Can't Re-Pair Sylvania OSRAM Lightify Flex strips

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I moved, and decided to do a clean setup at the new house. I was able to re-pair all my devices flawlessly, except the Sylvania OSRAM Lightify Flex strips. Hubitat will not find those. Hubitat found them when I originally set them up at the old house. I have put them into pairing mode, so that's not the problem. They are Zigbee devices. Hubitat just doesn't "see" them - anymore.

Has Hubitat excluded them for some reason? Did they get left out of a recent update? Is there a special step, just for strip lights?

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Just to confirm, you reset the controller and the light strip flashed when turned back on (indicating it’s in pairing mode)?

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That's correct.

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Such a pain those things. Make sure you get the pairing mode started on the strips. That exact cadence is so hard to hit.

They’re not go at distance without repeaters. If you changed the location, you might need to get stronger repeaters.

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They're very close to repeater bulbs.

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They even blink again when Hubitat starts searching - just like the bulbs. They just don't subsequently get paired.

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Sylvania OSRAM bulbs? Try removing the bulbs from power while you join the strips.

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My only problem with the Lightify Flex strip was to reset it so can be paired again. Pairing itself wasn't a problem at all.
My both indoor and outdoor strips are the made by Ledvance version though.

There are some wrong information on web when I tried to reset it. Some said turn on/off 5 times, some said 5s between each on and off... I almost gave up until I found the official method from their faqs, it's 2s on 5s off for 5 times and succeeded in first trial.

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Make sure they aren’t already paired somehow as a generic “device”.

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also if they blink hubitat found it.. it will reuse the existing device and sometimes i have seen it not tell you anything but just be there with the same old device name it used to have.. check your device list..

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Yeah, I thought it might be doing that, but the old device name didn't show up.

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(Reminder of topic: I moved, and at my new place, I updated Hubitat, and re-paired all my devices. My Sylvania Lightify color light strip would go into pairing mode, blink when I tried to pair as if they were pairing with Hubitat, but wouldn't show up in the device list.)

Eventually, I gave up and replaced the Sylvania light strip with a Sengled light strip. (Unrelated: The Sengled light strip is a color strip, but Google saw it as a White strip only.)

4 months later, the Sengled strip stopped working. At all. No power.

I went back to my Lightify strips, which now (several Hubitat updates later) paired and work fine.

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