Blue 2-1, Zigbee RGBW Lights, Hubitat, and Homekit. There must be a better way

[EricM_Inovelli]

@jakedeg

Thanks for popping in here, @EricM_Inovelli. I believe I set up the bindings precisely based on the instructions here in your knowledge base. The bindings are to the individual light devices. I did make a group using the Hubitat “Groups and Scenes” App, but that group is not shown as an option in the Zigbee Bindings App’s “To These Devices…” picker. I am not sure if the zigbee group idea you mentioned here is the same thing as a group in Hubitat, or something different. if it is different, how would I create it? I don’t see anything about that in the bindings instructions, unless I’m missing it.

These are the steps I take for group binding in Hubitat.

How To’s | Setup Zigbee Group Binding - Hubitat - How To’s & Flex Zone - Inovelli Community

You would first want to get rid of the individual bindings though. Go through the binding app and click the slider over from “bind” to “unbind” and then hit “save”. After you are sure the binding is gone (perhaps test it at the switch) then you can delete the binding app instance.

@jakedeg

I’m also confused about the differences between “Bind power”, “Bind level”, and “Bind color". Your instructions say to leave them all selected, but I have unselected Bind Color because I can’t imagine what it would do and I don’t think I want the color to be bound. But let me know if you think this is a problem.

For individual binding (just for reference) it is ok to leave or to not select color. I usually do not select it because the device doesn’t support it, but it shouldn’t hurt anything if you leave it selected.