I could use some help with the Lutron Aurora Dimmer Z3-1BRL that I recently picked up and have been fighting with ever since.
Hardware:
- SONOFF ZBDongle-E Zigbee 3.0 USB gateway (fully updated) via ZHA
- Lutron Aurora Dimmer (I do not have a Hue Hub to update it)
- Globe Electric WiFi RGBWW Smart light
I originally found bjpetit’s blueprint for the dimmer, which ‘mostly’ worked. I could use the dimmer to turn on the light and set the brightness. Unfortunately the light could not be turned off or even have the brightness set below 2%. Receiving input from the toggle button rarely happened. After a bit more digging I found richlee91’s blueprint but ultimately had similar results.
I found a ZHA custom quirk for the dimmer by BRCook. This has dramatically improved the toggle/push button response, but the blueprints found previously began generating errors regarding args indexing whenever the button was pressed. This is due to the quirk changing some things in the resulting json. Dug around the net some more and found nschwermann’s post with an “adaptive” blueprint, which sadly had mixed results like the previous.
With that out of the way, I do “sort of” have the dimmer working after modifying the last blueprint to work with the quirk for the push/toggle button. Of course there are some issues, otherwise I wouldn’t be asking for help haha!
Anyways, the first issue was seen with all of the previous attempts to make this dimmer work. And that issue is with the brightness randomly going dimmer or brighter WHILE you are spinning the dimmer to adjust the brightness.
The second issue is also with the brightness adjustment, and to put it simply, the transition between brightness levels is not smooth. While this is not a deal breaker it would be nice to fix.
The third issue, (and last so far), is with the push/toggle button. While it is more consistent, it does randomly trigger multiple times with a single press or doesn’t trigger at all.
Based on everything I’ve done so far to get to this point, I believe these issues could be resolved by adjusting the blueprint (posted below). That is where I am hoping to get some assistance.
blueprint:
name: ZHA - Lutron Aurora Dimmer - Test
description: 'Control lights with a Lutron Aurora Dimmer
Pressing in the dimmer button will toggle between turning lights on
to full brightness, and turning the lights off.
Rotating the dimmer will increase and decrease the light brightness.
Adjust the sensitivity if updates from the dimmer are being sent too quickly
Heavily based on works of bjpetit, richlee91 and nschwermann'
domain: automation
input:
remote:
name: Lutron Aurora Dimmer Switch
description: Lutron Aurora Z3-1BRL
selector:
device:
integration: zha
manufacturer: Lutron
model: Z3-1BRL
entity:
domain: sensor
device_class: battery
light:
name: Light(s)
description: The light(s) to control
selector:
target:
entity:
domain: light
sensitivity:
name: Sensitivity
description: Reducing sensitivity will reduce rate of changes being sent to
lights
default: 3
selector:
number:
min: 1.0
max: 3.0
mode: slider
step: 1.0
mode: restart
max_exceeded: silent
trigger:
- platform: event
event_type: zha_event
event_data:
device_id: !input 'remote'
action:
- variables:
sensitivity_input: !input 'sensitivity'
selected_light: !input 'light'
sensitivity: "{% if sensitivity_input == \"3\" %}\n 1\n{% elif sensitivity_input\
\ == \"2\" %}\n 5\n{% else %}\n 15\n{% endif %} \n"
prior_brightness: '{{ brightness | default }}'
command: '{{ trigger.event.data.command }}'
#brightness: '{{ (trigger.event.data.args[0]|int) / (sensitivity|int) * (sensitivity|int) }}'
- choose:
- conditions:
- '{{ command == ''move_to_level_with_on_off'' }}'
#- '{{ brightness != prior_brightness }}'
sequence:
- service: light.turn_on
target: '{{ selected_light }}'
data:
brightness: '{{ (trigger.event.data.args[0]|int) / (sensitivity|int) * (sensitivity|int) }}'
- conditions:
- '{{ command == ''aurora_toggle'' }}'
sequence:
- service: light.toggle
target: '{{ selected_light }}'
- service: system_log.write
data:
message: "{{ expand(selected_light) }}"
level: info
TL;DR
I’m a complete newbie to blueprints as well as working with ZigBee devices/events and could use some constructive critique on the blueprint I’m using.
Side Note: I haven’t posted or logged in enough to post more than 2 links, so I’ve only included what I feel are the 2 more relavent links.