Hey guys, just finished migrating my lights from my old Wink hub onto the new ZHA component. All the lights work just fine on their own as far as brightness control and turning them on and off from the typical UI elements.
The issue is when I try to automate them using scenes. When I try to do something similar to this it ends up doing weird things. Most of them time it just dims for a second and then goes back to full brightness when trying to dim.
Does anyone know if transition is supported for lights using the ZHA component? I understand why it wasn’t for the Wink Hub since it’s using a non local 3rd party integration, but this is all from within Home Assistant so I figured it would work fine.
I understand it’s new though so I get that it might not work completely right away, I’m just curious if anyone knows if it should work properly or not.
I know this is over a year later, but similar issue are still present with the ZHA Component.
Z-Wave and Hue using the Hue Bridge can do tranistions and colour changes normally.
IE: Turn on a light and it turns on to the set colour and tranistion to on and tranistion to off all work.
With ZHA component, regardless of colour setting, when it first turns the light on it will be at the previous set colour and tranisition to OFF does not work.
When using light.turn_off transition time is ignored. Using light.turn_on, transition time works as expected.
The only work around I have found is use light.turn_on and transition to brightness = 1 and then use a light.turn_off command.
Similar thing with the colour. Use light.turn_on at brightness = 1 and then use a separate command to set the colour and actual brightness I want.
It would be good to know if the ZHA component is still being developed. If not, I may end up going back to OEM bridges.
I’m not a dev so I can’t give you concrete answers, but I’m happy to add my experience so that maybe it helps answer your questions. The ZHA component is definitely still being worked on, and new device support gets added fairly regularly, along with bugfixes, but I believe only one dev is working on it so it’s a little slow to change. Luckily it’s mostly solid at this point so it’s not too much work to maintain it.
As for your issue with the color setting being the same when it’s turned on, I believe that is dependent on the light bulb specifically, so you may want to try out other brands, or possibly if you ruled out it being bulb dependent, submitting a bug report on github.
If it’s an option for you I’ve heard the ikea bridges work pretty well and integrate seamlessly into homeassistant, but I’m personally still using ZHA.
@OrangeTang
I have the Hue Bridge and using it is pretty well seamless. I just want to get rid of extra devices.
That’s why I prefer the ZHA component rather than Deconz or Zigbee2MQTT projects.
Mostly ZHA works, I just have found a couple of glitches. Can likely work around them for now until it’s ironed out.
I am looking forward to the day when ZHA reaches the same level of integration as Z-Wave, with the GUI console options and all :).
