Plug the provided ethernet cable into the bridge and the opposite end into an open ethernet slot on your router.
Hue bridge wifi password.
Once the four lights on the bridge light up it is ready to set up.
The hue bridge is the hub the control panel the heart of the hue echo system.
But it also happens to contain a built in yet disabled 802 11n g wi fi radio.
The hue bridge will sometimes only be able to connect through one of these multiple networks.
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.
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.
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.
The hue bridge connects to any available ethernet port on your wireless router using an ethernet cable.
Connect the bridge to your wireless router.
The bridge uses zigbee to talk to your lights and also stores and sets your animations timers and settings.
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.
Power the entire hue lighting experience with the hue bridge.