Controls smart lighting: Turns individual and groups of smart lights on/off to preset brightness, warmth and color levels. (Works with Philips Hue, LIFX, Insteon, Lutron lighting) Control Apple home kit enabled devices: use as a complement to Siri or home app commands to simply and securely control home kit devices and groups (scenes) It’s the request homebridge-hue sends to the Hue bridge to create a username (apikey). I log the request in case of an error. That is the correct way. If it still won’t work, please attach the debug log file (see Controls smart lighting: Turns individual and groups of smart lights on/off to preset brightness, warmth and color levels. (Works with Philips Hue, LIFX, Insteon, Lutron lighting) Control Apple home kit enabled devices: use as a complement to Siri or home app commands to simply and securely control home kit devices and groups (scenes)