“Do these bulbs work with home wifi network? Do these bulbs require a special wireless network bridge or do they connect directly to your home WAN? And what is the wireless range?”

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• You will need a Philips Hub in order to control them with your phone. Otherwise, they will just work like normal light bulbs (i.e. they will turn on and off when you flip the switch). They act like repeaters so the more you have, the better the range will be.

  Answered by DrewH 9 years ago

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• The Hue bridge is required to run the Hue lights. And the Hue bridge needs to be connected to a Wi-Fi network. Once the bridge is set up, you can control your lights from anywhere :-)

  Answered by Thronners 9 years ago

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• You will need the Phillips hue bridge.

  Answered by ARB75 9 years ago

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• They require a Phillips Hue bridge to take advantage of all their capabilities.

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  Answered by atlharry 9 years ago

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• The Philips Hue bulbs require the bridge found in the starter pack. You'll only need the one bridge and it's hardwired into your router. If you need more bulbs you can expand by purchasing them individually from there.

  Answered by EReynolds 9 years ago

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• They work with the Philips bridge. I believe they work with the Wink Hub as well. I use the Philips bridge and it's great. They will work as far as your wifi will reach.

  Answered by JRCbuy 9 years ago

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• You will need a Hue Bridge to operate your lights. You connect the Bridge to your WAN vie a provided Ethernet cable. I do not know the exact range, but my lights work off single Bridge in my two story 3200sqft home.

  Answered by Deuce79 9 years ago

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• Yes

  Answered by ermanagi 9 years ago

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• These bulbs will work with a home WiFi network.

  Answered by CommunityAnswer 9 years ago

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• From the information I have, Hue led lights require the proprietary Hub to connect to your own WiFi network. With that in mind, range should be anywhere you can get an Internet connection to the App. LIFX LED lights are very similar to Phillips, but don't require any hub and are brighter FYI .

  Answered by Tazman 9 years ago

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