I have a basic rule for turning on my color lights and randomly they are turned on to a color rather than the color temp:
Last night, the living room sofa south light was green, and tonight the north light is violet.
here is the log from the north light:
but the south light is different:
the north light failed to set the CT mode and temperature, so it just turned on to what it was last night.
What type of bulbs are these?
and I just noticed the englenook window light didn't even turn on...
here is the log for that light:
they are all
sengled
and I am using the built in advanced zigbee rgbw bulb driver in the living room sofa lights and singled element color plus driver in the englenook bulb.
I know two different drivers, but I wouldn't think that would matter....
Thinking more on this, I have 3 of the Singled bulbs on my front porch using the built in Advance RGBW bulb driver, BUT they are being controlled by a rule in RM.
hhmmmmm....
How is your Zigbee mesh? Both this and your Room Lighting issue seems related. Missing commands on a zigbee device is usually mesh related.
That is what I though as well, and from what I see it is very good.
The lights in the dining room are within 10 feet of the hub and the living room is at most 15 feet and one wall.
Like I said before though, these lights used to be on the C7 and run by RM. I wanted to try RL as it has some nice features, but if the lights get "lost", it is not useful.
If it is a mesh issue, why did the same lights work on the C7?
I could backtrack and go back to the C7 to see if things are any different, just to test.
This is another reason I removed the Linpech mm wave sensors.... spamming my network maybe, but I don't think so.
Go to the Device Detail page for the devices that are not responding as you expect, then click/tap into the Events page for that device. This will show you a history of both events (what did happen--pretty boring since you also saw that in logs and it matches what you saw in real life, I assume) and commands (what the devices were told to do). Commands are more interesting because they will tell you if something besides your rule was also acting on this light. It sounds a lot like it could be.
To find commands, look for entries with "command" listed under the Type column. Or you can cheat a bit: the "event" names will also have "command" prefixed. Look for things that would turn the device on, especially something like "command-setColor" (as opposed to "command-setColorTemperature"). The even more helpful part is that this will show you what app sent the command, so you can see if it was something besides this rule.
If it was, you know where to start looking. If it's only this rule, another good troubleshooting step for device problems is to leave apps out of the picture: does the device respond as expected when controlled directly from the device detail page?
Yes, I have always been able to control the lights on their respective device pages and from the dashboards, both HE and HD+ dashboards. they have always worked from these.
Thanks for the info! I am going to take a little time looking at all this though.
One question I have about RL....
For the dining room lights and two other rooms, I am controlling the lights with hub modes and time of day.
To accomplish this, I have create two seperate RL rules, one for modes and one for time of day.
IE a RL for dining room lights by mode and dining room lights by time. The same lights are controlled by each RL rule.
The other lights have their own separate RL rules for mode and time as well....
IE 4 different RL rules.
I wonder if when the lights are commanded by the "by mode" RL, the "by time" RL is also triggered to control the lights, even though the time is not the same ??? Would there be interaction between the two RL rules for the same lights?
I don't know how to use both hub mode and time of day to control lights in RL rules and that is why I created two separate RL rules for the same lights.
I wouldn't think this would matter, UNLESS the RL is watching the light status and if it changes without RL controlling the light, will RL "take over" the light(s)?
If I have to, I will create more hub modes for the times that I want, and just use ONE RL rule...
That still doesn't explain why all the lights in the diningroom RL rule went "red X".
My mesh is good, and when I click on the "status "button"" in the RL status column, the light comes back (red X goes away), and I can control the light with the status button.
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