Hi,
So I've been using Hue bulbs with Indigo now for several years. For the 2nd time, I've lost all of the information about my hue system and needed to completely change the hub. This causes me to lose all of my lights and the connections to Indigo and also Homekit (and Alexa which I'm depreciating) too. 55 lights of various types.
The last time this happened, I just told the hue app to "Add lights" which it did... it found all of my lights and although they were scrambled, at least it found them and I was able to piece it all back together..
This time, "Add lights" doesn't find any of them and it forces me to go find the bulb, record the serial number, and add the bulbs one at a time... I'm 68 and climbing ladders is not something that's easy for me. But the problem gets even worse: 8 of my lights are in the soffit at a height of about 25 to 35 feet in the air! Unscrewing those bulbs to find the serial number on each of them is really not an option. Finally I have two light-strip controllers that are buried in a couple of built-in cabinets and I can't get to those.
Is there ANY hardware that I can buy (like Conbee II) or ANY software that I can buy like Phoscon that can access those serial numbers? I realize that Hue serial numbers may not be embedded anywhere in the firmware. I've tried every way to reset the bulbs... I was able to get the soffit lights to turn on and turn off (Factory reset, off 5 seconds, on 8 seconds, off 2seconds, on 8 seconds, off 2 seconds, and on 8 seconds)... so I can at least power the bulbs from my fuse box... but that's no way to live with hue bulbs).
Now I'm recording serial numbers in a spreadsheet and also in the indigo comment field with each device. Is it possible that I can get this information from my old indigo hue lights plugin? (I haven't messed with that), or maybe from homekit? Any ideas much appreciated.
TIA, -al