Smart bulbs with Smart switches - how to combine and integrate them?

[lonebaggie]

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How to switch tradfri bulbs with dumb light switches? Sonoff/Shelly switch with Tasmota the solution?

I have a bunch of Tradfri Smart Bulbs deployed in our apartment and hooked up to home assistant. The bulbs come with a wireless remote, which allows for switching but also dimming and changing the color of the bulbs. [tradfri] This setup is not only ugly but can also become confusing for guests. I’d like to replace the current setup with a solution that can be switched with an in-wall switch. I have the following requirements: Switching off the wall switch should kill the mains power to …

Test if Tradfri light is available/reachable?

Unfortunately. I cannot get my aging brain to understand and code HA Automations . All my coding for this problem is in Python using Appdeamon. Hopefully, there is something useful in the code you can adapt. Just a rundown on my setup 6 Tradfri lights in two sets of 3 connected to a single xiaomi aqara (ZigBee) switch 3 bulbs are in light group light.living_room_lights 3 bulbs are in light group light.dining_room lights I use the above combination as xiaomi aqara does not support dimming. I…

The trick is working out how the bulbs and HA react when the power is removed from the smart bulb . Does HA report the bulbs are available/unavailable . How long they take to re-sync. If the bulbs don’t report correctly or reliably the solution wont work.

I could not get my tradfri bulbs to work reliably with zigbee2mqtt , failed did’nt like the bulbs going offline, kept crashing.