Philips hue time out errors

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does anyone else get errors like this with their hue hubs? (XX = redacted)

2018-02-18 13:00:32 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.entity] Update o
f light.master_hue_group is taking over 10 seconds
2018-02-18 13:00:32 ERROR (Thread-20) [phue] GET Request to X.X.X.X/api/XXXXXXX timed out.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.5/site-packages/phue.py", line 651, in re
quest
    connection.request(mode, address)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/http/client.py", line 1107, in request
    self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/http/client.py", line 1152, in _send_request
    self.endheaders(body)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/http/client.py", line 1103, in endheaders
    self._send_output(message_body)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/http/client.py", line 934, in _send_output
    self.send(msg)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/http/client.py", line 877, in send
    self.connect()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/http/client.py", line 849, in connect
    (self.host,self.port), self.timeout, self.source_address)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/socket.py", line 712, in create_connection
    raise err
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/socket.py", line 703, in create_connection
    sock.connect(sa)
socket.timeout: timed out
2018-02-18 13:00:32 WARNING (Thread-20) [homeassistant.components.light.hue] Tim
eout trying to reach the bridge

i get these every 30 mins or hour or so. it’s been going on for while a while for me (i’m on .63.3 but it started many many releases ago). my hue hub is wired, has a static IP, and i’ve never failed to reach it manually.

my hue devices work the vast majority of the time, but occasionally they fail.

curious if anyone else has seen similar.

2

Nothing like that here.

3

What I have is that some lights turn on juy like this without trigger.that’s annoying

4

No problems with timeouts or random lights turning on. I have the v2 Hue hub though and it just went through a firmware update due to the recently released IoT worm targetting Hue lights.

5

Well I bought a Intel NUC and will start from scratch here and reset all my devices to zero step by step. Might be an installation / configuration issue or just what ever.

Thanks anyway for feedback

6

Good luck, I’m sure it’ll work out. I’m surprised at the luck I’ve had with home automation in general (read plenty saying it was troublesome, etc) – both my Hue system and my new Z-Wave gear work pretty well. I did encounter my first oddball occurrence today with my Hue; I had a set of lights (2) where only one turned on instead of both but it only happened once (tried to reproduce it) – So there’s that.

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thanks all. asking inspired me to fiddle, and i think i’ve “fixed” it – though i haven’t narrowed down which change remedied the errors.

i did the following:

  • moved it to a new physical location, swapped out the ethernet cable, and plugged it into the same switch as my home assistant RPi3.
  • opened up hue hub communication with the outside world. i had it firewalled so it didn’t “phone home” without my permission. i don’t see why this should affect communication with HA but i opened it anyway.
  • updated hub firmware. my problems started when i was on that firmware, so it doesn’t seem super likely to me it was the cause.

seems better now, so hopefully it helps point someone in the right direction if they see similar problems.