Hello all! As you can see, this is my first time here.
Because Iām new to this whole āDIY home automationā I bought a lot of gadgets, and like many others, Iām having a hard time pairing an āIkea Tradfri Shortcut Buttonā to my Aeotec SmartThings V3 Hub.
First of all, I have two identical Ikea Tradfri Shortcut Buttons (you will see why this maybe matter in a little bit).
Let me give you some detailed steps of what I did (and in what exact order) and where I am stuck at the moment:
- I tried to pair both buttons to my hub like any other device with no luck.
- Googled around and found out about DTHs, googled more to find out what they are and how they work (repeated this for the IDE). Then I stumbled across this beauty: New Ikea tradfri Shortcut Button? - #33 by iquix (btw, thank you @iquix for this!) and added it into my IDE.
- Added my first shortcut button, got recognized as a āThingā, went into IDE, and set the type to āIkea Tradfri Shortcut Buttonā then BAM! - working like a charm.
- Tried to do the same for the second shortcut button⦠not so much ābamā sadly. Tried a few dozen times, but failed to work every timeā¦
- Tried all that āZigbee Buttonā mumbo jumbo with no luck.
- Learned about Edge Drivers because of @Sakari (thanks!) and enrolled on this SmartThings. Add a little smartness to your things. (thanks @DJFliX) then installed the āIKEA Shortcut Buttonā driver.
- Deleted the button from ST, readded it by using the āscan nearbyā function, got detected as the correct type, got excited, went to test it⦠fail!
- Went into the IDE and saw that the new āIKEA Shortcut Buttonā that I just added, has the type āplaceholderā, and for the āZigbee Idā and āDevice Network Idā fields I see no values.
- Got stuck⦠(<- I am here now, please help me to get to step 10: Success!)
Do you guys think that this might happen because I already have another shortcut button paired?
To be honest, Iām afraid to unpair the first button because I might not be able to pair it again.
All I want is to have them both paired (with DTH or Driver) and work for press and hold.
Is it too much to ask?