Core: Müller-Licht (Aldi Tint) connected via Hue flickering

Created on 31 Jan 2019 · 10Comments · Source: home-assistant/core

I am using a Philips Hue hub.

I have a mix of Hue and other brand bulbs connected which all work fine.

I just purchased a couple of Aldi Tint ZigBee bulbs (manufactured by Müller-Licht).

When controlled via home assistant they flicker and go first briefly to full brightness and then adjust to the chosen colour temperature or brightness.

I'm not sure what additional information may be required for this.

Hue app reports the following info for the bulb:

Manufacturer: MLI
Model: ZBT-ColorTemperature
SW: 2.0

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Philje123

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So I think I found the issue. The Tint light doesn't like it when HA sends {"alert":"none"} to the Hue bridge. You can test it with the Hue "CLIP API Debugger" on the meethue developer website. To solve this i deleted in homeassistant/components/hue/light.py:

else:
    command['alert'] = 'none'

in the "async_turn_on" and "async_turn_off" functions

dynamiik on 17 Mar 2019

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Hey, I got exactly the same issue. If I control them through the hue app, they do flicker but don't turn to full brightness before adjusting. I got a color and a white bulb

maltevh on 1 Feb 2019

They work perfetcly when I control them via the Hue app. No flickering at all with nice smooth transitions between on/off, color temp and brightness levels.

Philje123 on 1 Feb 2019

I had the same problems when using hue bulbs and the tint bulb in a group. color transitions where different to the hue bulbs, I'm using them now with zigbee2mqtt and there this behavior does not exist.
I think this is the hue hub itself

mawi13 on 21 Feb 2019

I have the same problem. Is there any progress for this issue without buying extra hardware? The problem only occurs when using "light.turn_on" or "light.turn_off". When i use "hue.hue_activate_scene" everything works fine

dynamiik on 16 Mar 2019

else:
    command['alert'] = 'none'

in the "async_turn_on" and "async_turn_off" functions

dynamiik on 17 Mar 2019

👍3 😄1

I too have moved away from the Hue bridge and now use a Conbee. No more issues controlling them from HA.

Philje123 on 10 Apr 2019

@Philje123 I have fixed the lights with hue.hue_activate_scene and with edit light.py with @dynamiik tutorial

warcanoid on 10 Apr 2019

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stale[bot] on 9 Jul 2019

I had the same issue, @dynamiik's workaround did work for me as well. I see the issue is closed meanwhile w/o a remedy - is there a way to make that fix sticky ? I assume it is overwritten with the next hass.io update.

mleiber on 20 Nov 2019

So I think I found the issue. The Tint light doesn't like it when HA sends {"alert":"none"} to the Hue bridge. You can test it with the Hue "CLIP API Debugger" on the meethue developer website. To solve this i deleted in homeassistant/components/hue/light.py:
else:
    command['alert'] = 'none'
in the "async_turn_on" and "async_turn_off" functions

Do you know how to access this folder on hassio?