Installation for Hue Lights (No Bridge)

[benjamindaass]

Hi diyHue team.

I unfortunately have 2 Phillips Hue lights, one bulb and one light strip. They are older models, they do not use a Hue Bridge. All I have ever used to turn them on/off and control colors is the "Hue" app for Android.
I was hoping diyHue would replace the app for me, but I can't seem to get it to find the lights.
This is on a raspberry pi 5, raspian OS, diyHue was installed via Docker as per the instructions in the "README".
The install seems to have been successful, I can access the web browser UI, but I can't seem to link it with the android app, nor does it find either of my lights.
Any steps I might have missed...?

[mariusmotea]

Hi,

Your Hue devices are ZigBee based devices. With no ZigBee adapter your RaspberryPI can talk only to network and bluetooth devices. To have them available to diyhue you need to deploy something like zigbee2mqtt https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/

[benjamindaass]

Ah. I assumed everything that worked with a Phillips app worked directly with diyHue. Thank you for clarifying! I'll get working on zigbee2mqtt.