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Fair enough, just seems like a lot of work vs. 2 clicks on the filters.

You don’t need to ground your Shelly if the circuit is otherwise properly grounded. The Shelly will fail open if something internal shorts.

Per the rest of the discussion re: hot wire loops to switches with no neutral or ground, just put the Shelly into the upstream junction box. (Wherever the switch wire branches from the circuit. Usually that’s where the light is.)

… Why? They exist for a reason, the interface has filter and sort options.

Specifically: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B095KSZQGD?psc=1

And

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0BCHBXZ8D?psc=1

And several of the a19 and br30 models.

If you scroll to the Phillips hue list on ZigBee.blackadder.com, you’ll see the lack of ZHA support.

ZHA isn’t compatible with a lot of recent Hue bulbs. It’s a bit frustrating.

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Would be real nice if the blackadder list somehow flagged devices that are no longer available.

OP asks for “lowest latency” but HTTP is fast enough, and later in the thread says “perceptibly instant” is the goal. HTTP is going to be your slowest option, almost certainly, but even the slowest solution is “instant”.

What exactly are you trying to do, OP?

(Esphome seems like the answer you’re looking for. It’s faster than MQTT and you can program parts of the automation and service management in the ESP hardware. RF is probably the only way to go faster.)

Yeah, lesson learned there, but to OP’s point, nothing ever seems to just work.

Fun part in my case is that the specific bulb I want doesn’t have a ZHA-compatible counterpart. (Hue a19 white& color 1100. The 800 isn’t bright enough.)

Yeah, except I bought a couple new Hue bulbs and ZHA wouldn’t find them. Z2M picked them up immediately. There really is no universal solution, even with “standards”.

Install the nginx proxy manager add-on, set up let’s encrypt for certificates and DuckDNS for name resolution, forward a port from your router. No need for homekit or a full vpn.

This looks like the right answer, since OP’s jinja is correct.

OP, you can go to developer tools to test your template syntax against the live data in HA.

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I couldn’t get the lights into pairing mode out of the box. It appears that for hue bulbs, the only option is a hue hub, a button combo with a remote switch, or resetting via the app and Bluetooth. None of those worked. The last option I found is touchlink.

I switched from ZHA to Zigbee2MQTT, which has touchlink built in, and that finally reset the bulb.

I tried a dozen times to get it to pair with ZHA, and it simply wouldn’t appear. Works fine with Zigbee2MQTT though.

Blackadder claims that’s the only tool verified to work on this specific model, so maybe that’s the problem with ZHA.

I’ve more or less figured out how to get things working with MQTT, but it really feels more complicated than it should be to just control a few lights.

https://zigbee.blakadder.com/Philips_LCA007.html

How are you getting your Hue bulbs into pairing mode? My new ConbeeII stick doesn’t see them. I tried connecting to them with the Bluetooth app and then doing a factory reset, no luck.

My initial Conbee and two hue lights arrived today, and between the pain in the ass that I apparently need a hue hub or something to put the lights in pairing mode, plus this makes me think it’s not going to solve any of my connectivity problems.

Just in time for my Wi-Fi devices to start dropping again for no reason.

My plan is to stick with Hue bulbs as much as possible. More expensive, but seem to be the most solid hardware.

Each device is a repeater, right? So I should try to make every device’s potential signal overlaps multiple others?