Light Groups malfunction. Bulbs toggle differently. Gif attached

toot-217 · January 9, 2022, 8:16pm

I’m having similar issues as described here, installed a cluster of five Ledvance / Osram GU 5.3 MR16 bulbs (to be exact: SMART+ ZB SPOT 5 W 12 V 36° GU5.3 MR) and I’m also using a Conbee II in combinatian with ZHA and having also trouble with proper toggling.

I updated my Conbee II to the latest firmware, factory resetted and re-paired my new bulbs, but still having the same problems.

So I ordered instead of a C2531 a Sonoff ZigBee 3.0 USB DDongle Plus, which is equipped with the CC2652P, which should be more suitable to handle my ~60 Zigbee devices.

I hope I can easily exchange the hubs and easily change the radio type (tips to change the radio are appreciated!)

nilux · January 10, 2022, 5:42am

I moved from ZHA to Deconz and everything works properly now. I have a raspbee2.

Rachdingue · January 10, 2022, 9:56am

Glad to hear!. I was more inclined to the bulbs rather than conbee II but I’m glad that fixed it!

Also changing coordinator didn’t require repairing? That’s awesome… I might consider it then for sure.

Did you have to repair?
Edit: I can’t test it, when I install the integration it tells me to authenticate the app by going to phoscon UI, but I have no access to phoscon since it is not finding any gateway weird…

nilux · January 10, 2022, 10:53am

I re-paired all devices just in case anyway. If you call that repairing then yes

Make sure ZHA or Z2M isn’t reserving the USB/TTY device before starting deconz: Stop/disable/delete those integrations/addons.

Rachdingue · January 10, 2022, 11:27am

Yeah forget about the C2531, I had one and changed almost inmediately to Conbee II.
Now since @amadeus feedback I’m definitely buying the sonoff too, which is like 15€ in aliexpress. Pretty cheap, worth the investment.

khvej8 · January 10, 2022, 8:48pm

Hi Thomas, When you have changed to the Sonoff Zigbee I would appreciate any advice/story on how to change.

Im in the process of convincing my self to replace the conbee. Not easy, as I fear I have to physically go to the devices. A number of them are very hard to reach.

toot-217 · January 11, 2022, 9:19pm

I will try to use this guide: Zigbee Network Migration · GitHub
and mix it with these commands from this this video

I’m absolutley no expert, so if my plan is not clever, please stop me

toot-217 · January 13, 2022, 6:20pm

@khvej8

I made the switch from Conbee II to Sonoff ZigBee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus and had not to repair or rename any device / entity.

Today a friend of mine helped me a little bit, but these both guides worked very well:

This one:

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/EverythingSmartHome/990f2436608fd347cd20cf0009b5cef4

gistfile1.txt

#Check new adapter is found
lsusb

#Check which port new adapter is on
ls -lah /dev/tty*

# Enter Home Assistant container
docker exec -it homeassistant /bin/bash

#Install open-coordinator-backup

This file has been truncated. show original

and replaced the install/backup/restore part with this one:

github.com/zigpy/zigpy-cli

Implement new radio API

zigpy:dev ← puddly:puddly/zigpy-radio-api

opened 05:12PM - 14 Nov 21 UTC

puddly

+43 -24

This change introduces a network backup/restore utility for any adapter implemen…ting the new radio API: - [x] zigpy: https://github.com/zigpy/zigpy/pull/848 - [x] zigpy-znp: https://github.com/zigpy/zigpy-znp/pull/97 - [x] zigpy-deconz: https://github.com/zigpy/zigpy-deconz/pull/172 - [ ] zigpy-xbee - [ ] zigpy-zigate - [x] bellows: https://github.com/zigpy/bellows/pull/445 Sample: ```bash # Make a new venv, these packages are heavily modified virtualenv -p 3 venv # Python 3.7 or above is required # Or python3 -m venv venv (if `virtualenv` isn't installed) source venv/bin/activate # Install modified versions of zigpy, zigpy-znp, zigpy-deconz, bellows, and the new zigpy-cli pip install \ git+https://github.com/puddly/zigpy.git@puddly/new-radio-settings-api \ git+https://github.com/puddly/zigpy-cli.git@puddly/zigpy-radio-api \ git+https://github.com/puddly/zigpy-znp.git@puddly/new-radio-settings-api \ git+https://github.com/puddly/zigpy-deconz.git@puddly/new-radio-api \ git+https://github.com/puddly/bellows.git@puddly/zigpy-radio-api # Back up the old radio. Note: this backup format will change in the future. zigpy -vv radio deconz /dev/serial/by-id/... backup deconz.json # zigpy -vv radio znp /dev/serial/by-id/... backup znp.json # zigpy -vv radio ezsp /dev/serial/by-id/... backup ezsp.json # Restore a backup to the new one zigpy -vv radio znp /dev/serial/by-id/... restore deconz.json # zigpy -vv radio ezsp /dev/serial/by-id/... restore deconz.json # zigpy -vv radio deconz /dev/serial/by-id/... restore deconz.json # Leave the virtualenv deactivate ```

Now I’m able to switch a cluster of my Ledvance bulbs at once without any hiccups

khvej8 · January 13, 2022, 9:13pm

Hi Thomas, Thanks for letting me know. I will purchase one and give it a try.

Rachdingue · January 14, 2022, 5:40pm

You didnt do anything besides that? I just tried to change from conbee II to sonoff and it doesn’t work… Any ideas somone?

amadeus · January 14, 2022, 11:02pm

no, nothing more.

i was prepared to reconnect all bulbs and already unpaired the first one, as i noticed that all other bulbs worked without any problems.

Rachdingue · January 15, 2022, 10:51am

Well in my case from Conbee II to Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 I had to repair everything

Rachdingue · January 22, 2022, 1:21pm

The issuse of the bulbs still happen, not that frequently tho. I’m assuming its going to be the bulbs or I don’t know.

I’ll stick with the sonoff anyways

astronaut · February 15, 2022, 12:24pm

Switched from Conbee II to CC2562P (SMLIGHT SLZB-05) and the first feeling is very positive. So far, I haven’t encountered any issues with turning multiple bulbs on and off

I had to repair everything unfortunately, but so far it was worth it.

toot-217 · April 8, 2022, 2:07pm

I occasionally had still some issues using the CC2652P Sonoff ZigBee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus with ZHA (turning the lights off, couple of seconds later the lights were back on), but the last HA update and switching to the new groups solve 99% of my issues

attzonko · July 24, 2022, 7:45pm

What do you mean by “switching to the new groups”?

Rachdingue · September 13, 2022, 10:12am

I’ve been a couple of months with no issues, so I could say the problem is fixed.
What I did:

Replaced the dongle for a Sonoff Zigbee 3.0
Migrated to z2mqtt
The old CC2531 working as a repeater.

I don’t know what fixed the problem, maybe one thing maybe everything, but didn’t get any more issues since I did that.

MarLak · October 20, 2022, 10:20am

hi guys,
did anyone tested the latest conbee ii firmware with Z2M? Is it any better or the issue stil presist?
The “solution” to switch to the new sonoff zigbee 3.0 is not for me since it does not support green devices so far