Milight binding only sends on port 50000

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Despite changing the port in openhab.cfg to 8899 (this is the port of my bridge) openhab continues to send the commands from the milight binding to port 50000.

binding config in openhab.cfg

Host of the first Milight bridge to control

milight:.host=10.10.100.254

Port of the bridge to control (optional, defaults to 50000)

milight:.port=8899

openhab.log

10:47:50.060 DEBUG o.o.b.m.i.MilightBinding[:571]- milight: sendFull
10:47:50.062 DEBUG o.o.b.m.i.MilightBinding[:614]- milight: sendOn
10:47:50.063 DEBUG o.o.b.m.i.MilightBinding[:786]- milight: messageBytes to transform: '45:00:55’
10:47:50.066 DEBUG o.o.b.m.i.MilightBinding[:777]- Sent packet ‘45:00:55’ to bridge ‘bridge1’ (null:50000)
10:47:50.168 DEBUG o.o.b.m.i.MilightBinding[:603]- Bulb ‘7’ set to ‘27’ dimming Steps
10:47:50.170 DEBUG o.o.b.m.i.MilightBinding[:786]- milight: messageBytes to transform: '4E:1b:55’
10:47:50.172 DEBUG o.o.b.m.i.MilightBinding[:777]- Sent packet ‘4E:1b:55’ to bridge ‘bridge1’ (null:50000)

I have a udp input on Node Red listening to ports 50000, 8899 and the admin port 4899.

openhab activity can be seen on port 50000 but not on port 8899, regardles of the port configuration in openhab.cfg

Admin port activity can also be seen on 4899 when using the limitlessled.v5 from windows.

can anybody shed light on this for me please.

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Are you using OH1 or OH2?

Assuming OH1 then I think you need to take the period out of your config.

milight:host=10.10.100.254
milight:port=8899
3

The log shows that your config is not correct for both, IP-Address an Port (null:50000).
If your quoted config is what you really have set in your openhab.config, than this cannot work, cause you missed to give your bridge an id.
A valid configuration would be :
milight:bridge1.host=10.10.100.254
milight:bridge1.port=8899
(if no port is given, it defaults to 50000).

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Hi Thanks for thr quick response.

Its rather embarrasing to admit that i had left the bridge id bracketed by the <> charcters so openhab couldnt see it.

Doh!

Cheers guys