Need a bit of help with Phillips HUE binding

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Hi guys,

I just installed OH via apt-get on the latest version of Rasbian for my PI. Everything has been a breeze to setup thus far, however, I’m having problems with something simple—Upon first setting up the HUE hub, I used my android app to pair. I just wanted to do this to see if the system worked. I haven’t setup any lights via the app yet, just paired it.

So, I go to pair the HUB with openhab and I’ve done the perfunctory uncommenting of the 3 values in the openhab.cfg file:

hue:ip=10.0.0.18
hue:secret=openHABRuntime
hue:refresh=10000

However, I’m receiving the following messages when I tail -f the log file:

2016-09-26 15:34:59.948 [INFO ] [.h.internal.hardware.HueBridge] - Please press the connect button on the Hue bridge. Waiting for pairing for 72 seconds…
2016-09-26 15:35:00.963 [INFO ] [.h.internal.hardware.HueBridge] - Please press the connect button on the Hue bridge. Waiting for pairing for 71 seconds…
2016-09-26 15:35:01.635 [WARN ] [inding.hue.internal.HueBinding] - openHAB not authorized to access Hue bridge
2016-09-26 15:35:01.973 [INFO ] [.h.internal.hardware.HueBridge] - Please press the connect button on the Hue bridge. Waiting for pairing for 70 seconds…
2016-09-26 15:35:02.986 [INFO ] [.h.internal.hardware.HueBridge] - Please press the connect button on the Hue bridge. Waiting for pairing for 69 seconds…
2016-09-26 15:35:03.998 [INFO ] [.h.internal.hardware.HueBridge] - Please press the connect button on the Hue bridge. Waiting for pairing for 68 seconds…
2016-09-26 15:35:05.010 [INFO ] [.h.internal.hardware.HueBridge] - Please press the connect button on the Hue bridge. Waiting for pairing for 67 seconds…
2016-09-26 15:35:06.021 [INFO ] [.h.internal.hardware.HueBridge] - Please press the connect button on the Hue bridge. Waiting for pairing for 66 seconds…
2016-09-26 15:35:07.038 [INFO ] [.h.internal.hardware.HueBridge] - Please press the connect button on the Hue bridge. Waiting for pairing for 65 seconds…
2016-09-26 15:35:08.051 [INFO ] [.h.internal.hardware.HueBridge] - Please press the connect button on the Hue bridge. Waiting for pairing for 64 seconds…
2016-09-26 15:35:09.063 [INFO ] [.h.internal.hardware.HueBridge] - Please press the connect button on the Hue bridge. Waiting for pairing for 63 seconds…
2016-09-26 15:35:10.082 [INFO ] [.h.internal.hardware.HueBridge] - Please press the connect button on the Hue bridge. Waiting for pairing for 62 seconds…
2016-09-26 15:35:11.094 [INFO ] [.h.internal.hardware.HueBridge] - Please press the connect button on the Hue bridge. Waiting for pairing for 61 seconds…
2016-09-26 15:35:11.649 [WARN ] [inding.hue.internal.HueBinding] - openHAB not authorized to access Hue bridge

My question is this: Did I screw something up by initially pairing the HUB with my phone? I’ve turned off wi-fi on my phone and even did a factory reset of the HUB to try to re-pair, but the 3 lights on the HUB always light up as if it’s already cycled through a pair. The pair button on the HUB doesn’t even respond as the light around the button and the 3 lights below it are already lit.

I know my IP address is correct as I can see the HUB in the router gateway software UI.

What am I missing here??

FYI: I’ve seen this thread concerning HUE binding and I don’t think it addresses my problem: https://github.com/openhab/openhab/pull/4311

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

MC

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Nevermind—The link above, referencing the ad-hoc 1.9 binding fix, did the trick.

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I am having the same issue, could you tell me how you fixed it? What do you mean with the ad-hoc 1.9 binding?

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Antoine–Navigate to the url I referenced in the post and scroll down near
the bottom. One of the posters shares a link where you can download the
HUE binding for the yet unreleased 1.9. It’s just the binding that you
need.

It worked like a charm for me. Let me know if this helps.

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Worked great! Thanks!