Hue Addapter can not find Hue Bridge

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#1

Good day to you,

I seem to be having an issue finding/getting access to the Hue Bridge from within the Things tab of IOT-Gateway.

The setup is as follows:

  • Server running docker: https://github.com/mozilla-iot/gateway-docker
  • Docker is connected directly to LAN through the docker macvlan driver (bridged to outside lan)
  • Hue Bridge is connected to LAN directly
  • gateway-docker can run curl https://www.meethue.com/api/nupnp which then lists the Hue Bridge
  • gateway-docker can ping to the ip found
  • The ip found is not used by any other device
  • Android apps can connect to the bridge, so the button isn’t broken
  • http://www.twobraids.com/2018/02/things-gateway-part-4.html matches my own procedure (except for finding the lights, sensors, etc.)
  • The Hue Bridge is fully updated

If someone would have a thought in which direction to investigate, that would be greatly appreciated.

#2

Hmm, the last time someone had a similar issue it was resolved in a way that made very little sense where they had to update their OS. It’s possible the gateway-docker image needs some kind of weird reconfiguration/update.

#3

I found out that I had to press the pairing button for the bulbs to be discovered, so the gateway was automatically trying to pair.

#4

This seems very possible, at first it also had an issue where the docker image would not build correctly.

But that was solved after a Host OS update. So this might also be a host OS issue, if i get round to it ill try with a different Host OS. If that does not help ill file a bug on the gateway-docker GitHub project.