If IKEA launches new Zigbee 3.0 compatible Tradfri bulbs, they would become compatible when we add support for Zigbee 3.0 lights. Tradfri bulbs with older software versions cannot be added to the Philips Hue bridge since their implementation of Zigbee Light Link is not consistent with the Zigbee Light Link specification. Updated IKEA Tradfri lights now work with the Philips Hue bridge. We have recently observed a software update to IKEA’s Tradfri lighting products. Third party lights which support Zigbee 3.0 cannot be added to a Philips Hue bridge at present but we are committed to add support for this in Q1 2018.ĭoes this mean that Ikea bulbs will start working with the Philips Hue bridge? Third party lights which are compliant with ZLL will continue to work as before. We will release an update to both the v1 (round) and v2 (square) Philips Hue bridges during the first quarter of 2018 to additionally add support for Zigbee 3.0 lights.ĭoes that mean Zigbee 3.0 third party bulbs will not work with the Philips Hue bridge?Īt present Philips Hue bridges only support Zigbee Light Link (ZLL) compliant products and devices. Will Zigbee 3.0 lights work with the current Philips Hue bridge?Īt present the Philips Hue bridge only supports Zigbee Light Link compliant products and devices.

As such a consumer will not notice any difference in behaviour between Zigbee 3.0 and Zigbee Light Link devices. Zigbee 3.0 is designed to be backwards compatible to Zigbee Light Link. What will a consumer notice in the change to Zigbee 3.0? Certification of our own new products to the new Zigbee 3.0 standard will follow after that. Philips is committed to adopt Zigbee 3.0 for the Philips Hue portfolio of products and our Philips Hue bridge 2.0 will start interoperating with Zigbee 3.0 certified lights starting with a software update planned for the first quarter of 2018. Zigbee 3.0 has been the result of a number of years hard work inside the Zigbee alliance to unify the different Zigbee profiles under a single umbrella to allow even more kinds of devices to interoperate. We would like to share our plans for extending this interoperability towards the next generation of Zigbee, Zigbee 3.0. This ensures that devices created by third parties can work alongside the official Philips Hue lights within the Hue ecosystem. Since launch in 2012, Philips Hue has supported open interoperability using the Zigbee Light Link standard.

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