pitosalas
November 30, 2018, 12:52am
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I have a hue hub with 6 hue lights. I just got a Smartthings hub. A basic question: Should I delete the lights from the Hue app first before adding them to the Smartthings app, or doesn’t it matter?
all4dom
November 30, 2018, 12:58am
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Not 100% sure but I think you would keep the lights links to the hue hub & link the hub itself to smartthings. Just do a search how to link hue bridge to.smartthings.
Leave the lights on the hue bridge. Add the hue bridge to your SmartThings account and the lights will be automatically added.
See the following FAQ (this is a clickable link)
Yes. The only officially recommended way to use Hue devices with SmartThings is by using a Hue bridge.
There are several reasons to use the bridge.
Other Integrations
There will be a number of other integrations available to you which you may want to take advantage of.
Use of Hue Scenes
you will be able to activate scenes created with the official Hue app, which at the present time offer many features not available in the smartthings scenes feature. Even just the ability to blink the lights. The easiest way to access scenes from the Hue app is through the following custom edge driver or IFTTT, but there are other ways as well.
[ST Edge] Philips Hue LAN [BETA] (3rd Party Driver, Not ST Native)
Not using the Bridge can mess up your zigbee network
the most important really is …
And no one but me cares about the following
Warning: super technical network engineering explanation follows. But the short answer is just that it’s a bridge by definition. [IMG_4091]
A ZigBee Light Link network has no ZigBee network coordinator, even a bridge device merely acts as a router {repeater}
So it’s a bridge per the definition of bridge in the ZLL specification.
The end devices don’t need the bridge in order…
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7andy
November 30, 2018, 7:52am
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Whilst you can add them directly to ST, I find they are not as reliable. Just add the hub, and you’re good to go.
pitosalas
November 30, 2018, 12:34pm
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Thanks everyone… Before reading this I actually deleted the hue lights from the Hue app - but didn’t touch the bridge, and it seems that everything works.
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, but I’ll put it up as well: