Deconz Hue Dimmer Automations Not Always Triggering

Configuration
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Hi,

Here’s my setup:

  • Home Assistant running in a VirtualBox VM on a Windows 10 host
  • Conbee II USB with Phoscon app running natively in Windows 10 (I had problems using the Deconz add on)
  • Philips Hue Dimmer (RWL021)

I built a few automations using the Home Assistant GUI so that I could turn on the living room lamp (IKEA Trafri) with one press of the ‘on’ button, and the ceiling lights (3 x Lifx) with a second press, the ‘off’ button performing the reverse. The dimmer buttons are configured to adjust the brightness of whatever is switched on at the time.

This works really nicely a lot of the time, but sometimes the automations fail to trigger when I press the buttons. When I use the event listener subscribed to ‘deconz_event’, I can see that every single button press is being registered (and pretty much instantly). However, they are reporting event codes of ‘1002’ and ‘4002’ for example, while the automations I built with the GUI are based on triggers such as this:

domain: deconz
platform: device
subtype: turn_on
type: remote_button_short_press

I’m wondering why these triggers aren’t activating when the dimmer continues to report event ids.

Any ideas? Thanks

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This happened again today. I’ve reworded the title of this thread as it was perhaps too vague before and hadn’t caught any attention.

I should mention that my system configuration has changed somewhat since the original post, although the configuration of Home Assistant itself and the automations are largely the same. I now have a PC running Proxmox, with HA running in a VM on that, and Deconz running as a Supervisor Add-on.

Thanks to anyone who can help.

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@cds Did you ever get this fixed?

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Sorry, I missed this post. Unfortunately, I never did get this resolved. Are you experiencing the same thing?