The new Philips Hue Bridge is available and we take it out of the box, transfer settings from the old Hue bridge to the new one and try out a few holiday-themed scenes with Siri. Buy the Hue Bridge @ Amazon http://amzn.to/2eGXzie Hue Starter Kit - http://amzn.to/2dL7Kku Aside from the obvious physical changes, new internal hardware and firmware, not much has changed with the new Philips Hue bridge aside from adding support for Apple’s HomeKit home automation framework. The widely-acclaimed Philips Hue line of products is one of the larger line-ups of home automation products to get HomeKit support. Of course, as HomeKit requires new encryption and new chips to control it all, existing Hue users must upgrade to the new bridge for Siri commands to work with their iOS devices. Existing Philips Hue users can get a discount on the new Hue HomeKit Bridge, see this page for details: http://www2.meethue.com/en-us/productdetail/philips-hue-bridge It’s widely believed that this new bridge will also work with Nest’s home automation platform, Weave/Brillo/Thread—say that five times fast—but no official word yet from Philips. The new HomeKit-enabled Philips Hue Bridge is simple to setup, and transferring your lights, scenes and settings from an old Hue bridge is seamless and easy. The process takes roughly five minutes or so, which is mostly edited out in our video. Once your new bridge is setup, the app prompts you to reset the old bridge, and that’s it…you’re done! We made a few new Halloween and holiday-themed scenes to show off Siri and HomeKit in action and demonstrate controlling aspects of a single light, too. We’ll have a full review of the new Hue HomeKit Bridge coming up soon, and check out our Lutron Caseta review to see more of HomeKit in action! https://youtu.be/RDaUnraTtEs ------------------ Shop on Amazon with our links to help support the show! Buy the new Philips Hue HomeKit Bridge - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B014H2P42K/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B014H2P42K&linkCode=as2&tag=lightanswe01-20&linkId=DE4732Z3GDTP3RST Philips Hue Lighting Start Kit http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B014H2P4KW/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B014H2P4KW&linkCode=as2&tag=lightanswe01-20&linkId=R6IF7P743EHZ7WEQ ------------------ Shop our Amazon Store! http://smarterhomelife.com/store Subscribe! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=lightinganswers Website http://smarterhomelife.com YouTube http://youtube.com/smarterhomelife Facebook http://facebook.com/smarterhomelife Twitter http://twitter.com/smarterhomelife Google+ http://plus.google.com/+smarterhomelife Contact questions@smarterhomelife.com Support Us! http://patreon.com/smarterhomelife Our video gear: http://kit.com/Nidocamen/video-gear-i-use Produced and Hosted by Joe Dugandzic