Are you sure it requires access from the internet to the bridge for V2? I think ...

tzs on March 7, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Philips Hue Bridge v1 online services will be shut...

Are you sure it requires access from the internet to the bridge for V2? I think it may only require that the bridge can access the internet.

I have a V2 with "Out of home control" set to disabled and it works fine with my Echo Dot and with the Amazon Alexa apps on my phone and iPad.

My guess is that the bridge sends status information, including the bridge's IP address, to the Hue site, and the Echo can retrieve that information in order to find the IP address to send commands to.

fullstop on March 7, 2020 [–]

You're probably right. I was trying to say that the v2 bridge requires some sort of cloud service to function with an echo when the v1 did not.