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Review on Pack Of 2 Lutron Aurora Smart Bulb Dimmer Switches For Philips Hue Bulbs, Model Z3-1BRL-WH-L0-2 In White by Mike Krzywicki

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Falls off the wall. Requires selected Zigbee hubs/dongles.

This does not stick with the back switch.It will pop and fall of the switch when manipulated.A fix that seems to work for me so far is a bit of acrylic, 5s glue on the tiny binding surface at the top of the switch.I have integrated this with Home Assistant with great hopes.The rotating dimmer function seems to be working well.You need a proper Zigbee coordinator dongle for the "click" function to work.Conbee 2 and the TI CC2652P + CP2102N based SONOFF dongles appear to work.The EFR32MG21 based version does not work!This is because the dimmer send messages not 100% up to zigbee specs.Itself the dimmer will keep internal state and sent events containingthe brightness level and the transition time (2s or 7s).If the turn-off click worked, it will send brightness of 0.If the turn-on click worked, it will send brightness of 255.Rotating the dimmer seems to produce monotonic values (most of the time).Although, sporadically it will wildly jump around and dim in other directions,when the state of dimmer is not synchronized with the state of lights stored in HA.Due to this state stored on the dimmer, setting some advanced automation requiresimplementing a differential function of the dimmer events.

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Pros
  • ‎Mexico
Cons
  • Switches may need to be replaced more frequently due to the added technology