i'm up on the second floor of a house that is not that big and my router and bridge are downstairs and i haven't gotten it to work upstairs. do extra lights extend the range
Actually they say "put an extra Smart Home Intelligent Switch or hue bulb between the bridge and the device you are having difficulties controlling - This extra bulb or switch will function as a “repeater”."
Sidenote for this video: I live in México where houses are made of solid brick and concrete, in my home just 12 meters and two solid brick walls (aprox 38 ft), the lights didn't respond.
9ne quick note, the Hue lights use Zigbee technology to communicate with the hub, but they can also communicate with each other creating mesh network. So for instance if you had another light 20 feet away it would, in theory, be able to connect further away.
In theory, yep! One thing to note on that, the bulbs are notoriously bad at relaying messages to others with Hue so in general you want to use other wired devices.
Hey there glad to see you again!I became interest with the Philips hue Got some outside Lighting. It works wonderfully.It turns on at Dusk And about 10:30 pm It starts today to about 1%And then it will Return to 50% if the motion sensor is tripped And then return after set amount of time To 1%.Then it goes off at dawn . High priced but worth it. May thanks for the great information.Take good care of yourself!
Thanks for this video. One question ... did you have any other Philips Hue devices connected when doing this test? I’m interested to know if these distances are truly from single device to bridge, or if other devices in between have extended the mesh and therefore the range. I assume when you’re out in your garage there was nothing between so it looks like the range is pretty good regardless.
It's a mesh, so the hub is the base but the other bulbs affect this. It allows you to set bulbs in the middle of your furthest bulb. I didn't explain it very well in this video...truly, might be time for a remake of this. There was nothing between my bulb and my bridge for the garage test, you're right.
Thanks. I knew about the mesh network and how the message may go from one Hue bulb to another before hitting the bridge, which is why I was curious about the conditions of the test in the video. I'm keen to know what the range is (although with so many factors involved - eg. building materials - there's no exact number anyone could give) between one Hue bulb and the bridge, with no other Hue devices in between to help extend the mesh. This is because I want to see if the bridge in my house will be able to work with Hue bulbs in a home office which is a separate building with nothing in between except for the garden. I'm sure it will be fine, but the other Hue devices in the house that extend the mesh won't be helping the home office here. If your test in the video was conducted with no other Hue bulbs powered (not just "turned off") at the time then the distances would be clear. Still, I think your garage is further away from your house than the distance I'm interested in so I think I'll be all good! Thanks again for making the video!
I have an issue where I’m not using any lights but only motion sensors to connect with my HomeKit devices and it’s not giving any response even one floor down
Hi Brian, You mentioned in these threads that the Philips Hue bridges act as repeaters. I would love it if they do. I have a large house and need to link the bridges up so that I can control my Hue lights with Motion detection. I am intending in interfacing it with Alexa for movement. As Google Home doesn't support motion detection at the moment. I need to link the Hue bridges together so I can get through brick walls and across the distance required. Do you know how I can link these Hue bridges devices together?
So the hue bridges don't act as repeaters, sorry if I said that. The bulbs actually act as repeaters in this system, not the bridge. The bridges hold 50...maybe it's 60 today...bulbs/devices each, so that's why you'd get more than one ever.
Well the test was just simply to see the distance that I could put a bulb from the hub, so using it through cloud access wouldn't matter. All that matters is if the hub can connect to the bulb for a distance test. Otherwise, cloud access is anywhere!
Glad I could help! I didn't put this one thing in the video that's very important (learning process for video creation for me...). Your bulbs actually act as a repeater, so this video shows the approximate distance based on one bulb and a hub.
