There’s been a few updates to this thread, so please make sure to keep up with the latest posts at the bottom! Sorry for starting another thread on these bulbs, but this warrants a new thread (I think). This thread provides the device type for the GE Link Bulb modified by community members specifi…

[image] neilk8: Reset it (turn on/off 5 times) many times and saw the dim & flash confirmation After resetting, did you connect it back to ST? Go to the Marketplace icon (bottom right) and press Connect New Device to have ST search. The GE Link should blink to confirm it paired again. The app…

@johnconstantelo Thank you for sharing work good for me. Thanks again for all you do for the Smart Things community

Sorry for not looking at the before and after code, but in a few words, what did you add to get the state? BTW, good work!

No worries @wackware,and thanks. The parse was modified to also look at case “1000” and case “1001” that the stock device type wasn’t checking for in the catchall string. Once debug and trace info was opened up to see everything possible, Sticks18 picked up on the fact the device passed different …

If I’m not mistaken, @urman found an issue with dimming because the hex value was not padded with zero and someone had a workaround. Does your device type include this workaround or am I thinking about some other issue?

Here is the conversation: [image] How to dim lights on and off smoothly? Connected Things Ohp Found an issue with dimming below 7. We’re not padding the hex value, so if the value is “a” we’re sending “a” instead of “0a” That one should be easy to fix. I can also add a tr…

Edit: Code is there, see my next post.

@beckwith , actually the code was there to address a smooth transition, but the parameter value for level was 0000. I updated the code to make it 1500, and tested to see that it works, and it does transition smoothly. Now, the issue with anything below 7 is still there, for now.

This is right. The problem was that the response message format was different when the bulb gets an ‘on’ command (default response) versus the ‘refresh’ command (read attributes response). This fix should help correct the bulb state when it gets out of sync by getting the right on/off state when ref…

My take: I’m honestly happy with the fact that a $15 bulb is controllable at all. It makes me even happier that this wonderful community is making it better. Keep it up, y’all. Nice work.

seems to work great…one question. When I turn on the light I can manually adjust the dimmer and it smooth transition to that level. Can we have the bulb turn on from 10% and transition to 100% instead of just clicking on to 100%?

Updated : GE Link Bulbs - FINALLY getting ON status after manually turning on!

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beckwith (Beckwith) December 12, 2014, 12:15am 6

Here is the conversation:

This may just be for on/off dimming.

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Updated : GE Link Bulbs - FINALLY getting ON status after manually turning on!

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