Please forgive my noobiness, I’m just getting started with HA and I don’t understand all the concepts.
I bought 2 TRADFRI GU10 color bulbs (345lm), and one symfonisk gen2 remote.
My goal is to control everything in the living room with that remote (lights, computer, AV receiver, TV).
Is it doable ?
Here’s what I achieved so far :
Pair the remote and the light bulbs to ZHA using a skyconnect usb key
Update the remote to the latest FW version (took more than 1 hour !).
Added @Atlantis_One blueprint and configured the dot buttons to switch the tradfri lights on/off
Nothing happens when I press the buttons
Is there a log where I can check what’s going on ? Can I control several devices with a single remote ? (this blueprint seems to only allow pairing media buttons with a media player…is it so ?)
Here you can adjust the increments in volume. For some speakers that I have linked the chrome cast audio to, the 10% increment is too much, the lowest setting is either too loud or you zero. So with this one I can devide it into 20 passes or even more if I would like to. This way the volume, especially the lower volume, can be regulated more precisely to a comfortable level.
Would it be possible to implement this as well in your blueprint?
Did you manage to fix it?
If not, Home Assistant does have a Logbook (should be on the tabs on the left), but you can also go to the device itself (Settings → Devices & Services → Devices (Top row tabs) and click on the Symfonisk device you connected). It should have a device logbook on the right side. This way you can check if the button presses are being registered on Home Assistant. If not, the problem is on the connection between the device and HA, otherwise it is with the translation from event to action.
If you are still having this issue, can you let me know what you are seeing in the logbook when pressing the buttons?
As for the question if you can control everything with one remote, I designed it to have the media control buttons control a single media player and have full choice of what to do with the dot buttons. As for controlling multiple devices with one remote, it is possible but you would have to think of how it works. What should it do if the devices have different volumes? Change both, make them the same? And if they are not all media players, the actions have to be adjusted accordingly. This is hard to make into a blueprint that can be used easily by everyone. I’m willing to look into it if you have a good idea on how to deal with those kind of situations.
Let me know if you still need help, I’ll try to check in quicker this time!
I had the same idea myself when creating the blueprint, however I was not sure on how to implement it. You have to know the volume level in order to set it and I did not know how. As my devices go up and down with 5%, it worked for me and I left it like it is. However, I think the addition is great and with the example you linked I think I can include something similar. I will see if I can make some time coming week(end) to sit down and work on it. I’ll be sure to let you know when I do!
My dot buttons don’t work either with this blueprint… even after deleted/adding the symfonisk and restarting HA…
They work however with manual configuration… @Atlantis_One Here is what I get in the logbook when I press the 1-dot button, once and twice:
IKEA of Sweden SYMFONISK sound remote gen2 Remote Button Short Press - Button 1 event was fired with parameters: {'shortcut_button': 1, 'shortcut_event': 1}
IKEA of Sweden SYMFONISK sound remote gen2 Remote Button Double Press - Button 1 event was fired with parameters: {'shortcut_button': 1, 'shortcut_event': 2}
Thanks, my remote has the firmware versio ‘0x00010012’ on it, but it creates events in ZHA now (maybe a ZHA update?). Made multiple automations for the buttons, but now I can transfer them to this blueprint. That’s a lot cleaner!
Nevermind, after updating the firmware it broke, re-added the remote after the ota (0x01000035) and now everything works. Thanks, I hope you’ll be able to come up with a solution for the 5% volume steps.
I’m wondering if there’s a way to add an action to one of the dots button that would change the media player. Like “short press one dot” = media player 1, “short press 2 dots” = media player 2, etc
In the meantime My small contribution to improving this remote
If you have an Ikea Tradfri hub and the Ikea Home Smart app you can update the firmware by pairing the remote to the Tradfri hub, the update starts automatically. When you’re done you reset the remote and pair with your Zigbee controller.
Just want to say thank you, this blueprint works like a charm. In addition to controlling a Roon media player, I turn the lights on/off and can control lights dimming (by using the long press actions).
Big thanks to @Atlantis_One for the base blueprint and @Pavoni for updating it to work properly (with mine at least) dots.
I’ve got a question for the group tho - I’m using the single dot, and double dot, to add/remove a second speaker from the group. When I add the second speaker, the volume control only controls the original speaker selected in the first line of the automation. Any ideas on a smooth way to control the group volume? On a semi-related thought, I’d also like to have a script execute to bring the volumes in line with each other when joining the groups. But that can be phase 2 of my goals.
The roon api only provides access to an individual volume control - so for a grouped zone you need to adjust each volume individually.
You’d need to change the blueprint to do this. I have a little logic in one of my automations that depends on whether the zone is grouped - here is the code in case it helps you get started.
Thank you - this was really useful and inspired me to create my own version which supports holding down the volume buttons and also configurable step amounts when single tapping the volume:
@danieldurrans I just tried it and it works very good, i just have one question.
For sonos system is it possible to control the volume of all grouped speakers?
Unfortunately I can’t answer that question. I don’t use my Sonos speakers in groups (my use-case is to control a single speaker in the kitchen). Having read a few other threads I understand it may be necessary to extend the code of the blueprint to determine if the speaker is part of a group and then iterate through the group to control the volume. This isn’t something I am able to test.