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Bridge — bridge v1

A hub that other devices live behind — a Hue bridge, a Lutron processor, a Zigbee coordinator.

It is a device in its own right so that the things every child needs — an address, a paired key, a connection — are held in one place. Change the bridge's IP once and every bulb behind it follows; without this each bulb would carry its own copy and they would drift the first time a router handed out a new lease.

A bridge has no commands. It is not something anyone points a remote at.

Capabilities

Declared in the driver manifest under [[proxy]] capabilities. Anything not declared takes the default below.

CapabilityTypeDefaultMeaning
child_driverstring""Driver id of the devices that live behind this bridge
max_childrenu3200 means no stated limit

Notifications

child_count_changed

How many devices the bridge currently reports.

ParameterTypeNotes
countu32

online_changed

ParameterTypeNotes
onlinebool

State

Last-known values core keeps for a binding of this proxy.

KeyTypeMeaning
countu32
onlinebool