Still trying to get zigbee going on my eisy. Am wanting to add hue lights. Trying to decide if they will work fine on their own or if I'd be better with one of the plug ins or with the hue pro hub? Am looking also at wanting to add the inovelli mmwave switches in a few places linked directly to the bulbs for immediate response. Anybody used the new Blue line inovelli switches? With hue? Suggestions, tips?

First issue I have is I keep checking the Zigbee support box but when I reboot, it's unchecked? I did buy the ZMatter usb box when it came out. I believe I'm on all the latest firmware, I have updated all packages. What am I missing? How do I turn on zigbee?

I once tried using a Hue bulb with the Polisy via zigbee. It did, in fact, connect and I was able to control it. I found, however, that the level of control and features did not match that of using a hue bulb with the hub. I have also used the hue bulbs/hub with network resources. This is quite reliable but does not provide the ability to use hue devices as a node in scenes. Given this, I prefer using the hue hub and hue node server.

I have no experience with the inovelli switches.

So I saw two plug ins in the store. Is this what you're talking about? Which one are you using? These allow the eisy to talk to the hue hub?

The one you want it simply called "Hue". Hue emulator is a different thing. It's a great plugin, very well made. It communicates over IP with your Hue hub (can be a ordinary V2 hub, or the new Pro one), so Zigbee isn't used.

Ok, plan is to have inovelli presence sensing switch bound to the bulbs in smart bulb mode so you can use switch on the wall to turn it off or on AND have the presence sensor to turn it off off unoccupied.

But currently under program I sequentially step brightness down at night and up in the morning and want to continue that ALONG with warming the color at night and cooling it in the morning.

Is that something handled easily with the hue app? Obviously I'm going to have to use zigbee for the switches.

Well, I am quite confident that you can use a program to increase or decrease brightness or color or tone, I am unsure how the innovelli switches relate to the hue bulbs or weather you can adjust the response to the inovelli switches.

2 hours ago, oberkc said:

Well, I am quite confident that you can use a program to increase or decrease brightness or color or tone, I am unsure how the innovelli switches relate to the hue bulbs or weather you can adjust the response to the inovelli switches.

As they are zigbee I should be able to use zigbee binding to turn the bulbs off and on just like linking a insteon switch and motion sensor. What I'm wondering is when the presence sensor in the switch sees nobody present, and it tell isy to turn the bulbs off.....

Google just told me yes, I can bind the bulbs and the inovelli switch. HOWEVER, they must be on same hub.....

9 hours ago, Papa C said:

First issue I have is I keep checking the Zigbee support box but when I reboot, it's unchecked? I did buy the ZMatter usb box when it came out. I believe I'm on all the latest firmware, I have updated all packages. What am I missing? How do I turn on zigbee?

After your turn on Zigbee with the checkbox, did you click on "save" at the bottom?

As it was right under a tic box I had dismissed it. Now it sticks but in the admin console it says zmatter zigbee not responding. In mobile if I start a zigbee add it says can't start inclusion.

Try powering off your eisy and rebooting. I've had to do that after configuring the dongle.

Yeah, have done that numerous times. Doing a.lot of reading. Hadn't done much since the the dongle came out and I installed it. Everything I read leads down another rabbit hole with all kinds of new stuff.

On 3/18/2026 at 6:36 AM, oberkc said:

I once tried using a Hue bulb with the Polisy via zigbee. It did, in fact, connect and I was able to control it. I found, however, that the level of control and features did not match that of using a hue bulb with the hub. I have also used the hue bulbs/hub with network resources. This is quite reliable but does not provide the ability to use hue devices as a node in scenes. Given this, I prefer using the hue hub and hue node server.

I have no experience with the inovelli switches.

COMPLETLY AGREE... perfectly put for my experiences as well.

This is what it's.sounding like. So, are you using a.switxh to turn on the hue bulbs? New or old hue hub? What kind of delay do you have? Anybody using a "smart bulb" switch? I currently have a multisensor 6 turning on a fixture via an insteon switch. While it is quick, it's still a noticeable delay by the time the sensor "SEES" a person, transmits to eisy and eisy turns on switch. On the other end of the scale I have an insteon sensor two linked to another insteon switch and it is instant.