Philips Hue
Philips Hue bulbs via Hue bridge
Lights · Lighting
Partly worksLocal
1 report: 1 says it partly works.
Reported with 1 integration: Philips Hue.
What people report
| Integration | In Home Assistant | In Apple Home | What they said | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Philips Hue | Partly works Local | Local push but bridge takes seconds to report state updatesSaved copyI have about 140 Hue lights that I migrated from 3 connected bridges to 3 separate SLZB-06M coordinators. Z2M updates light states more or less instantly. The Hue integration is local-push but the bridge often takes several seconds to report state updates to HA. Until I ran up against this limitation, I was content just using the bridge through the Hue integration. Hue has an off-spec Zigbee event streaming API that makes the Entertainment/Hue Sync features possible. Bifrost has made some progress in reverse-engineering this, but there's basically no way to faithfully recreate this … Excerpt saved from the Arctic Shift Reddit archive on 2026-10-23. | Reddit comment · 2025-07 |
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In ReReHome
Once Home Assistant’s HomeKit Bridge shares it, this device reaches Apple Home as a HomeKit accessory behind your Home Assistant bridge, so ReReHome shows and controls it like any other.
Identifiers
| Brand | Philips Hue |
|---|---|
| Category | Lights |
