I have been going at it for what is literally six hours non-stop now to pair my Ikea Tradfri to my HA installation via the ZHA integration.
Before I continue, my current setup is as follows:
-TrueNAS with the Home Assistant community plugin.
-Conbee II USB coordinator
-Ikea Tradfri motion sensor
-Ikea Tradfri on/off switch
The issue I’m running into is that I cannot seem to pair my Tradfri devices through ZHA. I have checked the functionality of the USB stick through windows (as well as set up a temporary network with my tradfri motion sensor to see if it even worked) . The log file (which I’ll include a screenshot of) shows that it’s allowing devices to be discovered and joined with the network. In the logs you might find signals of an unknown device. This device is trying to find the network I temporarily set up in Windows, proving that it actually receives signals.
For debugging purposes, I’m only trying to connect the on/off switch with any other Zigbee devices totally powerless. I only ran into the unknown device connection logs because because of a desperate attempt; I thought maybe it would try to connect to the old Windows-powered network and ZHA would maybe just allow the device that way. (I know, it’s ridiculous)
Does anybody have any idea why it won’t pick up my tradfri devices? Or am I just missing something blatantly obvious?
Yes, I did. Also, I was able to pair them on the windows network.
By the way, there’s a lot of watchdog warnings popping up now. Or is that just ZHA not knowing what to do with itself since there are no devices connected?
So I suppose I have some progress… It’s able to find the on/off switch, however it doesn’t allow pairing because the switch ‘does not have a mandatory basic cluster’. I’m confused as to what that means.
Might continue this at a later date, but for now I’m throwing in the towel and returning all the crap I bought while I still can. I’m not ready to work with a system that constantly wants pick a fight at every small little step. I’ll just buy into a ready-to-use architecture and live with the many limitations that they usually come with.
Yes I know. The test setup on Windows was actually achieved through Deconz. The funny bit about that was that device activity wasn’t passed through properly (most of the times even AT ALL). Trust me, I tried just about everything and spent a ridiculous amount of both money and time (initial post was after WEEKS of trying to even get Zigbee set up in all kinds of ways). I’m just gonna blame it on the many layers of virtualisation because of TrueNAS and leave it at that.
