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Finding Philips Hue bridge on network

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sqmk edited this page Nov 13, 2012 · 9 revisions

My preferred method of finding the bridge for the Philips Hue is by running arp lookup. Since I'm a OSX/Unix user, here's how I do it in terminal:

arp -na | grep "at 0:17:88"

This will look for any devices matching the "Philips Lighting BV" vendor specific MAC segment in ARP tables.

If there are any bridges found on your network, your results may look like this:

? (10.0.1.31) at 0:17:88:9:73:d2 on en0 ifscope [ethernet]

Testing the bridge's web server

From here, you can test the devices built-in web server by requesting document from that address:

curl 10.0.1.31

You should get a response similar to this:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: text/html

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-W3CDTD HTML 4.0 TransitionalEN">
<html>
<head>
    <title>hue personal wireless lighting</title>
    <meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0;url=http://www.meethue.com">
</HEAD>
<BODY>
</BODY>
</HTML>

Finally

Now that you have found the bridge and it's MAC address, you may want to make a DHCP reservation on your network for the device.

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