Temporary Zigbee binding between switches without hub?

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I’m renovating a house (where I don’t currently live), and I’m at the point of the process where I’m finishing the electrical, including wiring a bunch of Inovelli Blue switches. A few pairs of those switches are configured in 3-way mode (e.g. top and bottom of the stairs), wired in the recommended way for Zigbee-binding-based control.

It’s going to be a few more months before I actually move in, so my HA server (using Z2M) isn’t in the house yet.

As is, the Inovelli switches are all in factory default mode, which is fine for the most part (I’ll set up dimming and groups and binding to Hue downlights once I live there).

But it would be really convenient if in the interim I could get the 3-way switches to at least function together as a group, even just in on-off mode.

Is there any way to set up that direct binding without having a hub? Or would I have to spin up some kind of temporary hub instance at the new house to get the switches to bind to each other?

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You’ll need a hub. The switches have to be part of the same Zigbee network to be bound together and that cannot be done without a hub. You can remove the hub once they’re bound and they will continue to work.

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Okay, that’s what I figured. I’ll rig up something temporary to get the 3-ways bound and working.

All of the switch-level parameters I set using this temporary hub will be preserved when I drop them from the temporary Zigbee network and add them to their final network, right?

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I’m not actually sure on that part. I know with Z-Wave when you exclude from a network, it factory resets. I would assume Zigbee would do something similar.

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Okay. Not a huge deal either way, but I won’t bother configuring all of the parameters in detail if there’s a chance I’ll have to do it all again later.

Thanks for your help!