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.
Hue bridge wifi interference.
Zigbee channel 26 is usually relatively unaffected by wifi but many zigbee devices do not support it.
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.
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.
I moved my hue bridge further away from the router.
Tap the button on the top of the bridge and follow the instructions to pair with it and update it.
The philips hue bridge bridges zigbee 802 15 4 from compatible light bulbs to your wired ethernet network.
You can add up to 50 philips hue lights and accessories to one bridge.
Turns out the problem was with wifi interference.
Channel 20 in my setup.
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.
Open the philips hue app and tap set up.
This eliminates any possibility of regular old electric field interference.
Two things i changed.
Wanted to start a thread on best practices tools and general discussion on wifi networking and channel interference i am using several android apps to manage my network but i am no rf engineer so it s always good to hear from others on how they manage their networks.
The heart of your philips hue system the bridge acts as a smart hub connecting your devices to your smart lights.
This can be worse if the bridge and your wifi router are next to each other too.
But it also happens to contain a built in yet disabled 802 11n g wi fi radio.
Download and install the philips hue app from the app store on iphone or the google play store on android.
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I manually assigned definitely non overlapping channels to my wifi router and the hue bridge.
Control your smart lights quickly and conveniently with the philips hue app.
Connect the philips hue bridge to your router using the ethernet cable and plug it in.
A cause of this could be interference from your home wireless network.