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Philips Hue

Philips Hue light groups

Lights · Lighting

WorksApple Home issuesLocal

1 report: 1 says it works.

Reported with 1 integration: Philips Hue.

What people report

IntegrationIn Home AssistantIn Apple HomeWhat they saidSource
Philips HueWorks LocalPartly in Home
Group lights sometimes missing in Home after restart; reload creates duplicates
Fixed by the v2 integration rewrite
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The problem The Philips Hue Groups which seems to be a special type of entities (integration type Light), do not always show up as devices in HomeKit. It seems some race condition, where if Hue Integration takes a bit longer to start, HomeKit would just ignore those entities. If later I call `homekit.reload` service, the Hue Group entities will show up as devices in HomeKit but they will be new devices, so I have to move them to each room and update names again and again. This happens nearly every time I restart HASS for any reason. ### What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue? …

Excerpt saved from GitHub on 2026-10-23.

Issue #60002 · 2021-11

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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

BrandPhilips Hue
CategoryLights