Hey everyone,
In the past few days, I’ve been experiencing some strange behavior with my Zigbee devices (not sure if it’s related to the 12.3.0 update). Just when I finally fixed an issue with three identical Zigbee lights—where one of them stopped working properly for about a week after each Homey restart (colors didn’t work, and after every restart, a different light was affected)—I ran into a new problem.
I had an Aqara H1 switch (with neutral) in my restroom and added an IKEA door sensor. Everything worked fine, but after a week or two, the door sensor somehow reconnected itself within the network and seemed to pair directly with the Aqara switch. Even though I didn’t set this up in any flow, and in the Aqara switch settings I had it configured to only be controlled via the button without relay control, something weird happened:
When I opened the door, the relay switched on, and the light turned on.
When I closed the door, the relay switched off, and the light turned off.
This behavior was not configured anywhere in Homey! At the same time, the restroom light became unavailable, and I had to re-pair it.
After this happened about five times, I gave up and replaced the Aqara switch with an IKEA Rodret wireless switch. Everything seemed fine…
But now I have another issue. I have a flow that turns off all restroom lights when pressing the off button on Rodret. However, for some reason, it also turns off the dining table light (in a completely different room). Similarly, when I press the on button to turn on all restroom lights, it also turns on the kitchen table light.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to escape this Zigbee nightmare? I’d really rather not replace all the lights in my house again just because something is acting up (for the third time now)!
So, just a quick edit… I reconfigured the new Rodret switch to control only one specific light, and yet it still turns the kitchen table light on and off along with it.
I don’t know those switches but could be due to the :
Direct Zigbee Binding: Some Zigbee devices (especially from Xiaomi/Aqara and IKEA) can form direct bindings without Homey’s involvement. This bypasses Homey entirely and uses Zigbee’s built-in automation features.
That’s possible, but I find it really strange that everything works fine for a week or two and then suddenly reconnects itself and starts behaving differently. It’s really starting to frustrate me… This is already the fourth set of switches I’m replacing.
What’s even weirder is that I have 10+ IKEA door sensors around the house, and this only happens with this one. Similarly, I have around five Rodret switches, and again, only this one is acting up. So, if it was some general Zigbee issue, I’d expect more devices to behave the same way, but nope—just this one switch and this one sensor.
Hue switches were mostly reliable, but I hated that the battery wasn’t rechargeable, and some weren’t 100% stable. Aqara H1 (with neutral) didn’t work as expected (and the last one I had started acting up like this). Aqara H1 (wireless) wasn’t acceptable for my wife, and now IKEA keeps directly linking itself to other devices and controlling them without my input.
Why the hell does this keep happening? Why only these specific devices?
Strange. Can you compare the firmware versions in the advanced device parameters ? Does anything else differs between the same device types, that are misbehaving ?
No, same firmware, same batch (I bought them together). The only difference is that I added this last Rodret just now instead of the Aqara switch. The others have been working fine for over 2 months…
That’s really weird. Btw I have the same RODRET Dimmer with the same firmware and luckily no issues at all. But based on this forum thread, it might happen if you paired them in close distance to the light - How to link Ikea Dimmer Switch with a Zigbee Bulb - #12 by MMR
So I would suggest to start with reset and re-adding them back ensuring you keep it away from other bulbs (or keep those bulbs turned off), simply reset them and then add them via REPAIR.
I have tried that with the parasol door sensor (same room as this problematic router ) and the AQARA H1 switch. It worked for a week or two, but after that, it went back to controlling something I don’t want it to control.
Wow, we’ve got a new level of problem here… I tried re-pairing the Rodret switch through maintenance while keeping the problematic lights turned off. I placed it directly on the nearest Aqara Smart EU Plug, and it seems to have worked for that switch.
But now the issue has shifted to another controller—this time to the Philips Hue Dimmer V2 (the newer one), which is upstairs and specifically controls only a small lamp in the kids’ room. However, ever since I fixed the Rodret switch, this Hue dimmer has started turning the bathroom light on and off along with the lamp (again, a completely different room than before) .
But based on the article, the issue actually occurs WHEN routing via Aqara device. So instead, when pairing, move it close to Homey itself and pair it there, far away from Aqara router/device. But naturally if your Rodret switch is located close to Aqara router/device, it might start misbehaving the way you describe.
This approach will help (if even will) for only short time - as zigbee network may auto-rearange at any time. I my case it was also working well for few days…
“funny”…yesterday I realized that battery died in my Ikea Rodret dimmer and I put new battery in close distance of my lumi.plug.maeu01 / Aquara Plug… and now, despite of pretty long distance, this dimmer now control this socket… “beautiful”