[APP][Pro] Philips Hue Zigbee (Without the bridge)

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Philips Hue, without the bridge

Control Philips Hue lights and accessories directly from Homey over Zigbee, no Philips Hue Bridge required.

This is a community-maintained Homey app supporting a broad range of Philips Hue / Signify Zigbee lights, fixtures, lightstrips, plugs, sensors, switches and remotes.

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Current status

The app has undergone a substantial modernization during 2026, with updated Zigbee dependencies, improved lifecycle and battery handling, automated regression testing, new device support and additional native Hue functionality.

Current releases:

  • Live: v2.2.1 – Our current stable release.

  • Test: v2.3.0 – Additional device support, occupancy improvements and remote availability refinements.

App Store links:

What’s new in v2.3.0?

The latest update introduces support for several additional Hue products:

  • Hue OmniGlow Lightstrip

  • Hue Flux Lightstrip

  • Hue White A60 LWA033

  • Hue White Ambiance E14 P45 LTU001

  • Hue White A60 LWF004

  • Experimental support for the Hue Wired Dimmer LWM007

It also includes improved motion/occupancy report handling, remote availability recovery based on actual incoming Zigbee traffic and additional regression coverage.

Hardware testing is particularly welcome for OmniGlow, Flux and LWM007. Standard light controls are included for the new lightstrips, while native gradient functionality remains disabled until physically verified. LWM007 currently has experimental support for standard dimming and Push/Rocker configuration.

Live v2.2.1 remains available for anyone who prefers to stay on the stable release.

Development continues actively, with further improvements planned for upcoming versions.

What the app supports

Depending on the individual device, supported functionality includes:

  • On/off, dimming, color and color temperature

  • Power-on behaviour

  • Motion and occupancy sensing

  • Temperature and luminance

  • Contact sensors

  • Battery reporting

  • Hue Dimmer Switches and Smart Buttons

  • Tap Dial switches

  • Wall Switch Modules

  • Hue Wired Dimmer (experimental)

  • Smart Plugs

  • Selected native Hue effects, including Candle and Fireplace

  • Selected gradient and multi-zone Hue products

  • Homey Flow cards for device-specific actions and events

All communication takes place directly over Homey’s Zigbee network.

Important limitation

This app is a direct Zigbee integration, not an implementation of the Philips Hue Bridge.

Features depending on the Hue Bridge, Hue cloud services, video/audio or functionality not exposed through local Zigbee cannot automatically be supported.

Support is based on each device’s actual Zigbee identity, endpoints, clusters and capabilities. Two visually identical Hue products may contain different hardware or firmware and require separate implementation or verification.

Similarly, a supported device does not necessarily expose every feature available through the official Hue ecosystem.

Supported devices

There are now too many supported product IDs to maintain a reliable manual list in this forum post.

The app covers a broad range of:

  • White, White Ambiance and White & Color Ambiance lights

  • GU10, E14 and E27 lamps

  • Filament lamps

  • Indoor and outdoor fixtures

  • Lightstrips, including selected gradient products

  • Motion and occupancy sensors

  • Hue Contact Sensor

  • Dimmer Switches, Smart Buttons and Tap Dial

  • Wall Switch Modules

  • Smart Plugs

  • Multi-zone products such as Ensis and Twilight

The driver definitions in GitHub are the authoritative source for exact supported Zigbee model IDs.

Browse the GitHub repository

Missing a device?

If your Hue device pairs as a Generic Zigbee Device, we may be able to add support for it.

A complete Zigbee interview makes this considerably easier.

  1. Add the device to Homey as a Generic Zigbee Device.

  2. Open Homey Developer Tools → Zigbee.

  3. Allow the interview to complete.

  4. Copy the interview data.

  5. Open a GitHub issue and include the modelId, manufacturerName, endpoint descriptors, input/output clusters and a link to the actual Hue product.

Please remove any sensitive information, particularly the Zigbee network key, before sharing an interview.

Bug reports, device requests and feature suggestions

Please submit all requests and issues through GitHub rather than using this forum thread as an issue tracker.

This includes:

  • Bugs and unexpected behaviour

  • Missing or unsupported Hue devices

  • Feature requests

  • Problems with existing Flow cards

  • Regressions after an app update

GitHub allows us to track the investigation, request additional information, link changes to specific issues and verify when something has actually been resolved.

