Philips Hue - Detached Building
Discussion
Hopefully an easy one to answer.
We have a new detached garage about 50m from the house. It will have a wifi access point in there connected back to our router in the house via cat6 cable.
In the house we have quite extensively used Philips Hue system and I'd quite like to do the same in the garage so that I can remotely turn lights off, maybe set patterns for outdoor lights etc.
The hue bridge is in the house.
Will this all just work in the detached garage via wifi or do I need another hue widget out there?
We have a new detached garage about 50m from the house. It will have a wifi access point in there connected back to our router in the house via cat6 cable.
In the house we have quite extensively used Philips Hue system and I'd quite like to do the same in the garage so that I can remotely turn lights off, maybe set patterns for outdoor lights etc.
The hue bridge is in the house.
Will this all just work in the detached garage via wifi or do I need another hue widget out there?
Gad-Westy said:
Hopefully an easy one to answer.
We have a new detached garage about 50m from the house. It will have a wifi access point in there connected back to our router in the house via cat6 cable.
In the house we have quite extensively used Philips Hue system and I'd quite like to do the same in the garage so that I can remotely turn lights off, maybe set patterns for outdoor lights etc.
The hue bridge is in the house.
Will this all just work in the detached garage via wifi or do I need another hue widget out there?
It might work if the Hue bulb can 'see' the other ones in your house. I think they still support/use Zigbee and the range for that tech is given as 'up to 100m'. Try taking an existing bulb from your house out there and seeing if it will work. (Not the one that's closest to the garage though ....)We have a new detached garage about 50m from the house. It will have a wifi access point in there connected back to our router in the house via cat6 cable.
In the house we have quite extensively used Philips Hue system and I'd quite like to do the same in the garage so that I can remotely turn lights off, maybe set patterns for outdoor lights etc.
The hue bridge is in the house.
Will this all just work in the detached garage via wifi or do I need another hue widget out there?
Worst case you can add a Hue Hub to your router out there (you might also need to add in a small ethernet switch, under 20 quid on Amazon).
We have a detached double garage about 30m from the back of our house that we converted to my "man shed / office". We have the Hue system and our hub is at the front of the house (where the internet comes in).
We have enough Hue bulbs and controllers throughout the house and patio that the bulbs installed in/around the garage work perfectly fine. As the previous poster has indicated, the Hue system sets up its own mesh type network, so as long as your new bulbs can 'see' the existing system then it should just work.
We have enough Hue bulbs and controllers throughout the house and patio that the bulbs installed in/around the garage work perfectly fine. As the previous poster has indicated, the Hue system sets up its own mesh type network, so as long as your new bulbs can 'see' the existing system then it should just work.
Lucas Ayde said:
It might work if the Hue bulb can 'see' the other ones in your house. I think they still support/use Zigbee and the range for that tech is given as 'up to 100m'. Try taking an existing bulb from your house out there and seeing if it will work. (Not the one that's closest to the garage though ....)
Worst case you can add a Hue Hub to your router out there (you might also need to add in a small ethernet switch, under 20 quid on Amazon).
Cheers. When you say Hue hub, do you mean another bridge or something else? A bit of googling suggests that adding a second bridge isn't necessarily very plug and play unless things have changed. An ethernet switch would be fine if need be. I think I've probably got a spare one kicking about somewhere. Worst case you can add a Hue Hub to your router out there (you might also need to add in a small ethernet switch, under 20 quid on Amazon).
Crasher242 said:
We have a detached double garage about 30m from the back of our house that we converted to my "man shed / office". We have the Hue system and our hub is at the front of the house (where the internet comes in).
We have enough Hue bulbs and controllers throughout the house and patio that the bulbs installed in/around the garage work perfectly fine. As the previous poster has indicated, the Hue system sets up its own mesh type network, so as long as your new bulbs can 'see' the existing system then it should just work.
Thanks. That's good to hear. I haven't actually got power out there at present but I might frig something up with an extension cable at the weekend and see what happens. I guess it might be a good excuse to fit a hue outdoor bulb or two to act as jumpers if it's a bit marginal. We have enough Hue bulbs and controllers throughout the house and patio that the bulbs installed in/around the garage work perfectly fine. As the previous poster has indicated, the Hue system sets up its own mesh type network, so as long as your new bulbs can 'see' the existing system then it should just work.
We've got them all over the house, and outbuildings.
Just pop the a hue bridge (white square with circular button) wired into the network in which ever outbuilding you use. Add it to the app (there's a simple way of switching between bridges), then pair the lights with that bridge selected. Think I've got 4 or 5 of them.
Just pop the a hue bridge (white square with circular button) wired into the network in which ever outbuilding you use. Add it to the app (there's a simple way of switching between bridges), then pair the lights with that bridge selected. Think I've got 4 or 5 of them.
Gad-Westy said:
Cheers. When you say Hue hub, do you mean another bridge or something else? A bit of googling suggests that adding a second bridge isn't necessarily very plug and play unless things have changed. An ethernet switch would be fine if need be. I think I've probably got a spare one kicking about somewhere.
Think it was called a Hue Hub when I first got into Hue but maybe they call it a bridge now. I remember being VERY annoyed when they decided to make the v1 model obsolete (the 'puck') and forced you to go to v2 (squarish box).Yes, the Zigbee bulbs set up their own mesh along with the Hub/Bridge so as long as a new bulb can at least 'see' one of the others in the mesh, it should work. You can test by just bringing a bulb from your house out, giving it power and seeing if it is still visible in your app.
If it isn't, you can just get a second Hub/bridge and plug it in via your network connection. I believe that they are still ethernet-only so you might need a small switch to share the connection between your repeater and hub.
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