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 4 months ago

Thanks I'll give it a shot. I was trying to avoid more add-ons and the rest of my network is already configured with ZHA. But like I said even the official Hue Bridge/app can't discover these bulbs without the serial number method.

this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2025

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