Hue Dimmer Switch appears as a light bulb

[mvoss96]

Hi,
thanks for this software.
It seems that the Hue dimmer Switch gets recognized as a light bulb which is not correct.
Not sure whether you can fix this or if its an Issue with home kit

[itavero]

Can you provide me with the MQTT message zigbee2mqtt sends for this device? (As I don't have one myself)

[itavero]

By the way, I just released a version that allows you to exclude devices from the Homebridge integration by adding their IEEE address to the config.json (or via homebridge-ui-x). There is an example in the README.
It's not a fix for you problem, but at least it will help you get rid of the incorrect device for the time being.

Update: 🤔 New feature worked with my test setup but not on my "production" environment apparently. I'll probably look into that later this week. Sorry about that!

[mvoss96]

Hi, this is the content of the zigbee2mqtt config message:
{ "ieeeAddr": "0x0017880106e85acb", "type": "EndDevice", "networkAddress": 41612, "model": "324131092621", "vendor": "Philips", "description": "Hue dimmer switch", "friendly_name": "Dimmer_Switch", "manufacturerID": 4107, "manufacturerName": "Philips", "powerSource": "Battery", "modelID": "RWL021", "hardwareVersion": 1, "softwareBuildID": "6.1.1.28573", "dateCode": "20190410", "lastSeen": 1593637842215 },'

Thanks for the new feature. I will happily try it later.

[mvoss96]

when the buttons on the DImmer switch are pressed, the messages look like this:
{"battery":100,"linkquality":34,"update_available":false,"counter":1,"brightness":255,"action":"up-hold-release","duration":1.851}
{"battery":100,"linkquality":34,"update_available":false,"counter":1,"brightness":255,"action":"up-hold-release","duration":1.851}

[itavero]

It doesn't have the state property that I've seen on all lights so far, so it should be a rather simple fix to at least not add it as a Lightbulb.

Unfortunately remote controls (push buttons) are not yet supported (see #2). They turned out to be a lot more difficult to handle than simple temperature sensors and lightbulbs.

[itavero]

@mvoss96 I added an additional check so that the state property must also be present to detect a Lightbulb. This should resolve the fact that your dimmer switch is recognized as a Lightbulb.

As mentioned, for "remote control" support, keep an eye on #2.

The changes are currently in the master branch, but not yet released.
If you want you can already try them.

If the erroneous detection of a lightbulb still occurs, we can reopen this issue ;)

[itavero]

FYI: Published a new release that includes the fix for this issue.