This is a common problem with the Ikea bulbs. Many have reported getting a lamp and holding the bulb directly to your hub is the only way to get them to pair successfully after a reset.
Seems that different hub firmwares (and bulb firmwares) seem to affect pairing? I’ll test it with a couple of bulbs I have and see what my results are.
I found that you have to do the on/offs quickly for them to register, within a second for each, if that makes sense. Get them in a lamp base with a decent switch you can flick quickly. I always did 7 on’s, I starting with the bulb off go, on 1, off, on 2, off, on 3, off, on 4, off , on 5, off, on 6, off, on 7…, this should take you 5-6 seconds, then it should flicker.
Has anyone managed to reset the plain white 1000lm bulb ? Having the same issue here I think. Add a thing finds nothing and on/off 6 times does nothing either. At this point all I have is an expensive dumb bulb
Finally paired it after countless hub reboots and attempts at resetting the bulb. Here’s what I did.
Rebooted my hub.
Bulb on off 6 times. Then for the first time saw the bulb very slightly flicker. Blink and you’ve missed it
Left it off for about 30 mins
Add a thing
Bulb on
and hey presto it appeared as a thing. Renamed and saved it then changed it to ZLL dimmer bulb in the IDE.
Done
Anyone managed to do this with GU10’s I connected 9 to Hue straight off then they dropped out and couldn’t be found. I’ve now tried the Tradfri gateway and the hue and can’t get the bulbs detected. Tried rebooting gateways and switched the bulbs on and off so many times planes are circling.
No need to reset hub… It doesn’t have anything to do with the reset of the bulb…
The trick is the timing in the on/off’s…
What works for me every time is using (very) short “on’s” and a little bit longer “off’s”…
I start with bulb on, then off, and then 6 “on’s”, where i kill the light as soon as the bulb shows signs of turning on… Hope that make sense…?
I did it in the end - I paired them with the Hue hub by moving the Hue Hub to about a 15 cm from the bulb then reset the bulb using the Ikea video, then using the hue bulb finder Windows software.
You are the man!! Did exactly this on 4 which have been evading a reset for many months. Leave a little longer in the Off position, and a quick flick on, and all reset!! Cheers @AnubizDK