29.12.2019, 18:51
(This post was last modified: 29.12.2019, 19:11 by Erwin van der Zwart.)
Hi,
In any scenario you need a medium to translate to Zigbee, either a dongle or the official HUE bridge is a weakspot in the middle, i would always use the official bridge as it proved itself to be stable, with any dongle and needed self build software i can’t see any benefits..
Another benefit of using the bridge is that you still can use the HUE app in parallel.
In my opinion there is one downside on the bridge and that is that you need to poll for changes and always have a small delay on the status feedback.
We did a project with a lot of RGB and XY HUE lamps, 24 bridges and 12 Wiser for KNX, KNX motion sensors and even several Enocean switches on MPM’s with BACnet to KNX via a Automation Server to control all the HUE lamps and still running without any issue, so why not use the bridge? (:
BR,
Erwin
In any scenario you need a medium to translate to Zigbee, either a dongle or the official HUE bridge is a weakspot in the middle, i would always use the official bridge as it proved itself to be stable, with any dongle and needed self build software i can’t see any benefits..
Another benefit of using the bridge is that you still can use the HUE app in parallel.
In my opinion there is one downside on the bridge and that is that you need to poll for changes and always have a small delay on the status feedback.
We did a project with a lot of RGB and XY HUE lamps, 24 bridges and 12 Wiser for KNX, KNX motion sensors and even several Enocean switches on MPM’s with BACnet to KNX via a Automation Server to control all the HUE lamps and still running without any issue, so why not use the bridge? (:
BR,
Erwin