Zigbee Home Automation and Ikea Badring Leak Sensors
Zigbee Coordinator
SLZB-06
Zigbee Firmware 20240710 (Latest)
Core Firmware v2.7.1
Channel 25
Zigbee Routers (x12) Around the House
Ikea Tretakt Smart Plugs
All devices on-boarded, configured fine
Zigbee End Devices
4 Button Switches (x2)
TS0044 these work great. One in living room one in the garage.
Motion Sensor - SONOFF SNZB-06P
No issues. Use this to trigger the outlet lights in the garage for overhead lights. No issues
Light Bulb - Ikea Tradfri
No issues. Also triggered by the SONOFF Motion Sensor.
Problem children are the 18 Ikea Badring Leak Sensors I purchased a few days ago.
I initially on-boarded them all from my kitchen table. Oops. I now know to only on-board Zigbee devices from their intended final use location. Even from the kitchen table many of them were not showing battery status and were only partially configured.
I deleted them all and âresetâ the zigbee network by shutting down HA, killing power to the Zigbee Coordinator and leaving the system offline for an hour (something I read about).
Brought everything back on-line.
Onboarded the 1st Badring all good.
When on-boarding the 2nd Badring it never gets past âconfiguringâ. I go back to Zigbee Home Automation, Reload, I can see the device added but still only partially configured. Show battery status âunkownâ and when I look at the logbook for the device even though I deleted it from HA I still see log entries from before I deleted it.
I even tried the trick I read on another thread here to push the config button a few times when HA is stuck in configuring mode.
Is there a way to fully scrub a Zigbee device from HA?
Method Iâm using to add Badring. Open case, insert battery, press button 4 times. HA starts the onboarding but often does not finish. Then I go back to ZHA, Reload and I can see the device but itâs a crap shoot if it will be fully configured.
I also had the problem described with this water sensor. As I actually find the device very successful, I kept trying to integrate it into HA and was successful in the end by pressing the pairing button âquicklyâ 4 or more times in succession. I actually had to repeat this procedure several times until it finally worked.
However, I have not found another âmagic spellâ either.
I have not yet tried to delete the events completely, I think this may also have to be done in the dictionary of the ZigBee interface.
Have 10 of these Ikea Badring also, and have followed the same procedure as Skynet46:
Method Iâm using to add Badring. Open case, insert battery, press button 4 times. HA starts the onboarding but often does not finish. Then I go back to ZHA, Reload and I can see the device but itâs a crap shoot if it will be fully configured.
Sometimes pressing the button 4 more times when it times out and HA is still in configuring has worked for me, but as stated, it is a crap-shoot if it will fully work or not! Sometimes performing a repair seems to fix it, but not sure if I imagine this or not.
Out of the 10, I have 3 that I have now spent hours on trying to get to work, and they simply will not! 2 of them report battery if I let them sit, but when âwettingâ them, they do not change status for water-alarm.
Have seen other reports of newer Ikea products having issues, but cannot find any concrete workaround, or find if anyone is working on fixing the onboarding issues.
What worked for me was keeping the Badring sensor alive. But the pairing button never worked in that way, I had to keep tripping the sensor so that it made a sound (just a wet finger). I did that about every second for like 2 minutes. The onboarding did not complete: the window stayed blue. After reloading ZHA the sensor was available with the right entities and after 10min or so the battery reporting also worked. All in all a difficult device to add!