I have a question I want to use this hue lights for my room but the router is not in my room, the router its located in the room next to mine (Router room| |My room) will the hue lights work in my room even if the bridge is not in my room? Also from what i've seen the hue lights don't require "line of sight" from the bridge to turn on right? Another question:I want to use my Alexa to control the lights, if I ask her to turn off the lights will she do it even if the bridge is a wall far from the echo dot? And for the pairing between the 2 can I do it from my room (like will sje detect the bridge trough the wall) or do i need to unplug the echo dot, plug it near the bridge, pair them and then after that's done plug it back in my room?
Distance doesn't really matter here Gabriel, within reason. All of the components you've spoken about are very similar to WiFi in terms of distance they can go. So if your router can reach your room, then so can Hue bridge. :)
Nice work but your results are misleading. Other hue devices extend the range of the mesh network which hue devices communicate. Thus the experiment you have done only shows the range of a lighit bulb in your particular setup. If you have removed other hue devices before the experiment that would give the desired result which is the range of a single bulb.
No, sorry. From Philips directly: Lights create a mesh network with each other which enables each light to pass on messages to the next extending the range and making everything more robust. They are connected to the bridge via an open standards protocol called ZigBee Light Link. In this video, I only had one bulb online, which was near my hue hub.
@@AutomateYourLife Well this actually means that as long as you have one light that is connected to the bridge successfully, the next one only needs to be able to communicate with the last one, not the bridge. So, technically, you could have lights hundreds of feet away from the bridge, as long as the last light can "see" the one before it, you're good.
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i'm up on the second floor of a house that is not that big and my router and bridge are downstairs and i haven't gotten it to work upstairs. do extra lights extend the range
Actually they say "put an extra Smart Home Intelligent Switch or hue bulb between the bridge and the device you are having difficulties controlling - This extra bulb or switch will function as a “repeater”."
Sidenote for this video:
I live in México where houses are made of solid brick and concrete, in my home just 12 meters and two solid brick walls (aprox 38 ft), the lights didn't respond.
Makes sense. I'm thinking you have similar issues with wifi? Same carrier frequency of 2.4 GHz.
@@AutomateYourLife Yes, same problem with WiFi 2.4 Ghz and even worse sith 5Ghz it covers all living room well, but nothing behind a wall.
Yeah I bet. That makes it tough to work with smart home gear. A suggestion for your situation is:
Mesh wifi network, put bulbs from Philips at corners
9ne quick note, the Hue lights use Zigbee technology to communicate with the hub, but they can also communicate with each other creating mesh network. So for instance if you had another light 20 feet away it would, in theory, be able to connect further away.
In theory, yep! One thing to note on that, the bulbs are notoriously bad at relaying messages to others with Hue so in general you want to use other wired devices.
Hey there glad to see you again!I became interest with the Philips hue Got some outside Lighting. It works wonderfully.It turns on at Dusk And about 10:30 pm It starts today to about 1%And then it will Return to 50% if the motion sensor is tripped And then return after set amount of time To 1%.Then it goes off at dawn . High priced but worth it. May thanks for the great information.Take good care of yourself!
High priced, but worth it. My feelings exactly with philips hue
Thanks for this video. One question ... did you have any other Philips Hue devices connected when doing this test? I’m interested to know if these distances are truly from single device to bridge, or if other devices in between have extended the mesh and therefore the range.
I assume when you’re out in your garage there was nothing between so it looks like the range is pretty good regardless.
It's a mesh, so the hub is the base but the other bulbs affect this. It allows you to set bulbs in the middle of your furthest bulb. I didn't explain it very well in this video...truly, might be time for a remake of this. There was nothing between my bulb and my bridge for the garage test, you're right.
@@AutomateYourLifeReally curious what the range of a bulb is. I have the feeling it's less than a bridge... Would be a nice test to do!
I think I will remake this one and explain a little more about these bulbs!
