Ikea switch E1743 with ZHA

Configuration Zigbee
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I tried this, still the same issue :frowning:

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Same here. Paired successfully a bunch of Aqara switches and they are working nicely.
Ikea remotes both square and round pair but only functional part is battery. Zha_event doesn’t show any activity for these, too.
Tried to update the firmware of the Ikea devices trough the suggested ZHA route but it didn’t pan out, too.

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Hello,

I also have this problem with a Tradfri E1810 remote with the last firmware.
My zigbee coordinator is a zigate.

Lagrap

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I seem to have the same problem. Tried with both the square on/off switch and the round one. Both show up as battery sensors. No zha_events are sent, in fact, they send no events at all (tried with *).

Using the sonoff cc2531 USB dongle

Tried to remove and pair several different times, also rebooted system.

The ikea outlet seems to work fine though.

Any news on this?

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Did you consider using zigbee2mqtt instead of ZHA?
I had good results with the E1743 and the cc2531.

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Thanks for the tip! For some reason I ruled zigbee2mqtt out as I did not find sonoffs dongle there. Now I realize that it is just the CC2531 :stuck_out_tongue:

I will probably try to install this instead today. Will let you know how it goes :slight_smile:

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Ok, installed zigbee2mqtt and results where promising. Entities added for everything automatically. However, neither the switch nor the remote generate any events… :frowning: As it seems the firmware on the itead dongle is too old to handle this. I have tried to upgrade following the instructions here : https://github.com/zigpy/zigpy-znp

But i cannot get that to work on my rpi running the commandline. I cannot even install zigpy-znp as I get some massive error messages when it tries to build.

Maybe running as a script via hassio would work as zigpy-znp shouldbe installed as I already have tried using zha.

Any ideas?

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If you don’t have a CC-debugger, you can try flashing using one of these methods :

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Thanks! I think I actually managed to flash it using a shell_command… however, now it is not recognized by my rpi at all. i.e:

ls -l /dev/serial/ reports No such file or directory.

Tried several reboots and unplugging the dongle. I guess I will need to try a hardware flash as per above… thanks for the link. I should have a spare rpi somewhere…

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Alright… finally managed to find rpi, sd-card, install os, fiddle with cabling (this was a nightmare as the header pins are sooo small and tight), and finally flash the dongle.

And it actually WORKS! I can now get the button events correctly! Phew… almost gave up :stuck_out_tongue:

So major issue seems to be that firmware on the itead/sonoff dongle needs upgrading for IKEA remotes to work properly.

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Just to point out that the solution at the top suggests listening to “zha_events”, this is incorrect, the event to listen to is “zha_event”… :slight_smile:

Only battery comes up under the device, but the events are there to be used in automations. And they work fine for me.

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Hi Guys

I have just received E1743 switches . Paired them, created automation but it does nothing. Created zha listener in node red and nothing happens when I press it . Any clue what is wrong?

Thanks

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Have the same problem. Not generating events and show up as battery indicator but with ?? Any fixes. I use aha son off dongle.

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Did anyone find a solution for this issue? Or just returned them back to Ikea?

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Thank you! That was the trick! I tried so long and now it works!

Greets Dominik

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Same issue here. The Symfonisk remotes work well, but the Fyrtur open/close remote does not send any events at all. My solution will be to go back to using the IKEA gateway for these. A shame they don’t work with ZHA!