"Hue Hub" is what Philips is calling the "Hue Bridge" now, likely because its purpose has been expanded (Zigbee Light Link, the protocol Hue uses, doesn't need a "hub" like Zigbee Home Automation, which Hubitat uses, does, but many people have always called the Bridge a Hub due to similar appearance). You also won't be able to use the Zigbee group broadcasts (something you can optionally do in the Groups and Scenes app), but that doesn't bother me (might be able to eliminate the "popcorn effect," but this is minimal for me with how fast everything generally happsn for me anyway). I'm sure the real limit is higher, but in any case, I haven't noticed any problems with this. The Hue docs recommend <10 commands/second to avoid this. My only concern with this was rate-limiting (e.g., if turning on a bunch of bulbs at the same time or using the "Start level change" and "stop level change" commands in Hubitat to begin and end the dimming of bulbs with button presses and releases, i.e., effectively dimming while held). So, the good news is you're good in that regard. Even in-app control on the Hue mobile app does this (or effectively the same using whatever interface the SDK exposes)-in fact, unless you sign up for and leave My Hue enabled, you don't get access from outside your own LAN at all. Hubitat communicates to the Hue bridge over the Hue HTTP(S) interface, entirely over your own LAN. I wanted to get rid of the lag inherent of the Hue hub reaching out to the cloudĪs the above poster mentioned, it does not do this.
#HUE GO VS BLOOM LUMENS FULL#
Much better integration and you then have the benefit of everything the Hue bridge can do, all the third-party apps (for which there are many) and full compatibility with the lower cost IKEA color bulbs, which aren't anywhere near as good at color at the Hub bulbs, but they are inexpensive when you just want some basic accent color. I would personally go with that if you don't already own one. Hue doesn't have a sequence to cycle power the bulbs for pairing mode like other vendors do.Ī refurbish Hue Bridge is just $40. If you don't have a Hue Bridge, then you'll need a Hue Dimmer to reset them so they're in pairing mode. If you're going to try to just add them directly (again, I don't recommend it for overall reliability with the Zigbee mesh), then you need to reset them first. Connected directly to the hub, Hue bulbs try to repeat Zigbee signals and they can't do it, so things go really bad with other Zigbee sensors and devices you try to add later.
#HUE GO VS BLOOM LUMENS INSTALL#
Install the built-in Hue Integration app.
Both radios for North American owners are built-in.įirst, if you have a Hue Bridge, that is going to be a much better way to add your Hue lights. US/Canada customers purchasing the newer C5 hub will not need the external Zigbee/Z-Wave USB adapter that was included with the C4 hub. I think I must have a newer version that doesn't have or require USB stick.Ĭorrect. I noticed that it does not have a USB port, and no USB stick was included.
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