Hue lights show up twice, one for the bridge one for Wink, which is which?

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I have the Hue bridge and Wink Hub. Hue lights are connected to Wink to use Wink Relay, and as such HA shows all Hue devices twice, one connected to the Hub and one to the Wink Hub. How do I tell which is which to hide one? They both look identical under states:

light.living_room_lamp on brightness: 255
friendly_name: Living Room Lamp

light.living_room_lamp_2 on brightness: 254
friendly_name: Living Room Lamp

Only difference is one says _2 at the end, but how do I tell which is the Wink one vs the Hub?

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Given that you can use the Hue lights directly from HA isn’t it just simpler to remove them from Wink?

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No because then I can’t control them from the Wink Relay.

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Makes sense :slight_smile:

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Do you know if devices names stay the same always? Like I have lamp and lamp_2. I’m wondering if I disconnect Hue from the Wink, if the proper one is lamp_2 would that one remain, or would it rename it to just lamp etc? As long as it doesn’t add a number at the end based on how many devices, then that should at least let me determine which one it is.

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I had this problem too. I set up all my lights on a card and toggled them to figure out which ones were coming from the hue and which were coming from the Wink hub; in may case anything with a _2 was coming from Wink (May be the same in your case but check).

Then I just added those lights in my customize.yaml and hid them all with hidden: true.

A bit of a pain, and they still will show up in the states panel, but it solves the issue and leaves the ability to control from the Wink App as well as HA.

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Thanks that’s what I did as well, I noticed if I turned it on via the Hue it would show at the bottom the _2 one turning one, vs Wink would show the regular one, so was able to hide easily. :slight_smile:

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Just be sure that you hide the WINK lights and not the HUE light instances. When you start doing scenes, you’re going to want the extra support for things like transitions that are not available via the Wink Hub.

I hide my wink instances and just use the Hue for control and that way I can do cool things like fading my theater lights in and out when things are playing on not on the media player.

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Yeah that’s basically why I wanted to get rid of anything through Wink if it’s something that HA can control via a Hub directly like the Hue lights. I wish the web interface actually showed you what your lights were connected to, it’s very confusing trying to write events and programs not knowing if it’s a light connected to the ISY994, Hue, Wink etc.

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You’ll be surprised how quickly you’ll get used to it though.

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I’m just finding it challenging because I’m planning on using HA to bridge multiple systems together. So I have Lutron Caseta running through Wink, Philips Hue running through Wink but also direct, ISY994 for Insteon just to HA, plus it has Z-Wave devices and I have it as a secondary controller to Wink. So sometimes I’ll move things around physically and then end up with 2 or 3 Living Room Lamp’s lol, then can’t tell where it’s from!

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Phew! You have a lot going on there. No wonder you’re struggling. I only have Wink, Hue and ZWave to contend with. :sweat_smile:

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Hi all, I know this thread is old, but I’m new to Hassio and assume there have been enhancements to the platform.

Is there a way to supress/hide select wink devices from being read by HA?

I too have duplicate Nest Thermostat and HUE Lights because of them shoing up via wink as well as the native interfaces. My preferences is to supress these from loading in to HA from wink. For reasons I won’t get into, I want these to remain in Wink app, but simply not be included in HA as part of the wink intergration.

As a preivous user of HomeBridge (https://github.com/nfarina/homebridge) this was possible. Not sure if there is something I can do to “exclude” certain items on HA in a config file or something. Thoughts?