OK, some people are reporting that somehow the network ID for the Hue bridge got corrupted and that after that SmartThings could no longer control Hue bulbs although other systems with independent connections to the Hue bridge still worked fine. @cmeans has a manual fix for that specific problem d…

Agreed! I do wonder though, there was a Hue security update a week or two ago if that has anything to do with all the new issues.

Does anyone know what happens if you change your hue bridge? can you keep the same lights or is it a full rebuild?

I did it recently. very painful as all of the lights will disappear and any rules or smartapps which reference them die. I had the foresight of saving some of the rules from being destroyed by adding some non hue lights into some of them but all of the ones I didn’t needed deleting.

Thanks for that you just moved that option to “last resort”

I don’t know the exact time they stopped working as I was at work, but I believe the update happens while I was at work and I noticed the sensors not working around 6PM EST when I got home.

[image] Hub V2 - Hot Fix - 09/15/16 (15.8) Does anyone know what happens if you change your hue bridge? can you keep the same lights or is it a full rebuild When I changed from the gen one bridge to the gen two I didn’t lose anything at all.

[image] Hub V2 - Hot Fix - 09/15/16 (15.8) When I changed from the gen one bridge to the gen two I didn’t lose anything at all. Did you have static IP and used the same one when you made the switch?

[image] Hub V2 - Hot Fix - 09/15/16 (15.8) Did you have static IP and used the same one when you made the switch Honestly, I don’t know. I followed the directions in the hue app. I clicked on change hub and did what it said. I then went into the ST so and ran the hue connect. It found the …

[image] Hub V2 - Hot Fix - 09/15/16 (15.8) [image] Hub V2 - Hot Fix - 09/15/16 (15.8) Did you have static IP and used the same one when you made the switch Honestly, I don’t know. I followed the directions in the hue app. I clicked on change hub and did what it said. I then went into the…

This is tooooo funny…I was just trying to PM you to ask about your Almond experience…

Hue bulbs not controllable because of bad bridge ID

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bamarayne (Jason "The Enabler" as deemed so by @Smart) September 16, 2016, 12:24pm 54

When I changed from the gen one bridge to the gen two I didn’t lose anything at all.

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Hue bulbs not controllable because of bad bridge ID

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