Yeelight integration app combining devices randomly

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Hi I have 11 yeelights bulb connected trought integration app.
problem is that 2 devices randomly "comes to one".

Example if i have two bulbs only one of them responds to controls and i can control one bulb from 2 different device pages.

Network id and all "id data" are different. Also devices work normally from yeelight app

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Tagging @mike.maxwell

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Do these bulbs have static dhcp reservations?

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Hey,

thanks for the tip

It wasn't, but I put a reservation on all the lamps now. Is it really the case that the IP of the lamp is only set during the installation phase and can no longer be changed?

I also thought that the lamps are controlled/IP is searched based on the MAC Address, but apparently this is not the case? For example, what is the network Id used for?

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Scanning a network for MAC addresses is slow. Could you imagine how delayed each command would be, if the hub had to first discover the IP address corresponding to the MAC address of that bulb?

So it makes sense that MAC addresses are used once during setup, after which the discovered IP addresses are used.

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