Connect a Hue Bridge to Your Computer

A Hue lighting system begins with a central Hue bridge—sometimes called a hub—that connects your basic home LAN to a Zigbee wireless mesh network. The hub connects wirelessly through the Zigbee mesh to one or more Hue-compatible light bulbs.

Joe asks:
Joe asks:
What’s a Zigbee network and how does Hue use it?

Zigbee is an open standard for wireless networking designed for Internet of Things (IoT) networks. It provides inexpensive, low-powered devices the means to communicate across a mesh network without needing to be in range of a central base point. You’ll find it’s not as high-bandwidth as regular Wi-Fi but much simpler ...

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