Hue errors but I'm not using Hue

Configuration
1

Greetings,
I have a fairly new and virgin HA 0.100.3 installation and after restarting HA to apply some configuration changes, I’m getting a bunch of Philips Hue errors, but I’m not using Hue at all. It’s not configured and I don’t own any Hue stuff. I’ve even tried ignoring it with:

discovery:
  ignore:
    - philips_hue

Here’s what shows up in the log:

2019-10-28 21:10:41 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.hue] Unknown Hue linking error occurred
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/hue/bridge.py", line 171, in get_bridge
    await bridge.initialize()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/aiohue/bridge.py", line 43, in initialize
    result = await self.request('get', '')
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/aiohue/bridge.py", line 62, in request
    'Invalid content type: {}'.format(res.content_type))
aiohue.errors.ResponseError: Invalid content type: application/octet-stream
2019-10-28 21:10:41 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.hue] Unknown Hue linking error occurred
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/hue/bridge.py", line 171, in get_bridge
    await bridge.initialize()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/aiohue/bridge.py", line 43, in initialize
    result = await self.request('get', '')
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/aiohue/bridge.py", line 62, in request
    'Invalid content type: {}'.format(res.content_type))
aiohue.errors.ResponseError: Invalid content type: application/octet-stream

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/hue/config_flow.py", line 207, in async_step_import
    bridge = await get_bridge(self.hass, host, username)
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/hue/bridge.py", line 180, in get_bridge
    raise AuthenticationRequired
homeassistant.components.hue.errors.AuthenticationRequired
2

I get this from my WLED device:

Unknown error connecting with Hue bridge at 10.1.1.91

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/hue/config_flow.py", line 207, in async_step_import
    bridge = await get_bridge(self.hass, host, username)
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/hue/bridge.py", line 171, in get_bridge
    await bridge.initialize()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/aiohue/bridge.py", line 45, in initialize
    self.config = Config(result['config'], self.request)
KeyError: 'config'

I too have this in my config:

discovery:
  ignore:
    - panasonic_viera
    - philips_hue

It makes no difference. There’s an issue open on github:

3

Yeah I see lots of people that are having issues where there is a Hue device (or a pretend Hue device) on their network, but I don’t have any. I see it calls out a specific IP in your logs, I’m not seeing that in mine. The only thing I know of that could be pretending to be a Hue is Tasmota, but that is and always has been set to “None”

4

having the same issues since for like forever… I always can see a hue for setup in my integrations… there could be theoretically a hue system in my neighbourhood, but I’m not using any…

5

I’ve been having the same issue, and have done a bit of investigation…

The error is caused by python3.7/site-packages/aiohue/bridge.py at line 62 it has

            async with self.websession.request(method, url, json=json) as res:
                if res.content_type != 'application/json':
                    raise ResponseError(
                        'Invalid content type: {}'.format(res.content_type))

looking at the URL it is calling…

http://xx.xx.xx.xx/api/<apikey>/lights/

or variations of.
This returns a type

text/html

although the content is JSON formatted.
Thus the error is thrown.

I don’t know enough about what is happening here, but this may give someone else a clue.
Happy to test ideas.

6

Same issue here, It just started out of the blue today after doing minor changes to customizations of unrelated entities.
Getting multiple errors in HA log, with different IP addresses, not mine. I’m not using Hue myself. No idea where these are coming from!
Hassio ver. 103.6 on Docker in Raspbian.