Controlling Hue smart bulbs with red series VZW32-SN

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Hi there, I have been trying to configure the VZW32-SN with some hue lights in home assistant. And I am running into trouble. It’s as if the smart bulb parameter is not disabling local control and any automations I have configured in home assistant are fighting with local parameters when I use the paddle.

Has anyone setup Hue bulbs with the red series dimmers, or used the smart bulb mode? This is my first attempt at using smart bulbs with any of the inovelli dimmers. I am really regretting sticking with zwave for this batch of switches, it seems like the zigbee blue switches would just bind to the bulbs any everything would work.

Thanks!

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Not sure if I’m understanding you right, but smart bulb mode just permanently enabled the circuit. This would mean the bulb always has power so you can control it through other means. In home assistant, this would be something like a blueprint or automation that can interact with the bulbs since they’re zigbee and I don’t think directly bind to zwave switches. In that case you’d link the bulbs to HA, the switches to HA, and then use HA to control them.

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Thanks for the response, Yes, this is what I’m doing, but I can’t seem to get the hold function to work well via HA automations. So dimming isnt really a smooth experience. I’ve resorted to double tapping to increase and decrease brightness 30%.

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How’re you doing this? I use the hold function for mine and it works pretty well. Using this bp: homeassistant-config/blueprints/automation/rohankapoorcom/inovelli-vzw31-sn-red-series-switch.yaml at master · rohankapoorcom/homeassistant-config · GitHub

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hmm I assumed this would not work with the new switches so havent tried. Thanks for confirming, I will give this a go.

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It wasn’t last time I checked. It looks like it was recently updated. If you review the yaml, it’s pretty straightforward to add new switches and models too as new ones come out.

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So it turns out my zigbee controller was getting flooded and so some messages were dropped which is why i think this wasnt working correctly. I never did get it to work with the red switches being able to paddle dim the hue bulbs. I plan on just getting a hue bridge and offload some of the zigbee lights there, we have close to 40 hue bulbs and expect to add a few more (closer to 60 in total) so i expect this would have gotten worse. If this is still open I will try and reply back on how the dimming worked.