Hello
I bought the new Ikea Somrig buttons and would like to connect them to my HomeAssistant with Zigbee Dongle.
During the search of a new device, HA identifies the button but is not able to configure it. Is anybody aware if there is a way to connect a device which is currently not fully supported or do you know if there will be an integration?
Although the configuration process does not finish, the device is part of the device list. Sometimes there is a battery and identify entity and sometimes not. I can not control any entity.
I just got it work, thanx to casperz at github.
You have to add his custom ZHA quirk (config file) to your system. Download it from here (be careful to download it “raw”, just right clock on the “raw” button on the right side of the header and “save as” or similar)
to apply a custom quirk:
install samba share addon if you have not already
create a folder named /custom_zha_quirks under /config
save this downloaded .py file here
activate using custom quirks by addind this code to configuration.yaml:
It must be said that the Somrig has a much worse latency than the older Tradfri dimmer switch. A single press iniates two actions in sequence:
“Initial Switch Press - Button 1” and shortly after “Remote Button Short Press - Button 1”
Even if I trigger actions with the first event, it is significantly slower as the old nice Tradfri I is a shame it is not distributed any more.
I have also observed this.
I recently bought a Vallhorn, PARASOLL and the Somrig. After much trial and error and some research, I no longer buy Ikea zigbee devices. AAA batteries are not an advantage when the reliability is gone
Has anyone got this to work using two of these SOMRIG devices?
The first one after doing this work around worked with out issues but the second is now sticking at the configuration stage as it did before the I put this in.
Update:
I have now worked out how I got this to work. I paid it with a repeater rather than the controller and it then worked…
Absolute garbage button, not once after 50 attempts did it ever finish pairing, not even trying direct pairing using known good routers even from IKEA. Looking at the debug logs, the buttons just stop responding during pairing, and all HA requests to them time out. What the F IKEA.
GARBAGE. DO NOT BUY.
I threw three of them in the trash just 10 minutes ago.
And worse still, IKEA no longer sells TRADFRI.
I am never buying smart IKEA anything ever again.
Oh and by the way the quirks file did nothing. I verified it loaded and everything. No difference.