More problems connecting to Hue lights

[berniebl (Bernard)]

Am I the only one getting slightly annoyed with the connection to the Philips Hue hub?
I’ve experienced this issue a while back, but nothing that a few reboots couldn’t fix. Not sure if it’s release related, but when on 0.98.5 I an never able to connect, when I downgrade to 0.98.4, it takes me several restarts. I am on my 10th restart right now and still can’t connect. I am just concerned that my lights won’t come up if there was ever a power failure and the system rebooted on its own while away.

Anyone found a solution? Would connecting to a Zigbee controller such as DeConz or Zigate be a better solution? I know that there is a limitation for Z-Wave devices not being able to pair with more than 1 controller, is it still the same with Zigbee? Can I still pair with the hue bridge and a Zigbee controller?

I am running HA Docker with Ubuntu 18.04 on a NUC.

[matisaul (Matias Saul)]

Try with Zigbee2Mqtt, works great for me.

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Hi all, Because of the irritation I got from my Xiaomi Zigbee bridge (talking in Chinese, sending data to Chinese cloud and a bad app) I started to look if it is possible replace the Xiaomi gateway with a more open solution. I found that Andrew Linden had a proof of concept for this. It bridges events and allows you to control your Zigbee devices via MQTT. In this way you can integrate your Zigbee devices with whatever smart home infrastructure you are using. I found this idea very interestin…

[berniebl (Bernard)]

Thanks Matias,

I have a Zigbee2MQTT dongle, but my first attempt to install it failed. I did find out later on that I would need to setup the communication to “serial” so I may try it again.
I am not that knowledgable to make things work with MQTT, so would have to check that out too.