Philips - Hue Bridge 2nd Generation - White

I recently purchased several Philip Hue light strips and wanted a way to have multitudes of colors in my game room. This Philip Hue bridge did the trick and allowed me to control my Philip Hue lights with changing of colors the way I wanted. Allows a lot of customization and creativeness over what the color schemes will look like when using the Philip Hue lights. Reasonably priced with great quality and a must have to turn a dull room into a spectacular show room. I’ve included pictures below to showcase what the Philip Hue lights can do in conjunction with using the Philip Hue bridge. It is pure awesomeness.

This is a must. Buy with a starter kit if you're just beginning with the hue lights. Must buy if using only lightstrips.

The Phillips Hue system is awesome !! Connect it to a third party app and link your smart devices.. Fantastic!

I bought this to control Hue Play lights for my home theater and it works great. I had it up and running in a matter of a few minutes. The app is easy to use, and I have only just started to dive into the options on it. The only problem is I like it so much I want to drop all my money on smart lights now!

I already have a Hue lighting system and it is a good product; It took a lot of profit and is very useful, also works very well the Google speaker. I bought this hub to give it to a relative; It also has many compatible applications that are impressive!

As a relatively first time user of Philips lights I had bought the lights trips and LED bar lights and realized that I needed the Hue Bridge in order to connect them to my smart home set up (Google Assistant). It was a relatively simple setup, essentially this device acts much like an internet router for your Philips Hue lights and allows them all to be synchronized to a hub so that you can seamlessly control them using your Philips Hue phone app. Also, and this was the sell for me, it allows me to hook this up to my Google Assistant speaker. Once you have the Hub setup you can go into your phone app to set up "rooms" so that you can group your lights based on which room of your house/apt they are in. Therefore, you can turn on all the lights in say, the living room or bedroom and it will know to only turn on the Philips Hue lights that are in that particular room and not your whole house. A must have to get your room lights in those super cool setup in the other review pictures.

Yay, I thought, another hub/router/switch added to my home network. One more thing that will take an hour to set up and two hours to reconnect when someone unplugs everything when the power goes out. The Phillips Hub set up so quickly and easily that I was sure I had made a mistake...and since set up, the power has gone out twice in my place and I never had to do anything to make it work right again. When you add a light fixture to the hub, it’s super easy. Open the app, select to add a device, press the big button on the hub and presto. Done. Love it.

Brought this when I brought a Hue Go lamp (NOTE: If you're a first time Philips Light buyer, and you want to access all your products features, you'll need this product.) Not going to lie, the material felt slightly cheap out of the box, but this isn't meant to be played with, its meant to sit by your router. And for that purpose, it does it well. Only peeve is that it's so pricy. IMO, it should be cheaper since you're already dropping tons of money on their products. Nevertheless, good purchase.