Ikea Tradfri gateway stops

Hardware
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I experienced this issue today for the first time. 2 restarts of the gateway and HA fixed it.

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Anyone found a solution to this? Or at least the exact issue why it occurs? i’m tired of having to unplug my not so smart gateway every 3-4 days at best…

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This is so far the only sollution i have found…

#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Reboot IKEA TRADFRI if not responding
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- id: IKEA_Tradfri_Not_Home
  alias: 'IKEA_Tradfri_Not_Home'
  initial_state: 'on'
  trigger:
    - platform: state
      entity_id: device_tracker.ikea_ping
      to: 'not_home'
    - platform: state
      entity_id: device_tracker.ikeatradfri
      to: 'not_home'
  condition:
    - condition: and
      conditions:
        - condition: state
          entity_id: device_tracker.ikea_ping
          state: "not_home"
        - condition: state
          entity_id: device_tracker.ikeatradfri
          state: "not_home"
  action:
    - service: switch.turn_off
      entity_id: switch.ikea_tradfri
    - delay: 00:00:15
    - service: switch.turn_on
      entity_id: switch.ikea_tradfri
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I wonder why there is not much news about this issue on other websites or communities. I still have this issue. Since my gateway is too close to my pi, I am unable to reset the power via a 433 MHz power plug. I am still hoping for a new firmware. I am currently running 1.1.0015.

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I have to cold boot my tradfri gateway too occasionally. I prevented my tradfri of phoning home (firewall). I do this with most of my devices concerning home automation. I first thought this could be the problem. But I think most HASS users don’t block their tradfri gateways. So there is no connection of blocking the gateway and the need of cold booting it. Or am I wrong?

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I have the same issue. HA start loosing connection with the bridge after a few days. Then I need to reboot the ikea bridge, then HA to discover my lights again.

Although even when HA misses the access to the bridge, I can still connect with the IKEA app on my phone, and everything works well from there.

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sooo. this is an automation? I cant even find any device_id to my ikea. even though im using it through HA

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I find mine throu either asuswrt or nmap?
It shows up in my known_devices.yaml
Try to add it in your known_devices.yaml with the ikea bridges mac adress

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just copied the code and swapped out the switch part, seems to be working =)

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Do we have a tradfri user who has a working gateway at all? In other words, is it worth to swap it for a new gateway at Ikea?

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I bought mine in May or early June and I only had to restart it 2 or 3 times since then. No problems since the firmware update as far as I can remember.

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I also need to restart mine every day, running 1.1.0015.
I can however still ping mine when it is dead so the above ping solution for power cycling it won’t work. Might have to power cycle it on a scheduled basis instead.

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Mine seem to be “pingable” too when down, mine have gotten much more stable lately so i havent have had to restart it much.

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My GW hangs too. The Gateways seems to be a quite bad product. I’ve documented my experience with Tradfri here: http://myconnectedthings.blogspot.se/2017/10/ikea-had-20-off-for-tradfri-products.html
BR

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Could it be a problem with the DHCP client in the bridge? When I unplug my router when the ikea bridge is online the middle LED on the bridge will start pulsating. When I plugin the router again the bridge won’t go online. The LED keeps pulsating.
Devices like smartphones iPads, laptops reconnect properly to the router after it’s plugged in again. I had the same problem with a Popcorn Hour Media Player. The dhcp client did not obtain a new lease after the router came online again. Maybe the TRÅDFRI bridge has the same issue.
Does anybody know if I can define a static IP for the bridge? Not a static dhcp but a real static IP address.

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I’m also suspecting the DHCP client of the Tradfri gateway to be the problem. The weekly reboot of my router causes the Tradri gateway to disconnect from the network.

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am having an issue where the gateway crashes every night without fail, it has only started doing this since the latest firmware has been installed. When it goes off i cannot ping the gateway at all and all lights on the gateway are solid on.

I plan to setup a ping to check exactly what time it stops responding to see if i can find any sort of pattern or reason why.

Then it will be a factory reset, if it continues after that back to ikea it goes for replacement.

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In my case, I lose control from the hass frontend over lamps connected through the Ikea gateway. The gateway works fine (several weeks without a hitch) but hass shows the lights as on although they’re not, and toggling to off does nothing, Hass just puts them back to on. The thing is that I can still control the Ikea lights through the emulated hue component in Hass (harmony remote) so that tells me that he hasn’t totally lost control of the lights… all works great if I reboot Hass, but then after a while, the problem reappears.
How does one debug this?

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get the same issue here. Infrequent I hasten to add.

Meanwile my MiLight bulbs are working a treat :slight_smile:

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What TRÅDFRI firmware and hass version are you guys running?