Hi,
could you please post your item definition and more information about OS and JAVA version.
Wow thanks for the quick reply! Yes, this is it, I assume.
Group All
Group Bed (All)
Switch Light_Bed “Bed” (Bed) {milight=“bridge;6;brightness”}
Switch Light_Bed2 “Bed?” (Bed) {milight=“bridge;7;brightness;27”}
I’m running it on a Raspberry Pi Model B (I think? The first one) with raspbian jessie and java 1.8.0_65.
Is this Oracle JAVA or openJDK ?
If it is not Oracle, please change to that.
How would I go about finding that out? I have not changed anything myself, everything is as it came with the latest raspbian jessie I downloaded today from their website.
What’s the complete output of java -version?
This:
java version "1.8.0_65"
Java™ SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_65-b17)
Java HotSpot™ Client VM (build 25.65-b01, mixed mode)
OK, fine it’s oracle.
Just for a try, can you change your config to
milight:bridge1.host=192.168.178.123
milight:bridge1.port=8899
and your items to
Switch Light_Bed “Bed” (Bed) {milight=“bridge1;6;brightness”}
Switch Light_Bed2 “Bed?” (Bed) {milight=“bridge1;7;brightness;27”}
and see what happens.
Another question,
did you remove the brackets around “bridge” ???
See here:
All that’s changed is the bridge1 part, right? That’s what I had initially, but since I only have one bridge I just renamed it (for now). But I changed it to bridge1 now and am getting the same logs:
2016-03-24 23:34:52.234 [DEBUG] [.io.net.http.SecureHttpContext] - security is disabled - processing aborted!
2016-03-24 23:34:52.246 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding] - milight: item is of type brightness
2016-03-24 23:34:52.258 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding] - milight: sendOn
2016-03-24 23:34:52.266 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding] - milight: messageBytes to transform: '42:00:55’
2016-03-24 23:34:52.271 [DEBUG] [.o.b.m.internal.MilightBinding] - Sent packet ‘42:00:55’ to bridge ‘bridge1’ (null:50000)
And do you mean the <> brackets? In that case yes.
OK, it is definitely a problem within your openhab.cfg file, preventing the binding to read your bridge config.
Did you copy the openhab_default.cfg to openhab.cfg and made your changes there.
No typo in the name, as your topic for this thread has a typo (it is not openhub.cfg) ?
By copy it is just meant to duplicate and rename it right? Because that’s what I did, and yes I named it correctly though I frequently mess that up 
All the changes are in a file called openhab.cfg that’s sitting in the configurations folder.
Now I am running out of ideas.
Could you please check if your user running openhab has sufficient rights to access the openhab.cfg file.
If you duplicated and changed it as a different user, this could be a problem.
I am just guessing.
How would I go about checking that? The guide I used said to write
sudo chown -hR openhab:openhab /usr/share/openhab
and from what I got that deals with the rights? this is the guide that I followed, I realize now that I maybe shouldn’t have done it through a 3rd party website. I followed it line for line up until when it began dealing with the Hue
As I understand, openhab is running under user openhab.
So you could login as user openhab and try to edit openhab.cfg. If you get a permission denied error on saving, then you have an issue with the rights.
What I’ve been doing is access my Pi via my network, using my MacBook. So I type commands through a Terminal Remote Connection and can access and update files through the finder, as shown in the tutorial. I can access and change the file using both ways, so I assume I have all the rights, right?
For a try, you could ssh into your raspi, navigate to your configurations folder and type ls -lia openhab.cfg.
You will then see the permissions and the owner.
Please post the output.
This is what I get:
260645 -rwxrw-rw- 1 openhab openhab 84151 Mar 24 23:34 openhab.cfg
From what I’ve gathered, this output means that openhab has all the rights it should, right?
It just worked! I have absolutely no idea why as I didn’t change anything, maybe it was because I shut down my Pi overnight, though I’m pretty sure I’ve restarted it before. Anyway, I’m really glad it works now, thanks for your support! 
Now off to create all kinds of rules!
Great to hear, as I was really running out of ideas.