Zigbee Remotes with HUSBZB-1 & ZHA

Configuration Zigbee
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Does anyone have experience with zigbee remotes that work well with ZHA? I have some switches without neutral wires and the Lutron connected bulb remotes were a great substitute for a zwave switch, but they’ve recently stopped working with my Wink hub. So I’m considering ditching Wink and using only hass.

I got the HUSBZB-1 and have both the Lutron Connected Bulb Remote and Sylvania Lightify Smart Switch connected to ZHA. However, neither really work. No events show up from the Lutron and the Sylvania is a mess. Maybe they need quirks? Is there anything I can do to help add support to ZHA?

Also, the Lightify Smart Switch is a great deal right now on Amazon & eBay ($10.99 for a 4 button switch). So I’d think it could be really popular if it worked well.

Thanks!

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Support for the connected bulb remote should be coming soon. https://github.com/dmulcahey/zha-device-handlers/issues/32

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That’s awesome! Thanks for the reply. I’ve followed your lead and submitted an issue/request for support for the Sylvania Lightify Smart Switch.

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I just tried with the latest dev branch of Home-assistant, and my Lutron connected bulb remote is working. I was able to setup automations for all 4 buttons. I can finally get rid of my Wink Hub! Woohoo!

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Hi @w1ll1am23,
any chance you could share how you are accessing the remotes. I have one paired with my current system. I can see the events in the log as well as in node red, but I’m at a little bit of a loss for how to utilize those events as triggers. Could you paste an automation so i could reverse engineer it for my setup.
thanks in advance!

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So this is my tigger

args:
  - 1
  - 30
  - 6
command: step
device_ieee: 'ff:ff:00:0f:e7:ff:31:ea'

Needs to be an event trigger specifically a zha_event

Grabbed all of those attributes out of the ZHA event

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Thanks a ton! I ended up using that information to figure out how to integrate into Node Red. Just for others that may be interested…
-event node to watch for all zha_event
-switch node to filter out which remote i am working with via payload.event.device_ieee is equal to specific hex for device which can be found in hassio under configuration>ZHA>device drop down
-second switch node to check for the value of the payload.event.args[0] (on mine 254 represents button 1, 1 represents button 3, and 0 can be either button 2 or 4)
-third switch node to check for the value of the payload.event.args[1] in order to differentiate between buttons 2 and 4 (a value of 30 signifies button 2, a value of 4 is button 4)
-call service node to turn on a scene

YEAH!! So excited to have that working!!

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Can anyone tell me if they have gotten the lightify smart bulbs to successfully pair with home assistant? I can’t get zigbee to discover any devices even in close proximity to the controller

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The osram lightify bulbs? I have two for the color bulbs connected and working fine.

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Was there any special configuration you had to do? I can’t get home assistant to recognize them and I can’t figure out where I’m going wrong

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Are you sure you reset them? If you haven’t already I would run through the reset process and then try to pair again. I am not doing anything special and I am pairing mine pretty far away. Stick is in the basement and the bulb on the second floor.

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I’ve definitely reset them, they flash when I plug the lights in to indicate they are ready to pair. When I say search for devices in the ZHA UI it says its searching but never finds anything.

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Could I by chance see the configuration you have for zigbee? I’m thinking I might have configured it wrong and that’s why it won’t work

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I don’t have any config, I set it up using the integrations via the frontend.

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Did you ever get this error when you set it up? I just set it up via front end and I’m at least getting an error so that’s a start from where I was at.

Error:
[0x0000:zdo] ZDO request 0x0036: [60, <Bool.false: 0>]

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I don’t recall seeing any errors, but I wasn’t paying much attention to the logs.