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Pairing a Hue bulb on Home Assistant with serial number? (removing hue bridge) (lemy.lol)
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I'm trying to remove the Hue bridge from my home network but can't seem to get Home Assistant to find the bulbs over Zigbee. Even the Hue app can't find them unless I use the "use serial number" method.

  • I deleted the lights from the Hue app
  • I factory reset the lights (using dimmer switch method)
  • I clicked "add device" in home assistant... aaand nothing. Just "Searching for Zigbee devices…"

I thought the problem might be wifi interference but I turned off my 2.4ghz network and still nothing.

I have other Zigbee devices successfully connected to my dongle, (Sonoff) and I can pair the bulbs with Hue bridge, but only using the serial number method.

Any ideas as to what might be going on?

Update: To any future readers, I set up Zigbee2Mqtt and everything works really great now and pairing was a breeze.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I used zigbee2mqtt and mosquito, but IIRC I enabled joining I held down the top and bottom buttons of the remote until the bulb flashed, and then it connected. Distance was a problem at first, but the meshing took over well after a bit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yep that's exactly what I did. The bulbs flashed and appeared to be reset. Like I said the official Hue app can't even detect them without the serial method.

I am going to figure out Zigbee2Mqtt and see if that works, but it feels weird to install a new addon and migrate everything over when Home Assistant has that functionality baked in. Also like I said even the official Hue App and Bridge can't detect the bulbs, I need to enter the serial. I was hoping ZHA or MQTT had an "enter serial" method.