Support for Ledvance devices

[TobiBu]

Hi,

i bought some Ledvance zigbee devices see here

Among those is a smart Switch which allows several options including dimming.
This device is recognized by the gateway as a button and simple on/off actions work. However, dimming and other options don‘t work. See also attached picture.

my question: Do I need to create my own adapter or modify some existing? Or how would I go and solve this issue?

thanks a lot in advance

[tim-hellhake]

That looks like a limitation of this adapter.
If you feel up to it, you can try to fix it and open a PR.
The other option is to move to zigbee2mqtt, which is also supported by this adapter.

[TobiBu]

Hi Tim,

I am happy to try but I don't know where to start from. OR how I figure out which adapter is currently used/identified for this switch.
Moving to zigbee2mqtt simply mean installing this adapter add-on and then repairing the device?

thanks a lot!

[tim-hellhake]

I am happy to try but I don't know where to start from

Me neither. The native part of the adapter is quite complicated.

Moving to zigbee2mqtt simply mean installing this adapter add-on and then repairing the device

You need to first install zigbee2mqtt on your pi.
There is a fairly straightforward manual.
After that, you need to go to the config of the zigbee-adapter and add a Zigbee2MQTT adapter to the list.
If you use the raspberry pi image you already have a MQTT broker running locally.

[TobiBu]

Hi Tim,

thanks a lot! I am running the raspberry webthings image.

If I understand correctly, I‘ll simply add the zigbe2MQTT adapter and try repairing.
I will report on my progress.