Zigbee bulbs reporting status
Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2020 5:49 am
Hi Nathan,
In my aim to use a number of zigbee sensors I have been looking to migrate my Hue bulbs over to a zigbee network via a zigbee USB stick and the zigbee2mqtt software.
I have got this working now so that I have 5 bulbs and a number of zigbee sensors and wireless buttons / remotes connected. This uses Joe's MQTT connector to publish MQTT messages that a node-red flow picks up and onward publishes to zigbee2mqtt.
However my issue is where the network is weak I get slow reponses from the hue bulbs, or none at all. I also got this behaviour when they were connected to the Hue hub and using your plugin (and I have plans to buy some Ikea mains sockets to boost the network).
So, I was interested to know if you knew if Hue bulbs can report their state? The sensors obviously do regularly, but I read on the zigbee2mqtt forum that only Hue bulbs on very old firmware do. Is this a problem you have (or do they report to the Hue hub)? Ideally I would like to ensure that Indigo remains in sync with actual state of the bulb, not what has been requested, for when that message fails.
Thanks
In my aim to use a number of zigbee sensors I have been looking to migrate my Hue bulbs over to a zigbee network via a zigbee USB stick and the zigbee2mqtt software.
I have got this working now so that I have 5 bulbs and a number of zigbee sensors and wireless buttons / remotes connected. This uses Joe's MQTT connector to publish MQTT messages that a node-red flow picks up and onward publishes to zigbee2mqtt.
However my issue is where the network is weak I get slow reponses from the hue bulbs, or none at all. I also got this behaviour when they were connected to the Hue hub and using your plugin (and I have plans to buy some Ikea mains sockets to boost the network).
So, I was interested to know if you knew if Hue bulbs can report their state? The sensors obviously do regularly, but I read on the zigbee2mqtt forum that only Hue bulbs on very old firmware do. Is this a problem you have (or do they report to the Hue hub)? Ideally I would like to ensure that Indigo remains in sync with actual state of the bulb, not what has been requested, for when that message fails.
Thanks