I migrated 2 Hue Bridges to Hue Bridge Pro yesterday, but unfortunately didn’t think about doing anything with HomeyPro until after I had finished and removed the old Hue Bridges.
In short: I now have the Hue lights in HomeyPro (after working through installation timeouts), but am stuck for how to get the switches & sensors updated. Any hints or tips?
UPDATE: never mind, I was missing the obvious. Sorry. In HomeyPro > Devices > + add device, hue, dimmer switch … and it found and added them all. I had to repeat the process for device types: Dimmer Switch 1, Dimmer Switch 2, Motion Sensor. Job done.
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I tried for a while to get HomeyPro Philips Hue app to detect the migration and update to the new Bridge Pro, but didn’t succeed. I tried “repair” on some of the Hue devices in HomeyPro > Devices, but that couldn’t find a bridge. I tried restarting the HomeyPro Philips Hue app, and also the Hue Bridge Pro, but that didn’t help. (I believe I did the “Check for Bridge Migration” on the Devices > (device) > settings, but my notes have let me down … it is possible that I missed this)
In the end I reinstalled the HomeyPro Philips Hue app like this:
- Uninstalled Philips Hue app on HomeyPro
- Power-cycled both Hue Bridge and HomeyPro
- Re-installed Philips Hue app on HomeyPro
- In HomeyPro Philips Hue mobile app, devices, +, add Philips Hue device
- I suspect any Hue device would probably have done; I picked a light.
- Flood of error popup dialogs “Timeout after 10000ms” (on mobile Homey app)
- It seems there was a 10 second time limit, which wasn’t enough for my system
- (I currently have 77 Hue lights, 23 switches and 2 sensors)
- OK’d through all of the timeout pop-ups, and it did seem that the Hue Bridge Pro had been added, with many (possibly all) of the lights, but none of the switches or sensors
- Power-cycled both the Hue Bridge Pro and HomeyPro again
- I am still in the same situation, with many (possibly all) of the lights, but none of the switches or sensors
I can see the switches & sensors both in the Philips Hue normal standalone mobile app.
(and for interest I also queried them using the Hue API from command line, mainly just to count the number of devices)
But I am currently stuck for how to get the switches & sensors recognised/synced into HomeyPro Philips Hue app and device list.
I haven’t yet tried another uninstall/re-install of the HomeyPro Philips Hue app … since I assume that will hit the same 10 second timeout problem again. If I see any relevant sounding app updates I guess I would try again.
Versions:
Homey Pro (Early 2023); Version: 12.10.0
Philips Hue Bridge Pro; Model ID: BSB003
- Software version: 1.74.2071153010