Well, I’ve waited patiently for a fix but it never came.
My 5 button lives on my office desk and it controls lights, fans, and a few other devices throughout the house and it’s been really annoying not having it.
So I purchased a little USB step-down module that outputs 5V and 3.3V. I soldered a few wires to the module’s 3.3V and ground and soldered them to the battery contacts on the 5 button.
It plugs into the USB hub I use to charge my cameras. The hub plugs directly into a wall outlet so there’s no shortage of power. I will be monitoring it in case there’s alot of heat generated for some reason but I’m not expecting any problems.
Maybe 1 day there will be a fix but at least I have my 5 button switch back for now.
I finally got myself a Tradfri Gateway and I now have three buttons on test on two hubs, with all the Tradfri Outlets updated as well. In the short term I can only really comment if it doesn’t help.
Does anyone know for sure what channel the gateway uses? The Ikea app is incredibly light on information. I’m guessing it may be one of the ZLL ones given its history.
Has it? I’ve never had a firmware update from ST for any of my devices.
The firmware is freely available from Ikea but I can’t see ST wanting to distribute it without being asked by Ikea, and even then it would probably need beta testing first.
Zigbee device firmwares must be released with a SmartThings hub firmware update. At the soonest it would come with the next ST hub firmware update, but going through SmartThings usually lags behind the companies own hub/bridge by a while (if it comes at all).
Well they are still working despite a lot of disruption to my meshes. Mind you two IKEA Motion Sensors both ended up with dead batteries, one more needed pairing again and another needed a repeater power cycling.
I recycled a load of batteries a few months ago and stopped replacing batteries a few weeks back except for two buttons. Even so …
My local dollar store is out of coin cells. I already tried the $5.00 per cell batteries and they drain just a fast as the 3 for a buck that you can get at the dollar store…
Your battery pile (small pun there) is twice as tall as mine.
Factory reset Ikea Tradfri button (Press the pairing button 4 times within 5 seconds).
Added device again with DH “ZigBee Button”.
I changed the battery, it reported 89% battery at start up? And 7 day later it’s still 89%.
I don’t know why this worked for me, but it might give someone an idea what’s going on.
Ikea Firmware: 23015631