Hey Guys!
I am actually experimenting with some ZigBee devices (Light Bulbs). I have some Hue Lamps and a Hue Bridge too. I successfully connected the Light bulbs with the Hue Bridge. I have a Remote Control (HG06323) for those Light Bulbs but i cant connect the remote controll with my Hue Bridge. Now i read a lot about the ZigBee2MQTT variant.
Question: Can i use the Hue Bridge like a CC2531 module? If not… Why?
Both of them look like ZigBee Gateways for me.
Yes, you can use the Hue bridge to handle zigbee with the Hue binding.
But;
Everything connected via the hue bridge has to be polled from the hue binding. This is limitation of the hue bridge API.
Do not expect to get every key event (into OH) from remotes as an example. Some events will be lost.
And, with a USB stick and a computerhosted binding more diversity of devices will be supported.