Green power switches

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I have 12 green power switches, Niko Friends of Hue, each with 4 buttons. Desperately trying to bring then into HA and eliminate the Hue bridges.
ZBT-1 dongle doesn’t support green power devices, the Sonoff_Zigbee_3.0_USB_Dongle_Plus should but I can’t get it to work. Zigbee2MQTT doesn’t find the switches. (Pairing mode as in Hue: 10 seconds right bottom, immediately followed by left bottom and right top button together.)
Anyone ever had success with the green power switches? Different pairing instructions or whatever?

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You need mains-powered devices that understand and carry the protocol. Do you have any Hue lights and are they connected to Zigbee2MQTT?

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Yes, i have plenty. Mainly ceiling bulbs, so repeatedly powering on and off is not possible.
(Thanks for replying.)

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This is your mistake, it is not like in Hue

  1. Press top left (A0)
  2. Press and hold top right (B0) for about 10 seconds
  3. press top right (B0) and bottom left (A1) at the same time
  4. press top left (A0)

as explained here

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That didn’t work, unfortunately. Channel 11, so top right for about 10 secs, then bottom left and top right.
Factory reset seems impossible as you cannot push alle 4 buttons together. Well, you can, but they are connected. If you push one, the other comes up:-).
(Why did you ask about the hue lights? They are now on the (different) ZBT-1 network.

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I was using a Hue Bridge, I did not do anything else than the procedure here, no factory reset, I also have a Niko.
At first I did the same assumption as you that it was the same Hue procedure to activate pairing mode but it is not.

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It worked after I had some bulbs in the neighbourhood set up. Man, you saved my entire month. Dank je, België - merci:-)!
(Still had to go through all the lights and repair them one by one. They were set up in ZBT-1 and there is no transfer, as it seems. Really had to remove them from power, add them to Hue again, remove them from hue to set them in pairing mode, and finally add them to 2MQTT.
If you know a better way, that would be welcome:-).)

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You have to remove the physical buttons to expose this part: Niko dimmer switch, EnOcean®

Then you can press all 4 buttons—though still takes some agility :slight_smile:

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What I did is to put the z2m dongle to accept pairing and go to the lights, power on/off 6 times quickly and it should do the weird “dim dance” and pair with the new dongle (it is working for ikea and an unknow brand I bought from China)

EDIT: You have to be close to the z2m antena, I did a cable with E14 and E27 sockets on one end and a a plug on the other end with a switch. So I can do my lights close to the antena