Ikea Symfonisk remote! On French Ikea. Zigbee!

Well that was easy! Set my remote to work with my Play:5 in the same way it was using the Tradfri gateway, using the above driver and ABC app. The default button app isn't available anymore, it just says use the rule machine, tried that and didn't have a clue what was going on, not very user friendly!

Anyone know what action button 6 relates to? Is it possible to detect holding the button so I can assign that to mute?

Hold isn’t supported. Button 6 is when the dial is not moved. So if you setup smooth dimming, a turn of the knob in one direction will start increasing for example, and then when you stop turning the knob, the dim level will stop increasing, and vice versa for the other direction.

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@SmartHomePrimer Are your batteries draining really quick? Mine are lasting only a handful of days.

No, just pulled it at tested. Still reads !00%. Might be a bad pairing. Working, but drains the battery. I've had that with other Zigbee devices before.

Don't delete from HE, just factory reset and re-pair. If it acts the same, you might have a faulty device.

This is a common problem. The device is defective. Return it for another. I've read people saying about 2 out of every 5 have defective battery drain. The quality of these devices is not high.

That’s unfortunate to hear. They feel much better built than what they had before with the puck dimmer, and response is better. Too bad they’re still having QC issues.

One thing I have noticed is that when my Play:5 is grouped to another Sonos speaker then the remote does not work at all. Is that resolvable?

Ok so do I still need the driver mentioned here or does hubitat have "native" support by now? Because hubitat doesnt recognize any button presses or turns so far.....

Also will I be able to control my sonos speakers volume with this via hubitat?

Thanks!

Try repairing. Don't delete the device but do a factory reset (press the button underneath 4 times) and then go into device discovery and look for the device again. This time it will be able to send the button events.

The driver for your Sonos speakers doesn't have the Start level Change and Stop Level Change commands does it? Then you can try but it's not going to work well. You can try an app like mirror but you're going to run into issues. Since the native hubitat driver doesn't support receiving any commands for the virtual device, you can't modify the level of the remote without turning the dial. So, if you cranked your volume on your speakers via the remote, then turned the volume down from hubitat, if you went to turn the volume up from the remote, it would already be very high so the volume would just up past all the levels in the middle. Another limitation of not having the command implemented for the native Hubitat driver. I let Hubtiat know but they aren't going to update it.

Thanks for your answer. I just tried to reset it and it reconnected to hubitat. Still no reaction, though.....it seemed to work the first time I used it but it didn't respond well.....

It's a pity I cant use it for my speakers.....the ikea hub is a mess....

Hi again,

I believe my sonos sound controller is working now. Can you help me to create a rule that makes me able to control (dim and switch on/off) my hue lights with it? So turning it left should dim the lights down, turning it right should make them brighter. Pushing it would turn them on or off.....is this possible?

Edit: one issue Im still having is that sometimes (not always) level change wont stop. Meaning that if I turn it just a bit it won't stop increasing until it reaches 100....

Use RM and choose button device. Map the buttons as explained here.

Use Button 6 for stop increasing

Thanks. I bought a couple of controllers. The first one I tried now works fine. The only thing that still bugs me is the fact that everything takes much longer to respond compared to switching my lights on via dashboard or hue dimmer. I kind of get that "smartthings cloud control" feeling when I turn on my lights via symfonisk controller (about 1 sec of delay)....is that due to the driver?

Also battery draining is insane. Both devices didn't last longer than a couple of hours....

The way that you've setup Button 4 and Button 5 right now, you have to move turn it a little, let go, turn it alittle, let go, turn it a little to change volume etc.
Have you found a way around this?

Does you'r Button 3 work, and how? :slight_smile:

I gave up on these controllers. I paired them with smartthings and this solved the battery issue. But other than that they just didnt work to my content.

My button 3 works but as you say volume control isn't good, nowhere near as smooth as with the IKEA gateway

@rhodesda How do you activate Button 3? :slight_smile:

Tap 3 times

Perfect. Thank you very much! :slight_smile: