IKEA STYRBAR in Home Assistant via SmartThings Hub

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I’m using an ST hub as a Zigbee and Z-Wave controller, since I already had one and don’t want to buy dongles unless I have to. It seems like SmartThings is only smart enough to expose the battery of the STYRBAR (4 button zigbee remote), but doesn’t expose any sort of button press event directly.

There are blueprints for getting these devices to work with ZHA, but my understanding is that you need a dongle and ZHA set-up in Home Assistant for this to work - it does not appear to work with the ST hub, even though the device is available in HA. Is there something I’m missing, or is my setup not currently viable for controlling HA devices using my STYRBAR remote?

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You can try using Developer Tools->Events and then use “Listen to events” with * to see all events. When you have started listening to * (all) events, push the button on the remote and see if you get an event from it. You can then trigger on that. If you don’t get an event, then it won’t work.
-David

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Interesting! I was wondering how the blueprints had all the event info figured out… it’s so hard to get into this stuff without knowing where to look.

Thanks, I think I can work with this. FWIW it is firing an event as expected.