Hi guys, hope you will be able to help me with my problem.
Recently, I bought a Lidl/Silvercrest ceiling light with remote control. Installed and paired both via zigbee2mqtt. Light connected witout issues straight to the coordinator and works well. But the remote connected to Xiamoi/Aqara curtain motor which is in the same room and serves as a router. This would not be a problem, but if I click the button on the remote to turn the light on, it closes the curtain instead! The other button opens the curtain. There’s no Zigbee2mqtt bind, there’s no automation in Home Assistant. It just connects together and works…but not the way it is supposed to
I tried to recoonect it several times, even with the curtain motor disconnected from the power supply…but once I connect it back, it pairs together again and the remote controls the curtains instead of the ligh.
Is there anything I can do? Disabling the router functionality is not possible. There’s no visible bind of the devices which I can delete/disable.
I don’t think this is a pairing issue - “pairing” in Zigbee is just a matter of joining the network. Some manufacturers’ devices stick to the router they are paired though, but normally once paired a device will change its connections regularly to achieve a good path through the mesh. Even if you were able to disable the routing functionality in the curtain motor, the remote would simply connect to it via another router. A device doesn’t necessarily control the thing it’s paired through.
It sounds as if the remote is addressing the wrong device. I don’t use Z2M, I’m afraid, but I think that’s what you need to investigate.
I have nearly the same thing with a Lidl ceiling light. After resetting it and a succesful discovery in HA it works for a day or so, but after some time it somehow “binds” to an IKEA switch that is used to control other lights, which controls it without being in the automation. The only help is to reset the celing light and start over, until the next day…
Oh, and the remote that came with that lidl celing light was unsable, it binded with every device in a 10m area and started controlling them.
I have the feeling some devices are just crap - in my case the lamp. Maybe in your case it’s the Aqara.
Actually that was my first guess - I thought it is somehow interferring/binding with my IKEA switch, which I use to controll the covers motor…but it did the same thing even when I took the battery out of the IKEA switch.
And yes, the remote is quite piece of crap, thinking about throwing it in the bin and replacing it with another IKEA switch…
It looks like the lamp and the remote I have, they are both crap (not only because both are ugly). So much about impulse buys at Lidl. I never got the remote to work properly, and the lamp does what it wants. Which is mostly not turning on or off when you need it. We should do ourselves a favor and get rid of it. Let’s sell it on ebay.
Had to remove all sarcasm smileys, otherwise it wouldn’t let me post.
Well so far, I’m happy with the light, but the RC is crap indeed. Will remove the battery and give it to my kid as a toy as he likes pushing the big buttons
Actually, you need to create it first, but it’s super easy. Go to your Zigbee2MQTT, on the top, select the tan Groups. Here I had one empty default group with ID 901. I just created 2 other groups with different IDs and placed each device to it’s individual group.
