How to pair AONE KINETIC WALL CONTROLLER?

[JDRoberts]

Always glad to see more electricians in the community! (I am a network engineer, but definitely not an electrician. )

And, Yeah, unfortunately just “zigbee“ isn’t enough. See the following FAQ (the topic title is a clickable link)

FAQ: Zigbee Application Profiles, or why not all zigbee devices work with SmartThings

Zigbee is always zigbee, but the standard allows for different "profiles,"including manufacturer proprietary ones. [image] These are not all able to communicate with each other, they don’t even use the same addressing schemes. SmartThings uses the Zigbee Home Automation profile (ZHA 1.2) and part of the Zigbee 3.0 profile. Devices using other zigbee profiles may be able to join to the network, but their communications may not be understood, or they may frequently drop off because they don’t receive a handshake message they are expecting. There a lot of different ways to explain this, but I think one of the easiest is to think of zigbee as a post office and the different profiles as different languages. The outside envelope for different messages may look similar, have a specific format…

I believe the other Aurora switches Will work, but of course those are mains powered.

There are some other battery powered options from other brands that will work with smartthings, but the risk there is that if the home automation system isn’t working, you’re back to no switches, and it’s my understanding that that doesn’t meet UK safety code, that there has to be at least one switch in the room that will work without the system. But I may be wrong on that.

( under US safety code, you can make the whole house automated with no switches at all in most locations, except for the attic which has a special switch requirement in most jurisdictions. But there are very different rules from region to region.)