Zigbee Switches Created Their Own Automations!

[911alertme (Spencer)]

I am having a problem where my Zigbee smart switches created their own automations based on input from Zigbee buttons.

My setup is as follows:
HA OS 2024.5.2 (Proxmox on NUC)
Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus (TI CC2652P + CP2102N)
Sonoff SNZB-01 Zigbee Mini Smart Wireless Switch (single click, double click, etc)
Aqara Smart Light Switch WS-USC03 (neutral required, these act as repeaters)
Zigbee Home Automation (ZHA) configuration

I have 5 of the smart switches throughout the house and 5 of the buttons. I got everything paired with Home Assistant nicely. I started making automations to have the buttons control some of the smart switches and some Wifi plugs I have. I want most the automations to trigger on a single button click. I also have some additional automations for double click on the buttons. This worked excellently for awhile.

The problem is that the Aqara switches have decided that they wanted to make their own automations in response to the button presses. The HA automations work perfectly well still, but it’s frustrating when you turn a light on in one corner of the house and a different one turns off on the opposite side of the house.

Has anybody experienced this before? Is there any way to control/modify these self generated automations? They appear to exist outside of HA. This Zigbee system is absolutely not working the way I want it to and I’m getting frustrated.

[francisp (Francis)]

They created a binding.

Migrating from a Philips Hue Bridge to the ZHA (Zigbee Home Automation) integration

Don’t forget that the first post in a community guide is a wiki - feel free to add to it or correct it. This guide was written and tested these versions but should also work similarly with later versions: Home Assistant 2023.8.4 Supervisor 2023.09.2 Operating System 10.5 Frontend 20230911.0 - latest Background Until recently Philips Hue devices have been controlled locally through a bridge, but the company has now started asking users to open a cloud account, which will ultimately hold det…

[911alertme (Spencer)]

Is there any way to remove the binding?

[francisp (Francis)]

I once posted how to do it, but can’t find it right now.

GitHub - mdeweerd/zha-toolkit: 🧰 Zigbee Home Assistant Toolkit - service for...

[911alertme (Spencer)]

I installed and found the right command. I could not get it to unbind anything. I migrated the entire system to Z2M and find it’s a much more useful system. Binding and unbinding are easy! I appreciate the reply to at least get me barking up the right tree!

[francisp (Francis)]

I always found Zigbee2mqtt the better of the 2 ZigBee stacks

[911alertme (Spencer)]

I’m back to being frustrated. I was able to create a few binds that I wanted using Z2M and I was very happy. But the buttons (or switches?) have made some of their own binds again.
Z2M doesn’t show any binds at all and I can’t seem to delete/ clear the bindings. Is there perhaps a compatibility issue with these button/switch combos?