

Functionality like grouping lights into rooms and scheduling scenes that depended on Philips servers to pack the instructions into a form the bridge executed could no longer be created. The first generation bridge received a final software update in April 2020 and disabled support from the Philips web servers. In 2016 Philips released a new square shaped v2 bridge with increased memory and processor speed which replaced the round v1 bridge.

The Hue Bridge is the central controller of the lighting system which allows the bulbs to "communicate" with Apple HomeKit and the app. Hue Lightstrip Outdoor strip light Operation
