Lutron Aurora smart bulb dimmer - odd binding behavior

[GoBooth]

I have a Lutron Dimmer Z3-1BRL, and I'm experiencing some unexpected behavior.

This dimmer is in my kitchen, and I have the following zigbee devices:

• 3x Hue: white filament Edison ST72 E27 LED warm-to-cool
• 5x Acuity Brands Lighting: WF4C_WF6C 4" Potlights
• 1x Gledopto CW WW LED Controller

The ultimate problem i'm trying to resolve is: my dimmer is controlling all lights except for 2 of the 5 potlights.

This Dimmer is the first device I ever Binded using Z2M.

At first, I created Groups in Z2M, 1 Group for the 3 Hue Bulbs, and then 1 group for the 5 pot lights.
When I tried Binding the Dimmer to the hue Group, I was NOT able to control the lights.
instead, if I added each bulb individually, I was then able to turn the lights on/off and dim up/down.
I then added all 5 spotlights individually
and then added the single led controller.

This worked OK, except that 2 of the 5 potlights don't respond (they don't respond from the GUI either... or at least, not right away)

anyways, I have UNBINDED all lights/groups to the dimmer except for the 1x Gledopto controller.
I have restarted HA and all the jazz... what i'm seeing is that pressing ON/OFF and even dimming the lights from the Lutron dimmer still works on the Hue lights, the pot lights and the gledopto controller.
if I unbind the controller so that the dimmer has nothing binded to it. ON/OFF Dimming does nothing (as expected)
if I rebind just a single hue Bulb. the Dimmer controlls ALL bulbs + 3/5 potlights + controller.

Why is that?

does it have something to do with groups?

I notice something similar in my bed room too.

I created a Group in Z2M with my Wife and I's lamp's Hue Bulb + a gledopto controller for the bed's headrest.
I binded a xiaomi button to HER bulb only. but a single press turns on both my light and hers + the Gledopto. is this how Groups are supposed to work?

When Binding, I'm only adding "LevelCtrl" & "OnOff"

I just tested deleting all my Groups in Z2M, and the dimmer with just the 1 bulb BINDED to it, pressing ON/OFF still turns on/off everything in the kitchen, but the dimmer now only dims that 1 bulb.

WTF.

[GoBooth]

no one?

[fractalcounty]

Can confirm this is still an issue a year later. I managed to get everything working, albeit with some caveats. For anyone looking into how to get a Aurora smart bulb dimmer working with zigbee2mqtt (on HomeAssistant or otherwise):

• You can put it into pairing mode by quickly tapping the button two times, removing the battery, and tapping the button two times.
• If this doesn't work, you can factory reset it by quickly tapping the button three times and holding for around 20 seconds on the third tap. Then, when the light on the Aurora begins rapidly blinking, press it again a bunch of times again. If your Lutron Aurora locks up/stops working during the binding process, this is a quick way to reset it and fix everything.
• You can't bind the Lutron Aurora to groups. No idea why, but it still doesn't seem possible. Once the Lutron Aurora is connected via zigbee2mqtt, only bind the Lutron Aurora to the LevelCtr cluster of the individual bulbs you want to control with it.
• In my experience, accidentally binding the LutronAurora to anything besides LevelCtr locks up the dimmer and can only be fixed with the aforementioned factory reset process outlined above.

[kosmonot]

Thanks for these invaluable tips! Not having these dimmers functional was a show stopper for me and I was reluctantly considering migrating back to ZHA. Binding the lights individually worked a treat. So nice to have all my devices finally functioning well on z2m ember.

[califlower]

Some other things I've noticed, binding ONLY works if the lutron aurora is "on", as in it will keep retrying until you've pressed the button otherwise it will error after trying to set bindings after about 1 minute

Groups half work, as in the sort of a little bit control the lights but not really. It's completely broken so the feature basically doesn't work. Binding to on/off does work for me and binding to levelctrl also seems to work fine. Overall the experience is pretty poor and mostly undocumented which seems insane for such a popular little switch

[h14h]

Wow thank you so much for this. I was driving myself mad trying to understand why I couldn't bind the Aurora to my lights -- never would have occurred to me I needed to walk over and nudge it to turn it "on" to get things to take.