So I’ve been playing with binding my Aqara multi-button remotes to light groups for quicker response and redundancy and all appears to be going smoothly… except… I can’t seem to find a place where I can display what I have previously bound (binded?).
Any ideas?
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I’m wondering this too. This is the only thing I miss from the deConz/phoscon installation I started with - phoscon has a really good UI for manipulating and displaying bindings. The ZHA UI is a horrible mess unfortunately.
Is everyone using automations for managing the connections between remotes and lights perhaps?
Unfortunately, I don’t know where you can see the binding either.
So I always use automations for this. I didn’t know that this would also work with binding. A question about this:
Would bound devices still work when HA is shut down?
Yes, and that is the main point of using bindings. Binding remotes directly to devices/groups work even without the Zigbee controller available. It’s the same thing that happens when you pair a remote directly to a bulb or other device.
I’d like to avoid the situation where I can’t turn off the kitchen lights because there was a bug in the latest Node-Red update, or because of a failure in the USB-C power adapter for the rPi4 where HA is running 
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ZHA support for bind grouping of lights, switches, and fans (i.e. support for commanding device groups as entities). At least two entities must be added to a group before the group entity is created. As well as support for binding/unbinding (i.e. bind a remote to a lightbulb or group).
https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/zha#binding-and-unbinding
Binding a remote directly to a bulb or group has the benefit of faster response time and smoother control. This greatly improves user feedback experience functions like dimming as the remote then directly dims the lightbulb and thus does not have to make the software roundtrip via the ZHA coordinator.
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Has anyone found a solution to this? I noticed that the ZHA UI for managing bindings has changed in the recent updates.
Just found same issue. Did anyone resolve this after?
I don’t think so, at least I never found a way to query the zigbee network for information on bindings.
Any news on this?
You can find out what a device is bound to using the ZHA Toolkit from HACS.
This gives you a suite of services which you can run from Developer Tools. Get Binding Table returns a report containing the IEEE addresses of the devices your switch is bound to (they’re right at the bottom - make sure you scroll all the way down).
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src is the device you’re checking (probably a switch)
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dst_ieee is the device it’s bound to (probably a lightbulb)
There are likely to be several clusters involved, so the information will be repeated several times with different cluster_ids.
The device you’re checking will probably be battery-powered, so make sure it’s awake before you run the service (press the button a few times if it’s a switch).
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