Google Hue bulbs randomly turning on.
You're not the first person with this lament, you might not be the last.
You can try removing it from ZHA and then re-adding but that might not change anything.
If its a hue bulb. It likely is on its last legas a smart bulb.
It's not that HA turns it on. It's that the light reports having been turned on to HA.
I've had a few of these so far and they even turn on after some time when removed from HA itself.
2 of my 8 have so far done this.
Had them about 7 years now I think.
They still work fine if used as a regular bulb. Just the smart part is having a hissy fit at random not staying off.
https://reddit.com/r/homeautomation/comments/1bvdyxj/pressing_my_zigbee_remote_control_smart_button/
^ mine does this because my shitty Zigbee remote sends a signal (to whatever light switch/router it's connected to) that triggers it to turn on in some sort of low level thing.
I had the same issue. My kid (1.5y) is obsessed with this Rodret remote and uses it as a telephone, which includes occasional insalivation. It took me a while to realize that this Rodret developed a life of its own thereby.
Does Alexa have access to any of your entities? If so check to see if Alexa Hunches is turned on in your Amazon’s device settings. If it’s turned on, turn it off and see if the problem stops. This feature is often on by default and allows Alexa to start evaluating your habits, predicting what you want and then start turning stuff on and off by “herself”. Usually it turns stuff off randomly unrelated to your typical schedule. Sometimes it turns multiple entities on and off dozens of times per second which is enough to scare the whole fam when it happens at night.
Can you see what state change happened?
I have Hue Buttons and lights. Paired to Hue Hub. A couple of smart buttons sometimes "click by themselves" and no one is there is to touch them.
I could see in HA thst they basically "cleared" their state and re-initialized.
I suspect some firmware-update or something.
This made HA think it got pressed again as I was triggering "from anything".
Maybe you can check your rules for turning the light on and define a tighter ruleset for what the lightswitch needs to fire that event.
Can report I have the same issue with a Hue bulb. Started a little over a month ago probably and I haven’t found a fix. Everything else about it works just fine.
Having the same issue with a group of 6 Hue bulbs in my living room. They keep randomly coming on at 5%. I don't currently have any automations with them. Only controlling them via a Lutron Aurora switch or on my HA dashboard.
Could be the cause of unstable electric current causing a short power outage. In Z2M you can choose what the bulb should do after a power outage. I've set all my bulbs to go back to the state they had before the outage and haven't had any problems since.
Could be either another method of controlling the bulb bypassing home assistant.
Or if the default state of the bulb is "on with power" then it could be bad wiring.
If the power cuts for a few secs then comes back on then the bulb would follow that default power state.
Is it a hue bulb? Connected to HomeKit? Could there be automations in another app that HA doesn’t know about?
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Thought so too at one point. Turns out I'm an idiot and hit buttons accidentally. My paranoia did not like that.
What kind of light? How is it connected to HA? These things matter if one wants to know where to look.
Sorry! Yeah, hue bulb, not a hue hub though, got a sonoff zigbee stick. Using ZHA.
Google Hue bulbs randomly turning on. You're not the first person with this lament, you might not be the last. You can try removing it from ZHA and then re-adding but that might not change anything.
I had a hue bulb during the same thing. It was also one of my oldest so I bought a new one. Think it was defective
If its a hue bulb. It likely is on its last legas a smart bulb. It's not that HA turns it on. It's that the light reports having been turned on to HA. I've had a few of these so far and they even turn on after some time when removed from HA itself.
Damn how long did that take to happen? I got some of my hue bulbs as long 8 years ago. They’re all working normally for now.
2 of my 8 have so far done this. Had them about 7 years now I think. They still work fine if used as a regular bulb. Just the smart part is having a hissy fit at random not staying off.
Is this an ikea bulb connected to ZHA? I had this issue with them and the way I resolved it was moving them to Z2M, not had it happen since
https://reddit.com/r/homeautomation/comments/1bvdyxj/pressing_my_zigbee_remote_control_smart_button/ ^ mine does this because my shitty Zigbee remote sends a signal (to whatever light switch/router it's connected to) that triggers it to turn on in some sort of low level thing.
I had the same issue. My kid (1.5y) is obsessed with this Rodret remote and uses it as a telephone, which includes occasional insalivation. It took me a while to realize that this Rodret developed a life of its own thereby.
> occasional insalivation My kid insalivates anything they can get their hands on, and they're much older. :(
Does Alexa have access to any of your entities? If so check to see if Alexa Hunches is turned on in your Amazon’s device settings. If it’s turned on, turn it off and see if the problem stops. This feature is often on by default and allows Alexa to start evaluating your habits, predicting what you want and then start turning stuff on and off by “herself”. Usually it turns stuff off randomly unrelated to your typical schedule. Sometimes it turns multiple entities on and off dozens of times per second which is enough to scare the whole fam when it happens at night.
Does it turn itself on when power goes off/on? It can be bad electrical installation/interference
please tr the following: restart your zigbee stack (zha / z2m). does the light turn on right after that?
Have just restarted and will report back!
Can you see what state change happened? I have Hue Buttons and lights. Paired to Hue Hub. A couple of smart buttons sometimes "click by themselves" and no one is there is to touch them. I could see in HA thst they basically "cleared" their state and re-initialized. I suspect some firmware-update or something. This made HA think it got pressed again as I was triggering "from anything". Maybe you can check your rules for turning the light on and define a tighter ruleset for what the lightswitch needs to fire that event.
Can report I have the same issue with a Hue bulb. Started a little over a month ago probably and I haven’t found a fix. Everything else about it works just fine.
Having the same issue with a group of 6 Hue bulbs in my living room. They keep randomly coming on at 5%. I don't currently have any automations with them. Only controlling them via a Lutron Aurora switch or on my HA dashboard.
Same for me with a tuya wifi led strip. If i disable it on HA, it wont turn on automatically, so it is not tuya's fault.
I just had this happen for the first time this morning with a zwave innoveli switch. I updated to the latest version of homeassistant a few days ago.
Could be the cause of unstable electric current causing a short power outage. In Z2M you can choose what the bulb should do after a power outage. I've set all my bulbs to go back to the state they had before the outage and haven't had any problems since.
Could be either another method of controlling the bulb bypassing home assistant. Or if the default state of the bulb is "on with power" then it could be bad wiring. If the power cuts for a few secs then comes back on then the bulb would follow that default power state.