# Philips hue - broken on 5.5.8 update **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions & Help\ **Created:** [April 20, 2022, 4:13pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/philips-hue-broken-on-5-5-8-update/62857 "2022-04-20T16:13:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Klaas\_Spijkerman1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/klaas_spijkerman1/32/54285_2.png) [@Klaas\_Spijkerman1](https://community.homey.app/u/Klaas_Spijkerman1)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 8:07pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/philips-hue-broken-on-5-5-8-update/62857/82 "2022-04-20T20:07:12Z")
it seems that the ikea tradfri app is no longer working properly also ;-( ---
**Author:** ![Marco\_Lub](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/marco_lub/32/34405_2.png) [@Marco\_Lub](https://community.homey.app/u/Marco_Lub)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 8:07pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/philips-hue-broken-on-5-5-8-update/62857/83 "2022-04-20T20:07:34Z")
Same here it is pure amaturistic and a shame That nobody remembered to take in mind the changes made by Philips . When is this repeared because this is very anoying ---
**Author:** ![Jero](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jero/32/17556_2.png) [@Jero](https://community.homey.app/u/Jero)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 8:10pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/philips-hue-broken-on-5-5-8-update/62857/84 "2022-04-20T20:10:07Z")
Yes the issue being that the discovery url is being rate limited since today. ---
**Author:** ![RNLDNKP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@RNLDNKP](https://community.homey.app/u/RNLDNKP)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 8:10pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/philips-hue-broken-on-5-5-8-update/62857/85 "2022-04-20T20:10:10Z")
Just started working again. All actions got fired at once (last hours) 😛 ---
**Author:** ![FranklyEpic](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/franklyepic/32/48229_2.png) [@FranklyEpic](https://community.homey.app/u/FranklyEpic)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 8:11pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/philips-hue-broken-on-5-5-8-update/62857/86 "2022-04-20T20:11:34Z")
Just this very second started working again… this is why my wife wont let me automate anymore… ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Kawa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/peter_kawa/32/173848_2.png) [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 8:11pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/philips-hue-broken-on-5-5-8-update/62857/87 "2022-04-20T20:11:47Z")
> [@Klaas\_Spijkerman1](#): > > it seems that the ikea tradfri app is no longer working properly also ;-( Source? Tradfri (w/o gateway) works fine @ Homey pro overhere ---
**Author:** ![Martin71](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/martin71/32/47966_2.png) [@Martin71](https://community.homey.app/u/Martin71)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 8:11pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/philips-hue-broken-on-5-5-8-update/62857/88 "2022-04-20T20:11:48Z")
Yep, hier werkt het ook weer 😀 ---
**Author:** ![Patrique](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/patrique/32/47661_2.png) [@Patrique](https://community.homey.app/u/Patrique)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 8:12pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/philips-hue-broken-on-5-5-8-update/62857/89 "2022-04-20T20:12:55Z")
It’s working again! I really like to know what the issue was, and what the chances are it will happen again! ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_vd\_Linden](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/arnold_vd_linden/32/19336_2.png) [@Arnold\_vd\_Linden](https://community.homey.app/u/Arnold_vd_Linden)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 8:13pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/philips-hue-broken-on-5-5-8-update/62857/90 "2022-04-20T20:13:22Z")
Yep here is it also working again. ---
**Author:** ![PLM](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/plm/32/35562_2.png) [@PLM](https://community.homey.app/u/PLM)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 8:13pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/philips-hue-broken-on-5-5-8-update/62857/91 "2022-04-20T20:13:22Z")
Yes working again !!! ---
**Author:** ![Nigel\_Scott](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/nigel_scott/32/10602_2.png) [@Nigel\_Scott](https://community.homey.app/u/Nigel_Scott)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 8:15pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/philips-hue-broken-on-5-5-8-update/62857/92 "2022-04-20T20:15:38Z")
Fair play to Athom for sorting it that quickly, guess it’s a key app, I was expecting days of down time. ---
**Author:** ![Jero](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jero/32/17556_2.png) [@Jero](https://community.homey.app/u/Jero)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 8:18pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/philips-hue-broken-on-5-5-8-update/62857/93 "2022-04-20T20:18:18Z")
I will try to say again discovering a bridge works via [https://discovery.meethue.com/](https://discovery.meethue.com/) which is polled by the app and gets rate limited. Todays update tried to prevent triggering this rate limit by increasing the poll interval. It was not the cause of the issue. ---
