Experience with Gira Senic "Friends of Hue" switches?

[shypike]

Does anyone have experience with Gira Senic "Friends of Hue" switches?
I know that they not in the database yet, but I wanted to change that.
The switches are "green", based on EnOcean electronics.
However, when I try pairing, I see no Zigbee traffic at all.
Pairing is supposed to start after pressing lower right for 10 seconds and then releasing it.
I did that several times, on three different switches.
Any tips?

[corvy]

What channel do you use?

[shypike]

Channel 11.
But I sent the switches back. Some more googling tells me that Zigbee Green Power is challenging, because it deviates from the standard. Some people had success with different software than zigbee2mqtt, but I don’t want to switch:

[corvy]

Cool. Just in case someone else reads this later, pairing with these switches is done by pressing the top right button (for channel 11). At least if they are based on PTM 215Z. I have 3 of these and they paired and worked fine without any Hue devices. I just had Namron dimmers in addition to the switches.

Read the channel to button maps here: https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/devices/PTM_215Z.html#enocean-ptm%2520215z

[Danit2]

I have a Feller Friends of Hue Switch in my system.
They must nearly the same. Can you tell us witch kinde of switch you have? PTM 215Z, PTM 215ZE or PTM 216Z?
Normaly there is a sticker someware on the device.

It is a little bit difficult to pair this device but it works.
But do you have some HUE device near the switch? Beqause this is needit to translate the communication of the switch.

[shypike]

Thanks for the suggestions. But as I said earlier, I sent the switches back to the supplier.
Regarding Hue, yes I have Hue devices, but they’re all connected to a Hue hub. My switches should connect to my home assistent box (Deconz stick and zigbee2mqtt). Using the new switches over Hue is not an option.

[ErikSteiner]

Hey there, I recently bought several Senic Gira Friends of Hue Smart Switches. They are actually enOcean PTM215Z. I have no Hue device, nor any Philips device in my Smart Home.

The pairing of the switch was very easy. I made sure, that my ZigBee network uses a default channel. In my case 11. The channel must be selected, by pressing the corresponding button on the switch. Afterwards the switch appears in the device tab of Zigbee2MQTT. Then the channel needs to be approved:

To pair it hold the corresponding button for that channel for 7 seconds or more.

Button	Channel
A0	15
A1	20
B0	11
B1	25

Once the device is paired you need to confirm the channel. To do this press A1 and B0 together. Important: don't press any other buttons between this and the pairing.

If it is relevant, I use a Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 USB-Dongle Plus, with coordinator version 20240710, on Zigbee2MQTT.