Question :

Previously we had our Philips HUE lights setup suing Bluetooth, but now we have bought ourselves a Philips HUE Bridge since we want to be able to set some wake-up, sleep and out-of-home routines on our HUE lights. But after installing the HUE Bridge, our Google Nest Hub can no longer connect to our HUE lights.

What is wrong ?

Answer :

Since you installed your Philips HUE lights over Bluetooth before you installed your Philips HUE Hub, you have switched from Bluetooth HUE connection to WiFi HUE connection, but your Google Nest Hub doesn’t know about this switch yet…

To fix this, do this :

• first : to avoid confusion, it’s advisory to delete the HUE lights that you had set up over Bluetooth first from the Google Home.app
• then, in the Google Home.app, click ‘Settings’
• in ‘Settings’ screen, scroll down and click on ‘Add…’
• in ‘Add and manage’ screen, click on ‘Setup device’
• in ‘Setup’ screen, click on ‘have something already set up?’
• in ‘Add devices’ screen, select ‘Philips HUE’ (if you don’t see it right away, use the search option top right)
• you will be redirected to the MeetHUE.com login-page
• login to your PhilipsHUE-account (you probably don’t have one yet, so either create a new one or sign in using your Google account)
• follow the on-screen directions to link your HUE Bridge to your account ; press the big button on the HUE Bridge when prompted
• now your HUE Bridge will be accessible from your Google Nest Hub
• on the Nest Hub, swipe down from the top of the screen
• in the pull down window, you will see your HUE lights
• click on the HUE lights you want to adjust and adjust the lights as you wish

If you want to be able to control the HUE lights in Zones different from the Rooms, use the PhilipsHUE.app to setup new Zones first :

• open PhilipsHUE.app
• if the app doesn’t open in the Settings screen automatically, click on Settings (bottom right)
• in ‘Rooms & Zones’ screen, click on the ‘Create new’ button (top left) 
• in ‘Create new – Room’ screen click on the ‘Create Zone’ button and follow the onscreen directions
• now the Zone will be listed in Google Home.app also
• when the Zone is listed on the ‘Home’ screen in Google Home.app, click on the name of the room
• in [Room/Zone name] screen, click on the gear/sprocket icon (top right)
• in ‘Room’ screen, click ‘Choose devices’
• in ‘Choose devices’ screen, check all HUE lamps you want to include in this Zone (note that Google Home names Zones as Rooms) and click the ‘Next’ button

Now your Philips HUE lights will be accessible from your Google Nest Hub both individually and as Rooms/Zones (Google Home names both as Rooms) :

• on the Nest Hub, swipe down from the top of the screen
• in the pull down window, you will see your HUE lights
• click on the HUE lights you want to adjust and adjust the lights as you wish

Note : you can also select routines for the HUE lights from the Nest Hub if you have set them up in Google Home.app (like daily routines to use when you’re out of home)

That’s it !

enjoy 😉