The only way to connect devices to the router is to provide the building management company with the mac addresses of the wireless devices so we can connect to the router wirelessly.
Hue bridge wifi only.
The hue bridge must be connected to the wireless router using an ethernet cable that goes from the bridge and connects to the wireless router.
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The hue bridge is the hub the control panel the heart of the hue echo system.
An unboxing of the philips hue bridge set up.
Scan the code on the bridge iphone only.
How to set.
If you do not have a wireless router then something like the tp link n300 wireless wi fi router would be ideal.
The philips hue bridge bridges zigbee 802 15 4 from compatible light bulbs to your wired ethernet network.
But it also happens to contain a built in yet disabled 802 11n g wi fi radio.
The code is on the inside of the box and on the bottom of the bridge.
The bridge uses zigbee to talk to your lights and also stores and sets your animations timers and settings.
The hue bridge does not have built in wi fi.
Your phone will scan the code automatically.
The hue bridge will sometimes only be able to connect through one of these multiple networks.
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If you have multiple wireless networks such as a guest network a 2 4ghz network and a 5 0ghz network please try to connect to each network and then go into the hue application settings find bridge and try to connect to your bridge again.
Hold your phone up to it so that it appears on camera.
The bridge is the device that talks to your bulbs tells them what to do when to turn on colors to be and what to do.
It does not matter if the wireless router is connected to the internet or not.