Can't control grouped bulbs independently

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Hi, I have a chandelier with two yeelight bulbs. They’re grouped together for a simple wall switch to toggle it on/off.

There’s a second control - a Xiaomi button that’s set up for warm (single click), cool (double click) and turn off (hold).

Problem: I want to be able to control a single bulb (for super dim lighting) with triple click BUT it always triggers the second bulb as well. How to avoid this? I set the automation to specifically switch off the other bulb but it turns on anyway. The triple click is triggered correctly according to zigbee2mqtt. It is not limited to automations - when I toggle a single bulb manually, the other one toggles as well. I CAN control the bulbs independently via the Yeelight app so this is a HA problem.

Any tips?

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Did you group them with the yeelight app?

If so, ungroup them and use HA to to control them individually or together as required.

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No, they aren’t grouped in the app. I have even removed them from the room in the app, no difference.

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So what do you mean by this then:

How are they grouped?

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lights:
  - platform: group
    name: Bedroom Main
    entities:
      - light.bedroom_white
      - light.bedroom_tunable

I only want to enable the tunable bulb via tripleclick of the Xiaomi zigbee button. Both always toggle with each other, any way I turn them on/off.

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Post your automation for the triple click.

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  trigger:
  - entity_id: sensor.xiaomi_button_1_click
    platform: state
    to: triple
  action:
  - data:
      brightness_pct: 10
      kelvin: 3000
    entity_id: light.bedroom_tunable
    service: light.turn_on
  - entity_id: light.bedroom_white
    service: light.turn_off

it behaves the same even without the white bulb turn off command

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Maybe when you triple click it’s sending the single click, double click and then triple click events to home assistant.

It’s really odd though - especially with that off service in the triple click automation. That should only leave one light on :man_shrugging: I’m out of ideas.

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No, as I’ve stated in the original post, zigbee2mqtt reports “triple” click type.

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Did you pair the switch with the lights outside home assistant?

Maybe it’s the switch that has the grouping?

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The only thing I can come up with is a rogue automation that toggles them both on/off for you when one or the other is toggled.

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I didn’t. The switch is zigbee and the bulbs are wifi. I don’t use hub so the only way for them to interact is via HA.

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I’ve gone through all the automations but didn’t find anything that would do this. Oh well. Thanks.

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In that case there could be a bug in the lights group integration, are these the only lights/switches you have?

If you have others, you could try making a new group and see if turning one of those on/off triggers the other as well.