No longer able to Initialize Insteon Bridge

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I’m running OpenHab 3.2 for my Insteon HUB 2. I set this up about 2 years ago when the old Insteon company went out of business. It’s been working fine until just last week.

Nothing has changed since I set it up. OpenHab is running on my MacMini using an older OSX. It’s been running fine.

This past weekend our internet was down for a few hours. I rebooted the router. I could no longer control the Insteon devices. I’ve rebooted the Mac several times as well as the router. The Hub shows its Green light, and I even contacted Insteon support and Rob confirmed that the Hub is ok. I’m using the OpenHab app that is on my iPhone and other IOS devices.

I went into the OpenHab User Interface for Settings/Things this morning and it shows that there’s a configuration error for the Insteon HUB Bridge. It will not initialize any longer. I have no idea what’s the problem. I even restored the OpenHab files from a backup made in November.

Sure could use some help. Thanks.

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What is the configuration error? You might need to look in the log files.

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It says Configuration Error-Initialization Failed, unable to start the Insteon Bridge with the port “/hub2/Zantoria…10.0.0.15/25105”. The last part is the IP address and name of the hub and password.

None of this has changed.

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I’m getting this from the OpenHab program under Settings, Things–where it shows all the devices and their status. It shows the Things that are Insteon devices as Bridge Offline.

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Yes, what do you see for the device that starts with insteon:network when you click on the >?

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The identifier is 7d99a8724e

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What do you see in the log files?

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Can I send you the events.log if that’s what you’re interested in.

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Here’s the events.log file.

events.log (11.8 KB)

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What do you see in openhab.log? If you don’t see anything you might need to enable debug logging for org.openhab.binding.insteon. If needed, check out Logging | openHAB

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So I went into the OpenHab Things and clicked on the + to add a new Thing, and had it scan for device it showed this:
Insteon Device 475355 47.53.55
Insteon: Device: 7d99a8724e:475355

I cancelled the procedure, but didn’t know if this helps.

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Here’s the openhab.log file
openhab.log (3.4 KB)

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Late this morning I decided to try to remove the Insteon Network Thing and create a new one. It said it was being removed but nothing happened. I rebooted the Mac and then tried to start OpenHab but it couldn’t be found. So I restored the OpenHab folder from a backup and now I can open it up but its showing the same errors as before.

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If you need either of these logs from earlier today or yesterday before I did the restore to them this morning, I can restore these older log files. I assume though they will be showing the same error that keeps getting identified when the OpenHab server is trying to connect to the Insteon HUB.

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It can’t connect to the hub, is the ip address 10.0.0.15 correct?

2023-12-13 10:35:49.796 [WARN ] [teon.internal.driver.hub.HubIOStream] - open failed: connect timed out
2023-12-13 10:35:49.796 [WARN ] [ternal.handler.InsteonNetworkHandler] - Initialization failed, unable to start the Insteon bridge with the port '/hub2/***:***@10.0.0.15:25105'.
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I just figured it out. I went into my router and checked the devices on the ethernet network, and the Insteon HUB is there but its IP is showing as 10.0.0.16 not 10.0.0.15!! I changed that to 15 and rebooted the HUB and it’s working!!

I cannot imagine how its IP address got changed.

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Both the HUB and the Mac where the OpenHab server is setup have FIXED IP addresses in the router. So who knows.

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Rob-Thanks for your help in working with me to resolve this problem. I felt like it had to be a network issue, but I never thought that the modem/router would somehow change the IP address for a device that has a fixed IP. Only xFinity knows what really happened.

Stephen Scott
1930 Franklin Drive
Charlottesville, VA 22911
(434) 242-9237

wsscott@earthlink.net

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