Control a light with HA (Z2M) AND touchlink

Hey there,

I was wondering if I could combine the control of a light with Z2M AND a switch paired via touchlink?
Or this technically not possible?
I have a rotary switch (from SLC) and a LED panel. Touchlink is really handy for avoiding the whole automation stuff of the rotary switch. But then I loose the ability to control the light via HA…

(Btw. I have a CC2652P coordinator and HA with Z2M – but touchlink is only available for factory resets, as I understand that…)

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It is possible!! Both devices (light and switch) must be paired to the ZigBee network in HA. Then the switch can be paired to the the light via touchlink. There’s no need to re-build the whole automation stuff of a switch. Crazy!

I solved the issue and answered my question by my self but I leave this here. Maybe or hopefully it helps someone :slight_smile:

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A question about this, is there any prority in the handling?
Say I use 2 buttons on same ledmodule.
The system has 3 stages like in the picture controlled normally by HA via Z2M
But when HA is dead I want to use the same button as just on/off (could be I am not available to restore HA agein.) and I want the basig functions still to operate as ‘dumb’

Well. That’s not how it works. The zigbee devices doesn’t know if the coordinator or the host behind is online (please proof me if I’m wrong).
Afaik devices paired via touchlink are communicating directly with each other, but you can still do what ever you want with HA additionally. Touchlink is not a fallback.

Btw. your image is a bit cryptic to me^^

Sorry the text in the image is in dutch
enkel = single click, uit=off, wit=white, Sfeer is mood
Opslaan =store, terug is restore
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If HA is dead the touchlink will still work so that makes it a fall back for me

The only downside is that the state of the device in Home Assistant is not in sync with the real state of the device. I’ve just created a blueprint that solves this problem by triggering a sync of the state of the device in Home Assistant.