Just installed a blue series dimmer with mm wave In a room that has three Philips Hue white and color down lights
Just FYI needed 2 bypasses for this switch on the first light in the chain
I’m wondering what the best programming path is for controlling these Philips Hue lights through home Assistant through the switch when these lights are paired to the Philips Hue hub not directly into home assistant
Z2mQTT
I tried having all my hue bulbs paired directly in z to MQTT but it wasn’t as reliable as using the hue hub idk what secret sauce he has in there zigbee Network but it’s really solid
So of course I can do the regular automations but can you also bind the switch with the bulbs or do they have to be on the same coordinator?
One thing I most curious about is what is the best settings for pressing and holding and getting the bulbs in the room to dimmm smoothly
Zigbee binding is not possible unless everything is on same coordinator, so if you keep the bulbs on Hue, then the connections must be done via automation.
thats what i thought Man it feels like with a Philips Hue Zigbee network each light bulb is a repeater and they’re all bouncing off each other and when you bring them into a standard Zigbee network with a coordinator and maybe a couple routers it feels like everything just talks to the coordinator and routers and it’s not as quick fast reliable ETC it’s weird
I’m not sure what you’re using as a coordinator but with good coordinators and choosing the correct channel and settings, it’s rock solid with Z2M. I have more than 50 hue lights on my Z2M network. I never could get more than 50 with a hue hub before they started falling off.
I’m always using top of the line coordinators I have the ZBT 2 Now I’m trying an SLzbmr3 I have a full top of the line ubiquity network most things wired separate Iot 2.4 is spread apart far away from Zigbee At the end of the day I think just geography walls Stucco brick drywall Quiet rock which has metal in it I’ll just play in ways that we can’t understand or discern from one another and that’s why it seems great at one person’s house but not great at another
Another reason I’m still using a Hue hub a pro hub mind you the newer one and it’s been a lot more responsive is things like Hue tap dial switches I still haven’t even figured out how to get those to program on Z to M and act the same as they do dimming to off rotating the bezel in Home Assistant once I do I may be enticed to try and fully switch again
Another thing I’ve noticed Hugh hub versus Z to M with coordinator like when using a Hue hub and a Hue tap dial switch or wall switch module you turn off the lights and they all turn off at the same time Z to M you turn on and off the lights and they would kind of all stagger turning on and off and I don’t know how to fix that and make it seem less but it definitely does not pass the wife approval factor