Controlling the lights with the touchlink remote does create an immediate status update on the light's dashboard page so I expect you can easily create a rule but I have not yet.
nope, the "Device" driver doesn't create events.
You must have had this device using some zigbee driver when these events were created.
That's been my experience as well with HE vs Hue - I have GE and Osram which would continually drop off until I put them on Hue. I have 4 Sengleds and a Cree on HE, Sengleds have been running solid for many months now. Cree continues to drop off so I will move it Hue as well. Let's see how these do.
Yep thats what I am seeing as well get an instantaneous status. As people have stated earlier, getting on/off and level change accurately. Color change and the last button seem get a message in the log but nothing more.
I think my hack of using the light as trigger will work just fine.
@Ourcontact thanks again for the tip. Though not getting the batt level or any other message from remote itself, so not sure how you got that. TBH don't care either, when the remote stops working will change the battery.
I have found an additional thing on pairing the remote, it's a 2 step process.
- Reset the remote with the pin - while the light is flashing do HE discovery. If you don't discover in this mode the second part doesn't work.
- Press the power + dim (top two buttons) together to complete the discovery. If you don't do this in time and zigbee discovery stops you need to put in discover mode again.
For Hue -
Both steps must be done in the same touchlink session or else it doesn't get registered
New to hubitat forum. Got the HE during black friday weekend and love the hub's capability.
At <$5 for a remote and bulb, I couldnt stop myself from buying a few of these.
Was able to pair the remote without the second step. If we get a built in driver to support this remote, nothing like it.
You are in Europe?
I am in US
Then how did you connect Zigbee HA OSRAM to the Hue bridge?
Yeah seems like when you add a new remote to the hub it controls all the lights even if only remote had been paired to the lights - It looks like everyone joins one big group and all remotes controls that group. That makes the whole thing useless other than controlling one set of lights
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just checked I didn't - I just stopped using it and misremembered 
the Osram is sitting on a shelf.
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That makes more sense 
After hearing that the OSRAM don't stay connected to HE very well, I pick up an OSRAM gateway for $6 CAD from Lowe's Canada. I'm using a Homebridge plugin with it and that is working very well. I can control ON/OFF from HE via a virtual switch and HomeKit automations. I cannot directly control the color from HE, but I can at least select random colors with the press of a button by using Google Assistant Relay. From HomeKit I have full color control, and of course the OSRAM app is still fully functional.
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I tell ya - in this whole automation mess Homebridge has been one piece of tech that has been solid and never failed me. That and Alexa integration.
I am really bummed about these remotes and more bummed that HE is taking such a hard stance not supporting it, in the ST thread they are saying that the remotes are sending messages according to spec and its seems like HE is blocking it and @mike.maxwell is saying they won't do anything about it. I don't really want to turn on ST again and have 3 zigbee networks running. The lightbulbs are good, cheapest color temp bulbs. I guess I will use remotes in one area and put the rest in a drawer and forget them.
I think everyone is getting a little to passionate about these cheap remotes, and they seem like they're being cleared out of Home Depot anyway. So even they are no longer interested in them.
It's not that the HE team just wants to be hard nosed. They literally don't have the resources to change the whole system to support a $5 remote. It's quite a bit different for SmartThings since they are owned by a multibillion dollar company and have a massive staff and resources at their disposal now. If Samsung wants to chase projects like this, they have the resources. If Hubitat spends their time on stuff like a single remote, they're going to fall behind on way more important things.
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Hard to say if HD is dumping them or if the will keep selling them at this price, the whole ecosmart line is pretty inexpensive, it is quite possible that there may be a lot of these on the market. I see your point at about limited resources though.
According to another thread (somewhere, can't find it now), the .88 on a product price at Home Depot means it's not going to be restocked.
As an owner of more than 15 of these bulb/remote combos, I don't want the HE Development team to spend a second getting a discontinued remote working on HE. Although this thread numbers over 150 posts and there is excitement, there are not that many unique people making comments. Hell, probably 10 of those posts are mine. There just isn't the demand for them and it would be a poor use of their time.
From what I have read on the ST website, people have gotten this working using Zigbee2MQTT (just don't ask me what this is) and have shared the mechanism to do so. Yes this requires additional equipment and an additional level of complexity but I don't see that different from buying a $100 Caseta Pro Hub to integrate $15 Pico remotes. I think the equipment for Zigbee2MQTT is much less than $100. I don't want or need enough remotes to justify that expense. For me, a couple $20 Eria Dimmers or similar is the way to go.
With that being said, I do still have my ST hub running and it sounds like they are working on a DTH that I assume won't require Zigbee2MQTT. If it still does, then I have a box full of useless remotes and a ton of working $4.88 CT Color temperature bulbs that HD is now selling for $20/box of 2. If it works without Zigbee2MQTT, then I have more working remotes than I have rooms in my house. WIN-WIN!!!
So, for now, I am happy with the low-priced Zigbee bulbs and the remote only controlling the ones in my bathroom vanity.
Finally, if you have one installed using ST hub and haven't noticed, these bulbs have GREAT battery life. Mine started at 196% and has actually gone up to 198%.
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@SmartHomePrimer The changes needed are not just for this remote. The changes should allow the Ikea Tradfri remotes that aren't supported and the Lutron Connected Bulb remote work. I suspect there will be more remotes like this in the future. As people migrate to Hubitat from lower functioning systems if their remote is supported it will only make Hubitat look better.
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The Symfonisk remote, which is a decent remote, is already supported. All the other current ikea remotes can be handled with a custom driver (but are all junk in my opinion).
The Lutron Connected Bulb Remote will never work. Doesn’t work in SmartThings either.
Actually the opposite is true, the zigbee 3.0 devices tend to switch from multicast to unicast messaging when joined to a coordinator and the clusters of interest are bound to.
It's the pre 3.0 devices where it was up to the device manufacturer to do this, or not...
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I really like the "look and feel" of this remote. Superior to Picos (of which I own many), in my opinion. Too bad it appears to be so difficult to make compatible with HE.
