Philips Hue Bridge v1 1.2

Reviews

1 ★, on 2020-07-19
As many others have said, avoid investing in this company at all costs. The bridge V1 worked fine. Now, as an obvious cash grab, Philips removes all the features that made it a useful tool (like using Google voice commands). This is like Apple changing their proprietary port with almost every new device. It's blatant. It's corrupt. It's pathetic. If you need further proof just read the copy/paste answers by whatever company they've hired to answer all the complaints on this page.

1 ★, on 2020-08-04
So now I'm stuck with an old plastic box which need to be connected to my router but doesn't even connect to the internet anymore?!?! Oh and also, if your Canadian forget about that "upgrade" promo because it never showed up, because I like paying full price for something I never asked for.. Never again Phillips, I'm done.

1 ★, on 2020-09-11
Will no longer connect to Alexa, useless as purchased. Philips offering "free" upgrade that requires purchase with additional bulb at inflated cost. I don't need an additional bulb Philips! fix this app and quit trying to make us purchase a bulb we probably don't need!

1 ★, on 2020-07-10
I was using the Homey domotica server to control my Hue lights. Homey used my hub V1 as an interface. Suddenly, all my lights on the Homey app became unreachable, because of a forced upgrade of the hub. Why!! I never used voice control to turn on lights. Only a flow/rule on Homey to turn on/off lights. Everything was done locally without internet connection needed. And suddenly, the LOCAL connection between the V1 bridge and the Homey controller is no longer possible. I'm very unhappy!

1 ★, on 2020-07-14
Money grubbers. Disabled the app trying to push you into buying the V2 'upgraded' WiFi receiver for just under £50!? What!? 🤣🤣🤣 It's literally a mini WiFi portal between your phone and your internet. I bought my router for less than that!? 😂 - I'll sell the bulbs, thanks!

1 ★, on 2020-04-25
I'm not impressed AT ALL by the forced "upgrade" process coming from the v1 Bridge. Philips communication was awful. The provided instructions were terrible and did not work. Now that I have v2 set up, none of the third party apps will detect it. I've had it. I work in IT and if I provided my end users with such a nightmare scenario, I'd be unemployed. I'll be moving off the Hue ecosystem now that the market has much more competent vendors.