Milight dimming another channel when lights turn on

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1

Hi,

I have OpenHab running on Linux with openjdk version “1.8.0_91”.

I am using distribution-1.8.3-runtime with 1.8.3 of the Milight bindings.

It controls a single Milight bridge that has three groups of globes set to it.

I have tried a few different configurations in OpenHab but my issue persists. The current setup is as follows:

Switch Light_LivingRoom "Living Room Lights"
Dimmer Light_LivingRoomB “Living Room Dimmer” {milight=“bridge1;3;brightness”}
Dimmer Light_LivingRoomT “Living Room Temp” {milight=“bridge1;3;colorTemperature”}

I then have a rule to turn the brightness and warmth to 100% when the switch is turned on and a rule to turn the brightness to zero when the switch is turned off.

The lights on channel 3 behave as expected.

My issue, however, is that when I turn this switch on, the lights on channel two dim to about 30% and I can’t work out why.

This happens even if I remove all mention of channel two from the OpenHab config. There is also no mention of channel two being changed in the logs when this happens.

A snippet of the logs from when this has happened is below.

Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions?

media-halley logs # tail -f openhab.log | grep -i milight
17:44:14.353 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding:96 ] - milight: item is of type brightness
17:44:14.353 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding:111 ] - milight: command is of type PercentType
17:44:14.353 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding:192 ] - milight: sendPercent
17:44:14.353 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding:664 ] - milight: sendOff
17:44:14.353 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding:350 ] - milight: sendDecrease
17:44:14.354 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding:383 ] - milight: Bulb ‘3’ getting decreased to '91’
17:44:14.354 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding:786 ] - milight: messageBytes to transform: '34:00:55’
17:44:14.354 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding:778 ] - Sent packet ‘34:00:55’ to bridge ‘bridge1’ (192.168.8.11:8899)
17:44:14.454 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding:350 ] - milight: sendDecrease
17:44:14.455 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding:383 ] - milight: Bulb ‘3’ getting decreased to '82’
17:44:14.455 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding:786 ] - milight: messageBytes to transform: '34:00:55’
17:44:14.456 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding:778 ] - Sent packet ‘34:00:55’ to bridge ‘bridge1’ (192.168.8.11:8899)
17:44:14.556 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding:350 ] - milight: sendDecrease
17:44:14.557 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding:383 ] - milight: Bulb ‘3’ getting decreased to '73’
17:44:14.557 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding:786 ] - milight: messageBytes to transform: '34:00:55’
17:44:14.557 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding:778 ] - Sent packet ‘34:00:55’ to bridge ‘bridge1’ (192.168.8.11:8899)
17:44:14.658 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding:350 ] - milight: sendDecrease
17:44:14.658 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding:383 ] - milight: Bulb ‘3’ getting decreased to '64’
17:44:14.658 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding:786 ] - milight: messageBytes to transform: '34:00:55’
17:44:14.659 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding:778 ] - Sent packet ‘34:00:55’ to bridge ‘bridge1’ (192.168.8.11:8899)
17:44:14.759 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding:350 ] - milight: sendDecrease
17:44:14.760 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding:383 ] - milight: Bulb ‘3’ getting decreased to '55’
17:44:14.760 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding:786 ] - milight: messageBytes to transform: '34:00:55’
17:44:14.760 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding:778 ] - Sent packet ‘34:00:55’ to bridge ‘bridge1’ (192.168.8.11:8899)
17:44:14.861 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding:350 ] - milight: sendDecrease
17:44:14.861 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding:383 ] - milight: Bulb ‘3’ getting decreased to '45’
17:44:14.862 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding:786 ] - milight: messageBytes to transform: '34:00:55’
17:44:14.862 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding:778 ] - Sent packet ‘34:00:55’ to bridge ‘bridge1’ (192.168.8.11:8899)
17:44:14.963 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding:350 ] - milight: sendDecrease
17:44:14.963 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding:383 ] - milight: Bulb ‘3’ getting decreased to '36’
17:44:14.963 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding:786 ] - milight: messageBytes to transform: '34:00:55’
17:44:14.964 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding:778 ] - Sent packet ‘34:00:55’ to bridge ‘bridge1’ (192.168.8.11:8899)
17:44:15.064 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding:350 ] - milight: sendDecrease
17:44:15.064 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding:383 ] - milight: Bulb ‘3’ getting decreased to '27’
17:44:15.065 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding:786 ] - milight: messageBytes to transform: '34:00:55’
17:44:15.065 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding:778 ] - Sent packet ‘34:00:55’ to bridge ‘bridge1’ (192.168.8.11:8899)
17:44:15.165 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding:350 ] - milight: sendDecrease
17:44:15.166 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding:383 ] - milight: Bulb ‘3’ getting decreased to '18’
17:44:15.166 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding:786 ] - milight: messageBytes to transform: '34:00:55’
17:44:15.166 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding:778 ] - Sent packet ‘34:00:55’ to bridge ‘bridge1’ (192.168.8.11:8899)
17:44:15.267 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding:350 ] - milight: sendDecrease
17:44:15.267 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding:383 ] - milight: Bulb ‘3’ getting decreased to '9’
17:44:15.267 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding:786 ] - milight: messageBytes to transform: '34:00:55’
17:44:15.268 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding:778 ] - Sent packet ‘34:00:55’ to bridge ‘bridge1’ (192.168.8.11:8899)
17:44:15.368 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding:786 ] - milight: messageBytes to transform: '3A:00:55’
17:44:15.369 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding:778 ] - Sent packet ‘3A:00:55’ to bridge ‘bridge1’ (192.168.8.11:8899)

