Thank you Daniel. Based on what you have, and looks like there could be a solution to address the out-of-sync issue, I am testing a couple of things inside zigbee2mqtt.
Turns out it is fairly straightforward, once you understand what is what on the UI of zigbee2mqtt. This is under the Aurora dimmer, binding to one IKEA bulb:
To document what I did,
- You would first go to your aurora dimmer, and then to the “Bind” tab under Aurora dimmer
- Figuring out what endpoint is, is likely the key. Between the Aurora dimmer and the IKEA bulb, the endpoint # are both “1”.
(Note: Here is another user trying to bind the Aurora dimmer with a Hue bulb, and the endpoint # of his specific hue bulb is “11”. ) - And then there are those 3 checkboxes. See below - I did a bunch of tests and in the end decided to check these 3.
- And click the blue “Bind” button,
- Done!
To get the smooth dimming control, I would have to check the “Touchlink” checkbox.
To get the brightness to sync, I would have to check both “OnOff” and “LevelCtrl”
(Update 1: after Z2M 2.0.0 around early 2025, there is no longer brightness attribute on Aurora dimmer to sync. Here is an open issue. And if someone know how to do some tinkering to make action_level from MQTT show up in HA Aurora entity as brightness, that would be awesome.)
(Update 2: Good news! We have this user sharing his script, using action_level and action_transition_time from Z2M payloads, to make the old dimmer work properly. Please check this out - he has addressed the issue since Z2M 2.0.0 as mentioned above.)
Hope this helps for future users coming to this thread 