I’d like nothing more to be wrong, as I’ve resolved to only pair bulbs and remotes which aren’t connected to the hub, while using the remotes paired to the hub to do anything other than control the Ecosmart bulbs.
Everything I’ve tried with having these bulbs and remotes paired together, after pairing with the ST hub, ends up effectively having any subsequent remote paired through ST acting as a clone of the first.
If you are able to pair bulbs with remotes after pairing with the hub and control separate bulbs with separate remotes, then this is what I want to be able to do, but consistently have failed.
Yes, I had one remote that was used as “buttons” to control Sylvania lights. It drove me crazy that every time I turned those lights off, one of my EcoSmart lights was coming on. Even that i did factory reset. Than I realized that I didn’t unlinked those two prior to reset.
It has to be unlinked, than factory reset, readed to SmartThings and at the end re-linked to each other or one remote to two or three Lights. I have even same Lights controlled by two remotes.
That’s the correct method 1] unlink remote with bulb (first and third button long press until blink). 2] then once it’s unlinked, use a pin to factory reset the remote (should blink). 3] then pair remote to ST using first and second button long press until blink).
Okay…so I reset the bulb and reset the remote. Then I paired the bulb to the hub, that worked perfectly. Then I paired the remote to the hub and that supposedly worked fine…but now I am not getting any button events on the recents page for the device. I also tried pairing it to webcore and am getting no events registered there either. So, what’s the trick here?
I was confused by the same thing at first but finally realized the button events don’t show in the classic app like other buttons/remotes.
If you go to add an automation in something like the Smart Lighting smartapp, you’ll see the remote shows up 5 times. Once for the remote (presumably does nothing) and once for each button.
Webcore also tripped me up. Instead of adding it as an actuator, each button needs to be added under the sensors section in the smartapp. Just tested this and it works great.
For anyone else that happens to use Home Assistant, these remotes are really easy to create automations with. Here’s one of mine for toggling lights on button #1 press. https://pastebin.com/Whg0Qa5h
Some of us bought more than we needed since the price was so great and might consider selling some extras. I have two I don’t really need that I haven’t opened yet. Might also get rid of my other bulbs and just keep the remotes since it turns out they don’t work with my Xiaomi/Aqara sensors.
I think i’m in the same boat as a lot of people. I have 4 bulbs and 4 remotes. I unpaired and reset everything. Added 3 bulbs to Smartthings, so far so good. Add 1 remote. Pair that remote with the 3 bulbs. Everything works great. Add 2nd remote to Smartthings. Immediately controls all bulbs. I think a few people have had this problem and some haven’t. Anyone got a step by step that they’ve personally tried that works?
I would expect this. The remote uses Zigbee group messaging. Once it is paired to the hub, it is on the same network. It is going to control all the lights that subscribe to zigbee group messaging. If you notice, on the package, it said you can’t control from the app and the remote at the same time. This is why. It works if you only have one bulb on your network that works by zigbee group messaging, but that is all. As soon as you pair another up, it’s going to control them all.
The problem I have is that I cannot get the button presses into ST as they say you can. After pairing the remote to the hub, I get not button events.
@BroderickCarlin does the remote also need to be paired to the bulb in order for the hub to receive the button presses? Or should it work paired only to the hub?
@Druknmonkey Did you try pairing the bulbs to the hub, pairing the remote to the hub then stopping before pairing the remote to the bulbs? I am in a little different situation because I have this remote on the ST and the bulbs on HE so the remote and bulbs are not paired to each other and I was able to use the ST remote successfully without pairing it to any bulbs. If you want to control the Ecosmart Bulbs with the remote, do so with a Button Controller.
Again, since my situation is different, I could be way off base.
I think some are on a different page than we are on this… The measure of success, for some, appears to be using the remote as a universal button, or set of buttons in this case, as the DTH is designed.
It would be nice if we could have it both ways, and also have the original remote function through the hub working on separate bulbs or groups, but what @Ryan780 says about group messaging seems to be the case.
I suppose I will focus on recreating the original remote functions through webcore, as some have suggested is the best solution. I’m not thrilled about not having local processing, but if I can manage things the way want to have them, then I may migrate to Hubitat or Home Assistant, which I’m only now reading up on, if local processing ends up being that important.
But I’m still waiting on someone to tell me I’ve missed something obvious, or for some genius to do some voodoo on this situtation.
@blkwll
" It would be nice if we could have it both ways, and also have the original remote function through the hub "
Somehow I have mine work both ways. I might record video to show it that works.
I have
1.one EcoSmart bulb connected to hub and EcoSmart remote to hub, and that remote is connected to that bulb with TouchLink. Works like out of the box, and both bulb and remote are accessible in SmartThings app.
2. Two Sylvania bulbs controlled by Ecosmart remote, connected to hub, through SmartThings app, by assigning actions in device’s page.
3. Three EcoSmart lightbulbs connected to hub,and connected to one EcoSmart remote, that is also connected to hub and paired to bulbs that works as intended by factory.
4. Two EcoSmart lightbulbs connected to hub, controlled by two EcoSmart remotes, both connected to hub and only one connected with TouchLink that works as factory. I use two remotes as three-way switches/dimmers. However only one that is connected with TouchLink works as factory, second works as buttons that I have actions assigned through device’s page.
They are all using SmartThings DTHs.
After 1st and 2nd lines I have discovered that that remote from number 2 was controlling light from 1st setup, even that I had them “factory reset”. Problem was that remote from 2nd set was linked originally with bulb from 1st set, and I used memory button to store some settings. Everything worked fine in 2and setup as I was using that remote as buttons, except that 4th memory button will also turn on light from 1st setup using 3 memory settings, every time. I tried to reset everything to “factory” trough flashing light 6 times, and using pin head reset on remote. Relinked remote to original bulb with TouchLink and unlinked switch pushing 1st and 3rd button, resetting bulbs and remote again, and that seems that cleared all connections.
After that I have linked bulb to hub, followed by remote to hub, and finally remote to bulb. It works fine. I did second set same way except no bulb-remote link, but remote works fine as buttons. Than I added three more bulbs and one remote to hub, and linked that remote to those three bulbs using TouchLink. They all work fine.
4th setup was tricky as I was going to use two remotes to control one set of two lights. Added lights, and remotes to hub, than linked one remote only to those two lights with TouchLink. Remotes used as buttons are with 100%, 60% and 30% dim and off. TouchLink remotes are used as factory on/off, dim, K temperature, and memory.
I’ll try to complicate things more, to see how remote works in next couple of days. Planning to assign action to memory button that is linked with TouchLink, to activate another on/off only light.
When I was adding all 4 setups I had previously added Lights off, completely disconnected, as someone mentioned that remotes were connecting to other Lights.
Maybe that helped.
