Ecodim 4 channel switch not functioning properly

tompijls · October 12, 2021, 6:31am

just tried it - still happening. removed the switch, paired it again.

2nd, 3rd and 4th row switch on/off all my phoscon lights

tompijls · October 30, 2021, 4:47am

Hi, any further update? Again, more than willing to ship a device within Europe if it helps. Supporting these 8 button switches would really be helpful with the growing amount of smart lights being used

Cheers

Mimiix · October 30, 2021, 7:23am

@Gautama

Gautama · November 1, 2021, 11:40am

Sorry for the late response.
My inquiry has revealed that our selected retailer’s shipping to Germany cannot be handled.
So if you could send us the device for integration it would be great. Send me a DM for the details.

tompijls · November 1, 2021, 12:55pm

Maybe stupid question… how do I send a DM here…?

Gautama · November 1, 2021, 1:19pm

Just click on my name and “message”

tompijls · November 1, 2021, 1:25pm

I don’t see it…

Mimiix · November 1, 2021, 1:34pm

My bad. Changed it.

tompijls · November 1, 2021, 1:36pm

It worked

Mimiix · November 1, 2021, 1:37pm

There’s this automatic measures the forum takes for spamming. You needed level 1 to be able to PM people or so.

Changed it to 0

Swoop · November 1, 2021, 3:13pm

This matter is all in all a little bit tricky. Had the all off experience myself with the very same switch.

Back in the days, I’ve thrown this PR into the field, but there’s apparently other side effects which make an amendment not as easy as thought.

github.com/dresden-elektronik/deconz-rest-plugin

Prevent automatic client cluster binding to "all" group

dresden-elektronik:master ← SwoopX:group

opened 09:58AM - 10 May 21 UTC

SwoopX

+1 -1

This PR should prevent the unpopular effect that switches are bound to the "all"… group, thereby switching every device in the network (especially observed often for Aqara Opple switches). The current code behavior is that whenever group casts are observed by deconz, it is checked if the corresponding group already exists in the list of groups. As initialization group(s) for switches, the group with gid 0 (0xFFF0) is typically used. Whenever the group the switch is sending to is not found, but recognizes a group item is already available with gid 0, it "defaults" back to gwGroup0 aka gid 0 aka "all" group (0xFFF0) and the subsequent client cluster bindings are executed with this group. By just falling through, this automatic binding shouldn't occur anymore and allow deconz to catch the yet unknown group and add it to the list for later usage. This also change allows for later and explicit binding of the "all" group where desired.

Regardless, there’s a workaround to cease the negative side effects (it doesn’t cater for the root cause). You can set the group being responsible for switching everything off to deleted inside deconz’ DB. For that, find the DB named zll.db on your file system. Make sure deconz is NOT running and then open the DB on the command line with sqlite3 (assuming here you go with Linux). Once connected to the DB, issue the following command:

update groups set state="deleted" where gid="0xFFF0";

and then close the DB again with .exit. Afterwards, you can start deconz again and there shouldn’t be any further trouble.

tompijls · November 22, 2021, 12:40pm

Hi guys, any further news here?

Kremx · December 29, 2021, 1:54pm

Any update on this issue? I’ve been experiencing the same issues and I can’t get the workaround mentioned above by @Swoop to work.

Mimiix · December 30, 2021, 6:54pm

@Gautama

Gautama · January 6, 2022, 9:30am

We are investigating

tompijls · January 31, 2022, 5:09pm

Hi guys, any real update here…?
This thread is open since july now. Is there any plan to find a solution for these 4 channel switches or should i replace them with 4 button ones? (if not thats also a fine answer by the way ;-))

Still more than happy to send you a device if it helps fixing this. Thanks!

Mimiix · January 31, 2022, 5:57pm

@Gautama

Gautama · February 2, 2022, 10:02am

Hey,
not realy so far as we aren´t had time to test anything in the last weeks. Our main-programmer will take a look at it on the weekend. If there isn´t anything new about it I will come back at your offer.

tompijls · February 17, 2022, 12:45pm

Hi @Gautama ,

think we had a few weekends passed - any luck/update here?

Tom

tompijls · March 19, 2022, 10:46am

Hi @Gautama, @Mimiix

seems this 4 channel switch is jinxed and wont make it as supported…

Any recommendation of one which actually works? I could really benefit from one in my setup, so if buying new hardware is a faster solution i’m all open for it.