Multiple Hue bridges working in HA

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I have two Philips Hue bridges because I have to many Hue devices for one bridge. I have put both bridges in the config and I can pair both bridges with HA. The problem is that phue.conf is overwritten when I pair the second bridge. The result is that with every restart I have to (re) pair one of the two bridges. Is there a work around for this ?

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Sorry that I don’t have an answer but I am curious; how many devices is too many for one bridge?

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I believe they can have up to 50 each

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Philips says 50 devices but I started seeing problems when I was around 40 devices. The bridge became slower and slower.

I’m testing HA-bridge with the two bridges proxied but I prefer a native (homeassistant) solution.

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I also have two bridges running. You have to use the filename options. Here is a link to my Repo for the answer:

https://github.com/CCOSTAN/Home-AssistantConfig/blob/master/configuration.yaml

Check the light section. I’m on mobile or would have linked to the lines specifically.

//@balloob - told you I wouldn’t be the only one. Sure you don’t want to merge those better placed instructions. :slight_smile: Haha.

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Thanks for the reply. I’ve tried this but I’m getting:

pi@HomeAssistant:/home/hass/.homeassistant$ tail -f /home/hass/.homeassistant/home-assistant.log|grep phue
17-03-04 15:59:46 INFO (Thread-6) [phue] Attempting to connect to the bridge...
17-03-04 15:59:46 INFO (Thread-6) [phue] Error opening config file, will attempt bridge registration

and when I register the bridge, HA creates a phue.conf… How did you set this up ?

EDIT: got it working now (turned off discovery).