Changed Hue Hub Driver and it stopped responding

[jkp]

@TechShark

I’ve got connectivity back back it’s now duplicating both Hue Bridges and many of the bulbs, deleting them doesn’t help as it just re-adds them when I search for more bulbs.

if you have the duplicate hubs/devices in ST… that indicates Hue is connected by two of the 4 methods of connecting Hue to ST. Those are:

• cloud to cloud
• direct LAN connection
• Matter
• custom Edge driver

you can look at the 2 posts from @JDRoberts in the following thread for a good description for connecting Hue to ST.

Best way to connect Hue and Google Home to SmartThings

It really depends on what you’re trying to accomplish. I mentioned in your other thread that I haven’t seen anyway of opening up the supervised accounts to SmartHome control regardless of the platform so that seems to be something you’ll need to bring up with Google support. It’s affecting lots of platforms and brands, not just SmartThings, and it seems to be a decision on the Google side. As far as the best way to handle linking a Hue bridge to multiple Home Automation platforms, as I mentioned, it really depends on what you’re trying to accomplish. Different methods will work for different people. By far the simplest (and the best way to avoid duplicate entries) is to use matter to connect the Hue Bridge to any platform you want to use it with. That should work fine, it will avoid dup…

depending on number of Hue devices and use in Routines… you may want to consider removing and starting fresh once you decide on the method you want to connect Hue. One place to start is Linked services to remove the cloud to cloud integration. Tap on Menu, tap on Sattings (cog in upper right of screen) and selecting Linked services and follow instructions. Removing the other connection should be as simple as locating the hue bridge in ST and removing it, which should remove all associated Hue devices.

also, this would mean you would probably need to do some fixing in Alexa if needed if using their Routines.