Hello everyone, I wanted to share a success story after struggling with setting up my Hue Bridge on a Spectrum Community Wifi network. tl;dr: TURN OFF “PRIVATE WI-FI ADDRESS”
After moving into a new apartment, I faced numerous challenges connecting my Hue Bridge. The setup process kept failing, despite multiple attempts and support calls. What finally worked was disabling the Private Wi-Fi Address on my iPhone during setup. It seems the Bridge and Hue app expect the device’s MAC address to remain consistent, and this setting was rotating it on each connection. Once setup is complete, you can re-enable this feature if desired.
This experience made me realize how common such issues are with community Wi-Fi. If you’re facing similar problems, I recommend reaching out to your ISP to whitelist your device’s MAC address and ensure it’s discoverable for setup.
Now, moving on to another project: I’m trying to format numbers in my OpenHAB setup to use spaces as thousand separators (e.g., 22 478 instead of 22,478). I’ve tried modifying the items file and using rules, but nothing seems to work. Does anyone have a solution for this? It would be fantastic if OpenHAB could automatically handle locale-specific formatting based on system settings.
Thanks for your help and insights! Happy automating! 