That’s the correct procedure, I’ve just added one of my spare buttons with that same firmware and can confirm it works with my driver and my Aeotec hub.
The timing and placement is important. You have to press the pairing button four times at a specific pace, not super fast but not slow. Place the button very very close to the hub, almost touching it. The button light will blink a couple times, then quickly go to the scan devices.
It’s almost a ritual, I’ve been testing IKEA buttons so many times that now it feels easy but I remember at the beginning when I had to pair it about 10 times for it to correctly pair .
Regarding removal, if the button was already added to SmartThings AND using my driver you don’t really need to remove it, at least in theory, just pairing it again should reconfigure the bindings which is why buttons don’t emit events. Removing it doesn’t hurt anyway.
That did it! I literally placed the button on top of the ST hub, and used the discovery method while pairing. Took about 15 seconds to find and add, and it selected your driver at that point. Logs show key presses. Thanks for all the help!
I have the RODRET paired to my ST hub, it paired easily and I’m using this driver. I only want it to control a single lamp. When I setup the action to “turn on or off’ that bulb for button I press, when I press the button again, it’ll turn on two bulbs in a completely separate room. None of the other button actions are setup, and it’s connection path is: Hub—>Device.
How do I stop this thing from controlling devices other than the one I specifically want it to control?
Don’t use the component named “Main”, that one triggers with any button. Use only Button [ I ] and Button [ O ] which only trigger for each individual button.
The driver just generates the events for SmartThings, whatever happens next depends on the routines that are created. You can check in the Routines tab of the lights what routines use those devices.
any way to control brightness of TRÅDFRI with RODRET?
i can only set brightness to some predefined value but can not regulate it in steps when buttons are held.. got a bit lost if it is not supported at all or i missed smth?
You need either a custom driver for the lights that has a Step dimmer level function, like Zigbee Light Multifunction Mc, or use the Virtual Dimmer custom driver with steps.
Then for the Held actions you would use the Step instead of an absolute brightness value. And you can enable the Auto-repeat Held of the button if you want to repeat the step while held until you release the button.
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