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>>pictur+(OP)
"What can you do about it? Before you say "Home Assistant", let me stop you right there."

No let me stop you right there. All the good Hue stuff works with Zigbee so you can (and should) totally just run your own hub and bypass all of this; yes with home assistant!

That's really the best solution. You can just control the lights directly how you see fit without even talking to Phillips.

>>psyclo+r9
Can you? A relative was cleaning out some of their stuff and gave me some Philips Hue lightbulbs, but no hub. I have a Home Assistant setup with a number of Zigbee devices, but I had never found anyway to pair them direction via Zigbee, everything I saw required the hub. If there is a way, I'd like to hear it, I've just been using them as regular lightbulbs...

>>aquova+ex
Power off the bulb. Turn your zigbee hub into pairing mode (it may always be in pairing mode). Turn on bulb. Should autopair in 30 secs or less.

My hue bulbs pair so aggressively to my zigbee hub that I have to block pairing on it to get new ones on the hue hub!

They may already be paired and you just never realized.