I’m not sure what the problem is but I have followed instructions and turned it on and off 6,7,8,9,10 times and bulbs do enter reset mode. Only two out my bulbs are in rest mode and paired with ST. Any clues or work around to beet these into pairing mode?

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…

Yeah. I’ve tried that no luck. I can reset any bulb apart from the Plain white ones, so it must be the bulb firmware, IKEA suck.

That sucks, maybe you got a faulty batch? I would send them back. Which ones do you have? I have the 3x 980lm ones, 3x 480lm and 2x GU10.

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 …

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… :slight_smile: The trick is the timing in the on/off’s… :wink: 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 kil…

I’ve tried everything and this is what did it for me! Thanks so much!!

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.

Terrible time Resetting Ikea TRÅDFRI bulb to pair it

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cat January 4, 2018, 9:41pm 13

This video from IKEA really helped me, I was flicking it on/off way too fast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJm9YpPrGzk

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