Hue ghost events by dimmer switch

[Stothed775]

The problem

Still having issues with hue dimmer switch.
Randomly there are ghost events with switches so found there was an issue report in the past, but I still have the issue!

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

2024.6.4

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

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What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Integration causing the issue

Philipps Hue

Link to integration documentation on our website

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Diagnostics information

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Example YAML snippet

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Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

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Additional information

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[MicoRepo]

Experiencing same issues randomly every one of my 5 dimmers detects button press on all 4 of its buttons at the same time. No idea how long it's been going on. I have old and new gen dimmers and both seem to be affected.

[welchr]

Had the same thing happen to me today with a hue smart button. Seems there is a fair amount of history and related work here:

• ghost / unexpected hue dimmer events #99125
• Fix ghost events for Hue remotes  #113047

I took a snapshot and just updated to 2024.7 now to see if it would help.

[joshje]

I also just experienced this. I had an automation set up to run based on a Hue dimmer button press, and it just randomly went off without anyone pressing the button.

Spot checking my other Hue dimmer switches and a lot of them reported button presses at the same time, about an hour ago.

[welchr]

It apparently has something to do with hue bridge updates. In the hue app, I tried changing the updates to happen at 3 AM, when I know I absolutely wouldn't be using the button.

I thought about restricting my automation to only work outside the range of 2:45-3:15AM, but what I'm using the button for doesn't really matter if it triggers at 3 AM sometimes.

[idekker]

Opened a pull request for aiohue (home-assistant-libs/aiohue#377) to patch the issue.

[joshje]

Happy to see this is fixed & merged! Anyone know how to get the latest release? Do we need to wait for an update to home assistant itself?

[welchr]

Thank you @idekker for the fix.

@joshje it looks like this will make it into the 2024.7.4 update.