IKEA Tradfri pairing mode unreachable

Hardware
1

Hello,

I purchased a Tradfri LED E14 806lm lightbulb from IKEA, and have some trouble to put it in pairing mode for adding it to ZHA.

I tried the 6x on-off combination many times, with different paces, and bulb does not go into pairing mode (no flickering, and no detection by ZHA).

What can I do to pair them ? I also have a Rodret dimmer but pressing pairing button 10 seconds as indicated in the instruction manual does not seem to do anything either.

2

Do you have a smart outlet? I had the same trouble, and in the end I created a script to power cycle a smart outlet that a lamp with the bulb was plugged into.

Off for half a second
On for a quarter of a second
Repeat until it’s cycled 6 times

sequence:
  - action: switch.turn_off
    metadata: {}
    data: {}
    target:
      entity_id: switch.acpwr_4
  - delay:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 0
      seconds: 0
      milliseconds: 500
  - action: switch.turn_on
    metadata: {}
    data: {}
    target:
      entity_id: switch.acpwr_4
  - delay:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 0
      seconds: 0
      milliseconds: 250
  - action: switch.turn_off
    metadata: {}
    data: {}
    target:
      entity_id: switch.acpwr_4
  - delay:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 0
      seconds: 0
      milliseconds: 500
  - action: switch.turn_on
    metadata: {}
    data: {}
    target:
      entity_id: switch.acpwr_4
  - delay:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 0
      seconds: 0
      milliseconds: 250
  - action: switch.turn_off
    metadata: {}
    data: {}
    target:
      entity_id: switch.acpwr_4
  - delay:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 0
      seconds: 0
      milliseconds: 500
  - action: switch.turn_on
    metadata: {}
    data: {}
    target:
      entity_id: switch.acpwr_4
  - delay:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 0
      seconds: 0
      milliseconds: 250
  - action: switch.turn_off
    metadata: {}
    data: {}
    target:
      entity_id: switch.acpwr_4
  - delay:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 0
      seconds: 0
      milliseconds: 500
  - action: switch.turn_on
    metadata: {}
    data: {}
    target:
      entity_id: switch.acpwr_4
  - delay:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 0
      seconds: 0
      milliseconds: 250
  - action: switch.turn_off
    metadata: {}
    data: {}
    target:
      entity_id: switch.acpwr_4
  - delay:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 0
      seconds: 0
      milliseconds: 500
  - action: switch.turn_on
    metadata: {}
    data: {}
    target:
      entity_id: switch.acpwr_4
  - delay:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 0
      seconds: 0
      milliseconds: 250
  - action: switch.turn_off
    metadata: {}
    data: {}
    target:
      entity_id: switch.acpwr_4
  - delay:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 0
      seconds: 0
      milliseconds: 500
  - action: switch.turn_on
    metadata: {}
    data: {}
    target:
      entity_id: switch.acpwr_4
  - delay:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 0
      seconds: 0
      milliseconds: 250
alias: Reset bulb
description: ""
3

Idea was good, but I just tested it and no better results :pensive:

4

Try one second on, half second off.

5

Hello, turns out the problem was me trying to pair regular lightbulbs :smiling_face_with_tear: