Rodret Remote Not Working

Configuration Zigbee
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I recently moved and had the opportunity to set up my HA installation from scratch. I changed a few things (and a few things changed on me). I’m now having some issues that maybe someone here can help me with.

On my old installation, I had my Zigbee equipment run through Zigbee2MQTT. This time, I tried ZHA. It worked fine, until I tried to setup my Ikea Parasoll door sensors. They would pair up fine, but they would not report status at all.

I decided to switch to ZIGBEE2MQTT. After a bit of panic (thank you Safe Mode) I got it installed and most of my devices configured.

The Parasoll sensors now work perfectly. Unfortunately, my Ikea Rodret remote control now doesn’t work. Again, it pairs fine, but doesn’t report any button presses.

Both of these devices worked perfectly in my old home through Zigbee2MQTT.

I’ve done some reading and found a reference to a “Rodret Blueprint” and also to a possibly needed addition to a config file.

Any thoughts?

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I’m guessing you were running an ancient version of Z2M before you moved. Something like 1.x.

Since 2.0 was released back in Nov-Dec 2024, the old action entities were disabled, so you won’t see anything being fired if your Rodret has an action entity.
You have 3 options for reading events, including restoring the action functionality - read here for more details Home Assistant | Zigbee2MQTT

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Thanks for the info. Time for some more reading…

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I’m not generally someone who needs to be spoonfed, but I’m hitting a brick wall here.

In my setup,

MQTT Discovery is enabled.

homeassistant:
    enabled: true

is in my configuration.yaml.

The MQTT integration is enabled.

The Rodret device has been added via Z2M and appears in my Devices.

After that, I’m lost.

The Z2M documentation states that:

The MQTT device triggers are discovered by Zigbee2MQTT once the event is triggered on the device at least once .

I have pushed the buttons on the remote, but I have no idea where to find these “discovered” triggers.

This should be pretty simple. There are four actions that I need for this device: short press up, short press down, long press up and long press down.

Can anyone point me towards the next step?