How To Add Osram Lights To Hue Bridge

UPDATEDIt is possible to get Osram/Sylvania Lightify to work seamlessly with Philips Hue smart bulb organization. Three steps and you volition exist able to to control your smart bulbs with the Hue app.

Commencement of all, IKEA'south smart bulbs are (later a contempo firmware update) now kompatible with Hue. The are cheaper and å dager vet, thank Lightify. However…

Philips made huge headlines before Christmas 2015 when they blocked other zigbee devices that was not a part of the Friends of Hue plan. After a huge public outcry on forums, they reversed information technology. Still you will not be able to go Hue and Lightify to talk together out of the box (as of January 2016), but they are still compatible with the right firmware.

Why mix the two in the first place?

With Philips having the niche to itself for a couple of years, smart homes are now becoming mainstream. The competition from Lightify means a broader range of devices and falling prices. Lightify brings the small edison screw E14 for smaller lamps that Philips do not have yet. They take a fancy smart plug. With their GU10 spots you do not take to pay for the full RBG colour range, only tunable white that probably is sufficient for almost. And their spots are normal size compared to Philips longer GU10 spots that are likewise long for some lamps. Finally the Gateway can exist placed in any elecrtical socket in the house, and does not need to be connected to the Wifi router like Philips Hue bridge does.

Philips on the other hand has some really fancy dimmers, the battery free scene selector Tap, is Homekit enabled, has a huge community of developers and now has a RGB-gratis E27 bulb that is much cheaper than Osram´s. So yous definitely will be better off combing the two. For some reason it does non seem that the Lightify Gateway works with Hue lamps. But reversed, Lightify products volition piece of work with the Hue Bridge two.0.

Update Sept. 19th: Osram is no longer on the list of the HomeKit uniform devices in IOS10. Readers report that the Lightify bulbs do not work with the Hue Bridge after newer firmware updates. Information technology is rubber to update the Hue bridge. Osram has refused to disclose their firmware numbers and release dates which would have helped matching the firmware versions that are compatible with Hue. The following guide only applies to the right firmware versions:

This is what you do:

Connect the Lightify bulb to the Hue bridge to bank check if information technology works correct out of the box. If it does not, you need to reset the seedling/bridge.
Update the Osram bulb´s firmware. You do need a Lightify Gateway for this, and only this functioning. The Lightify seedling will not plow completely off in the Hue app with the original firmware (equally of January 2016).
Start the motorcar search in the Hue app before turning on the Lighify seedling. The Philips Hue bridge will non recognize the seedling if information technology is already on.

That's information technology. The Lightify lamps volition work merely like they were Hue. You can fifty-fifty control the color temperature from warm orange to cold blue perfectly. This works with the European bulbs. From forum reports it might not work with the American bulbs yet, only you apparently can enquire Osram to catechumen yours to the European standard. Update: Osram does non do the update anymore later Zigbee 3.0 was released, which should resolve the incompatibility bug betwixt the US and euro versions.

Update: If yous are not able to detect the right firmware, at that place still could be some accelerate solutions. Check out this forum.

If Osram desire to become the center of the smart home, they should make sure that their Gateway is compatible with Hue bulbs and vice versa . And someone should make an easy to implement temperature sensor that together with the Osram smart plug enables smart electrical heating.

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