It is part of A zigbee group. Just not the one that primes the bulbs for me. The bulbs are part of a group with the switches though. The only thing I can figure is that whenever anything happens to a member of the Z2M group, all members of the group are kept in sync. That is my only guess because all of this gets very confusing with settings in multiple different locations.
All I can say is that it works for me and my situation. I get instant transitions. The bulbs turn on to the right color. No funny business with lights showing on, but not actually being on. It finally works for me.
I have a slightly different approach that’s also working, and doesn’t use multiple zigbee groups per light/room. It does use multiple instances of Adaptive Lighting, though.
I have a zigbee group per room, containing all lights and switches in that room. The switches are bound to that group.
I have an instance of AL named “Global Color”, which is set to adapt color only, and not brightness. Its update interval is infrequent (300 seconds) and the transition is 5 seconds. It controls every color-adapting bulb in my house directly, and no groups. I did this to reduce traffic on my zigbee network. My understanding is a command sent to a zigbee group is actually broadcast to the entire network, and it’s the responsibility of each device to filter if it belongs to the group. Direct commands result in less traffic.
This “Global Color” AL instance uses an automation to prime the color temperature, so the lights always turn on to the right temperature without a transition.
I have other AL instances for rooms that adapt brightness only, not color. Those updates are more frequent, and control the zigbee groups that contain the switches. Everything stays in sync. I have an automation that turns off the room’s AL if the dimmers are adjusted manually. And it will also reenable AL if I hold the dimmer’s config button.
There’s only one thing I wish were different. There can be a slight brightness transition over the first few seconds after turning on a light in the morning that was last used at night (or vice versa). But otherwise, the setup has been working very well for a few months.
@larryo108,
I’m intrigued and would love to know more. I’m a little bit lost as the adaptive lighting HACS “Device” configuration looks different on my installation.
If I’m gathering what you’re saying:
You only use the adaptive lighting to set color temp and not brightness.
When you refer to “automation,” you mean the adaptive lighting HACS module, or do you mean a different sort of automation (native Home Assistant or Node Red, etc.)
Could I ask you a favor? Could you screenshot your configuration screens a little larger/less cropped? Just trying to follow what you’re doing.
My configuration for the Adaptive Lighting HACS device looks like this:
Yes. I do not let Adaptive Lighting control my brightness with the exception of a couple of lights that have Sleep brightness applied.
The automation I am referring to is posted above for priming the color temp on the lights when they are off. You can scroll through this thread and there is discussion about the automation I am referring to.
