Phillips Hue devices and Hue bridge, best practices with HE?

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@anil4real

Is the only way to update firmware on these is adding them to the hue bridge?

The latest version of Hubitat firmware, v2.2.7, includes support for Zigbee OTA Updates for some devices, including Hue. Thus, it may be possible to update these devices directly from Hubitat, if Hubitat has the new firmware for the Hue motion sensors. I don’t personally have any Hue motion sensors, so YMMV.

2.2.7 Zigbee OTA updates

Zigbee OTA updates are now available for specific drivers/devices, OTA updates are executed from the driver page by clicking the updateFirmware command, status is output to live logs. We have firmware files for the following manufacturers: Sengled, Philips Hue and Osram/Sylvania Drivers that include the new updateFirmware command are all of the Generic Zigbee bulb drivers, the generic Zigbee outlet driver, the Hue specific device drivers (motion and button controllers) and two of the Sengled …