Tradfri Remote Direct Binding with bulb, how to?

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Not working on my side trying to bind IKEA Tradfri or Styrbar buttons to Tradfri light bulbs through ZHA.

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Like I said earlier in this thread, I don’t use IKEA stuff so can’t help you with that. It would probably be helpful for others that could help you if you give some more information on what you have tried and what errors you are facing.

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I tried what is written here and in that other thread: Can IKEA Lamp be controlled directly by remote and connect to ZHA?

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I used to have this working in my Hubitat setup (4 Tradfri bulbs grouped) and directly controlled by the 5 button remote which made the bulb group fully controllable by Hubitat but the remote could only do On/Off and Brightness Increase/Decrease, no colour change.

Now trying to get this fully working under HA/Z2M and haven’t gotten there completely yet.

I’ve actually got 2 bathrooms with 2 quasi identical setups:

  • Each bathroom has a remote and 4 bulbs.
  • The 4 bulbs of each bathroom are grouped together in Z2M under Bathroom1 lights and Bathroom2 lights.
  • Everything is paired to HA through Z2M.
  • I have upgraded one of the remotes to the latest firmware and the other one is still on the original firmware.
  • For bathroom 1 (old FW) I have also paired the remote directly to the bulbs. This lets me control the lights fully and directly without passing through Z2M which maintains the preset transitions which are nice. However, I can now no longer control this Bathroom group of lights through HA as it will now only allow me to control individual bulbs.
  • For Bathroom 2 (new FW) I haven’t paired the remote directly with the bulbs but I can use this blueprint to mimic the behaviour of Bathroom 1 whilst maintaining control of the lightgroup via HA. Downside of this is that the brightness increase/decrease and colour change is not as smooth as with direct communication between the remote and the bulbs. As well as the fact that, for the colour change, I have to pre-program scenes in Z2M first and then use the left/right arrows to cycle through these. The problem with that is that those scenes will not take into account the currently set brightness.

So questions are: is there a way to reinstate group control from HA/Z2M for Bathroom 1 without giving up direct control? Or is there a way, via this blueprint, to cycle through the colours for the group of bulbs without having to call on specific scenes?