Thanks. I knew about the mesh network and how the message may go from one Hue bulb to another before hitting the bridge, which is why I was curious about the conditions of the test in the video. I'm keen to know what the range is (although with so many factors involved - eg. building materials - there's no exact number anyone could give) between one Hue bulb and the bridge, with no other Hue devices in between to help extend the mesh. This is because I want to see if the bridge in my house will be able to work with Hue bulbs in a home office which is a separate building with nothing in between except for the garden. I'm sure it will be fine, but the other Hue devices in the house that extend the mesh won't be helping the home office here. If your test in the video was conducted with no other Hue bulbs powered (not just "turned off") at the time then the distances would be clear. Still, I think your garage is further away from your house than the distance I'm interested in so I think I'll be all good! Thanks again for making the video!
I have an issue where I’m not using any lights but only motion sensors to connect with my HomeKit devices and it’s not giving any response even one floor down
Hi Brian, You mentioned in these threads that the Philips Hue bridges act as repeaters. I would love it if they do. I have a large house and need to link the bridges up so that I can control my Hue lights with Motion detection. I am intending in interfacing it with Alexa for movement. As Google Home doesn't support motion detection at the moment.
I need to link the Hue bridges together so I can get through brick walls and across the distance required. Do you know how I can link these Hue bridges devices together?
So the hue bridges don't act as repeaters, sorry if I said that. The bulbs actually act as repeaters in this system, not the bridge.
The bridges hold 50...maybe it's 60 today...bulbs/devices each, so that's why you'd get more than one ever.
On the last test, was the phone connected to wifi? Have you tested the system thru cloud access?
Well the test was just simply to see the distance that I could put a bulb from the hub, so using it through cloud access wouldn't matter. All that matters is if the hub can connect to the bulb for a distance test.
Otherwise, cloud access is anywhere!
Super helpful! Thank you!!!
Glad I could help! I didn't put this one thing in the video that's very important (learning process for video creation for me...). Your bulbs actually act as a repeater, so this video shows the approximate distance based on one bulb and a hub.
I have a question I want to use this hue lights for my room but the router is not in my room, the router its located in the room next to mine (Router room| |My room)
will the hue lights work in my room even if the bridge is not in my room? Also from what i've seen the hue lights don't require "line of sight" from the bridge to turn on right?
Another question:I want to use my Alexa to control the lights, if I ask her to turn off the lights will she do it even if the bridge is a wall far from the echo dot? And for the pairing between the 2 can I do it from my room (like will sje detect the bridge trough the wall) or do i need to unplug the echo dot, plug it near the bridge, pair them and then after that's done plug it back in my room?
Distance doesn't really matter here Gabriel, within reason. All of the components you've spoken about are very similar to WiFi in terms of distance they can go. So if your router can reach your room, then so can Hue bridge. :)
@@AutomateYourLife thanks
Nice work but your results are misleading. Other hue devices extend the range of the mesh network which hue devices communicate. Thus the experiment you have done only shows the range of a lighit bulb in your particular setup. If you have removed other hue devices before the experiment that would give the desired result which is the range of a single bulb.
Yeah this was meant to show just how far they go on their own. I probably should have spent some time detailing all that in the video. :)
Thanks for that 👌🏼
thanks for this video
Hue Bridge totally fails in my house. It won't even go through one floor or one wall. Straight to ebay or recycling centre. Trash.
Sounds like you have some thick walls or something
Try Z wave
Thankssss
Whoa, it’s Morgan Freeman! Can you do a voiceover for one of my videos??? ;)
Dont think it matter how far from the bridge... if you have wifi your good.
No, sorry. From Philips directly:
Lights create a mesh network with each other which enables each light to pass on messages to the next extending the range and making everything more robust. They are connected to the bridge via an open standards protocol called ZigBee Light Link.
In this video, I only had one bulb online, which was near my hue hub.
@@AutomateYourLife oh ok. Thanks for the pointer.
@@AutomateYourLife Well this actually means that as long as you have one light that is connected to the bridge successfully, the next one only needs to be able to communicate with the last one, not the bridge. So, technically, you could have lights hundreds of feet away from the bridge, as long as the last light can "see" the one before it, you're good.