Google Home Hue Setup Change?

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Same, I disconnected emulated hue and reconnected it yesterday to see if I could. No problems, and no updates are available for my google home app so I assume its up to date.

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Iā€™ve disconnected and reconnected several times after first reading about this and have yet to reach any sign in page. Everything pairs as it always has. Ive done it after a Google home update, after the Google search update which brought assistant, and other updates. Iā€™m wondering if I am misunderstanding the issue now, or if people are trying to pair differently than I do.

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Is it possible they updated and reverted? That would be awesome

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Iā€™m also having the same issue as OP. Iā€™m curious why/how you are able to connect without logging into a Hue account? As OP said above, when I go to ā€œaddā€ a philips hue in the Google Home app, it asks me to sign into a Hue account.

How long have you had the app? Now Iā€™m starting to think if you had the app before that early March update, maybe you are grandfathered so you donā€™t need to log in to an account.

Iā€™ve been scouring this forum and I still canā€™t seem to find a solution here.

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Well, Iā€™ve had the chromecast app forever. It became Home before I got a Google Home in December.
Do you have emulated hue running on port 80? I do get the sign in prompt when emulated hue is not running.

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Yes, itā€™s up and running at port 80. Iā€™ve tested it with the links provided on the emulated hue component page.

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Man, I donā€™t know. I just now went to manage accounts, removed Phillips Hue, and added it again.

So you see your lights at http://192.168.1.97/api/pi/lights, youā€™re on the same networkā€¦

Do you have an actual Phillips Hue? I do not.

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Any news about this issue.

I added new devices, and using emulated_hue, wanted to unlink Philips Hue and link again, to have the new devices controllable from Google Home. But prefer not too if the issue is not solved ā€¦ (donā€™t want to lose the ability to control devices from emulated_hue that I have now)

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Now I am confused ā€¦

Is it safe to unlink Philips Hue account from GH app and then relink (without losing emulated_hue)??

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Iā€™ve got a Google Home and I can confirm it works ONLY with Google Home, NOT Google Assistant.

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@joaoasilva How do you diffirienciate the setup? I have exactly the same behavious no matter if I go through the Home > Home control or GH > Settings > Home control.

Once registered with https://www.meethue.com/en-us/user/linkbridge when attempting to link the bridge I get ā€œWell this is embarrassing. We canā€™t find a bridge on your local network. Just to be sure youā€™ve not missed an important step, can you check the following:ā€ on Hue website. So in my case detection is not issue of GH/Home Assistant itself.

both: http://192.168.2.xxx/description.xml and http://192.168.2.xxx/api/homeassistant/lights do show xml info.

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Google Home the hardware device, not the Home APP from Google.

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GH does not work without that app, so Iā€™m still confused.

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You donā€™t register to use Emulated Hue. You donā€™t install or need any app other than Google Home. If you get to a point where it asks you to press a button on the Hue Bridge, you donā€™t do that either.

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OK got it to work by enabling wlan0 and moving the configuration to the IP on that interface.

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Does the Google Home APP ask you to register to the philips hue (hence you cannot use emulated_hue)? Or it just paors, so you can use emulated_hue?

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I do not understand you.

In the past there was no need to register to use emulated_hue. But now they are saying that the registration is obligatory, which means you cannot use emulated_hue.

Is it true or not?

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Also this I do not understand

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So, for this to work you need to have an actual Google Home Physical device https://madeby.google.com/home/, thatā€™s the only way that the Google Home APP will detect the local devices without the need to connect to the HUE Cloud. If you only have Google Assistant or the Home APP without the Google Home https://madeby.google.com/home/ it doesnā€™t work and doesnā€™t detect local devices on the network, just using cloud services.

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I do have a Google Home device, which I control from a Google Home app.

So you are saying that in MY case I do not risk if I unpair and pair again the Philips Hue device inside the Google Home app (so it will continue to add emulated_hue devices)?