Struggling to get IKEA GU10 bulbs added

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Hi

Have a group of 8 high ceiling IKEA Tradfi GU10 bulbs that I am attempting to add to my C-8 hub.

Having very limited success. Have never managed to get the Hub to recognised all 8.

In stages I have got up to 6 recognised through resets and re-adds but not reliably functioning.

Have tried using the brand and bulb route, the generic route the 3.0 repeater route, the clear route. Nothing appears to work.

Is there a trick I am missing.

BTW adding the bulbs one at a time would be onerous. They are distributed across a large area which is high up and has furniture below it.

Thanks in advance.

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I only have one IKEA GU10. Do you have a Zigbee repeater in the room?

I am using the ