I am embarrassed to ask the noob of all noob questions, but I’m stuck on the very first step setting up the config in the add-on.
The question: What mac address are you referring to?
Is it the mac address of the native hue bridge? Is is the mac address of the raspberry pi I’m running HA on? Is it the mac address of your mom?
As far as I can tell, none of the docs or guides anywhere explain what device’s mac address I’m supposed to put; they all assume everyone knows what it’s referring to. Go ahead, see for yourself.
The official add-on documentation:
Option:
mac
The mac-address of your device.
Wow, super helpful. Looking elsewhere, @foxy82 's guide is definitely very thorough, but even there:
Once installed you need to configure the add on it as follows setting the MAC address is very important before the first run - this is the MAC address of your server.
Ok, what “server”? Again, is this HA, aka my pi? The native Hue bridge? nginx? duckdns? Again, “mac address” of some “device” is presumed known and leaves idiots like me behind.
And don’t get me started on Home Assistant — diyHue 1.0 documentation which begins with editing the config json. There must be some creative unspoken inferences not mentioned for that guide to truly begin at the real starting point.
An obvious question to me: “Hey ManImCool, instead of posing your question here with obvious petty and bratty undertones, why didn’t you just try all those mac addresses you were able to come up with until you figured it out?”
My response: First, I acknowledge I’m being a little bitchy. I thought about trying this, until reading through all of the threads and seeing that a lot of people smarter than me mess this up even when they have the correct mac address to begin with, whether they started this add-on too early, or forgot to turn off nginx, etc. In most instances, people only seemed to fix it by starting all over deleting everything or worse, a fresh install of HA. From all these data points I’ve read, a trial-and-error approach seemed unwise.
In sum, please tell this dum-dum what (*&@&4’ing MAC address of what *&$^#@ device to enter into the add-on config so I can continue foxy82’s guide like a normal person. And maybe we add this info to all the main guides so other dum-dums like myself can avoid feeling extra dum-dum.
xoxo, -Sean