I know it is going to be a stupid question, but you are not far away from the hub when you are trying to pair them. A problem with zigbee devices that they might work in a location, but not pair there, or vice versa.
I don’t mean to be close like 5 cm, but like in a few meters to the hub, when trying to pair.
No questions is stupid, success is in the details.
I am 10-30 cm from the Hub.
Where are you located? -Ok, I know, Sweden from your Ikea link.- I have bought one of these dimmer (on/off switches), and managed to pair it in few seconds without any issue. Can you check what is your shard? You can see it in the address when you access the IDE.
My shard is EU01-EUWest1. I cannot see any issues of pairing. I used the Classic app, reseted the device with 4 or 5 press. Checked that the red LED starts flashing on the device and waited a little until the flashing of the LED stops and it shows up in the list.
I am not next to the Hub, but 3-5 meters away. But meanwhile I have plenty Zigbee devices so the mesh network is quite dense.
What Hub are you using? -Oh, never mind. V3. I see. Is your hub close to your wifi router?
Ahh… No led flashes for me. I’ve tried 4 pushes , no red flash, also I tried to keep the button pressed for 10 seconds, no red flash.
Ikea must have changed something. It can’t be possible that I purchased 3 faulty devices.
i never got my 5 button remote to flash red. Thought the battery was dead several time. it finally just paired after following the reset and paring mode instructions while the add process was active in SmartThings.
It is weird. I think all of the IKEA battery powered devices what I used had a red LED show up during reset. Button, remote, dimmer and motion sensor.
I’ve done the reseting with the small button next to the battery. I usually do 5 quick presses to reset them. The LED is visible on the other side. Next to the I or O.
If you have a Tradfri bulb, then pair it to that. That is how I confirmed before that they are working.
Tradfri to Tradfri is just straight connection.
Bulb on, remote 5 cm away from the bulb, 5 press pairing on the remote, pairing starts. If paired the bulb would dim and flash. The the remote controls the bulb without Smartthings.
Good test to check them.
Hi All
I am so great full for your engagement.
When you made me aware about the red “flashes” ( I totally forgot about that ) I tried to play ABBA with the single button. Did not sound good, but after a while the device light up as a Christmas tree. Pairing went as smooth as ever.
I did notice that one of the devices behaved a bit different from the others, the Christmas tree.
Once again, thanks.
5 quick press on the button next to the battery.
I am happy that you have managed to pair them. I’ve made the pictures this morning just to show how it should light up.
Thanks, hopefully it will help others also.
Great, Helped me alot.
My question is if it’s still posibble to run automations on Ikea bulbs after I’ve paired them directly with Ikea buttons?
It depends how did you do it?
The bulb should be accessible from ST.
Steps to keep the bulb in ST is:
The square remote from that point will not report pressed/hold to ST, but battery reporting will continue. The square remote will control the bulb as on/off (press) and brighten/dim (hold). The bulb still can be controlled from ST.
If you do have the round 5 button remote, that will still report button press and hold to ST, if it has the old firmware. Unfortunately that is not working anymore with the newer firmware. (The left and right will not control the color of the bulb generally. )
You are awesome! I have been looking for a solution for some smart bedside lamps. My requirements:
I found this thread after someone claimed they made it work the way I wanted but I was skeptical. But this is the only product that has claimed to be able to meet the requirements so I jumped in ordered two Tradfri dimmer kits from Ikea (704.600.36 - warm white bulb and two button remote).
Upon receipt and initial setup, I was almost let down…
Thank you!
I am really happy that it works for you. It should report the battery, but you need to know that it is not accurate.
The IKEA On/Off switches have QA/QC issues from manufacturing. Some depletes really quickly without reporting the correct battery levels. Or just generally depletes without reporting the correct one…
When the battery starts to deplete, I believe the red LED starts to flash time to time when pressing the buttons.
Well, I’ve discovered some weirdness. I purchased two of these kits for two side table lamps in the same room. For some reason, while I believe the button/remote should only pair with the single bulb that I linked it to, unfortunately it seems that both buttons control both bulbs. I’ll need two more kits for a 3rd and 4th location also.
Do you know offhand if there is a way to make the buttons individually addressable? If this is the normal function then I’ll have to junk them and keep searching for a solution.
It’s not going to work. Search for my Ecosmart remote/bulb post from year ago. It might work for an hour and then those remotes became part of some z-wave group, and start controlling all of those light bulbs. It is probably same for IKEA. There is issue with how SmartThings works with z-wave groups. You can still add bulbs and remotes to SmartThings and link them with SmartLight app, and they will work locally.
Well dang… I read through that thread and even tried to hack together a lighting group to no avail. So at least with this particular pair of bulbs and button dimmers, I think I can make the linked remotes work.
I have two other use-cases and I’m going to order the rotary style Ikea dimmer button which is supposed to show up in smartthings as a dimmer and if so then I think I will be able to add it to Smartthings and just have it control the bulbs from smartthings without the need to ZLL direct pair to the bulb… we shall see I suppose.
Ok, first of all we are talking about Zigbee devices and not Z-wave ones.
They will not work locally as the DH for the Remotes is not a local DH, it runs in the cloud.
@ThomasTrain, to avoid linking to the other bulb, what I guess, they must be close to each other, do the pairing again. I mean reset the remote with the multiple press of the button on the back. Add it to ST, confirm that it is paired to ST by checking the device’s history for button presses. Then turn off the bulb which you do not want the remote to pair to. I mean turn off the power physically. Then do the pairing to the bulb by holding the button on the back for 10+ seconds and keeping the remote really close to the bulb you want to pair it to. The bulb will flash when paired.
Turn on the bulb now and check that the remote was paired only one bulb. If yes, then do the steps with the other remote as well.
PS.: the Ecosmart remotes had a hardcoded groupID as I can recall it.
Zwave? Or Zigbee? The IKEA devices are all Zigbee.
