Hello and welcome to the computer lab vids YouTube channel today we are
looking at how to connect your Philips hue light to your Amazon Alexa so I'll
get straight into the video the first place I need to go is to the Philips hue
site which is account.meethue.com as you can see in the top toolbar there
you need to create this account first because Alexa links to the Philips hue
later on you'll see that in the video so you need to fill in your details on the
Philips site here I'll put all these links in the description below obviously
make sure you got the right site when you're putting your personal details in
so standard stuff for this account email address your name and also a password of
your choice you can use Google if you have a Google account a gmail address
just on the right on side there you can use that to sign in and create an
account I usually try to create individual accounts for this type of
thing so I am just going to create a new account for the purpose of this video so
our email address name password agree to the terms and conditions at the bottom
and your country of origin and then click on continue this will then create
the account with Philips what will happen then it will ask us to verify our
email address as you can see there so you need to then go to your mail
application if you have that on the same machine then great just open it up and just
verify your email address for the link that Philips sends you to the address
that you have registered. So I'll just just verify mine off screen so you won't
see me verifying the email address but if you just click on the link that the
Phillips has send you verify your email address and then you're good to go if
you do not verify your account it will not work when you connect Alexa to the
Philips hue light later on so once you've verified obviously this
will then and disappear and you can login to your account if you click on
the link it takes you into your account within Philips Hue and ask you to put
your username and password in just to log back in so we will just go into the
sign out icon in the top right hand corner because I'm doing
mine off-screen sorts need to sign back out and sign back in now I've verified
my email address with Philips so again putting my account my email address that
I registered before put in the password and then just click sign in these are my
account details now that are registered to this Philips Hue account click on
save and then on the top bar you can see here we have bridge and apps now again
this is another important feature that you need to enable you can see I don't
have any bridges added at the moment so I need to add a bridge now goes without
saying that you should have your phillips bridge connected already in
your house connected directly to your router via the cat 5 cable so plug
direct into the router and now we need to link our account to the bridge at our
address so find your Philips Hue bridge you see here and there's a button on the
top push it click it in and then just let go and you can see the on the
website there is a timer counting down if you do not do this within the timer
you'll have to do it again so once you've pushed the button by the
magic of the internet it should register that bridge to the account that we have
just made so there we go the bridge has been recognized and it is successfully
linked you will get then the details of your ID model number firmware version
etc just blanked mine out because they are personal to your actual bridge your
Philips bridget is configured at your address, now the other thing there you
can actually rename it so you do if you have a couple of bridges that you're
setting up at you can put you know Philips bridge Hue Bridge in front room
or whatever it be I was going to leave mine as it is and the other thing is you
can see they're linked apps just checking nothings linked in there they
shouldn't make it's a brand new setup ok so we're good to go with the next stage
so I'll just drag this across onto the left-hand side so will now open my
iPhone up and you can see I've already installed the Amazon Alexa app this
obviously controls anything to do with the Alexa
and the skills and stuff that are part of the Alexa app so you need to select
the Alexa app obviously to go into it and we need to go into the skills page
and link our Philips account to our Amazon Alexa account so they're both
tied together once you access your Alexa, so select the menu icon in the
top left hand corner on your smart device mine's an iPhone so yours might
look slightly different down to where it says skills about two-thirds way down on
the list there need to select skills and we are now going to add a new skill to
the Amazon Alexa so I'll just wait for the page to refresh and then we can do a
search for the Philips hue skill so, box at the top we need to search for hue so
just select the box type in hue, HUE and then push return and then it should
be the top one and you can see that Phillips Hue we need to select the
Philips hue to add that as a skill then we need to click on enable and this will
then add this skill to the Amazon Alexa and now what we're going to do it will
now ask for the account details from the Philips Hue so we need to now put the
details in that we have just registered with Philips so mine was my email
address which I'll just type in there and then the password is the password
that you've just created again in the Philips hue account and
once you put the password in just click sign in and then I was an Alexa will go
away and do its magic and then we should get a request to trust this application
which we do there select select yes here then we need to let Amazon Alexa trust this
application to control the Philips hue lights so we'll just wait for that to
refresh again okay so now it's successfully linked and we should now go
to another box which goes into discovery mode to try and find items that are on
our home network and linked to the bridge
okay so here we are discover devices smart hold devices must be discovered
before they can be used with Alexis so we need to
select discovered devices and again let Alexa go and do its thing the important
thing to note here is make sure that all your lights are already switched on so
if you've got to this stage and not switch your lights on
make sure they are switched on and connected because otherwise this process
will not work so give it a minute or so just to scan your network and then you
should get a list of all smart devices that Alexa is aware of on your network
so you can see what I have got an icon there that has been added which is all
hue lights which controls as it says all the hue lights within my household I
have a strip light and they also have a bulb currently set up so you can see
just on the bottom right the hue lightstrip plus now although it might
look like that's all the devices if you scroll up you can actually find more
devices so I'll just slightly all, all the hue lights at this stage just to
show you there it's tell you there that lights on and it's set to 100% but
like I said if you scroll up and down here you can actually pick different
ones so you can see they're different items there that Alexa is aware of and
we need to make sure we pick the right one so when you select one of these and
it's not already been labeled as a hue so I'm going to pick the one that's a
living room I know that that's the correct one but yours might say hue
Philips you bulb or lamp so I'm going to click that living room and I know that
this one is the Philips light if I click on the edit the color section the device
color you can then pick these different shades this is really important because
when you ask or request Alexa to change the bulb you need to say these as the
correct term as the label there so the other thing we need to do is edit this
and give it a name that we recognize and are familiar with so when we say to
Alexa to switch the living room light on or whatever it is we put in the name
that is how it will recognize that device so where we edit name on the top
right hand corner we need to select edit name and give it a name that you are
familiar with and one that you'll remember
I have living room set as a thermostat so I don't want to mix the two up so I'm
going to rename mine to front room lamp so once you get a name it should then
recognize that puts that into its database on Alexa, we can now go
back and just make sure we'll just refresh this page and make sure that we
have what we have make sure it is where it should be so you can
see there there's the light strip but we want the front room lamp is what we
called it so we select that one if you've named yours different just
pick the one that you've named and make sure that it is the Philips okay so
that's the lamp added and now we can try and make sure it works
Alexa turn off the front room lamp okay
Alexa turn on the front room lamp okay Alexa change the color of the front room
lamp to blue okay that's how to connect your Amazon Alexa to your Philips hue
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