Open a GitHub issue or device request

When reporting a problem, please include as much of the following as possible:

  • Homey model and firmware version

  • Installed app version (Live or Test)

  • Exact Hue model / Zigbee modelId

  • Expected behaviour versus actual behaviour

  • Steps needed to reproduce the problem

  • Relevant logs or Zigbee interview

  • Whether the device worked correctly in an earlier version

If possible, report Zigbee network/rejoin problems separately from capability, battery or Flow-card problems. They may have completely different underlying causes.

If your issue already exists, please add your findings to the existing issue rather than creating a duplicate.

Community discussion and general questions are, of course, still welcome here!

Resetting Hue devices

If a Hue device has previously been connected to a Philips Hue Bridge, it normally needs to be reset before it can join Homey’s Zigbee network directly.

Depending on the product, this can usually be done through the Hue Bridge or a compatible Hue remote/reset procedure.

Useful links

About the project

The app was originally created by Sebastian Johansson and was transferred to me in 2020.

It remains a community-maintained project and is not an official Philips Hue / Signify application.

A huge thank you to everyone who has contributed device interviews, testing, bug reports, pull requests and hardware verification over the years. The app would not support anywhere near this many Hue products without your help.

If you appreciate the work and would like to support continued development, donations are always welcome:

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Hi there.
Yes, Sebastian who is the original author of the Philips Hue Zigbee app transferred it to me.

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Hi Johan,

I’ve got the Hue Ensis pendant and AFAICT it should be supported by your app. However, when trying to add it I receive the message that there’s no compatible app installed and therefore it has been added as a basic Zigbee device. Am I doing anything wrong?

The information for this lamp according to the Homey app is as follows:
Product ID (top light): 4090331P9_02
Product ID (bottom light): 4090331P9_01
Device ID: 269
Profile ID: 260

Just for clarification; this lamp contains 2 lights that can be controlled independently from each other, hence the 2 (slightly different) product ID’s.

Thanks for the help!

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Hi @baZzz and thanks for your feedback!
Hmm, OK so do you add it two times to get the two different product ID’s from Homey or do you get two devices just from one pairing?

I see that the unit have been added in the app with an other Product ID so what I can do is to add a new device with the product IDs you provide. I just need to make sure I understand the _01 and _02 bit correctly :slight_smile:

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I had to add them twice. So each light was added and identified separately. (I’ve included screenshots to clarify.)

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Thanks @baZzz for the clarification, I added two new devices to the Test version of the app, please try if this works for you.

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Awesome, you da man! :+1:
The only issue is that I made a mistake… :flushed: The lower is actually the upper and the other way around. So the upper light is _01 and the lower _02. Sorry about this!

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LOL, THANKS! :slight_smile:
No problem, I’ll just switch it and publish a new test version.

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@baZzz Fixed.

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Thanks, it’s working flawlessly right now. :+1:t3:

2 More questions though:

  1. After adding the lights to Homey again, they revert back to their default settings. This means that after a power interruption they don’t remember their last setting. In order to change this behavior I first have to add the lights to the Hue Bluetooth app again and manually change this. Would it be possible though to add this setting to the ‘Advanced settings’ of the lights, so this can be changed from within Homey?
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  2. I’m now running the test version of the app. I assume this won’t get updated by itself, so do I have to manually install the regular version of the app again once that has been updated with these changes?

Thanks again!

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Hmm, I’ll see what I can do about that. I have seen that request from several ppl.

You will get updates to the Test app but it depends on how I publish the Live version if you will automatically get “upgraded” or not… I’ll keep in mind to inform.

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Great, thanks for all the effort! I’ll keep watching this topic. :+1:t3:

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Hello,

I’ve bought a fuzo outdoor light. It should be compatible with your app. When I add the device it is a unknown zigbee device. Is there anything I’m doing wrong or a little bug in the app?

Greetz Jelmer

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Hi @Jelmertje, Fuzo is so far only supported by the test version of the app. Please feel free to try it out. I’d be happy if you report back how it works and if any issues occur. (you can always go back to the Live version without problems)

And please do come back with generic info for the device if you have tried the test version and still are unable to pair your Fuzo device with Homey.

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Thanks for fast answering Johan! I installed the beta version. Now I’m having the possibility to dim the light. It works fine. Great job!

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is this lamp also supported and what type is it? Thx!!!

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Thx!!!

Will do that.

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It’s Philips LivingColors Aura (LLC014 ) and yes, it’s supported by the app.

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Great, will try again.

First rest by hue dimmer switch, then add in homey.

THX!

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@RoyWissenburg
Nope, i cant connect it.
It is an old one, round remote but does not connect.
Thx!