Music Assistant’s Hue Entertainment library adds a way to send rapid lighting updates directly to Hue bulbs paired with Home Assistant’s ZHA, when ZHA runs on Ziggurat. A selected bulb relays each update to the other lights, replacing the Hue Bridge for that stream. Marcel van der Veldt tested real Hue lights at twenty-five updates per second alongside a live ZHA network.
The session saves the lights’ original state and restores it when streaming stops. It gives ordinary ZHA traffic priority and keeps only the newest waiting update. Applications still need to adopt this library connection; the work does not add a bridge-free lighting setting to Music Assistant. This is van der Veldt’s first contribution to the Hue Entertainment repository.