Home renamed 20+ Hue bulbs to Hue Bridges.

It didn't change all the Hue bulbs in the house just random selections from various rooms. I can't change/edit the devices back to lights as home thinks they all are Hue bridges. Everything looks and works normal on the Hue App and I can control the lights as they should be. It seems like Home went berserk at some point. I noticed it last night as the home automations didn't work correctly. Some rooms only turned on a couple of lights and left others off. That's what caught my attention. We've been running the setup for years without anything like this happening.


I'm not sure what my next steps are other than asking for help.





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Posted on Jun 22, 2025 04:03 AM

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Jun 22, 2025 04:28 PM in response to Kevin Cox

Not sure what happened there. Do you have a room named Home Theatre? Is this where all these bulbs are designated to? Or are they still showing up in their correct rooms? Can you rename them in the Hue App? Or if you do have the Hue app already and once they are in there as they should be you can re-sync the whole thing to Apple Home.


In the Hue App > Settings > Smart Home> Settings - Sync Setup to Apple Home.


Jun 22, 2025 04:45 PM in response to Vancouver22

We do have a room named home theatre. Somehow either Home or Hue decided to rename almost all of our Hue devices, (bulbs, sensors and outlets) to bridges. I did remove the connect between Hue and home and was able to relink Hue devices to Home after deleting all the bridges in Home. No clue what caused this but if it happens to someone else that seems to be the process to fix it. Thanks for the verification of the fix!!!

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