Adding IKEA TRÅDFRI On/Off switch to deconz

alvinger · February 1, 2019, 10:46am

Hi, I have the IKEA TRÅDFRI Control Outlet plug with the accompanying remote.
I had no problem adding the plug itself in deconz but for the life of me I cannot add the remote. I’ve seen it briefly as “IKEA TRÅDFRI On/Off Switch” but it has never been successfully added. I have IKEA TRÅDFRI Motion sensors and the round IKEA TRÅDFRI Dimmer remote connected successfully.

My plan is to use the On/Off switch as a generic Zigbee switch and in fact not controlling the Outlet plug at all. Therefore I have not connected the remote to the outlet plug.

Can someone give me a step-by-step description on how to add the remote in deconz? I’m running hass.io on an RPi2 with the deconz addon and I have the Raspbee controller.

Thx in advance!

Robban · February 1, 2019, 1:48pm

Upgrade to the latest deconz release (2.05.58) and you get support for the switch.

alvinger · February 1, 2019, 5:15pm

Thanks,
I’m running the .57 addon, it seems 0.58 addon isn’t available yet.

Robban · February 1, 2019, 5:25pm

I saw it being tagged earlier today, should be out soon enough

M203 · February 2, 2019, 2:33pm

How does one add this? Not represented to pick in add new switch -> ikea.

What events does it send?

M203 · February 2, 2019, 3:16pm

At last it worked as other. All features available with trådfri gateway is available with switch editor. Really nice!

adrian1 · February 2, 2019, 8:11pm

I have a bizarre situation…

I integrated into Phoscon (Deconz) and I was able to make on/off in a Phoscon grup, but in HA only appears entity of battery: “sensor.living_on_off_switch_battery_level” .

What can i do to to see real entity and use in HA automations?

alvinger · February 2, 2019, 9:50pm

Are you running deconz .58? I have the same situation as you on .57.

M203 · February 2, 2019, 11:30pm

You have to listen to events. Turn on debug, click on button and you will see the event in the log to use in automation. Check the attributes for sensor.living_on_off_switch_battery_level and there you will find the event id to use. The documentation for deconz component has the specifics.

adrian1 · February 3, 2019, 9:09am

I use deconz windows app with Conbee (Win32_V2_05_58.exe) and Integations with HA.

adrian1 · February 3, 2019, 9:19am

Morten_DK · May 19, 2019, 2:51pm

Did you all use the Switch category and then “other” to make it work? I have tried “Other” and “Ikea” (and chose a on/off remote though) and also as a light - no luck. I tried to reset it, but didn’t seem to make any difference.

I am using Hassio with the marthoc addon version 2.05.63.

manup · May 19, 2019, 5:16pm

Yes this is currently the only way to add it. Please consider updating deCONZ to the latest version 2.05.64 and the respective latest firmware version.

While switch search is running you need to press the small button next to the battery quickly 4 times, so that the LED flashes.

Morten_DK · May 19, 2019, 7:41pm

Thanks. Apparently I didn’t push hard enough on the reset button, but now it works

I have the newest version of the add on, but I will update it once a newer is available. I think the official one is newer than the marthoc one.

aherbjornsen · June 20, 2019, 5:22pm

I have this switch and notice that it possibly can be used for dimming as well as simple on/off.

It generates the following events:

Click and immediately release On/Off: 1002/2002
Click and hold On/Off: 1001/2001
Release after hold On/Off: 1003/2003

Anyone that have pointers to Appdaemon scripts or automations that will implement dimming functions based on this?

Robban · June 20, 2019, 5:34pm

The example in component documentation should be enough https://www.home-assistant.io/components/deconz/#appdaemon-remote-template

aherbjornsen · June 20, 2019, 5:46pm

Thanks for the fast reply - but I could not really find anything useful in the component documentation.

The way this button works is that the single 1001 event should trigger something that will gradually increase the (e.g.) light until a 1003 event (or possibly a timeout) is reached.

I was interested in how that should be handled in Appdaemon (or an automation) - I guess just looping with a 1 second sleep timer until a 1003 is received would be a bad thing.

Robban · June 20, 2019, 5:47pm

The long press should send a new event every second, that is what you want

aherbjornsen · June 20, 2019, 5:57pm

Nope - it does not. It sends a single 1001 when it’s pressed down, and then it does nothing until it is released and then it sends 1003.

Robban · June 20, 2019, 10:55pm

Well. Then you need to trigger some method that increments brightness until it gets canceled by a release signal