Philips Hue Repeater / Extend Range Zigbee

[devoir]

I have several Philips Hue Lights and one bridge. This JowiHue plug in and the hardware works great.

I want to put several lights outside away from the house 50 meters. I tried to add them, no luck, they appear to be to far from the bridge to be found or added.

What type of Zigbee repeater or range extender can I add to use with my existing bridge?


Devoir

[w.vuyk]

Devoir,

As far as I know there is no 'repeater' for the Philips Hue, other then the lights themselves. I did some testing here in the past and as long you have the lights closer then approximate 7 meters (21 feet?) from each other, inside the house they will communicate with each other. I guess that reachability of lights outside the house will be better, but never tested it from here.

So if you want lights at 50 meters from a bridge, you would need to add more or less 7 lights in between to extend the signal. This is most probably not what you wanted?

Another possible solution might be adding another bridge near to the other lights. The plugin can handle and combine multiple bridges fine. The only challenge then is that you need to be able to access this bridge from the same network as where the plugin is residing, either with a wifi end, or a standard network line. I do not know if this would be a possible solution for you?

Hope this gives some ideas for you?

Wim

[devoir]

Wim,

I appreciate your feedback. I had hoped that a zigbee repeater could be added .... I had hoped someone here had cracked this repeater story... I find the users of Homeseer are above average types that can do almost anything...


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I spent some time searching the IOT..... my goal was to simply add a repeater(w/o lan connection) outside the house that would be linked to the Philips Bridge. To my dismay Hue requires Zigbee ZLL (light Link) repeaters which do not yet exist... you can find Zigbee HA (home automation) repeaters which are not Hue compatable.


====For those who wish to read further ========

According to Hue the lamps : These use the Zigbee Light Link (ZLL) standard.


Lightswww.zigbee.org.


http://www.developers.meethue.com/do.../how-hue-works


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I did find some useful information on Zigbee HA repeaters

http://blog.smartthings.com/iot101/a...nge-repeaters/

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Zigbee link to the ZLL standard however no one yet makes a ZLL repeater

http://www.zigbee.org/non-menu-pages...link-download/https://support.smartthings.com/hc/e...ps-Hue-devices

At the Cost of Samsung $96 vs Hue Bridge $69 both require network Lan connection on same lan.
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We can only hope a repeater is developed..... I won't hold my breath so I guess I will have to figure out how to get a bridge outside my house mounted in a weather proof box and connected to the same Lan as the existing Hue Bridge....

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Devoir