Hue to ZHA Migration, Part 1: Why I'm Ditching the Philips Bridge
The Problem That Finally Broke Me Every morning, same thing. Wake-up automation fires at 6:30. The Hue bulbs fade up nicely to 70%. The IKEA bulbs? Sitting there at 4%. Barely glowing. I kept thinking I’d configured something wrong. Checked the automation. Checked the bulb settings. Tried different transition times. Nothing helped. Turns out it’s not me. Hue bridges just don’t handle third-party Zigbee bulbs properly. The IKEA Trådfri bulbs receive the final brightness value but ignore the fade duration entirely. They jump straight to whatever you set. Known issue, apparently. Forums full of people with the same complaint. ...