A better Enbrighten zigbee dimmer driver

jshimota · September 4, 2023, 8:40pm

I have a number of GE Enbrighten dimmers - all Jasco ZIGBEE 43080 models.

The GE driver found in HE fails for me - I tried before to get the driver fixed but was told it wasn't broken - yada yada and I gave up.

A recent event caused me to look elsewhere and I'm glad to report I have solved my problem.
First, what is the problem. There are actually two but one is more of an understanding of a feature and why not to use it. The ability to Enable Pre-Stage will cause errors with Alexa. If you enable it, then you begin getting 'xxx not responding' voice messages from Alexa. So you must leave this OFF.
The more important problem is that issuing 'Alexa, turn on bathroom 60%' will turn the switch on, but the value will be whatever the switch was last set at. In other words, the verbal command is handled as an On/Off, and the value you state is ignored. This is really bad since Room Lighting also fails with this setup.
I set bathroom lights to 20% while sleeping so I don't get blinded if I get out of bed. Unless I preset the value before I go to sleep, I'm in for a horrid rude awakening.

Using THIS driver found at SmartThings works great. The initial installation as a new user driver will give you an error message - Delete that whole line 185. Then save and go about your business!

github.com

SmartThingsCommunity/SmartThingsPublic/blob/master/devicetypes/smartthings/zigbee-dimmer.src/zigbee-dimmer.groovy

/**
 *	Copyright 2015 SmartThings
 *
 *	Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except
 *	in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
 *
 *		http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 *	Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed
 *	on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License
 *	for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
 *
 */

metadata {
	definition (name: "ZigBee Dimmer", namespace: "smartthings", author: "SmartThings", ocfDeviceType: "oic.d.light", runLocally: true, minHubCoreVersion: '000.019.00012', executeCommandsLocally: true, genericHandler: "Zigbee") {
		capability "Actuator"
		capability "Configuration"
		capability "Refresh"
		capability "Switch"

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Now, when you issue a 'Alexa turn the bathroom to 20%' it comes on at 20%. No errors, no voice error messages. Just a functional driver! Hope this helps others!

marktheknife · September 4, 2023, 8:58pm

You can remove everything in the “tiles” section after the device fingerprints. It doesn’t cause any harm AFAIK but those lines of code only work in the SmartThings mobile app.

And line 185 might work if “physicalgraph” is replaced with “hubitat”. Physical graph was the name of the company that became SmartThings.

system · September 3, 2024, 8:59pm

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