I’ve had a happy ST Hub and Hue bridge integration for years, but after changing ISP router I can no longer discover the Hue bridge. Straight after swapping the router the Hue devices did remain online, but after rebooting the hubs the Hue bridge and all bulbs and sensors remained offline. I’d forg…

Many thanks for all help and suggestions. I was finally able to re-connect to the Hue bridge - by pressing the Hue bridge link button some random minutes after starting discovery. As with many problems there are multiple aspects. Assuming the bridge IP address changed on restart (as I’d forgotten…

You could try this: [image] Beta - 61.X Hub Firmware and Edge Driver Release Notes Accept Beta Invite: Follow the SmartThings Beta Driver Invitation and log in to your Samsung Account. Enroll: Select Enroll for your specific Hub. Install: Select Available Drivers to browse and Install all relev…

Thanks for the reply. To be clear will this help with bridge discovery? Unfortunately I removed the bridge from ST hoping that would ease re-discovery - rather than the better idea in hindsight of trying more ways to recover an offline bridge. I can see the thread [ST Edge] Philips Hue LAN [BETA] …

open the Hue app, go to Settings. and select Smart Home. If your SmartThings hub is listed, click on it and unlink from SmartThings. Then try adding as Matter to ST again in that section of the Hue app.

[image] jwsg: To be clear will this help with bridge discovery? Maybe? Have you tried it?

Maybe someone knows whether loading the beta driver adds to / replaces the built-in ST add-device options or is limited to an alternate driver chosen after the bridge is discovered and linked. Exactly what the process is for detecting devices on a LAN and what part the router plays is unclear. Smar…

[image] jwsg: Exactly what the process is for detecting devices on a LAN and what part the router plays is unclear. It’s actually pretty clear. It is using mDNS to scan the network for a specific service: mdns: - service: "_hue._tcp" So you should make sure that your new router allows mDN…

Help with Hue bridge discovery

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Andreas_Roedl June 6, 2026, 12:06pm 2

You could try this:

Install the Philips Hue driver and try again.

Different driver, different persistent fields. device:set_field(Fields._ADDED, true, { persist = true })

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