@Tamas.Toth.ebola wrote:
Dear Everybody!
I’m a little bit newby in HA usage but had some easy|slow experiments in the last 1 year. My HA runs not in its final environment just on my main computer through Docker just to slowly test everything before I make a decision about the final solution. Usage of Docker and YAML based config files is not a problem for me so after I started to get to know HA currently I have some Tuya based WiFi plugs (with Tasmota FW) also have 2 Qubino - Z-Wave dimmer|switch through one Z-Wave . Me - USB Z-Wave gateway, one telnet based switch for my Pioneer - receiver, and one Emulated Hue component for use of my Logitech - Harmony Hub (+remote) for automations and also to reach my Z-Wave switch through the smart home buttons of the remote. All these work fine together with some scripts, automations, but as I wrote just as experiment yet.
And here was the point where I would have liked to connect in the system my only one Philips Hue lamp (not a bulb, but an integrated ceiling lamp) with it’s Hue - Dimmer. After some research I got that with the current HA, BitronHome -Bitronvideo should be fine: EU USB sticks for the new Zigbee component This is one Silicon Labs - Ember 3587 chipset based USB Zigbee gatway what in theory (if I’m right) not need any special solution for usage just use as ZHA gateway in HA so did it.
The used HA is the currently latest stable 0.104.3. After attached it through Docker as ‘dev > ttyUSB0’ device I could configure as ZHA component and seemed everything work fine but just seemed as when I tried to pair my Zigbee devices HA just spinned and spinned and at the end timed out.
The Docker USB device attachment seems correct (as with my Z-Wave . Me stick also). Also can call ‘add new device’ function in ZHA component but with time-out at the end. I also tried to debug something with ‘bellows’ but this was the point where I had been lost as the log was ‘longer’ what I could understand for first time:)
So the test cases:
- I had reset my Hue lamp with the Dimmer and later the Dimmer switch also to allow re-pairing them. Tried to add without success. As the lamp is far enough to be a problem and I can not move… nor the lamp, nor the computer, my next try was the Dimmer switch.
- As my Dimmer had been already reset and flashed with amber light I placed it 10cm close to the USB stick but the device adding was not successful again.
- As I red that for Philips - Hue Dimmer we need one custom device handler, I tried to add ‘robmarkcole > Hue-sensors-HASS’ for it, but at the end without success. At this point I was a little bit uncertain about the whole thing as I have no Hue Bridge as a real device while the Git - ReadMe mention that I need that. (The whole global goal would be to not use Hue Bridge).
I tried it more times with or without pressing any Dimmer button while the pairing process run but without success. At this point tried to debug something about the stick but I had been lost.
I logged into the Docker container, switch off HA to reach the stick with ‘bellows’, asked for some info, but… this was the end:) I red lot of community posts as in the last year did it also for my other configs always with success this is the first time when sadly not.
Could anybody help me what could be the problem? I will attach my ‘bellows’ logs about my requests in some minutes.
Very lot of thanks if somebody can point me to the right direction.
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