# Philips Hue switch in App with Brigde

**URL:** https://community.homey.app/t/philips-hue-switch-in-app-with-brigde/52510
**Category:** Questions & Help
**Tags:** homey-bridge
**Created:** [October 1, 2021, 5:28pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/philips-hue-switch-in-app-with-brigde/52510 "2021-10-01T17:28:00Z")
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The Tap isn’t supported by the Cloud version of the Hue app, it only supports lights and power plugs.

@TimTheToolman the reason is that switches are input devices, which require polling (the app needs to actively “ask” the Hue hub, through its API, if a switch has been pressed). This takes up a lot of bandwidth (historically, the Hue app has been known to cause massive amounts of data transfers on “regular” Homey’s) and I guess Athom doesn’t want to be paying for that.

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