Switching hue config from "manual" to "discovery" w/o breaking stuff?

@sebk-666 wrote:

Hi,

since the dawn of time, I have configured my hue bridge manually through configuration.yaml:

hue:
  bridges:
    - host: 192.168.x.y
      allow_unreachable: true
      allow_hue_groups: true

Completely ignoring that, the Lovelace UI since a while is always reminding me that it discovered a hue bridge and asks me to configure it.

Also having

discovery:
  ignore:
    - philips_hue

in my config doesn’t seem to do anything.

Anyway, I’m willing to remove my manual config and switch to the discovery mechanism instead, but I’m unsure if that would break stuff.
Will I need to re-authenticate to the bridge (i.e. press the button) or can I use my existing “account”?
Will all the devices that are currently associated with the bridge be discovered again and get new entity names (i.e. will light.hallway be rediscovered as light.hallway_1, forcing me to update all my automations)?

Has anyone switched from “manual” to “automatic” discovery yet and coud shed some light on the experience?

Sebastian

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