Hue Auto-discovery finds the same bridge all the time

Jonas88 · February 6, 2018, 11:37am

Hi!

I just want to know, how i can get rid of those auto discovery messages in my log files.
It makes debugging not fun at all.
Every few minutes i get the same message:

2018-02-05 21:01:09.617 [INFO ] [g.discovery.internal.PersistentInbox] - Added new thing 'hue:bridge:00178821c474' to inbox.
2018-02-05 21:09:11.059 [INFO ] [g.discovery.internal.PersistentInbox] - Added new thing 'hue:bridge:00178821c474' to inbox.
2018-02-05 21:15:35.820 [INFO ] [g.discovery.internal.PersistentInbox] - Added new thing 'hue:bridge:00178821c474' to inbox.
2018-02-05 21:23:39.011 [INFO ] [g.discovery.internal.PersistentInbox] - Added new thing 'hue:bridge:00178821c474' to inbox.
2018-02-05 21:29:47.672 [INFO ] [g.discovery.internal.PersistentInbox] - Added new thing 'hue:bridge:00178821c474' to inbox.
2018-02-05 21:33:08.674 [INFO ] [g.discovery.internal.PersistentInbox] - Added new thing 'hue:bridge:00178821c474' to inbox.
2018-02-05 21:34:51.670 [INFO ] [g.discovery.internal.PersistentInbox] - Added new thing 'hue:bridge:00178821c474' to inbox.
2018-02-05 21:42:42.594 [INFO ] [g.discovery.internal.PersistentInbox] - Added new thing 'hue:bridge:00178821c474' to inbox.
2018-02-05 21:49:08.622 [INFO ] [g.discovery.internal.PersistentInbox] - Added new thing 'hue:bridge:00178821c474' to inbox.
2018-02-05 21:55:16.934 [INFO ] [g.discovery.internal.PersistentInbox] - Added new thing 'hue:bridge:00178821c474' to inbox.
2018-02-05 22:04:38.719 [INFO ] [g.discovery.internal.PersistentInbox] - Added new thing 'hue:bridge:00178821c474' to inbox.
2018-02-05 22:11:09.142 [INFO ] [g.discovery.internal.PersistentInbox] - Added new thing 'hue:bridge:00178821c474' to inbox.
2018-02-05 22:14:19.870 [INFO ] [g.discovery.internal.PersistentInbox] - Added new thing 'hue:bridge:00178821c474' to inbox.
2018-02-05 22:22:20.899 [INFO ] [g.discovery.internal.PersistentInbox] - Added new thing 'hue:bridge:00178821c474' to inbox.
2018-02-05 22:28:15.512 [INFO ] [g.discovery.internal.PersistentInbox] - Added new thing 'hue:bridge:00178821c474' to inbox.
2018-02-05 22:31:37.321 [INFO ] [g.discovery.internal.PersistentInbox] - Added new thing 'hue:bridge:00178821c474' to inbox.
2018-02-05 22:39:35.076 [INFO ] [g.discovery.internal.PersistentInbox] - Added new thing 'hue:bridge:00178821c474' to inbox.
2018-02-05 22:50:33.045 [INFO ] [g.discovery.internal.PersistentInbox] - Added new thing 'hue:bridge:00178821c474' to inbox.
2018-02-05 22:58:46.869 [INFO ] [g.discovery.internal.PersistentInbox] - Added new thing 'hue:bridge:00178821c474' to inbox.
2018-02-05 23:06:52.698 [INFO ] [g.discovery.internal.PersistentInbox] - Added new thing 'hue:bridge:00178821c474' to inbox.
2018-02-05 23:08:35.684 [INFO ] [g.discovery.internal.PersistentInbox] - Added new thing 'hue:bridge:00178821c474' to inbox.
2018-02-05 23:20:06.943 [INFO ] [g.discovery.internal.PersistentInbox] - Added new thing 'hue:bridge:00178821c474' to inbox.
2018-02-05 23:28:04.212 [INFO ] [g.discovery.internal.PersistentInbox] - Added new thing 'hue:bridge:00178821c474' to inbox.
2018-02-05 23:34:34.093 [INFO ] [g.discovery.internal.PersistentInbox] - Added new thing 'hue:bridge:00178821c474' to inbox.
2018-02-05 23:40:56.547 [INFO ] [g.discovery.internal.PersistentInbox] - Added new thing 'hue:bridge:00178821c474' to inbox.
2018-02-05 23:42:41.595 [INFO ] [g.discovery.internal.PersistentInbox] - Added new thing 'hue:bridge:00178821c474' to inbox.
2018-02-05 23:48:56.846 [INFO ] [g.discovery.internal.PersistentInbox] - Added new thing 'hue:bridge:00178821c474' to inbox.

I already turned on “auto ignore” in paper ui.
My hue is set up in text files (not added via paperui).

Thank you for your help in advance!

