Groups don't seem to work

Configuration Zigbee
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I’ve recently migrated to ZHA from Zigbee2MQTT because I had trouble keeping my config stable (bulbs would fall out of contact, then need to be manually re-added to groups etc.)

I have all IKEA devices, mostly GU10 spots, and some E27 and E14 bulbs plus a few remote controls.

The bulbs themselves seem to work fine, and a fair bit faster than they did in Z2M, but groups seem not to work whatsoever. I’ve set up 4 groups with 3-6 bulbs in each, but they do not respond to any commands from the UI, or from zha.issue_zigbee_group_command with the following settings:

group: 0x0004
cluster_id: 0x0006
command: 0x0001

Are there any extra steps I could take to fix this? I see there is a fairly advanced bindings menu on the bulb entities themselves - does this need to be used?

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HA groups or Zigbee groups?

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Zigbee groups. I’m using a TI CC2531 incidentally for my coordinator.

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You can always try HA groups to see if that would work.

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I did, however it tends to make some lights not respond to the first command, and also makes my Ikea lamps hang up sometimes requiring a power cycle to get them back to working:/

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Yes, it is better to use zigbee groups instead of HA groups.

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Correction, the groups work one way, that is if I manually turn off all lights, the group turns off and vice versa, but the reverse does not work.

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Turned on some debugging, the only thing that shows up in the logs when trying to do the groups is this:

* Waiter timeout: <Waiter matcher=<Matcher type=CommandType.AREQ subsystem=Subsystem.AF command=dataConfirm payload={'endpoint': 1, 'transid': 183}> future=<Future cancelled> timeout=10000 sequence=None>
* Waiter timeout: <Waiter matcher=<Matcher type=CommandType.AREQ subsystem=Subsystem.AF command=dataConfirm payload={'endpoint': 1, 'transid': 185}> future=<Future cancelled> timeout=10000 sequence=None>
* Waiter timeout: <Waiter matcher=<Matcher type=CommandType.AREQ subsystem=Subsystem.AF command=dataConfirm payload={'endpoint': 1, 'transid': 245}> future=<Future cancelled> timeout=10000 sequence=None>
* Waiter timeout: <Waiter matcher=<Matcher type=CommandType.AREQ subsystem=Subsystem.AF command=dataConfirm payload={'endpoint': 1, 'transid': 7}> future=<Future cancelled> timeout=10000 sequence=None>
* Waiter timeout: <Waiter matcher=<Matcher type=CommandType.AREQ subsystem=Subsystem.AF command=dataConfirm payload={'endpoint': 1, 'transid': 31}> future=<Future cancelled> timeout=10000 sequence=None>
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zigpy_cc for the TI CC2531 is still very much beta – lack of group/multicast support is a current open issue:

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Ah, awesome, thank you for that pointer, I was looking in the wrong repository - that means there’s nothing wrong with my setup at least, so I’ll give it a few and see if the issue gets closed:)