IKEA TRADFRI Bulbs

Yes, I have had a raspbee on a Pi4 for about 5 years now, I think it’s awesome, never fails. I also use ikea bulbs, along with aqara sensors. If you only have a pi, I don’t see any benefit of a conbee, I have a homemade / 3D printed rack that hold 4 pi in my server rack. If I had a USB stick hanging from the front I might knock it off with a patch lead. Nothing wrong with using it with homebridge, works perfectly fine and simple. The phoscon software is in the pi image, the hue-plug in one of the best plugins in constant development.

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I have a raspberry pi 4 running home ridge and a ConBee 2 USB stick that supports zigbee. I have IKEA Tadfri lights, Aqara sensors, etc, all running without any hubs. Read about it here on Reddit so more than happy to share the knowledge.

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… the log. You then paste the code into the config. The pairing of devices are done through the deconz web GUI .. it’s easy enough, the only issue with tradfri bulbs, is they all need to be reset. The best way to do this is to put a table lamp in the same room as your pi, reset and pair each individually, however this may have changed, the raspbee II has a better range. Owning a raspbee I, i find it hard to pair anything more than 4-5M away from the pi. I find the system really solid, however you might want to add some cheap sonoff zigbee smart plugs which act as routers to boost your mesh. …

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Hi there. I finally took the plunge and got everything I need to run Homebridge (Raspi, Conbee II) and after some issues finally got it running the other day. First I tried the deConz/phoscon way with Homebridge-Hue and added a Tradfri bulb and shortcut button. Was very pleased to have the option to use adaptive lighting in HomeKit. Also the shortcut button could have different settings for single and double click in HomeKit. Then today I disabled deConz and Homebridge-Hue and installed zigbee2mqtt (and z2m plugin), because reading through comments of users it seemed like this would be the …

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… homebridge-hue plugin and set it to only expose any lights not currently already exposed to Homekit. it seems to have worked - i can now turn on/off the ikea light using Homekit, however it's added a second Accessory with a "house" icon saying "not supported", i'm not sure what this accessory is as i only have 1 third part light within the Hue app that didn't get exposed to Homekit. image showing accessory here - https://ibb.co/F53yHP2

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I needed 6 candelabra bulbs to go in an existing ceiling fan. Tradfri was the cheapest by far option but the hubs were all sold out so I added them to my Hue bridge and then turned on Homebridge so it only added nonnative devices. Worked great.

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… (although it is transitioning over to a new plugin called Deconz - named after the conbee software) It’s a great little dongle that works well. I have ikea lights & switch’s, hue lights, hue switches, hue sensors, random third party smart lights, Aqara door and window sensors all working with homebridge/HomeKit using the conbee II dongle.

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… my bathroom mirror to unfog it when I shower. I now am trying to start it automatically based on the humidity in our bathroom. I have it hooked up to a IKEA Tradfri power socket which I already exposed to HomeKit I’ve the Hue plugin. The thing is: I don‘t want to use a standard automation with the trigger „if humidity rises over xx% because sometimes (I.e. if we clean an wipe the floor) the humidity also rises over this value. When showering the Tado app shows a pretty clear spike in humidity every time we shower. So what I thought of was triggering the automation by a set temperature change …

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Try the ikea tradfri homebridge plugin? Worked fine for my hur bulbs.

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… https://github.com/ebaauw/homebridge-hue Depending upon your bridge, these are the best plugins. But there is a Trådfri plugin https://github.com/tregusti/homebridge-tradfri I use Deconz and a raspbee bridge.

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It even works for Tradfri Lights from ikea. But not for all what I don’t understand.

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… homekit\] and so i ask Siri to do it, it says its done, but nothing happened. checked the home app and i can press on/off and nothing happens. ​ the ikea tradfri hub now keeps dropping off the network now and i cannot control any non ikea lights that use the hub via zigbee. ​ so in short, i've updated and the sonoff/ewelink based lights \[external and internal\] have become non responsive. ​ any suggestions on what i did wrong or can do to fix it? ​ ​ Node.js Version v14.15.0 Npm Version v6.14.8

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