Update Philips Hue Devices with Home Assistant + Zigbee Native

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@Klara

In the ZHA ota yaml config, you can add
z2m_remote_index: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Koenkk/zigbee-OTA/master/index.json

This works for me in ZHA. …

The capability was added here, in end of february: OTA v2: provider and metadata rewrite by puddly · Pull Request #1340 · zigpy/zigpy · GitHub

But the HASSIO Dokumentation is not up-to-date with this.

You can not (yet) update Philips Hue devices using Zigbee OTA via the ZHA integration out-of-the-box, but as mentioned you can manually enable it via advanced zigpy configuration by editing YAML and point to Koenkk’s Zigbee OTA repository used in Zigbee2MQTT/Z2M, however note that is experimental and should really only be used by developers. ZHA developers have said they have a plan to add their own repository with only tested and verified Zigbee OTA files from official sources. So for now you can choose to use unofficial sources at your own risk, which could brick the devices since flash from unofficial sources. Also, keep in mind that it is generally recommend to not update Zigbee devices unless you are having specific issues with a device and then only update that device. Read about that and more here:

Migrating from a Philips Hue Bridge to the ZHA (Zigbee Home Automation) integration

Don’t forget that the first post in a community guide is a wiki - feel free to add to it or correct it. This guide was written and tested these versions but should also work similarly with later versions: Home Assistant 2023.8.4 Supervisor 2023.09.2 Operating System 10.5 Frontend 20230911.0 - latest Background Until recently Philips Hue devices have been controlled locally via a local API through the Philips Hue Bridge using the Philips Hue integration for Home Assistant, but Philips/Signi…

FYI ZHA docs for end users will not get info on that since should only be used by developers, see here:

Update ZHA section about Zigbee OTA