Hi, all. Just signed up here, hoping for some guidance. After Sengled fizzled out and turned my hub and all my lights into paperweights, I poked around and read in a few spots that a Hubitat hub could fill the void, so I purchased mine a couple days ago.
I have 23 of the Sengled Smart LED RGB lights (the BR series that looks like a floodlight). I pulled one of them from the socket and verified that they're Zigbee certified, so I bought the Hubitat Elevation C-8.
Before I start asking a million questions, will this even work? The Hubitat app told me during configuration that now I need an Echo for this to work, which sorta begs the question of why did I buy the Hubitat? I thought the Hubitat would replace the Sengled hub. Ugh...
I'm not sure at what point in the setup process it said you'd need an Echo to make something work, but I have a bunch of Sengled zigbee bulbs connected to my hub and they work great. No Echos in my house. There are specific Sengled drivers available on the Hubitat that you can use. They may be automatically selected when you add the bulbs, but if not, you can manually select them.
Since Sengled bulbs are not repeaters, you may benefit from adding other hard-wired Zigbee devices that act as repeaters.
Lots of good information about Zigbee here: Zigbee Details | Hubitat Documentation. That docs site has a ton more information about getting started with Hubitat, and this community is pretty welcoming and helpful if you can't find an answer there.
Welcome aboard! Your new hub works with Sengled devices right out of the box—no additional hubs are required. With that in mind, could you please share what led you to believe we recommended an Echo? That’s not only incorrect on our part, but we also can’t think of anything in the app that might give that impression. If possible, could you please provide screenshots so we can quickly identify and resolve this issue to prevent confusion for other users.
I got roughly 22 Sengled bulbs connected directly to my C8 Pro. I do have Echos in my home but I have never had to have one of them to connect or operate the bulbs. As @bobbyD stated please post a screenshot of what the app was saying along with a detailed description of where you were at and doing in the setup process.
If you haven't joined you will need to join the owners group to be able to post screenshots. It is a preventative manner to keep bots from spamming the community.
Thanks guys for the quick feedback. I'm not 100% sure where the whole Echo thing popped up, perhaps during my frantic searching for a solution. Apologies for concluding it was Hubitat that said it, it was most likely something on Reddit or wherever. Sorry.
I'm encouraged by your replies! Let's just forget I said Echo. I'm just lost. There was also something in the setup that said "Matter disabled", but in the list of supported items, Sengled Light has "Matter" listed as the protocol (or something like that, I'm not home now).
Is there a link that might help me out? Thanks again.
Can you start out by listing the precise model of Sengled bulbs that you have? And also their connection protocol?
Sengled made bulbs that used at least 3 kinds of connectivity protocols:
Zigbee
WiFi
WiFi + Matter
Hubitat supports the first and third.
If you indicate the model number, we can help you figure out the rest.
Personally, I’ve used Sengled zigbee bulbs with Hubitat.
I suspect you have the third kind that use Matter, and need an Echo (or Apple Home hub or Google Home) to onboard them. And that may have been the message you saw from the Hubitat mobile app.
I’m not a Matter expert, so I’m going to tag a few people who are more familiar with Matter: @neonturbo@bertabcd1234@ogiewon
@3dawgnight - if you have zigbee bulbs, then then they will pair directly with Hubitat. Because of the large number of bulbs (~20), your zigbee network will be more performant if you add a couple devices that can function as zigbee repeaters before you add the bulbs. The outlets linked to below are inexpensive ($14 for 2) and work well as repeaters with Hubitat.
The hardest part of switching to Hubitat will probably be getting the bulbs into pairing mode.
Sorta remember having to power cycle each of mine fifteen(?) times really quickly to reset them.
When I was using Sengled I would quickly loosen/tighten the bulbs in their fixture. Once you get the hang of it you can go from connected/disconnected fast enough to make it reset.
Hi, guys. Sorry, finally back at this after a busy few days. I'm going to try to get myself added to the Owners group so I can post pictures. Just wanted to quickly let you know that I haven't disappeared, and I appreciate everyone chiming in. Back soon.
I built a bulb "adoption" station. I connected a light plate fixture to a work box and power cord (all mounted to a wood board) that I could plug into a small cheap power strip. It allows me to do a few things. (1) When joining bulbs to my network if they are going to replace a current bulb I can join the new bulb and use the switch device feature in Hubitat to switch the new bulb in all my rules. Before taking out the old bulb. Then just move the new bulb its location. (2) I use the on/off switch of the power strip to cycle bulbs per manufacturer instructions to reset or put them back into pairing mode. I like to do this after I switch them and remove them from my network. (3). The connection point of the power cord and Romex gives me the ability to test relays if I need one to help determine functionality.
I guess you can say it is a tinker device but has come very useful at times.
Success!! (well, a little bit anyway) I was able to get my first light connected to the Hubitat. (Thanks for reminding me just how many times you need to power cycle that thing to get it into pairing mode)
Now my Hubitat won't connect to my wifi. It's always something. My router has both 2.4/5GHZ. It sees it, just won't connect. I'm sure this is addressed in another thread, unless anyone has a quick fix. Thanks, all.
FYI, I have 12 Sengled bulbs in a box. Zigbee. All reset and working. FREE, $15 shipping in the US. I'd prefer to keep them out of the landfill.
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