I have two Sengled color bulbs I recently added in my office.
I will usually turn these bulbs off via the wall switch when I leave the office. When I come back in and turn the switch back on so that the bulbs get powered up they will come on but sometimes one or both will immediately go off again.
If I look at the current states it shows that the bulb is on and has a non-zero dimmer level.
To get it to work properly I must then make a change to the bulb (off\on, CT, dimmer etc.) and then the bulb will come back on.
It's quite annoying and short of a firmware update (I don't have their home hub) I can't see what would correct it other than never doing a power off via the wall switch.
Anyone seen this?
Try switching to the Sengled legacy driver that matches your light (color, dimmable, ct). I believe that the newer one is supposed to turn them off after a power failure.
1 Like
Thanks Ken, that seems to have done the trick on my limited testing.
As an aside I have two identical bulbs on the same switch and under the old driver any combination could go off or stay on after the power was re-applied so it didn't seem like an "improvement" anyway.
2 Likes
If you have any other issues, you may need to add some strong repeaters since it sounds like the bulbs have a weak connection. Sengled bulbs don’t repeat, so more repeaters are needed with them compared to other zigbee bulbs.
1 Like
I rather like that they are not repeaters because they inevitably get powered off at times. Strangely the two Sengled bulbs stay attached to a distant Repeater (50ft) and ignore 4 closer ones. But that is a whole separate issue. Even re-paired them to the closest repeater (8ft unobstructed) and they meander back to the distant one. Quite annoying.
1 Like
