Music Assistant adds an experimental way to make Hue lights follow music without a Hue bridge. The Hue Lights Sync setup connects through Home Assistant’s ZHA Zigbee integration, provided ZHA uses Ziggurat and the Music Assistant Home Assistant plugin is connected.
The setup lists Hue lamps that support Zigbee entertainment and turns a chosen group into one light player. Gradient lamps support up to three zones. Only one Zigbee light stream runs at a time: starting another restores the previous group’s lighting state.
The direct Zigbee work reported on November 10 now has a Music Assistant setup path. Marcel van der Veldt tested it with two Hue lamps on a live ZHA network.