2

Hi,

first of all, it is not recommended to run openHAB with openJDK, so please change to oracleJRE/JDK.

To analyse your problem further, I need to know your rule and the complete MiLight item definitions, not just channel3.

3

Hi,

Thanks for the quick reply.

I have now installed Oracle’s Java, but the issue persists. - java version “1.8.0_91”

My Items are configured as follows:

/* Lights */
Switch Light_FrontDoor_Outside "Outside Light"
Dimmer Light_FrontDoor_OutsideB “Outside Light Dimmer” {milight=“bridge1;2;brightness”}
Dimmer Light_FrontDoor_OutsideT “Outside Light Temp” {milight=“bridge1;2;colorTemperature”}
Switch Light_LivingRoom "Living Room Lights"
Dimmer Light_LivingRoomB “Living Room Dimmer” {milight=“bridge1;3;brightness”}
Dimmer Light_LivingRoomT “Living Room Temp” {milight=“bridge1;3;colorTemperature”}

/* DateTime */
DateTime Date “Date [%1$tA, %1$td/%1$tm/%1$tY, %1$tk:%1$tM]” (Status) { ntp=“Australia/Melbourne:en_US” }
DateTime Sunrise_Time “Sunrise [%1$tk:%1$tM]” (Status) {astro=“planet=sun, type=rise, property=end”}
DateTime Sunset_Time “Sunset [%1$tk:%1$tM]” (Status) {astro=“planet=sun, type=set, property=start”}

/* Astro */
Switch SunriseEvent {astro=“planet=sun, type=rise, property=end”}
Switch SunsetEvent {astro=“planet=sun, type=set, property=start”}

The rules are:

/* Front Door */

rule "Light_FrontDoor_Outside_ON"
when
Item Light_FrontDoor_Outside received command ON
then
sendCommand(Light_FrontDoor_OutsideB, 100)
sendCommand(Light_FrontDoor_OutsideT, 100)
end

rule "Light_FrontDoor_Outside_OFF"
when
Item Light_FrontDoor_Outside received command OFF
then
sendCommand(Light_FrontDoor_OutsideB, 0)
end

rule "Daylight - Sunset"
when
Item SunsetEvent changed to ON
then
sendCommand(Light_FrontDoor_Outside,ON)
end

rule "Daylight - Sunrise"
when
Item SunriseEvent changed to ON
then
sendCommand(Light_FrontDoor_Outside,OFF)
end

/* Living Room */
rule "Light_LivingRoom_ON"
when
Item Light_LivingRoom received command ON
then
sendCommand(Light_LivingRoomB, 100)
sendCommand(Light_LivingRoomT, 100)
end

rule "Light_LivingRoom_Outside_OFF"
when
Item Light_LivingRoom received command OFF
then
sendCommand(Light_LivingRoomB, 0)
end

And the binding config:

################################### Milight Binding ###################################

Host of the first Milight bridge to control

milight:bridge1.host=192.168.8.11

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

milight:bridge1.port=8899

4

I’m not sure what happened to the formatting at the end there…

5

Your config looks good to me.
As you mentioned in your first post, no log entry according to changing channel2 exists, so I guess there is a problem with your bridge.

Please reset it to factory settings and repair your LED lights.
If this does not help, I am running out of clues.

6

Hi,

I have reset the bridge this morning but still have the same issue.

Is there anything else you can think of that I could try?

7

Give it a try with the original app, to compare both behaviours. If it is the same, your bridge might be faulty.