ZHA: HUE Dimmer Switches not working after reconnecting to ZHA

[Didischu]

Dear all,
after reconnecting a HUE Dimmer Switch (RWL022 / SW 2.77.39) to Home Assistant Zigbee Integration again (HA Green + ZBT-2), which was working perfectly before, the device can’t trigger actions anymore. Tryings to make it work with Switch Manager also failed: ID auto detection fails, no device ID appears after pressing a button. Assuming the device could be broken somehow I bought some new ones. All of them show the same behavior now. The binding of each device worked normally and activities after pressing a button are recognized and shown in the logging window ( e.g.: HUE DIMM SLZ2 Recall event was fired with parameters: {‘group_id’: 52272, ‘scene_id’: 1, ‘transition_time’: None} with arguments: [52272, 1] )
I am not sure about that but suspect the issues came up after automatically installed softwareupdates a few days ago. Any ideas out there? I was glad if someone had a good advice.
kind Regards, Dirk

[Sir_Goodenough ((SG) WhatAreWeFixing.Today)]

If you are using device ID’s the ID changes when you change anything.
Suggestion, don’t use device_id’s, use entity_id’s in automations.

For that you will have to edit all those automations so that it knows the new device ID, or better yet convert to entity_id’s and states.

Why and how to avoid device_ids in automations and scripts

Background When you start writing automations, a device trigger seems the obvious choice. Everybody knows what a device is and it comes at the top of the UI dropdown list. [Screenshot from 2025-11-20 18-37-55] It works… but it is not a the best way to start because it is storing up problems for the future. Far better to use an entity, with state or numeric_state. This topic is part of the community-driven cookbook where you can find other topics you might be interested in or might like to …

[Didischu]

Thanks for your quick reply, but it’s not about the ID’s. I created completely new automations but they are not responding to button actions. When I put the device back to my HUE integration it works but oviously with limited functionality.

[Didischu]

Small update:
The Philips HUE switches are detected with device ID by Switch Manager when I try to make them work as Sengled Smart Light Switch E1E-G7FW but only 1st button with single press is working in this case…

I tried copying this automatically detected device ID into a HUE Dimmer switch V1/V2 configuration but it doesn’t work anyway. Very strange to me. Hope someone can help soon…

[Didischu]

Even If there weren’t any helping answers, the issue has been solved after a Core update a few day ago. After installing and re-pairing my HUE Dimmer Switches each of them workedagin like before.

My learnings: Since I baught this nice systen to change over from Philips HUE a few weeks ago I installed every proposed update assuming this will allways increase performance and stability, but it didn’t. Every time after installation I recognized another small problem and had to solve some issues. I will be a little more careful in the future.