EcoSmart Zigbee bulbs

Zigbee deep dive! Over 80 devices currently, adding Xiaomi sensors to everything! zha_map added, making it easier to find the trouble spots in the network. Pulled all my Hue bulbs (10) and replaced them with Ecosmart bulbs. Overall reliability went up -- I track delivery errors and was averaging several hundred per day and now I'm down to three to five per day.

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… Nortek HUSBZB-1 dongle, spent... uh... 3 hours or so wrestling with it before I finally got it working (VM issues), but it's working now, got the three Ecosmart bulbs in, and it all works through ZHA. I'll be spending some time writing up all my transition automations, but brightness and temperature transitions are working, so it should be clear sailing from here. And I've done the hard part of getting the dongle working and all, so if I want to add more Zigbee devices later, should be no sweat. Here's the picture, anticlimactic I know: https://imgur.com/a/yhwp4RW

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I’ve been using a mix of Aqara (door, motion, temp sensors, light switch), Ikea (button, button wheel, outlet), and EcoSmart Zigbee bulbs from Home Depot ($5/bulb, super good deal), and a few SmartThings Multipurpose sensors. I have it connected to HA with a Conbee II and Zigbee2MQTT. They all seem to be working great together and I’ve had really no issues with it so far.

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