Goodbye Philips Hue Bridge: moving my lighting to Home Assistant ZHA

Goodbye Philips Hue Bridge: moving my lighting to Home Assistant ZHA I’ve used Philips Hue for years, although many of the bulbs connected to my Hue Bridge weren’t made by Philips. Over time, I’d added IKEA TRÅDFRI and Innr bulbs, which generally worked well enough. Meanwhile, I’d started building a separate Zigbee network using Home Assistant, leaving me with two Zigbee networks in the same house. With a Home Assistant Green (a dedicated device for running Home Assistant), a Home Assistant SkyConnect Zigbee coordinator (now sold as Connect ZBT-1) and an increasingly useful Zigbee mesh, I decided it was time to consolidate the lighting onto Zigbee Home Automation (ZHA). The aim was straightforward: move the remaining devices to ZHA and retire the Hue Bridge. Resetting and migrating the bulbs The main task involved nine IKEA TRÅDFRI GU10 spotlights and an E14 candle bulb, together with several Innr bulbs. For the IKEA bulbs, the process was to remove them from Hue, put ZHA into pairing…

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