WiFi Device Offline

In case that you are experiencing devices remain offline and will not go online, please first restart the power of both the router and devices and see if the devices will go online. If the problem persists, check how the LED indicator on the devices are blinking to decide the potential causes.

Symptoms: Click on the link to find corresponding solution

1. Blinking once every 2 seconds, the device has failed to connect to the router;
2. Blinking once per second, the device is not connected to user's account;
3. Blinking twice per second, the device failed to connect to the server;
4. Not blinking at all, a potential hardware issue.

Solutions

1. The device failed to connect to your router

The LED blinks once every 2s, and the device is offline, it means it failed to connect to your router.

There are some reasons causing this problem:

a. The WiFi strength is weak. Your router is too far away from your device, and there may be some interference in the environment.

To solve it, please take your device close to the router. If the problem still exists, please cut off the power of device and power it up again.

b. Make sure you are not using the 5G WiFi when you adding the device. If you are connecting to 5G WiFi, please delete the device and re-add via 2.4G WiFi. Some WiFi Hue/Bridge may not be compatible, this is rare.

c. Make sure your router settings don't open the MAC address filter.

d. One normal router usually supports about 10–15 devices (including phone, PC, tablet, and all other devices that connects to the same router). Please make sure the number of devices currently connecting to your router doesn't exceed its max limit.

e. Make sure that your Wi-Fi SSID and password don't contain special characters, for example, the Hebrew, Arabic characters. Our system can't recognize these characters and then fail to connect to the WiFi.

2. The device has successfully connected to the server, but hasn't been added to the user's account

Usually, there are two reasons lead to this result:

a. The owner has deleted it from the account, it doesn't belong to any accounts now, but the device still recognizes the previous WiFi.

b. During adding process, the app has completed the communication between smartphone and device, the device has obtained WiFi password, but when binding it to the user's account, the network is interrupted.

3. Failed to connect to the server. Network interrupted or DNS cannot resolve the address.

The LED indicator quickly blinks twice and repeats, which means the device has connected to the router but fail to connect to the server.

a. Unable to Visit the Internet

If the extranet cannot be accessed, then use your phone or PC to visit the Internet. If successful, try to connect your device again.

If you have stopped paying Internet fee or extending your network service, you can't visit the Internet.

b. Bandwidth Occupied

You may have downloaded too many files at the same time, which occupied most of the bandwidth, thus your device did not have enough bandwidth to connect to the server. If so, please stop downloading and try to re-add your device.

c. More than one router with the same SSID (name)

You may have more than one router with the same name, and your device may have connected to the non-networked one. In this case, you should reset your router name and choose the networked one to connect. Then try to connect your device again.

d. More than one DHCP server on one network

There may be errors existing between router topology. In this case, please check the connection way between routers, then try again.

e. ARP Attacked

If you have checked all above and found them no problems, maybe some terminal of the local area network you are locating has affected ARP virus. We suggest you to manually bind gateway and MAC address, then try again.

f. Firewall Settings

You may have opened firewall or some security software. In this case, please temporarily close them and try to connect the device again.

g. DNS Server Inaccessible

After making all above checks and finding no problems, the possible problem should be a DNS error. Please manually change DNS server address to 119.29.29.29 and try to re-add your device.

h. IP address conflict

Please close all other connections that connect to the router. Then try to re-add your device.

4. The LED indicator doesn't work

When powering the device up, it is not on. Press the on/off button, it is not on.

The circuit may be damaged, please contact the seller for help.