VERY long time and is typically used in home security systems to communicate with wireless home sensors. If you have philips system, YOU MUST get this. Its a no brainer.

Me había llegado mal, hice la devolución y afortunadamente se arregló, lo compré de nuevo y ahora si llegó perfecto y en buen estado, lo configure tanto para Alexa como para Siri, Con Siri fue un poco más complicado, no fue posible configurarlo desde la app de Apple Home, pero si se pudo perfectamente desde la app de Philips Hue en Settings->Smart Home->Add->Apple Home y hi fue muy sencillo, lo reconoció muy rápido.

Uso o sistema da HUE com 40 luzes da Philips e Apple HomeKit. Senti a resposta da Siri muito mais rápida utilizando cabo de rede no HUB. Para configuração eu refiz todas as cenas por que li muitos comentários de que a migração poderia dar problemas. Importante checar se o canal escolhido não tem muita interferência.

Buen upgrade Vengo de usar el hue bridge 2, y tiene algunas mejoras, que a mi gusto no es imprescindible sin embargo mejora sustancialmente, vamos por partes: La instalación es muy simple, la app tiene una opción para migrar la configuración pasada, permitiendo utilizar luces, sensores y accesorios previos, sólo que en mi caso con HomeKit es necesario volver a indicar las acciones a realizar si se tienen automatizaciones, por ejemplo encender luces al amanecer, no es complicado sin embargo es un punto a considerar. En el aspecto técnico funciona con el wifi tanto 2.4ghz como 5ghz, es posible conectarlo con cable ethernet igual que la versión pasada para mejorar el tiempo de respuesta, lo cual recomiendo. En cuanto al funcionamiento, las luces responden más rápido y si se tienen 4 luces en el mismo cuarto a una distancia de hasta 2m cada una, es posible generar un campo el cual permite detectar personas e iluminar si se detectan, esto es algo que antes no ocurría y permite mejorar la experiencia, por ahora es la única funcionalidad adicional, en mi caso si tengo un cuarto con estas características y me parece útil en la madrugada. Por último el bridge soporta más dispositivos que la versión pasada y hasta ahora es todo lo adicional que ofrece, si trabajan remoto, y/o tienen un hogar inteligente notarán la mejora en el consumo de datos y el tiempo de respuesta. Si están por iniciar en este ecosistema de Philips lo recomiendo ampliamente por encima de la primera generación.

I am new to these home automation systems but this bit of kit is so cool. It’s super easy to install & works flawlessly. I haven’t had any issues. Downside is I have went with the same brand lamps which ain’t cheap but that’s what you pay for.