Thanks for the follow-up! Funny you’d mention that deconz GitHub issue: I just ran across that a couple of days ago, so I’m eagerly waiting to hear any updates there.
I’d thought about switching back to ZHA, since I don’t have that many Zigbee devices, but I wasn’t a huge fan of it when I first tried it. These dimmers aren’t crucial, so I can probably afford to wait to see if there’s a deconz solution. (Unless I get impatient, anyway… 
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Well that’s Phillips for you lol. The dimmer works just fine on hue but try another platform and they make Lutron push out an update to mess it up. ZHA is kind of annoying but, it works better for the Aurora then Zigbee2MQTT does.
Ah, thanks for the perspective on ZHA vs Zigbee2MQTT! I’d considered the latter, but it sounds like more people are having success with ZHA when it comes to the Aurora.
Zigbee2MQTT actually messed up some features that would be useful in automations like to tell if the blinds are opening or closing so you can do more complicated things. I moved my conbee back to my room and used usb over ip to connect to home assistant. I did have to move over to a Debian supervised install which I actually prefer tbh. But yeah ZHA is better integrated IMO
For any future readers, I was finally able to get an Aurora to work with deCONZ.
As recently noted in the GitHub issue mentioned above by Jonathan, there’s apparently a compatibility issue with the 3.8 version of the Aurora firmware and deCONZ. However, it’s possible to use the OTAU feature in deCONZ to revert to version 3.4 of the firmware, which works without issue. (See the GitHub link for more details.)
I was trying to integrate IKEA 5 button remote which works kinda same. Got it pared which appears just as a power node. But I could not get it to fire any events. It seems like people were successful in getting it configured and there is an automation blueprint just to configure that. So it seems it should work. Don’t know why it’s not firing any events!! Any help is appreciated!
That looks awesome, however, I’m using Deconz not ZHA, so i’ve managed to listen to deconz_event instead, but i don’t get any args[] on these events, whaat am i missing?
Also, could you please provide more detail on how to set up the node-red flow? i’m a newb with node-red 
I’m having trouble connecting my Lutron Aurora Dimmers with ZHA and a conbee II. I’m able to pair it and can read the battery levels but I’m not able to read any zha events in the developer tools. Other devices seem to show up just fine. Anyone have any suggestions?
I only recently learned that not all zigbee devices’ events are visible by default when listening for zha_events. Try changing zha logging to debug mode by entering the following into your configuration.yaml:
logger:
default: error
logs:
homeassistant.components.zha: debug
default: info
Not sure if things have changed in the last six months or so, but without any such debug settings, I had no trouble listening for the events from an EchoStar Sage 206611 Single Gang Light Switch last year. I recently added an EchoStar Sage 206612 Doorbell Sensor to my setup, but was unable to detect its events until implementing the above logger settings.
This is awesome. Could you use the same setup to control Sonos (or other audio) volume?
I’m having trouble with the button presses (the dial works fine). The dimmer is about 2 inches from a Zigbee switch that is listed as a router in ZHA, but still only connects to the coordinator (HA Yellow). I’ve reset the dimmer many times, and when I try to join the dimmer through the switch instead of the coordinator, but nothing happens. The button presses worked when it was connected to SmartThings (ironically, the button was the only part that worked; the dial was unresponsive). Although, I doubt it’s a signal strength issue; the SmartThings hub is in the same spot as my Yellow.
Involved devices:
Anyone have luck using the Sonoff Zigbee 3 Stick? I am not. I was able to pair the device but no events reported under the zha_event topic, in debug mode or not. Too bad, was excited to not have my whole system shut down when some well meaning soul turns off the light switch (that controls the only outlet in the room)!
I am using the Sonoff Dongle-P with ZHA and I was able to get this paired with events reported under zha_event but only after adding it via a Philips Hue bulb and changing the logging to debug.
I’m suffering from this issue as well, were you able to resolve it?
I have a centralite(Smartthings Gen1) outlet just 3 feet away.
I’ve removed my pairing from ZHA and am now using the device through the hue hub. The Hue Hub exposes much more useful information in its events than zha does. The most notable improvement is that from the hue hub you get the amount of motion in a turn, making it possible to do magnitude-based adjustments.
Well I guess that’s it then, luckily the hue bridge is not that expensive.
I just got a Lutron Aurora, and I’m finding that instead of capturing Zigbee events and triggering the lights via Home Assistant/a hub, I’m Zigbee binding the switch to the light.
Obviously this is only possible if both the switch and its target are Zigbee, and if they are compatible. But if it is possible (and so far I’ve found it to be), then this approach has some distinct benefits:
)As far as I can tell, there’s zero downside.
I’ve found that the documentation for binding, at least in ZHA, does not go into a lot of detail, and there are a couple of gotchas:
So far I’ve found this binding-based approach to work with the following manufacturers:
I’ve yet to try it with Philips Hue and Aqara.
This is interesting. I am also doing binding, but I do so directly by bringing the Aurora close to IKEA lights, and go through the binding steps as indicated in the Aurora manual.
The downside is that when I do dimming, the light will change the brightness fine, but the brightness value from Lutron Aurora Dimmer would become out of sync from the brightness value from IKEA light.
I use zigbee2mqtt, not ZHA, but does yours light also see similar out of sync brightness values between the dimmer and the light?
I had issues with the light and switch being out of sync, and then I discovered the RECONFIGURE trick in ZHA. It’s worth your trying whatever the equivalent of that is in Z2M
As far as I know, Z2M has even better support for binding than ZHA.
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,
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”
Hope this helps for future users coming to this thread
