This can be worse if the bridge and your wifi router are next to each other too.
Hue bridge wifi interference.
Control your smart lights quickly and conveniently with the philips hue app.
Download and install the philips hue app from the app store on iphone or the google play store on android.
This eliminates any possibility of regular old electric field interference.
Wifi s three non overlapping channels 1 6 and 11 use the exact same frequencies as zigbee channels 11 22.
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.
Turns out the problem was with wifi interference.
To get started here is the diagram.
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.
Two things i changed.
Open the philips hue app and tap set up.
The heart of your philips hue system the bridge acts as a smart hub connecting your devices to your smart lights.
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.
Zigbee channel 26 is usually relatively unaffected by wifi but many zigbee devices do not support it.
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.
Zigbee channels 25 26 aren t immune either because they can be caught in wifi channel 11 s sideband lobe see sideband lobes below.
Tap the button on the top of the bridge and follow the instructions to pair with it and update it.
You can add up to 50 philips hue lights and accessories to one bridge.
Connect the philips hue bridge to your router using the ethernet cable and plug it in.
But it also happens to contain a built in yet disabled 802 11n g wi fi radio.
I moved my hue bridge further away from the router.
Mentioned in this article.
Channel 20 in my setup.
I manually assigned definitely non overlapping channels to my wifi router and the hue bridge.
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