I have recently purchased an Inovelli blue 2-1 dimmer zigbee light switch. I've had it working as a dimmer for dumb bulbs. However, I would like to use it with smart bulbs as it has the ability to supply always on power to the bulbs. I have been able to connect the bulbs to the hubitat and control them through the software. But in order to use them with the switch to create scenes do I need to use zigbee binding? How do I do this? I don't see any option when creating devices/groups to bind the group to the switch for control. The bulbs are Sengled colour zigbee bulbs.
Binding isn't required - you can control the smart bulbs fine with or without binding.
But binding can only be done with individual devices -- it's not currently possible to bind to a group. I say "currently" because I don't know if that could change in the future or it's some kind of hard limitation.
Okay. But i have no control of the lights at the switch. I can only control them via the hubitat software. Is there a control parameter with the switch that I'm missing?
If you don't bind, then you have to use Button Controller (my recommendation) or Rule Machine to define what you want to do with the paddles.
If you haven't yet read the documentation that came with the Blue switch, I encourage you to -- there's a lot of good information & helpful links in it.
Yeah I checked the links with the online documentation but there wasn't much for Hubitat that I saw. Thanks for the info and the quick response! I will give it a try.
@hydro311 - it seems I'm not a very good googler... I found the documentation I think you were referring to. As of now, I have the switch working with the rule machine app. Thanks again!
This basic app I put together makes it easy to bind and unbind the Inovelli switches. I use it with Hue bulbs.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bradsjm/hubitat-dev/main/Zigbee/InovelliZigbeeBinding.groovy
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@jonathanb Thanks for the idea. Right now it seems to be working with the rule machine app. I will definitely give this a try as well. Thanks again!
Is Inovelli the only one to use Zigbee binding?
Inovelli have support for binding to other devices in their driver, this app just makes it convenient to utilize that existing driver capability.
While binding is a standard part of current Zigbee specifications I believe other controllers would also need to implement support in their driver if they have it.
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Any reason this wouldn't work for any device? What is needed in the driver to make it work?
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