Homey Bridge and Homeylink

Homey Self-Hosted Server
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Installed Homey SHS. But even though I think I have installed Homey Link and can see my Homey Bridge it still says needs a Bridge to connect Zigbee devices.

I am really struggling to get this off the ground. Apps are always failing and basically at the moment I have a Homey Pro, Homey Bridge and Homey Self Hosted Server all running and not able to add a si glue device by Tuya or even Zigbee

I looked online and seems the educational stuff stopped years ago

If you want the Non technical community to embrace the platform, think it is time to up your game

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HomeyLink and the Bridge “Satellite mode” are completely different things

HomeyLink: a Homey app that allows you to connect one Homey Pro/SHS to another Homey Pro/SHS. It makes the devices added in the one Homey available on the other Homey

Satellite mode: a feature that allows adding a Homey Bridge to a Homey Pro/SHS that adds additional communication protocols to Homey.

If you added HomeyLink, it can only import the devices from another Homey. You need to add the Bridge separately

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It’s adressed to ‘nerds’ for a reason I guess.

With all due respect, SHS is not as ‘easy’ compared with a Pro in a box.

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But I’ll try to explain stuff.

You don’t need HomeyLink for a SHS + Bridge setup.

As I’m not a clairvoyant :wink: , what does “I can see my Homey bridge” mean exactly?
Please be specific;
Is it present/visible in the Homey app as device?
If true:
Is it present at the zigbee/z-wave overview.
If not:
When you logged in, can you select multiple Homeys?

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If true, you probably fired up a Homey Cloud instance, and added the bridge to that one →
you’re not the first one selecting / setting up the “wrong” Homey.
That’s the main reason the SHS Homey says:

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The differences are visible by the icons, and the name you gave Homey SHS, and the description.
Example:

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But it’s guessing from here.
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Please tell us where you searched for info. The SHS knowledge base articles are just published:

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si glue = single I presume.
Again you don’t specify the error(s) returned by the system. When you’re actually try to install apps on Homey Cloud, many will fail because only a small number of apps is allowed to run @ Homey Cloud. But maybe it’s a NAT issue on your side, hard to tell.

“Even zigbee” … well that’s just because the bridge ain’t connected yet :man_shrugging:

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So when i try to configure SHS using the app and add a Zigbee devide even though i haver the Homey Bridge is says it needs to be added

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But when i try to configure through the local webpage it works fine.

So not sure what is going on there

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What, only now you say it works fine using the webpage? What is this crap…
What a waste of my time. Shame on you, and merry Xmas.

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