Using that remote also, but with a different take on left/right. I have 5 lights in a room and use left button to step through them in a sequence, then I use brightness up/down for on/off. The toggle button is used to reset the sequence.
I considered using right button to step through a sequence for window covers but didn’t implement. Remembering last arrow would allow a different function for up/down: light or cover.
It sounds like a lot of button presses to switch on light no. 2: toggle, left, left, brightness up, but then one remote for 5 lights is pretty ok. Switching on light 3 is then left, up. So if you operate 2 or 3 then it is fairly ok.
It doesn’t work with z2m because z2m exposes devices to HASS in a different way. Specifically, events are states on entities instead of events of zha_event type.
Z2M uses actual entities instead of events, so you’d just need to swap out the trigger for states you’re expecting, and change the declaration of what ‘remote’ is expecting I think.
This is great! Actually, I did create an AppDaemon app for this specific purpose. It allows you to integrate your remotes with:
Z2M (state)
Z2M (MQTT)
deCONZ
ZHA
You can get this functionality starting with less than 10 lins of YAML config, and going higher if specific cases are needed.
It also allows you to virtually manage multiple clicks for controllers like this one that do not supported them natively.
You can go and check it out in here:
However, if the HA team keeps this path and catches up with everything than ControllerX does, I might drop the project since initial setup is much easier and faster, as well as having a UI configuration.
Really good job, looking forward to using bluprints from now on.
Working with ZHA with and an IKEA TRADFRI bulb E27 WS opal 1000lm.
It is working with brightness short press only. If I do long press nothing happens.
I also can not change color with the left or right buttons. Only options you can chose are; turn on, turn off, toggle, increase brightness, decrease brightness or flash. How can I make this change color as well?
Yes, ControllerX is really great. Do you think it’s possible to integrate / combine ControllerX capabilities with the simplicity of blueprints? It would be really great to be able to configure multiple clicks of a IKEA / hue remote just within the UI.
Thanks @frenck. I had a bit of a panic when I first imported the blueprint and all of my automations in the GUI disappeared, but I realised I’d opened the options to set an action for the left button and not added anything so things got a bit screwy. I manually removed the broken automation, reloaded automations and added it from the blueprint again without messing with it this time and it’s working perfectly.
I can see the blueprint function getting a lot of use, it’s so much simpler than trying to copy automation code around from forum posts.
would love to see the same blueprint for Z2M
