I am going away from Control4 since the controller died a few weeks ago. I’m trying to move everything to HA.
Many of our lights were using the Lutron Caseta with their Smart Hubs, and these were a snap to integrate to HA. But I have a few switches that are Control4 C4-SW2-ZX that I’m trying to integrate. I bought recently the SONOFF Zigbee dongle and it was discovered by HA in no time.
I’m now trying to see how I can make the Control4 switches be discovered by ZHA and so far with no success. I’m asking here if anyone found a way to add them to a standard Zigbee controller instead of the C4 controller.
I found this site to help me start rot reset the switches or have them tell me a big about them too.
I’d start by pairing them to ZHA, turning on debug logging and seeing if you see anything in the logs. If you do, then you could likely build a quirk. But as mentioned above, buying new will be way easier.
Zigbee Home Automation is built on top of Zigbee Pro. It’s likely that the control 4 switches are Zigbee Pro, but not ZHA and are using a proprietary protocol instead. I had some devices that were similar, based on Zigbee Pro but not ZHA and was able to get them to work, but the amount of modifications I had to make ended up being unsupportable.
If like me, you don’t like being told to just replace them, next steps would be to monitor the logs and see if you see anything in the logs at all during the pair attempt. Quick google search says that control 4 is based on Zigbee Pro, so the question is what do you need to do to get them to join. You could sniff the traffic when they join to the control 4 coordinator with Wireshark and see what you see. They could require a specific network key or perhaps will only join to a specific coordinator. Depending on where the failure is, you may need to modify the coordinator firmware itself.
After many tries, I am removing them one by one. To keep automation possibility, I am installing standard switches with a SONOFF ZBMINIR2 and so far, I can accomplish many things I want to do. With the SONOFF it keeps the replacement at a low investment when I do not require complex settings.
