One note for Athom: After migrating with the test app, and going to Add Device again in Homey, you are able to add the same Hue device again (the device is already working). Before it would only show the devices that were not added yet.
Since i’ve been following this thread closely for the last couple of days, i figured maybe my input might be helpful for others. Good news, everything works again as before! My steps:
1 Migrate the hue brigde with the most lights, switches and sensors to the new hue brigde pro.
2 transfer the lights from my second brigde to the new bridge pro by simply deleting them from the old bridge and search for new lights with the bridge pro. It found them all without a problem.
3 install the 7.1.4 version of the hue app in homey. It worked instantly for all the lights from the first original hue bridge
4 manually add the lights from the second original hue bridge in homey.
5 manually delete the old lights from the second original hue bridge in homey
I then discovered that the motion sensors weren’t working in homey. They were visible but didn’t detect motion. I decided to restart homey. That turned out to be a bit scary because at first it refreshed all lights, switches and sensors which caused the flows to show blank cards. Luckily after a few seconds they automatically returned, including the flows. Now everything works like a charm again!
I do have to buy my wife some flowers though. The WAF took a serious hit the past week….
I bit the bullet and did the move yesterday:
Added the Bridge Pro in the Hue app, migrated everything over to that and decommissioned the old Bridge. All lights and devices moved over more or less fine, but only some of them retained their settings; others were the wrong colour and brightness, so they had to be tweaked back to their previous settings.
Then uninstalled the Hue app on my Homey Pro, and installed the test Hue app, and added all my Hue devices back: loads of lights, a couple of plugs and a couple of buttons. All appeared fine in Homey, but I had to put them all back into their rooms.
Flows all showed cards missing so I had to rebuild all of my flows involving Homey devices, which was a slightly tiresome couple of hours. All working fine now, and I was braced for some faff, but it definitely was a bit of a faff to rebuild everything.
Why did you uninstall the hue app on the homey? I don’t think that is necessary, because then you indeed have to refigure all lights and flows.
Sometimes it’s simply better to wait a little than to blame others…
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Where can i find the 7.1.4 update of the Hue lights? I have the 2019 Homey and a Hue hub pro.
But stil the Hue connection not working..
Still in beta… so bugs are to be expected. Philips Hue App voor Homey | Homey you find the app in de changelog
Thanks, that works
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Kate, I’m about to do the same.
In your flows, before this current modification, have Hue scenes as in your flows to turn on/off lights, change their color, etc? I’m trying to figure out if the existing Hue scenes will work with this new test app? Many thanks!
Bert
7.1.4 is now out of beta and works like a charm. Once updated, it magically finds everything where it left off prior to migrating the old and new (Pro) bridge. Thx and well done!
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After seeing the updated app on the Homey Pro, I installed the Hue Pro Bridge and migrated all devices in the Hue app. Following the migration, Homey detected the new bridge and transferred all devices seamlessly. Very happy with the result!
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Did you had to add the new Bridge Pro as a new device? @Niels_de_Jong
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The migration wizard in the Hue app isn’t coming up, while the Hue bridge 2 and Hue bridge Pro are in the same network. Tried removing and re-adding the bridge pro about 3 times, but no migration at all. Did anyone had this issue and know how to solve it? Both are connected to Ethernet and visible @ bridges in settings.
Update Added the Hue app to a tablet and here I could do the migration.
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No, I didn’t have to do anything in Homey. If you don’t see a message in the timeline that it has been updated automatically, just restart the Hue app in Homey and it will work.
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I can confirm it works. Just upgraded to the hue pro bridge and homey did the rest. I needed to reboot couple of times to make the senors and switches work and needed to repair some groups but it didn’t took me long. Nice job!
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Hi all,
I see a lot of people that did the migration to hue bridge pro.
Can you use the new MotionAware-function in a Homey flow?
Or is this something you can only use inside the original Hue App?
Eric
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I’ve tested a bit and found that it only works in the Hue system, not in Homey. Maybe others have researched this more and found out more about it.
In this post, user found out the bridges have to be connected thru wifi during the migration process.
In English:
I launched Philips Hue app. Searched for new hub. Unable to find; tried three times, no success. Hub Resetted. Tried again; no success.
And then the solution: you MUST install via wifi!!! Philips doesn’t specify that anywhere.
Not true. I’ve connected it via cable, worked a like a charm. But! you need to be patient. the white lights need to have stopped blinking, then wait a couple of minutes and after that you will find the bridge in the app.
Except offcourse if your wifi network is separated from your LAN, but in most scenarios, that’s not the case.
Yeah I thought that was very odd, it shouldn’t matter if it’s wifi or ethernet connected.
Unless, like you stated alr., these are bound to different subnets/vLANs.
But, the guy made it work in his setup by connecting it to wifi.
