Ikea Symfonisk remote! On French Ikea. Zigbee!

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:

I anyone having issues with the remote?

Mine is not responding, Hubitat showed .30 for battery so I replaced that but still nothing. Nothing showing in the logs. I rebooted Hubitat and the logs show that the remote was found. I guess i'll have to drop the device and re-add it.

Tried re-adding the device, dropping and discovering again, removing the ABC mapping and starting again. Hubitat just doesn't fire any events at all. I'll take the unit back to IKEA and try a new one!

Did you rediscover without Deleting the device from HE? Never seems to work on the first discovery. Need to discover a second time, but don’t remove it from the database. Just perform another discovery.

Yeah tried that a few times. HE found the device fine, none of the buttons work. Must be faulty.

Interesting, Hubitat have recently added a new driver, IKEA zigbee sound controller, when you drop the device and re add it uses that new driver by default. That driver is not the right one though as it only has 3 buttons.

I bought a Tradfri gateway again :face_vomiting: As much as i'd love to keep everything on HE the Tradfri handles this remote perfectly and i'd rather spend the extra £20 than constantly fail the WAF due to dodgy volume handling and constant disconnections. Hopefully in future another sound control option will appear and work with HE and I can get rid of the IKEA stuff.

I just commented in another post. Having 2 zigbee networks in close proximity isn't ideal, but the *AF (W+?) is of utmost importance, and it works really well as is. Tap to pause, rotate to turn volume up everywhere.

TBH, the Sonos integration with Hubitat hasn't gone very well in general for me. Pretty unreliable for the basic functions it should have (like play and pause). Hubitat overall is awesome, though.

A warning about this controller!

It can apparently freak out for no reason and send garbage Zigbee commands that do weird things with your setup. I just spent a half-hour searching for the error I had made in my rules that was causing the siren on my Xiaomi Aqara hub to sound every time we pushed the button on this remote.

Spoiler! There wasn't an error on my part.

I couldn't find anything I had misconfigured, so I finally pulled the battery from the Symfonisk sound controller and tested it. It was still 100%. I put the battery back in and the weird behavior stopped. So if you're going to use this setup, I will tell you that it works, but if the sound controller stops responding to button 6 (meaning the volume would raise or lower uncontrollably), or things start triggering in your setup, seemingly by themselves, pop the battery for 30 seconds and see it that resolves the problem.

Had the exact same problem. Battery went flat, I replaced it, then no events were received in Hubitat from that point on (note I was using Hubitat's inbuilt driver). I spent 2 days trying to get it paired, tried all of these things:

  • pairing again: it would come up as 'found existing device' in Hubitat, sometimes logging a battery level, sometimes not, but still wouldn't receive any button pushes
  • pairing again several times, as @SmartHomePrimer suggests
  • switching to @cybrmage's driver, & re-pairing several times
  • several different batteries (maybe the cheap eBay ones were no good?)
  • deleting the device from Hubitat entirely, and pairing again

None of it worked, and I was considering returning it, despite how well it had worked previously... however then I found this discussion on pairing the remote:

It joins deCONZ's ZigBee network without issues. However, it's only responsive for a very brief period after joining the network, and then goes incommunicado. It won't wake on click, turn, or briefly pressing the reset button.
After several attempts, bombarding it with Read Attributes commands to keep it awake after joining the network, I managed to bind the client OnOff cluster to a group. And then the client Level Control cluster. After that, it now behaves normally, waking up to send commands on click and turn.

So I opened two Hubitat tabs, one on the device pairing screen, and one on the existing remote device page (set to the Hubitat driver, but it would probably work with @cybrmage's driver too). I started pairing in Hubitat, clicked the pair button on the remote 4 times quickly to enter pairing mode, kept rotating the remote to help keep it awake, and then once Hubitat found the existing device again, hit Configure on the device tab.
Worked first try - I'm now receiving events from the remote again!

Edit: ok so now I'm apparently receiving 2 button push events for one press (on both drivers)... still better than none I guess?! need to play with it more...

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After exhausting the original battery and replacing it, the button would not work.

Followed this instructions, and now it is working perfectly.

I’ve had no issues with this driver. I use it’s buttons and dimmer functionalities.

Thank you for a great work!

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I bought 3 last weekend.

Using the build in driver the batteries all went flat in under 24 hours.

Are you all experiencing this issue? I see there's a comment suggesting 2 in 5 are defective is this true?