Emulated_hue seems to ignore advertise_ip

Configuration
1

I’m trying to set up an emulated hue on my network to handle my non-Hue lights; below is my config:

emulated_hue:
host_ip: 10.101.0.50
listen_port: 8300
advertise_ip: 10.101.0.50
advertise_port: 1901
upnp_bind_multicast: false
expose_by_default: true
exposed_domains:
  - input_boolean

I’ve already got a container listening on the same IP on port 1900 so I need to use something else. I’ve tried loads of combinations of the available options but I can’t get past the following:

Exception in thread Thread-2:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/threading.py", line 916, in _bootstrap_inner
    self.run()
  File "/usr/src/app/homeassistant/components/emulated_hue/upnp.py", line 124, in run
    ssdp_socket.bind((self.host_ip_addr, 1900))
OSError: [Errno 98] Address already in use

Any suggestions as to why this is happening?

2

Hi there! I’m having your same issue - did you manage to make it work?

3

I’m afraid not! I ended up giving up as I never got anywhere with it.

4

Thanks. Weirdly enough the lights are exposed when I check on the address but Alexa doesn’t pick them up (and I do have also an old gen Dot…).

Thanks anyway!

5

This typically means there some name confliction for alexa. I’ve had that issue where she doesn’t discover anything because there’s a naming confliction. Also, phillips hue bridge has a limit of ~55-64 (might be wrong on the exact number) lights. I’ve noticed that alexa will not find devices when I send a large number of devices to emulated hue.

6

Interesting. What do you mean naming conflict, if you don’t mind me asking?

7

Two devices with the same name

8

I’m not getting it to work either.

I run hassio inside a deciated ubuntu vm. So my setup is not quite standard, but on the other hand it somewhat mimics the official hassio vm setup. My error looks quite similar:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/setup.py", line 213, in _async_setup_component
    result = await task
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/emulated_hue/__init__.py", line 128, in async_setup
    listen = create_upnp_datagram_endpoint(
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/emulated_hue/upnp.py", line 84, in create_upnp_datagram_endpoint
    ssdp_socket.bind(("" if upnp_bind_multicast else host_ip_addr, BROADCAST_PORT))
OSError: [Errno 98] Address in use

My emulated hue config is:

emulated_hue:
  host_ip: 192.168.11.14
  advertise_port: 8081
  listen_port: 8300
  expose_by_default: false
  entities:
    light.alle_lichter_zha_group_0x0003:
      hidden: false

As the error massage says Address already in use, I also changed the ports a little but but that didn’t help. turning off upnp_bind_multicast also changed nothing. I also deleted the config/emulated_hue_ids.json. Any suggestions how to get this to work.

Putting home_assistant on port 80 and use port 80 is not really an option for me, as I’m also running an nginx proxy, that obviously catches that port. Also I think port 80 is only needed for google, and I don’t plan on using that. Are there any other suggestions?