Philips hue no hub

[JDRoberts]

@Matthew_Stewart

Hi,
I currently have 4 hue white bulbs connected directly to my smartthings hub, i have purchased 3 hue color bulbs but for some reason they arent even detected as a thing in smartthings, anybody had a similar issue or suggest way I can work around this? I have a hub I can connect so was wondering if that could be used temporarily to pair them another way and then let me remove the hub

Thanks

Sorry, having a little trouble following what you’re asking. There is a Hue “bridge“ device. There is no “hue hub.” But it doesn’t sound like you’re referring to removing the smartthings hub. Could you please clarify exactly which devices you’re referring to? Then maybe we can help.

The Technical Reason why that Hue device is a Bridge, not a Hub

Warning: super technical network engineering explanation follows. But the short answer is just that it’s a bridge by definition. The longer answer: A bridge (or gateway) converts requests in one protocol to that of another. The hue bridge is a Wi-Fi/ZLL Bridge. The bridge does not, however, “establish” the network. That is it does not assign network IDs to other devices that join to it or control which devices join. Instead, because the hue bridge is a ZLL device, there is no establishing coordinator on its network. [IMG_4091] A ZigBee Light Link network has no ZigBee network coordinator, even a bridge device merely acts as a router {repeater} So it’s a bridge per the definition of bridge in the ZLL specification. The end devices don’t need the bridge in order…