Zigbee and Ikea Badring Leak Sensors

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 “reset” 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 “configuring”. I go back to Zigbee Home Automation, Reload, I can see the device added but still only partially configured. Show battery status “unkown” 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 I’m 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 it’s 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 ‘quickly’ 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 ‘magic spell’ 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.

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Have 10 of these Ikea Badring also, and have followed the same procedure as Skynet46:
Method I’m 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 it’s 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 “wetting” 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.

Found a ticket, but it seems it has gone stale!

I have the opposite problem with Zigbee2MQTT. Wetting shows water leak, but they never return to dry.

For me, that happens only if the contact points are not completely dry! These are very sensitive. Wiping with a dry fnger fixes that for me.