Blue series becoming bound to other devices mysteriously

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I’m using the Inovelli Blue 2-in-1s throughout my home. I also have a few other devices, a couple of Zigbee bulbs and sensors from third reality. This is hooked up through a conbee II on a Raspberry Pi 4 Running home assistant and bridge to HomeKit. It works for the most part flawlessly.

I mysteriously ended up in a situation where when I turned on my hallway light switch, my bedside lamps would turn on. They would also turn on when the sunset automation turned on my front entry lights.

After quite a lot of digging and not being able to find out where this was configured, I found out that it was to do with the bindings at the Zigbee level, which is lower level and not well supported in the ZHA UI. In fact, it wasn’t even that easy to unbind because I couldn’t display all the bindings that a device had. I have no idea how this ever got configured. I would have never configured something like this, and it would have been very hard to do so through the bindings.

Fast forward to today. I go and turn on my 2-in-1 switch in the hall, and I notice that it flashes green, and then my bedside lights go on. Maybe I accidentally did some special hotkey that triggered a binding. The green flash was new to me, and seemed to indicate something.

Has anybody experienced this or have ideas about how I can debug or figure out what is causing these bindings to happen?

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So, I did experience this a couple of times when I very first installed my switches a while back (and on much earlier firmware).

I’m not certain it was an inovelli problem, I suspect more of a zigbee network problem, and possibly zha. It’s crazy to me that that interface won’t tell you what things are bound to what. Zigbee2mqtt I eventually switched to shows you that right in the interface.

I think I was able to resolve the issues on ZHA by sending the right unbind commands and possibly removing from groups that things shouldn’t have been in, but I don’t think I’ve ever had the issue since I switched to zigbee 2mqtt

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What firmware are you currently on? In the very early days of the Blue 2-1s, I had serious issues with rampant unsolicited bindings, but a firmware and/or driver update fixed that - I’ve had no such issues since.

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Looks like I am on a pretty old build! (2.14) Updating them all and will report back if I see the issue again. Hopefully not.