IKEA TRADFRI Remote (5 button version) through ZHA events

niro1987 · February 4, 2021, 12:51pm

Personally I don’t see the added value with Blueprints. I haven’t looked into it because Frenck already created on that looked similar to mine.

foltymat · February 4, 2021, 3:39pm

I care to disargee. I used that blueprint since it came out and even though it’s well established, it doesn’t do the color switching which drove me mad. I definitely think this could be a valuable blueprint going forward.

niro1987 · February 4, 2021, 4:19pm

That’s a nice compliment, thank you! I’ll have a look at converting it to a blueprint

niro1987 · February 4, 2021, 6:09pm

github.com

niro1987/homeassistant-config/blob/master/blueprints/automation/niro1987/zha_ikea_tradfri_5button_remote_color.yaml

---
# This automation simulates the use of the IKEA TRADFRI Remote control
# connected through ZHA.

# | Button   | Action              |
# | -------- | ------------------- |
# | Power    | Toggle the light    |
# | Dim-Up   | Increase brightness |
# | Dim-Down | Decrease brightness |
# | Right    | Change color        |
# | Left     | Change saturation   |

blueprint:
  source_url: https://github.com/niro1987/homeassistant-config/blob/master/blueprints/automation/niro1987/zha_ikea_tradfri_5button_remote_color.yaml

  name: ZHA - IKEA TRADFRI - 5 Button Remote - Color Lights

  description: >-
    This automation simulates the use of the IKEA TRADFRI remote control
    connected through ZHA.

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foltymat · February 5, 2021, 7:33am

Awesome. I suggest you put it in a new post in the Blueprint exchange as well. I guarantee you’ll get a thousand hits in a day Thanks, man!

niro1987 · February 5, 2021, 2:12pm

manjulapra · August 28, 2021, 2:35am

Has anybody got any idea why I am not seeing any events fired when I listen to zha_event?

niro1987 · August 29, 2021, 2:28pm

We’re not able to help you if you hold off all the usefull information. You’re not giving us much to work with…

manjulapra · August 30, 2021, 2:39am

Sorry.
HA Core Version: 2021.8.8
ZHA Integration using Sonoff Zigbee dongle CC2531.
I have the 5 button TRADFRI Remote connected and shown with only a battery entity.
When I listen to zha_event in developer tools while pressing buttons I am not getting any events fired!

Any help is greatly appreciated! Thank you.

niro1987 · August 30, 2021, 10:30am

Perhaps you can try re-connecting the device. Here is a screenshot of one of mine, for comparison.

When listening, this is what I got after I pressed the center button.

manjulapra · August 30, 2021, 10:47am

Thanks. I’ll try doing that. Mine looks almost exact:

niro1987 · August 30, 2021, 11:15am

LQI is very low. Is it far from the closest controller / router? RSSI is unknown.

manjulapra · August 30, 2021, 4:14pm

I don’t have a clue why! It is about a feet away from the router which it is connected to according the network below:

niro1987 · August 30, 2021, 5:47pm

I take it that reconnecting it didn’t work?

manjulapra · August 30, 2021, 6:56pm

So, I haven’t tried that yet. BUT, it worked ONCE. Then nothing. I am getting 74% battery now but when I first synced it there was only 37%. So I am going to replace the battery and see. I don’t know why it is working randomly. Maybe the remote sat on a shelf for a long time and the battery has drained. I will update you as soon as I do that. Thanks a lot.

niro1987 · August 30, 2021, 9:14pm

Best of luck

manjulapra · August 31, 2021, 12:27am

Thanks. That didn’t work. I really don’t know why it did work once but not again. Probably the Zigbee Dongle can’t handle the number of devices but I have two TRADFRI repeaters as well. Really don’t know what’s wrong now. Probably upgrading to Conbee or another type of a well-known Zigbee stick might be the solution.

niro1987 · August 31, 2021, 1:29pm

How many devices do you have connected? I have about 41 devices connected to a Conbee II but used to have them on a Sonoff CC2531. Both are able to handle them all.

manjulapra · August 31, 2021, 2:58pm

OMG. I only have 8 leak detectors and two repeaters. So most probably that’s not the case. I am really lost now Don’t know where to start getting hold of this!!!

niro1987 · August 31, 2021, 6:56pm

Try the zigbee2mqtt addon to confirm the remote works as expected. To do this, you need to remove the zha first.