Philips Ambilight+Hue cannot detect light

Configuration
1

Hi here

I’m trying to setup two WLEDs as extension to the Philips TV Ambilight.

Hue detects only one WLED but the other cannot be find by Hue.

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{
  "60": {
    "state": {
      "on": true,
      "reachable": true,
      "mode": "homeautomation",
      "bri": 254,
      "colormode": "hs",
      "hue": 6853,
      "sat": 254,
      "effect": "none"
    },
    "name": "AMB2",
    "uniqueid": "00:56:52:3a:8a:3f:7e:b1-8b",
    "manufacturername": "Home Assistant",
    "swversion": "123",
    "type": "Color light",
    "modelid": "HASS213"
  },
  "65": {
    "state": {
      "on": true,
      "reachable": true,
      "mode": "homeautomation",
      "bri": 254,
      "colormode": "hs",
      "hue": 6853,
      "sat": 254,
      "effect": "none"
    },
    "name": "AMB1",
    "uniqueid": "00:7a:6f:98:09:44:f5:21-99",
    "manufacturername": "Home Assistant",
    "swversion": "123",
    "type": "Color light",
    "modelid": "HASS213"
  }
}

Config:

emulated_hue:
  listen_port: 80
  expose_by_default: false
  exposed_domains:
    - light
  entities:
    light.wled_living_room_left:
      name: "AMB1"
      hidden: false
    light.wled_living_room_right:
      name: "AMB2"
      hidden: false
    light.balcony_lights:
      name: "Balcony Lights"
      hidden: true  
    light.msl120_34b3_lightbulb:
      name: "MSL120-34b3 Bulb"
      hidden: true

Everything looks identical between the lights in the json response but it’s not shown.

2

I resolved the issue on my own.

It seems that if the key in this json is more than 65 the hue cannot detect the light. So I checked and found a thread how to reset the hue. There are emulated_hue.ids in /config/.storage folder. I had these big numbers because in my old configuration I haven’t specified which devices to be exposed to emulated_hue. So I removed the emulated_hue.ids restarted Home Assistant and now the json looks like this:

{
  "1": {
    "state": {
      "on": true,
      "reachable": true,
      "mode": "homeautomation",
      "bri": 254,
      "colormode": "hs",
      "hue": 0,
      "sat": 0,
      "effect": "none"
    },
    "name": "AMB LEFT",
    "uniqueid": "00:26:f4:0f:a7:b5:5c:4b:45",
    "manufacturername": "Home Assistant",
    "swversion": "123",
    "type": "Color light",
    "modelid": "HASS213"
  },
  "2": {
    "state": {
      "on": true,
      "reachable": true,
      "mode": "homeautomation",
      "bri": 254,
      "colormode": "hs",
      "hue": 0,
      "sat": 0,
      "effect": "none"
    },
    "name": "AMB RIGHT",
    "uniqueid": "00:8b:04:4a:28:c0:f5:ba:c4",
    "manufacturername": "Home Assistant",
    "swversion": "123",
    "type": "Color light",
    "modelid": "HASS213"
  },
  "3": {
    "state": {
      "on": true,
      "reachable": false,
      "mode": "homeautomation",
      "bri": 1,
      "hue": 0,
      "sat": 0,
      "ct": 153,
      "effect": "none",
      "colormode": "ct"
    },
    "name": "WIZ Bulb",
    "uniqueid": "00:32:f8:d4:2b:61:d2:b1:c5",
    "manufacturername": "Home Assistant",
    "swversion": "123",
    "type": "Extended color light",
    "modelid": "HASS231"
  }
}

I was able to discover all lights now.

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