Kategori: Home automation

  • A followup to my Hue Dimmer setup

    I was pretty satisfied with my setup, in general. But zigbee nuances makes it not work in some cases. And I’ll explain why and a solution. ZigBee battery devices are generally not active unless they’re activated locally. For a dimmer, that’d mean pressing a button. As a consequence, when you press a button, it doesn’t…

  • A tiny peek into the world of ZigBee.

    I have a bunch of hue lights and some hue dimmers at home. Because I was cheap and didn’t want to buy too many dimmers, I decided to make each 4-button dimmer into 4 one-button dimmers, with the functions press for toggle and hold for dim up and then turn to dim down when max…