Is the bridge "kidnapped" bulb can play cool?

Since Apple announced the launch of its smart home platform HomeKit, it began to have friends eyeing its partners. PHILPS as one of them, naturally did not miss the opportunity to promote its Hue smart bulbs. With smart bulbs in the smart home market popular, more and more manufacturers have begun to aim at the development of the lighting industry, how to make the bulb into intelligence, seemingly ordinary but complex.

Smart home is said to be a profiteering industry, a simple energy saving lamp, but a few 10 yuan, but the implantation of WiFi, RGB three color bulbs let the value turn over several times. And smart socket, smart camera is different, the majority of the purchase of smart bulbs in the form of packages, 3, a group of 5 is a good discount, but there is a bridge and how is it?

In accordance with the people's understanding of smart home products, whether it is a bulb or socket, as long as through the WiFi connection, the phone APP remote control can be achieved, then what bulbs can not do? Smart bulbs + bridge is currently a more popular way, but there are some manufacturers launched a smart phone does not need a bridge, two technologies, the two sets of standards, the light bulb was bridged kidnapping.

Why do we need to consider from the angle of the bridge, communication terminal products, general home WiFi routers have access to a number of restrictions, from 16 to 128 range, of course, the router price will be different; if the ordinary 16 limit, home laptop, mobile phone, WiFi audio, TV box occupied at least... 6, if the home and access to other intelligent devices, the router burden is a great challenge.

Control of the upper and lower floors with an intelligent bulb with a bridge

If you join the bridge, you can greatly reduce the pressure on the router. Simple to understand, if the home need to connect 3 intelligent lighting, bridge and router, equivalent to only take 1 "quota", if more and more intelligent home lighting needs, connected with the bridge, will not affect other intelligent devices. 1:N to achieve the network expansion function.

Shopping guide: if your home is relatively large, need to access the number of intelligent devices and more. The best way is to buy smart home products with a bridge, on the one hand to reduce the burden of their own routers, on the other hand can provide more stable wireless signal.

Some people say that there is a bridge, smart home products can not highlight the freedom to play bad. Of course, there is no bridge can not play smart bulbs cool, the premise is that you can not be too large in the home, taking into account the load of the router, it can be purchased directly connected WiFi intelligent lights.

Intelligent light bulbs and WiFi direct connection, which is the mainstream of traditional home intelligent hardware connection. Mode of operation is also achieved through the mobile phone remote control APP. The reason why smart bulbs are expensive, but also in its color function, RGB tricolor foundation can change out of more than ten thousand kinds of color, a lot of colors can not be distinguished by the naked eye.

Lifx bulb and WiFi direct connection

The smart bulb that is not tied by the bridge seems free, but the biggest problem it faces is how to maintain a stable signal transmission with the wireless router. In the absence of access terminal restrictions, the most important thing is the need to worry about WiFi no dead cover. In fact, the bridge not only played a role in the expansion of the number of 1:N, it can also play the function of the repeater, of course, the device is connected to the intelligence of these intelligent products.

Intelligent Bluetooth bulb

Although the need to choose according to the actual situation of their own need to bridge, but considering the overall view, in order to more stable wireless communication of these intelligent hardware, bridging is also an essential tool.

If you don't want to choose a smart bulb with a bridge, you can skip the following. The market with the WiFi directly connected to the price of smart bulbs ranging from $30~90, can be selected according to the brand and additional features.

Large price gap with smart bulbs bridge, only domestic yeelight smart bulbs priced around 200 yuan, PHILPS Hue Suite (3 bulbs +1 bridge) price of 1698 yuan, pay only 498 yuan each to purchase another bulb of domestic intelligent lamp, has advantages in price, do not know whether it can maintain a high price advantage.

The bridge also has many kinds, the bridge can only be similar to the PHILPS Hue connected through a wired network, and similar direct access to Belkin WeMo bridge power, wireless network connection, is not limited by the environment; yeelight smart bulbs in cooperation with millet, millet can only borrow from Bridge Road, still need to be improved in terms of compatibility.

Different bridges supporting wireless / wired

In a word, from the current point of view is the bridge of intelligent lighting "kidnapping" products, is still the mainstream, also taking into account the stability and home router network communication connection terminal number limit; bridge connected to the network can be divided into two kinds of wireless, wired, wireless bridging as compatibility issues are also worth your careful consideration.

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