Tap the button on the top of the bridge and follow the instructions to pair with it and update it.
Hue bridge wifi interference.
This can be worse if the bridge and your wifi router are next to each other too.
Today my wife changed the wifi password for our router to something both more secure and more memorable than the default password we had been using.
But it also happens to contain a built in yet disabled 802 11n g wi fi radio.
But if all your hue lights and accessories are misbehaving wireless interference is the likely culprit and it s entirely possible that the bridge needs a new home.
Connect the philips hue bridge to your router using the ethernet cable and plug it in.
Zigbee channel 26 is usually relatively unaffected by wifi but many zigbee devices do not support it.
Zigbee channels 25 26 aren t immune either because they can be caught in wifi channel 11 s sideband lobe see sideband lobes below.
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Reconnecting hue bridge to new wifi so i have a hue bridge v2 0 which was set up with 5 lights 2 dimmer switches and a motion sensor and all working perfectly fine.
I manually assigned definitely non overlapping channels to my wifi router and the hue bridge.
Open the philips hue app and tap set up.
Download and install the philips hue app from the app store on iphone or the google play store on android.
Channel 20 in my setup.
You can add up to 50 philips hue lights and accessories to one bridge.
Your home internet wifi and the hue bridge that uses zigbee to create a wireless network both broadcast on 2 4ghz because of this they could conflict with each other when using the same channel.
To get started here is the diagram.
Wifi s three non overlapping channels 1 6 and 11 use the exact same frequencies as zigbee channels 11 22.
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This eliminates any possibility of regular old electric field interference.
Control your smart lights quickly and conveniently with the philips hue app.
Turns out the problem was with wifi interference.
The philips hue bridge bridges zigbee 802 15 4 from compatible light bulbs to your wired ethernet network.
Two things i changed.
The heart of your philips hue system the bridge acts as a smart hub connecting your devices to your smart lights.