Please press the pairing button on the bridge. even after setting the new username

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I have a manual thing configuration for Hue where I set my Hue bridge and devices.

Bridge hue:bridge:home [ ipAddress=“192.168.1.55”, username=“abcdefgh123456789” ] {
0220 HueAmbianceLTW01301 “Hue ambiance spot links” @ “Badkamer” [ lightId=“4” ]
0220 HueAmbianceLTW01302 “Hue ambiance spot rechts” @ “Badkamer” [ lightId=“5” ]
0220 HueAmbianceLTW01303 “Hue ambiance spot douche” @ “Badkamer” [ lightId=“6” ]
0220 HueAmbianceLTC00101 “Hue ambiance centraal” @ “Bureau” [ lightId=“7” ]
0220 HueAmbianceLTW01304 “Hue ambiance spot lavabo 1” @ “Badkamer” [ lightId=“8” ]
0220 HueAmbianceLTW01305 “Hue ambiance spot lavabo 2” @ “Badkamer” [ lightId=“9” ]
0220 HueAmbianceLTW01306 “Hue ambiance spot lavabo 3” @ “Badkamer” [ lightId=“10” ]
0220 HueAmbianceLTW01307 “Hue ambiance spot lavabo 4” @ “Badkamer” [ lightId=“11” ]
0820 HueDimmerSwitch “Hue dimmer switch badkamer” @ “Badkamer” [ sensorId=“5” ]
}

After I save the file it will start asking to press the pairing button
… [INFO ] [ue.internal.handler.HueBridgeHandler] - Creating new user on Hue bridge 192.168.1.55 - please press the pairing button on the bridge.

I press the pairing button and get a username in the logfiles which I copy to the thing configuration file and I save the file.

… [INFO ] [ue.internal.handler.HueBridgeHandler] - User ‘H61JTNg1vsIzB4tuCCsgqXMA7QOonH8X-va2GxgQ’ has been successfully added to Hue bridge.

Once done, it continues again with asking to press the pairing button.

… [INFO ] [ue.internal.handler.HueBridgeHandler] - Creating new user on Hue bridge 192.168.1.55 - please press the pairing button on the bridge.

Any tips on how to solve this annoying issue?

If I just don’t touch the things file after pressing the button, my Hue interactions work, but whenever my OpenHab server restarts, it complains again press the button.

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Hi,
I had simmilar issues during setting up OH2.4 and after upgrading to 2.5 again.
Some how, in my case i guess the definitions in my .things file were the root of the problems.

Sometimes the code for the binding changed, so at 2.4. it was

[ipAddress="IP:port", userName="abcdef"].

but now its

[ipAddress="IP", port="xx", userName="abcdef"].

[EDIT:] Mind Case sensitivity! I got userName="" and in your code its username=""!

Simmilar behavior with my dConz bridge.
Try using userName="" or apikey="" and have a look at httpPort vs. port.

Unfortunately I’m not 100% sure which caused and in the end solved the Problem, but now everything is working fine.

Good luck!

cheers Hannes

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Thx Hannes

It was the username mispell, should be userName indeed.