[RELEASE] IKEA Drivers with Health Status and Zigbee2MQTT

There were some big updates to the firmware on these devices at the end of May 2023, with the E1744 sound remote being updated to v24.4.5 plus the E1716 and E1812 being updated to v24.4.6. Battery optimisation and stability improvements are the touted features.

Now here's the rub. To update you either need to unpair the devices from Hubitat and pair with an IKEA gateway, then wait patiently for days, or unpair the devices from Hubitat and pair with a Zigbee2MQTT system and push the update using the OTA feature. Or you could implement OTA firmware updates for IKEA devices in Hubitat... no, I didn't fancy doing that either.

But if you go the Z2M route these very drivers can be used with my MQTT routing driver without bothering to update the firmware at all. They work perfectly.

The choice is yours! :slight_smile:

BTW, all of these drivers have now been updated to support the healthStatus custom attribute, so will no longer misuse presence as a means of reporting device connectivity. Use @kkossev's Device Health Status to give yourself a nice system overview.

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