Deconz + Philips Hue Dimmer

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I am using Hassio with Deconz add-on. I have implementet the appdaemon event helper and the remote template from here: https://www.home-assistant.io/components/deconz/ .

It works right out of the box, but I have major reliability issues with it, it is only like 50-70% of the time when I push a dimmer button that it is registrered by deconz/home assistant and I am standing right by the conbee stick, so mesh/network shouldn’t be a problem. The rest of my setup with Hue and Trådfri bulbs work fine.

Anyone having experience with the Hue dimmer and deconz and whether that is working reliable?

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Im doing a lot of automations with different remotes over deconz into Appdaemon and I haven’t noticed anything like your situation

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Okay that is nice to hear, then it must be something in my setup. Do you happen to know the firmware version of the Hue dimmer you are using?

Are you using the Hassio add on?

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Im running hass and deconz in their own docker, but not hassio

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Okay, wonder if that could make any difference - since the rest of the network works fine.

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Plenty of people run the system in hass.io. Don’t think that’s the reason

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Hi

I have the same problem. Did you find a solution for this?

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I moved from my Pi3 to a laptop and suddenly all my problems with the reliability with deconz went away. It has now been rock solid for a very long time.

I don’t know WHY it has been working since I moved to a laptop. I am suspecting that there somehow was some interference with my Conbee stick sitting right next to my z wave stick or some thing else. I did’t change anything in my configuration, just moved to another device.

I don’t know if that is of much help, but if you haven’t already tried it an extension cord from the Pi might be worth a try, if it is due to interference somehow.

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I am having a bit of a different issue… I was able to add the dimmer switch with no issue using the ConBee web app. However one back inside of Hass.io I am unable to add the dimmer switch as any kind of trigger… I am only able to trigger events based of the dimmer switch’s battery level. I need to be able to trigger an event off of button 1, 2, 3 or 4. Help?

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Are you able to see/trigger events based off the dimmers’s buttons in Hass? I am only able to see the dimmer battery level.

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Yes, I am to see the trigger events

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Do you use appdaemon? If so you can use the helper app to see the events from Deconz or can you see something in the deconz add on log?

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Hey guys, thanks I was able to get them working by using a “deconz event”

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I have the exact same issue, you ever find a solution for this?

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Sorry for the late reply… This is what I ended up finding. And works great. All the information is found here… https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/deconz/

Basically when you setup a automation, use “deconz event” as the trigger and then use the below data as a guide.

Switch code Description

1XXX Button #1 up to #8
XXX1 Button hold
XXX2 Button short release
XXX3 Button long release

Here is an example of one of my automations.

  • id: ‘1572218374969’
    alias: Living Room Dimmer On
    description: ‘’
    trigger:
    • event_data:
      event: 1002
      id: living_room_dimmer_switch
      event_type: deconz_event
      platform: event
      condition: []
      action:
    • alias: ‘’
      data:
      brightness: 255
      entity_id: light.living_room
      rgb_color:
      • 212
      • 235
      • 255
        transition: 0
        service: light.turn_on
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This works as a charm

- id: 673256f81bd643059c946f9cc5079cb4
  alias: Dimmer 1 Button 1 Clicked
  trigger:
  - platform: event
    event_type: deconz_event
    event_data:
      event: 1002
      id: living_room_dimmer_switch
  action:
  - data:
      message: Kitchen and ceiling living room lights switched on
    entity_id: media_player.tv_room
    service: tts.google_translate_say
  - data: {}
    entity_id: light.kitchen_lights
    service: light.turn_on
  - data: {}
    entity_id: switch.living_room_relay_0
    service: switch.turn_on