Jonas88 · March 14, 2018, 6:47pm

it’s still happening at every restart

noppes123 · October 10, 2018, 7:32pm

I am witnessing the same behavior. The log is full of entries about adding new thing hue bridge and a little later a message that the discovery result with GUID hue:bridge:xxxx has been removed.
This goes on and on.

xdanik · September 30, 2019, 7:14pm

I also had this problem - just include the bridge serial number in Bridge declaration:

Brdge hue:bridge:1 ... -> Bridge hue:bridge:00178063ex58

The bridge is now gone from the inbox

But now I am having Inbox full of lights that I have already configured…

Bridge hue:bridge:00178063ex58 [ ipAddress="X.Y.Z.Z", userName="secret", pollingInterval=1] {
    0210 danik_leftLamp [ lightId="1" ]
    0210 danik_rightLamp [ lightId="2" ]
    0100 martinka_tableLamp [ lightId="3" ]
    0100 livingRoom_table [ lightId="4" ]
    0220 livingRoom_lamp1 [ lightId="5" ]
    0220 livingRoom_lamp2 [ lightId="6" ]
    0220 livingRoom_lamp3 [ lightId="7" ]
    0220 martinka_bedLamp1 [ lightId="8" ]
    0220 martinka_bedLamp2 [ lightId="10" ]
    0100 livingRoom_spotLight1 [ lightId="11" ]
    0100 livingRoom_spotLight2 [ lightId="12" ]
    0100 livingRoom_spotLight4 [ lightId="14" ]
    0100 livingRoom_spotLight3 [ lightId="20" ]
    0220 danik_spotLight1 [ lightId="17" ]
    0220 danik_spotLight2 [ lightId="16" ]
    0220 danik_spotLight3 [ lightId="18" ]
    0220 danik_spotLight4 [ lightId="19" ]
}

Any idea how to ignore already existing lights?

sergej · October 1, 2019, 9:39am

Here is an thing example of hue bridges using own name in things.
To get rid of discovery bug polling for new bridge in the log create for same bridge two things in things file, one will be disabled in PaperUI additionally!

This example will help others to avoid many errors in things definition as well.

// get rid of discovery bug polling hue bridge with id
// [g.discovery.internal.PersistentInbox] - Added new thing 'hue:bridge:001788a5c5d6' to inbox.
Bridge hue:bridge:001788a5c5d6 "DISABLED Hue Bridge Philips" [ipAddress="192.168.178.55"]

Bridge hue:bridge:philips "Hue Bridge Philips" 
    [ 
        ipAddress="192.168.178.55", 
        userName="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx", 
        pollingInterval=10, 
        sensorPollingInterval=600
    ]
{
    // lights
    0100 l_treppe1	"Treppe Lampe1" @ "HUE" 		[lightId="1"] 
    0100 l_treppe2	"Treppe Lampe2" @ "HUE" 		[lightId="2"] 
    0200 l_iris	    "Hue Iris" @ "HUE" 		        [lightId="10"]
    0210 l_wiga	    "Wiga Lightstrip" @ "HUE" 		[lightId="5"] 
    0210 l_bad	    "Bad Lightstrip" @ "HUE" 		[lightId="7"] 
    0210 l_garten1	"Garten Lampe1" @ "HUE" 		[lightId="8"] 
    0210 l_garten2	"Garten Lampe2" @ "HUE" 		[lightId="9"] 
    0220 l_eingang	"Eingang Lampe" @ "HUE" 	    [lightId="3"] 
    0220 l_wozi	    "Wohnzimmer Lampe" @ "HUE" 		[lightId="6"] 
    // sensors
    0106 sl_treppe	"Treppe Lichtstaerke" @ "HUE" 	[sensorId="6"]
    0106 sl_eingang	"Eingang Lichtstaerke" @ "HUE"  [sensorId="10"] 
    0106 sl_garten	"Garten Lichtstaerke" @ "HUE" 	[sensorId="17"] 
    0107 sb_eingang	"Eingang Bewegung" @ "HUE" 		[sensorId="5"] 
    0107 sb_treppe	"Treppe Bewegung" @ "HUE" 		[sensorId="9"] 
    0107 sb_garten	"Garten Bewegung" @ "HUE" 		[sensorId="16"] 
    0302 st_treppe	"Treppe Temperatur" @ "HUE" 	[sensorId="4"] 
    0302 st_eingang	"Eingang Temperatur" @ "HUE" 	[sensorId="8"] 
    0302 st_garten	"Garten Temperatur" @ "HUE" 	[sensorId="18"] 
    0820 sw_eingang	"Eingang Schalter" @ "HUE" 		[sensorId="2"] 
    0820 sw_treppe	"Treppe Schalter" @ "HUE" 		[sensorId="38"]
}

// deconz hue bridge
Bridge hue:bridge:conbee "Hue Bridge ConBee2"  
    [ 
        ipAddress="192.168.178.77", 
        userName="0DEADBEEF0", 
        pollingInterval=10, 
        sensorPollingInterval=500 
    ]
{
    0010 steckdose1	"Osram Steckdose" @ "HUE" 		[lightId="1"] 
}

hope this helps

just found, bug was fixed and planed for next release

Jonas88 · October 1, 2019, 10:01am

Jep.
that’s what i did also.
Works fine for quite a while now.
But thanks for posting! I am sure it will help others!

cweitkamp · October 3, 2019, 9:07am

Just a side note - I fixed a bug in the inbox too. The “own name” workaround will not be necessary in future version.