{"id":1073,"date":"2025-01-14T18:20:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T17:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.bizoir.dk\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2025-02-16T10:04:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T09:04:16","slug":"re-pair-hue-dimmer-switch-without-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.bizoir.dk\/?p=1073","title":{"rendered":"(Re)-pair Hue Dimmer switch without app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a power-loss, my Hue Dimmer Switch would suddenly not communicate with the Hue Bridge anymore. Nothing was changed (that I could see). A restart of the bridge made no change whatsoever. The bridge said it was <code>\"reachable\":false<\/code><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>So; How to pair the Dimmer switch again &#8211; just with the Dimmer and the bridge.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Delete the Dimmer switch from the bridge<\/li>\n<li>Put the dimmer switch into pairing modeInspiration from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.philips-hue.com\/en-us\/support\/connect-hue-product\/accessories\/dimmer-switch\">Philips<\/a>\n<p>Press and hold the setup-button on the back of the Dimmer, until it starts blinking (In my case it started to blink green so slowly, it was hard to see that it blinked)<\/li>\n<li>Send an empty POST request to the &#8220;\/sensors&#8221; resource in the CLIP debugger<\/li>\n<li>(not really needed) Send a GET request to the &#8220;\/sensors\/new&#8221; resource in the CLIP debugger<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Output:<br \/>\n<code><br \/>\n{<br \/>\n\"9\": {<br \/>\n\"name\": \"Hue dimmer switch 1\"<br \/>\n},<br \/>\n\"lastscan\": \"active\"<br \/>\n}<br \/>\n<\/code><br \/>\nannd &#8211; we are back in business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a power-loss, my Hue Dimmer Switch would suddenly not communicate with the Hue Bridge anymore. Nothing was changed (that I could see). A restart of the bridge made no change whatsoever. The bridge said it was &#8220;reachable&#8221;:false<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-1073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","tag-philips-hue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.bizoir.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.bizoir.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.bizoir.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.bizoir.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.bizoir.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wp.bizoir.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1120,"href":"https:\/\/wp.bizoir.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions\/1120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.bizoir.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.bizoir.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.bizoir.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}