Hue Bridge Pairing Blocker

[rgilliammi]

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Docker

Home Assistant related?

No

Description

• Unable to pair DIYHue bridge with physical Hue Bridge inside official Hue App
• Hue app is able to detect DIYHue bridge but not pair even when 'Link App' button is pressed inside web GUI
• Hue app is able to talk to, detect, and control lights connected to the physical bridge when given bridge IP and paired via button. Just not the other way around

Steps taken to resolved
-Removed raspberry pi host install and replaced with docker install
-Restarted raspberry pi
-stopped and restarted diyhue service
-Reinstalled Hue app for android
-Considered prayer to a higher power

Errorlog:

See attached
diyhue.log

Steps to reproduce

Attempt to pair DIYHue bridge to latest official Hue app on android (Hue Essentials not tested)

Please enter your operating system details here

Hue-Emulator Version: 2024-09-21 04:48:50.000000000 -0400
Architecture: Arm
OS: Debian
Os version: 12
Os release: Bookworm
Hardware: Raspberry Pi 5

Software up to date when tested on 9/22/2024

Upload debug tar

See attached
config_debug.zip

What DiyHue version(branch) are you using?

master (latest)

[hendriksen-mark]

hi, how did you start the docker container?
you did not provide a valid mac address so the certificate is not generated properly.
2024-09-22 21:45:26,061 - configManager.argumentHandler - 142 - INFO - Host MAC given as XXXXXXXXXXXX
to fix this remove the certificate from the config folder, better to remove the whole config folder because the mac is used to generate a bridge_id.
to find your mac please follow these steps https://diyhue.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started.html
did you specify your timezone in the webui or docker compose file?
also you can not use diyhue with Philips cloud.

Getting Started — diyHue 1.0 documentation

[rgilliammi]

• Should have said I tried with Philips cloud, figured that one out, reinstalled the app and didn't login.
• I selected my timezone via the WebGUI

Let me attempt to remove the config folder, thanks for the quick response

[hendriksen-mark]

Hi, did you manage to fix this? If so please close the issue.