Deconz Hue Dimmer Automations Not Always Triggering

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

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.

@cds Did you ever get this fixed?

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