Multiple IKEA Traadfri Gateways - How?

Third party integrations
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Any news? Will the multiple binding be implemented in a release?

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Does anyone know if this has been implemented in release 0.81 ?

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I was way too euphoric… Multiple gateway support is still not existing. The HASS release notes do not mention anything about it. Check https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/releases

Check out this issue on github too concerning pytradfri and including some other links for further reading: https://github.com/ggravlingen/pytradfri/issues/185

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Too bad :frowning: Can’t get the half of my house set up before that works :frowning:

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I hope it will be available in the future… For now I had to roll back a lot of bulbs to the openhab system, which can handle multiple getaways

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For the curios ones:

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Hey,

Anybody seen or tried setting up 2 Gateways lately or haven’t they solved this yet?
I just saw that after 94.0 update I see that my other gateway is discovered (I haven’t noticed if this was the case earlier) though.

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Hi,
Have you some news about connecting 2 tradfri gateways ? It’s a huge problem for me, without this feature I can’t migrate from homekit to home assistant…

I created a feature request here :

Perhaps it is possible to control the 2nd Ikea gateway with Homekit Controller ?

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I’m curious, can I ask… Why are you using multiple Ikea Gateways? Are you using more than 1 LAN/VLAN?

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Because I have 120 Ikea lights…

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If you want to add all those lights in HA it should be possible through the homekit controller (you will have to unpair them from your Homekit setup if you use that, but if you do not have an Apple device you don’t need to worry about this).

  1. Go to integrations in HA from the UI (configuration>integrations)
  2. Press the big + button at the bottom right corner
  3. Choose Homekit Accessory
  4. From the dropdown menu select your IKEA Tradfri Hub you want to connect
  5. Enter the homekit code (found at the bottom of your HUB) into Home Assistant including the dashes (it should look something like this 142-58-231)
  6. Done! your lights are now in Home Assistant

Bonus: As a bonus the Homekit controller fails a lot less than the IKEA Tradfri integration.

Not exactly what you were looking for, but at least this way you can have all your lights added to Home Assistant. Also I suggest you get a ConbeeII (it is a zigbee gateway). This stick has a better range and response times than the IKEA Tradfri hub and also works with many other zigbee products like xiaomi and philips. It has a direct HA integration and is easy to setup. With this you won’t need any of those hubs anymore.

Edit: If you do have an Apple device and you do use Homekit (and have the IKEA hub paired with your homekit hub) then you will need to unpair it from your device (open the Home app on an Apple device and remove the integration from your Homekit setup). If you had configured anything that belongs to that hub you will need to do them again.
Note that you can not pair with Homekit accessories twice, so you will have to choose. Either you pair it directly with Homekit or you pair it to HA. If paired to HA you can then export the same entities back with the Homekit Component (do not confuse this with the Homekit Controller which is only used to integrate devices that have homekit support into HA)

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Thanks for your help. I’ll try as soon as possible, I just bought a 3rd Ikea gateway to test it (because if I unpair a gateway, I’ll lose immediately all my homekit automations, and they are very numerous).
But I would like to continue using Homekit to turn on some lights quickly, I do not think it will be possible (I can’t pair my gateway with HA + Homekit ?)

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No, but you can make all those automations with Home Assistant and then export the buttons back to Homekit via HA.

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Very good idea. If I understand… When I use Homekit Controler, HA doesn’t exchange data with Apple servers (HA is fully standalone) ?

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Using Homekit doesn’t send anything to Apple servers unless you either use the Home app from Apple externally or if you use homekit camera’s. Since none of these two will probably apply to your situation, your answer is correct. Your data will be local!

Sidenote: I have Tado valves, the Tado app relies on an internet connection to the Tado servers. Using it with the Homekit controller makes them usable without the tado cloud!!!

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Hi There
I am new in this forum.
I have a similar problem.
I have two houses. I have managed to configure two locations in Google Home.
I have installed two Ikea Trådfri gateway - one at each loaction. However I can not find the one or the other, when trying to add them into Google Home.
and so I have one of the new loadspeakers from IKEA, here is is more or less the same. The genuine SONOS loadspeakers in my vacation house does work, however at home the new brought one from IKEA doesn’t.

I have also tried to have my girlfrriends as ‘host’ for one location and the inviting me as a second user, but with no success…

Has any of you been in contact with dev/ops from google/IKEA/SONOS…?

Anybody with a solution?
Regards

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This is exactly what I’m hoping to figure out too. I have two locations. Trying to set up two different Tradfri gateways, one at each location. When I’m in the second location, all the app does is show an error that it can’t find my original gateway. I spoke to IKEA (who probably doesn’t really know much about their smart home products) and was told it’s not possible. Seems crazy. Wish I had known before I hung new Fyrtur shades in the second location!

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I had the same problem. I did a lot of testing and reading and tried different workarounds with different accounts (my wifes android phone with seperate tradfri app) etc. But I could not get it to work.

So went for another solution:
For the Fyrtur in the other (remote) part of the house I took an old conbee stick, plugged it in a RPI3 with HA, added all Fyrtur in that part of the house to that HA. Then I used HACS custom addon “Remote homeassistant” for a seamless integration of everything into my main HA installation.

It works well now :slight_smile:

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Hi,

I too am in the same boat. I have two building separated by about 200ft on the same network and have a gateway in each building.

Has anyone had any luck with HA since this has been merged? https://github.com/home-assistant-libs/pytradfri/pull/274 I am unclear if the new update has gotten to my HA deployment yet :S

@PHOLAUSSON in regards to using a USB stick, how does the pairing work for ikea devices such as drivers and light bulbs etc?

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It still works and I update Hassos to latest versions. I dont rememeber exactly how I paired IKEA devices, but I remember that it took some patience, a few tries where not every pairing attempt was successful and I think I remember that the blinds (“Fyrtur”) only paired when I did the reset-procedure, not the pairing procedure on each device. That trick (use reset rather than pairing to pair…) have worked before for other zigbee devices/gateways for me like some aquara-gadgets on conbee.

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