**Author:** ![rampage](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/rampage/32/2121_2.png) [@rampage](https://community.homey.app/u/rampage)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 8:23pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/philips-hue-broken-on-5-5-8-update/62857/94 "2022-04-20T20:23:54Z")
I don’t see any evidence of that. I do see, however evidence that suggests that the discovery service/method has changed/deprecated. > **[New Hue API - Philips Hue Developer Program](https://developers.meethue.com/new-hue-api/)** > > Dear developers, Big news: Philips Hue is releasing early access to a completely new version 2 of the Hue API, which includes popular feature requests such as dynamic scenes, gradient entertainment technology, and proactive state change events on the... ---
**Author:** ![Jero](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jero/32/17556_2.png) [@Jero](https://community.homey.app/u/Jero)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 8:27pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/philips-hue-broken-on-5-5-8-update/62857/95 "2022-04-20T20:27:45Z")
Well you gave no evidence of your assumption so why should I? You can spam [https://discovery.meethue.com/](https://discovery.meethue.com/) for like 120 times until you hit a 429 restart the app and you can trigger this issue yourself (if you are not already experiencing it). ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Kawa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/peter_kawa/32/173848_2.png) [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 8:28pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/philips-hue-broken-on-5-5-8-update/62857/96 "2022-04-20T20:28:35Z")
> [@Patrique](#): > > I really like to know what the issue was, and what the chances are it will happen again! Go to support.homey.app Wait for the orange pop-up Follow the link. > **[Philips Hue](https://status.homey.app/incidents/k188yc5q5ypj)** > > Homey's Status Page - Philips Hue. ---
**Author:** ![Frank\_Bokenkamp](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/frank_bokenkamp/32/49329_2.png) [@Frank\_Bokenkamp](https://community.homey.app/u/Frank_Bokenkamp)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 8:34pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/philips-hue-broken-on-5-5-8-update/62857/97 "2022-04-20T20:34:18Z")
Hier werkt het ook weer, wel al mijn lampen kwijt ---
**Author:** ![Rudi\_Tholen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/rudi_tholen/32/42910_2.png) [@Rudi\_Tholen](https://community.homey.app/u/Rudi_Tholen)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 8:35pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/philips-hue-broken-on-5-5-8-update/62857/98 "2022-04-20T20:35:57Z")
This evening all (Hue) lights did not switch on, so first I did a reboot of Homey, which did not correct the problem (still no contact with the Hue components) as I did see the the driver as updated, I did a re-install of the Hue driver. This seems to solve the problem . . . . . (a bit) weird . . . . or did the update or downgrade the driver again? Rudi ---
**Author:** ![Emile](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/emile/32/115314_2.png) [@Emile](https://community.homey.app/u/Emile)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 8:46pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/philips-hue-broken-on-5-5-8-update/62857/99 "2022-04-20T20:46:29Z")
There’s a lot of misinformation here. Signify, the company behind Philips Hue, suddenly added rate limits without letting their partners (us) know. Their discovery is not deprecated. Links refering to that are something else that’s deprecated (different url). The Hue app for Homey makes use of all newest technologies. But when they change something without us knowing, we can’t do much about it. We updated the Hue app very quickly to avoid the rate limits. Unfortunately, because this automatically restarts the app, and many users already hit the limits in their previous app session, the new app session couldn’t find the hue bridge. Well, shit. However, the new app is compatible with the new rate limits. Within 24h everything should be back to normal. Why we’re still using cloud-based discovery? Because we supported the Hue Bridge Gen. 1 much longer than they did. And it doesn’t support local discovery, only cloud. So now our goodwill bites us. But it’s no excuse. We will migrate to local discovery ASAP. Thanks for your trust in Homey 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Emile](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/emile/32/115314_2.png) [@Emile](https://community.homey.app/u/Emile)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 8:46pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/philips-hue-broken-on-5-5-8-update/62857/100 "2022-04-20T20:46:33Z")
Closed on April 20, 2022, 8:46pm UTC ---
**Author:** ![Emile](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/emile/32/115314_2.png) [@Emile](https://community.homey.app/u/Emile)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2022, 2:57pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/philips-hue-broken-on-5-5-8-update/62857/101 "2022-04-21T14:57:25Z")
As promised. Philips Hue v5.6.0 adds local (mDNS) discovery: [Philips Hue App for Homey | Homey](https://homey.app/a/nl.philips.hue/test/) [Previous page](https://community.homey.app/t/philips-hue-broken-on-5-5-8-update/62857.md?page=4)