Failed to connect to Hue bridge: HTTP request timed out

I am getting the following errors for both Philips Hue and Insteon homekit (Dimmer LampLinc) 2245-222 hub. Philips hue was working previously:

pi@raspberrypi:/opt/openhab $ sudo ./start.sh
Launching the openHAB runtime…
osgi> 2016-04-26 02:07:49.115 [INFO ] [.o.core.internal.CoreActivator] - openHAB runtime has been started (v1.8.1).
2016-04-26 02:07:51.906 [INFO ] [o.o.i.s.i.DiscoveryServiceImpl] - mDNS service has been started
2016-04-26 02:07:52.043 [INFO ] [o.o.i.s.i.DiscoveryServiceImpl] - Service Discovery initialization completed.
2016-04-26 02:07:57.227 [INFO ] [penhab.io.rest.RESTApplication] - Started REST API at /rest
2016-04-26 02:08:00.995 [INFO ] [c.internal.ModelRepositoryImpl] - Loading model 'iotpi.sitemap’
2016-04-26 02:08:01.444 [INFO ] [c.internal.ModelRepositoryImpl] - Loading model 'rrd4j.persist’
2016-04-26 02:08:01.505 [INFO ] [c.internal.ModelRepositoryImpl] - Loading model 'logging.persist’
2016-04-26 02:08:01.524 [INFO ] [c.internal.ModelRepositoryImpl] - Loading model 'db4o.persist’
2016-04-26 02:08:01.538 [INFO ] [c.internal.ModelRepositoryImpl] - Loading model 'exec.persist’
2016-04-26 02:08:01.659 [INFO ] [c.internal.ModelRepositoryImpl] - Loading model 'demo.script’
2016-04-26 02:08:01.938 [INFO ] [c.internal.ModelRepositoryImpl] - Loading model 'iotpi.items’
2016-04-26 02:08:02.910 [INFO ] [.o.u.w.i.servlet.WebAppServlet] - Started Classic UI at /classicui/openhab.app
2016-04-26 02:08:07.179 [INFO ] [.service.AbstractActiveService] - NTP Refresh Service has been started
2016-04-26 02:08:07.180 [INFO ] [insteonplm.InsteonPLMActivator] - Insteon PLM binding has been started.
2016-04-26 02:08:07.359 [INFO ] [.p.rrd4j.internal.RRD4jService] - Removing invalid defintion component = null heartbeat = 0 min/max = 0.0/0.0 step = 0 0 archives(s) = [] 0 items(s) = []
2016-04-26 02:08:07.552 [INFO ] [.service.AbstractActiveService] - HTTP Refresh Service has been started
2016-04-26 02:08:08.091 [WARN ] [.h.internal.hardware.HueBridge] - Failed to connect to Hue bridge: HTTP request timed out.
2016-04-26 02:08:08.093 [INFO ] [.service.AbstractActiveService] - Hue Refresh Service has been started
2016-04-26 02:08:08.099 [WARN ] [.h.internal.hardware.HueBridge] - Failed to connect to Hue bridge: HTTP request timed out.
2016-04-26 02:08:08.100 [WARN ] [inding.hue.internal.HueBinding] - Hue settings were null, maybe misconfigured bridge IP.
2016-04-26 02:08:08.114 [INFO ] [.service.AbstractActiveService] - InsteonHub Refresh Service has been started
2016-04-26 02:08:08.131 [ERROR] [.i.h.a.s.InsteonHubSerialProxy] - Communication error with Insteon Hub @192.168.1.106:25105
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method) ~[na:1.8.0_77]
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:350) ~[na:1.8.0_77]
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:206) ~[na:1.8.0_77]
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:188) ~[na:1.8.0_77]
at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:392) ~[na:1.8.0_77]
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:589) ~[na:1.8.0_77]
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:538) ~[na:1.8.0_77]
at java.net.Socket.(Socket.java:434) ~[na:1.8.0_77]
at java.net.Socket.(Socket.java:211) ~[na:1.8.0_77]
at org.openhab.binding.insteonhub.internal.hardware.api.serial.InsteonHubSerialProxy$Connecter.run(InsteonHubSerialProxy.java:156) ~[na:na]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) [na:1.8.0_77]
2016-04-26 02:08:08.133 [INFO ] [.i.h.a.s.InsteonHubSerialProxy] - Will retry connection in 30 seconds…
2016-04-26 02:08:18.105 [WARN ] [.h.internal.hardware.HueBridge] - Failed to connect to Hue bridge: HTTP request timed out.
2016-04-26 02:08:18.107 [WARN ] [inding.hue.internal.HueBinding] - Hue settings were null, maybe misconfigured bridge IP.
2016-04-26 02:08:28.112 [WARN ] [.h.internal.hardware.HueBridge] - Failed to connect to Hue bridge: HTTP request timed out.
2016-04-26 02:08:28.114 [WARN ] [inding.hue.internal.HueBinding] - Hue settings were null, maybe misconfigured bridge IP.
Also I have the following in the openhab.cfg file for insteon. Is that wrong?

insteonhub:host=192.168.1.106
insteonhub:port=25105
insteonhub:user=the username with which I logon to insteon mobile app
insteonhub:pass=the password with which I logon to insteon mobile app
and also in the addons folder I have the following:

pi@raspberrypi:/opt/openhab/addons $ ls
org.openhab.binding.http-1.8.1.jar org.openhab.binding.ntp-1.8.1.jar
org.openhab.binding.hue-1.8.1.jar org.openhab.persistence.logging-1.8.1.jar
org.openhab.binding.insteonhub-1.8.1.jar org.openhab.persistence.rrd4j-1.8.1.jar
org.openhab.binding.insteonplm-1.8.1.jar README.TXT
Any help is really appreciated! I found the Insteon IP and port by browsing to the following website:
http://connect.insteon.com/getinfo.asp

When you plug in your insteon hub it gets assigned an ip address by a so-called DHCP server. Usually, your router acts as a DHCP server as well. You need to set up your router such that it always assigns the same IP address to the hub.

Please read up on networking. This is not really an openhab question.

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