My house came with an ancient Control4 HC300 controller and 4 of their LSZ-102P10-W dimmer switches. I think they were installed by the original owners when the house was built in 2010 (I’m the 3rd owner).
The controller was never upgraded, so it’s too old to use the Control4 integration. I want to get rid of the controller completely anyway.
I have a Conbee II and ZHA setup with a couple other Zigbee switches (Lutron Aurora). I unplugged the Control4 HC300 to keep it from picking the dimmer switches back up, but I can’t get ZHA to see them.
I’ve been trying the “magic button” sequence found here: Control4 Zigbee: The definitive magic button press guide (…) | technet (genesis-technologies.ch) to “Leave Zigbee Mesh and Reset Factory Defaults”. That results in the LEDs blinking on the switch briefly, but then returning to solid blue. It also causes the Hue lights connected to that switch to reset and enter pairing mode, but not the switch itself. ZHA only sees the Hue lights, but never the switch. I don’t even see a communication attempt being made in the debug log.
Am I missing something here, or are these switches just too old to use with ZHA?
If your dimmers are from 2010 they may be using Zigbee Embernet firmware not the later Zigbee Pro. I don’t think C4 use a standard Zigbee stack anyway that would allow their devices to connect to 3rd party hardware.
To factory reset them I think it’s 13-4-13 top/bottom and the LEDs should go green
Sorry to resurrect an old thread but I have some LSZ switches and LDZ dimmers I have been meaning to get working on another platform as well as a test bench (I do control4 for a living but also love to play around with other DIY platforms).
I was using hubitat last night and was able to get my Zigbee pro switches and dimmers connected using the Aurora driver. I don’t have proper feedback from the devices as in their current states etc, but the Aurora driver allowed me to control the devices and even ramp to levels and set levels on the dimemrs, so thats exciting.
If you have the ability, fire up the hc300 and try and update them to at leats zigbee pro then you can try getting them on the HA platform
I have some Control4 dimmers and switches in my house. They are still running on an old Control4 controller which I plan to get rid off. @b00ter, can I just pair those Zigbee devices (I believe that I have upgraded them already) to a Zigbee dangles? What Zigbee dangles shall I use?
hi, I got home assistant for a few years and it works in super basic mode, but I’m about to move onto a converted school bus and want to have Home Assistant running things. I’m trying to figure out the lights at the moment. I’ve got some LED light strips that I want to control via Home Assistant but I’m struggling with the right dimmer and controller set up. I’m wondering if anyone out there is available to help me work out the configuration including some of the electrical loads. Happy to pay a consulting fee but just really want this to work. Reach back out to me. Thanks.
I know it is an old thread, but really I have the same issue as the OP. My controller, an even older HC250, failed to reboot correctly after an electricity outage a few weeks ago, and I’m waiting for the dealer to have a spot available to dispatch a technician. In the meantime not all lights are working. And even more, I was informed that the controller will be EOL and EOS in a year or so, meaning, it requires that we upgrade it ($$$$), or I move to something else.
So my plan is to go away from Control4, and I think Home Assistant is a good path to it. But I’d really like to reuse the lighting controls already in the walls, to save some $$ first, but I do not know what I should do and use to connect the switches to another Zigbee Controller. Anyone solved this issue already?
I keep watching for solutions to continue using the Control4 hardware I have but the years slip by and I don’t see any updates or new options. I have started replacing my Control4 dimmers and switches with TP-Link Kasa hardware. I am mostly satisfied but there have been some trade-offs. I’m just happy that I’m not trapped and forced to support Control4 and their dealer network. I don’t mind loosing some functionality because I’m saving thousands of dollars and have the freedom to do whatever I like and change whatever I like. I believe that support and options in the Home Assistant ecosystem will continue to develop quickly so that’s why I’m going to stay with Home Assistant, it has a viable and sustainable future unlike Control4 which has just been bought-out for the second time, now owned by ADI. On a technical note I’ll also add that the reason I started replacing my Control4 dimmers is because the older models don’t work with LED bulbs.
My suggestion to Jamon, take the plunge and leave Control4 behind and commit to Home Assistant.
like I mentioned in my last post, I really took them out, or at least, the ones that were bugging my daily usage the most, and will continue. In a way, I like what Control4 was doing, but really hated the fact that if I wanted to add or modifi something, I had to pay someone $100/h to do so. I had bought the Controller Home Edition application, and while I could do some customization myself, it was soooo difficult and risky to break something, that I could not see myself live with that in the long run. I was trying to save a few $$$ by reusing the Control4 switches, as the switches I looked for were in the $50 range each, but with the Sonoff ZBMINIR2, I found a cheap solution for most switches (I replace them with standard switches at $3) and I move when I can some of the Lutron Caseta to places where they make more sense or are more useful.
I was already planning to move away from them, it probably just happen quicker than expected because the controller died on us last January. But, all is for good. I like Home Assistant, and the community here is very helpful. I haven’t completed all the migration of all things, but the most important is done. And I’m now looking at some automations to shut lights after a time and such.
I even started doing some custom solution with an ESP32, based on a discussion with ChatGPT, that I still need to complete, but that is really fun. Learning a lot of things along the way
