Hi All,
Long-time user/reader, first-time poster.
Brief history: I’ve been running Zigbee networks for almost 7 years, at first via Hue bridges, then via deCONZ with a ConBee II, and now I have recently migrated to ZHA. I’m running HA as a Container, version 2023.3.3, Frontend 20230309. This is on a Pi 4B with 8GB RAM.
I’ve found some intermittent weirdness since migrating from deCONZ to ZHA. When I trigger a scene via a button / HA automation, some of the devices don’t turn on (or off), but HA does not reflect this. For example, if the scene turns a bunch of lights off, sometimes one or two lights stays on, but HA reflects the light as off. Triggering the scene subsequent times NEVER corrects it because HA thinks its work is done. I have do actually turn the device ON in HA to be able to turn it back off (in this case the light always does the right thing)
Here are the simple automations for a button in my office. Press once to turn everything on. Hold to turn everything off:
- id: '1678675362902'
alias: Office Button Single Press
description: ''
trigger:
- device_id: 73f0627b8ebfdf65cffd5766bce35ea5
domain: zha
platform: device
type: remote_button_short_press
subtype: turn_on
condition: []
action:
- service: scene.turn_on
target:
entity_id: scene.working
metadata: {}
mode: single
- id: '1678675529152'
alias: Office Button Long Press
description: ''
trigger:
- device_id: 73f0627b8ebfdf65cffd5766bce35ea5
domain: zha
platform: device
type: remote_button_long_press
subtype: dim_up
condition: []
action:
- service: scene.turn_on
target:
entity_id: scene.office_off
metadata: {}
mode: single
Here are those two scenes:
- id: '1678543939414'
name: Office Off
entities:
light.hue_go:
min_color_temp_kelvin: 2000
max_color_temp_kelvin: 6535
min_mireds: 153
max_mireds: 500
effect_list:
- colorloop
supported_color_modes:
- color_temp
- xy
off_with_transition: false
off_brightness: 254
icon: mdi:light-flood-up
friendly_name: Hue Go
supported_features: 44
state: 'off'
light.display_cabinets_north:
supported_color_modes:
- brightness
off_with_transition: false
off_brightness: 254
icon: mdi:light-recessed
friendly_name: Display Cabinets North
supported_features: 40
state: 'off'
light.display_cabinets_south:
supported_color_modes:
- brightness
off_with_transition: false
off_brightness: 254
icon: mdi:light-recessed
friendly_name: Display Cabinets South
supported_features: 40
state: 'off'
light.display_cabinets_west:
supported_color_modes:
- brightness
off_with_transition: false
off_brightness: 254
icon: mdi:light-recessed
friendly_name: Display Cabinets West
supported_features: 40
state: 'off'
light.office_lamp:
min_color_temp_kelvin: 2000
max_color_temp_kelvin: 6535
min_mireds: 153
max_mireds: 500
effect_list:
- colorloop
supported_color_modes:
- color_temp
- xy
off_with_transition: false
off_brightness: 254
icon: mdi:lamp
friendly_name: Office Lamp
supported_features: 44
state: 'off'
light.office_light:
min_color_temp_kelvin: 2000
max_color_temp_kelvin: 6535
min_mireds: 153
max_mireds: 500
effect_list:
- colorloop
supported_color_modes:
- color_temp
- xy
off_with_transition: false
off_brightness: 254
icon: mdi:ceiling-light
friendly_name: Office Light
supported_features: 44
state: 'off'
metadata: {}
- id: '1678597002418'
name: Working
entities:
light.display_cabinets_north:
supported_color_modes:
- brightness
color_mode: brightness
brightness: 254
off_with_transition: false
off_brightness:
icon: mdi:light-recessed
friendly_name: Display Cabinets North
supported_features: 40
state: 'on'
light.display_cabinets_west:
supported_color_modes:
- brightness
color_mode: brightness
brightness: 254
off_with_transition: false
off_brightness:
icon: mdi:light-recessed
friendly_name: Display Cabinets West
supported_features: 40
state: 'on'
light.hue_go:
min_color_temp_kelvin: 2000
max_color_temp_kelvin: 6535
min_mireds: 153
max_mireds: 500
effect_list:
- colorloop
supported_color_modes:
- color_temp
- xy
color_mode: xy
brightness: 178
hs_color:
- 21.852
- 63.529
rgb_color:
- 255
- 152
- 93
xy_color:
- 0.54
- 0.367
off_with_transition: false
off_brightness:
icon: mdi:light-flood-up
friendly_name: Hue Go
supported_features: 44
state: 'on'
light.display_cabinets_south:
supported_color_modes:
- brightness
color_mode: brightness
brightness: 254
off_with_transition: false
off_brightness:
icon: mdi:light-recessed
friendly_name: Display Cabinets South
supported_features: 40
state: 'on'
light.office_lamp:
min_color_temp_kelvin: 2000
max_color_temp_kelvin: 6535
min_mireds: 153
max_mireds: 500
effect_list:
- colorloop
supported_color_modes:
- color_temp
- xy
off_with_transition: false
off_brightness:
icon: mdi:lamp
friendly_name: Office Lamp
supported_features: 44
color_mode: xy
brightness: 254
hs_color:
- 38.54
- 53.725
rgb_color:
- 255
- 206
- 118
xy_color:
- 0.46
- 0.411
state: 'on'
metadata: {}
Has anyone else seen this, or something like it?
I have logging active:
logger:
default: warn
logs:
homeassistant.components.zha: warn
But I don’t see any entries when this happens.
I don’t think it’s my ZigBee network, as I never experienced this when running deCONZ.
Could it be HA’s compatibility with the ConBee II? I think compatibility is only recently out of beta? HA’s confidence that the signal was sent and the device is properly on/off (when it isn’t) leads me to believe that the problem is somewhere between the ConBee and the light. Would switching to a SkyConnect (or other coordinator) solve this? I’m really hoping this is the case, as that’s a quick and easy solution.
Could it be ZHA? Am I better off plugging back in deCONZ via Interation? Or switching to a Z2M or something else? I’d really prefer not to, as one of the main reasons I left deCONZ was lesser device support vs. ZHA.
While I’d like to consider myself a home automation veteran, I’m still very much an HA beginner. While I have been using HA for a long time, it’s really just been as a glorified bridge to HomeKit. I’m only just starting to migrate the brain out of HomeKit into HA. As such, could it be the way I’ve constructed my scenes or automatons? I used the GUI to make those scenes, and I certainly don’t think I need to have all of those attributes in there, especially for the ‘Office Off’ scene, do I?
