Adsibob Posted August 12, 2023 Share Posted August 12, 2023 We are abroad on holiday, and I was relying on our Philips hue lights (we have about 20 of them) to simulate occupancy at our house whilst we are away. To my great annoyance, yesterday remote access suddenly stopped working. I was, for about 24h, able to control them via my Alexa app, but now that has stopped working as well. I can reboot my internet remotely, but that’s not doing anything for the Philips Hue. I asked my cleaning lady to unplug the bridge and plug it back in. She did that, and it temporarily fixed the access, but via Alexa only. Now the Alexa access has stopped again. It’s all rather disappointing for the money I’ve invested in it. Pretty pathetic really, as was working flawlessly for the last 6 months or so, although to be honest I rarely had cause to access it remotely. Any thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeSharp01 Posted August 13, 2023 Share Posted August 13, 2023 That's a pain! Can't help really, every time I look at Hue I get more confused by it complexities, but just to be clear you can still see the rest of your network remotely EG doorbell and the remote reset is actually working. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelvin Posted August 13, 2023 Share Posted August 13, 2023 Occasionally, with my Hue system in the previous house, I had to actually reset the Hue bridge rather than simply switching it off and on to solve problems like this. Hue has a holiday mode are you using this or are you going in remotely every day switching lights on and off? Are you using any Powerline type adapters on your network? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adsibob Posted August 13, 2023 Author Share Posted August 13, 2023 3 hours ago, MikeSharp01 said: just to be clear you can still see the rest of your network remotely EG doorbell and the remote reset is actually working. Yes, my ring cameras are still working, and my Ubiquiti dream router can still be rebooted remotely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adsibob Posted August 13, 2023 Author Share Posted August 13, 2023 2 hours ago, Kelvin said: Hue has a holiday mode are you using this or are you going in remotely every day switching lights on and off? No, I had a routine set up on two lights (which I set up through Alexa), but otherwise I was just going into the app on an ad hoc basis and toggling lights on and off. I wish I had known about the holiday mode. Where is that setting? i find the Philips Hue app pretty basic. Couldn’t see how to set up a timed schedule, for example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adsibob Posted August 13, 2023 Author Share Posted August 13, 2023 2 hours ago, Kelvin said: Are you using any Powerline type adapters on your network? No. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteamyTea Posted August 13, 2023 Share Posted August 13, 2023 (edited) Is Hue stuff made in China? Post up your login details and I shall have a go at setting them. My free to set up secure webserver, running on a 10 quid Raspberry Pi is still running reliably. Shows it is 18.6⁰C in my back garden. Edited August 13, 2023 by SteamyTea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeSharp01 Posted August 13, 2023 Share Posted August 13, 2023 20 minutes ago, SteamyTea said: My free to set up secure webserver, running on a 10 quid Raspberry Pi is still running reliably. How are you logging into that and how is the rest of your network protected? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteamyTea Posted August 13, 2023 Share Posted August 13, 2023 39 minutes ago, MikeSharp01 said: How are you logging into that and how is the rest of your network protected? It uses the TOR network. Set up as read only at the moment I hope. When I get a bit of spare time i.e. not decorating, I intend to play with it a bit more. The rest of the network should be safe, until then as I can only log in in the local network via PuTTY/WinSCP/DOS command prompt. One of the things I want to learn about is using certificates as authentication. If you want to have a go at cracking into it, I can send you a link. Though I have posted it up here before. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeSharp01 Posted August 13, 2023 Share Posted August 13, 2023 46 minutes ago, SteamyTea said: I can send you a link. No - you are OK, was just interested in how it was done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Jimbo Posted August 13, 2023 Share Posted August 13, 2023 @SteamyTea I could only think of cracking it with a hammer. That is the extent of my computer knowledge. So from me atleast, it is very safe. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pocster Posted August 13, 2023 Share Posted August 13, 2023 You lot are (expletive deleted)ed when AI comes to lick your goaties Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteamyTea Posted August 13, 2023 Share Posted August 13, 2023 10 minutes ago, Pocster said: lick your goaties I have no idea what that means. Greatest of All Time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe90 Posted August 13, 2023 Share Posted August 13, 2023 9 minutes ago, Pocster said: You lot are (expletive deleted)ed when AI comes to lick your goaties Maybe, but us Luddite’s will still have things working when your cloud, smartphone, IT network, Wi-Fi gets hacked and controlled by the Russians/Chinese 🙄 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pocster Posted August 13, 2023 Share Posted August 13, 2023 At the end of terminator 2; once the credits have finished , Arnie comes back on screen and says ( Austrian accent ) “ I’ll be back and lick your goaties “ - honest to God ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteamyTea Posted August 13, 2023 Share Posted August 13, 2023 47 minutes ago, Pocster said: the end of terminator 2 Is that the snowflake one with no killing in it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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