So I have multiple Hue bridges in this house. Each bridge has a room and a lot of lights connected to it. For simplicity let’s say I have one Bedroom and one LivingRoom bridge. Due to a few factors I cannot combine these lights to one bridge: I need to get multiple bridges working properly with HA.
When I connect the first bridge (let’s say the Bedroom bridge at 192.168.1.9) to HA using the configurator and simply clicking the button on the bridge itself, everything works instantly. I can call scenes with hue.hue_activate_scene, control all the lights individually, all good.
Then I connect the LivingRoom bridge (192.168.1.10). Now I see all the lights, I can control all of them and turn all of them on or off. All good still. In fact, I can call scenes with hue.hue_activate_scene just like the Bedroom one!
But after this pairing, I try to use hue.hue_activate_scene again on the Bedroom… and nothing. I try other scene names to make sure I’m not misspelling anything, and still nothing. All spelling is correct, so I check the logs and see this:
Unable to find group Bedroom
9:28 PM components/hue/bridge.py (WARNING)
If I then remove the LivingRoom bridge from HA, reconnect it, and call the scene, it will work again. But then, I have the same exact problem with the other bridge!! It seems like I can only call scenes on the last bridge I have connected. I cannot call scenes on multiple bridges. The documentation mentions nothing about this and I cannot find anything regarding this issue online.
Please help me out! I am running HA on a NAS via Docker, so I cannot access /components/hue/bridge.py (if I can, please explain how, what folder do I need to mount?) and even then I wouldn’t know how to even begin to fix this…
Thanks in advance!
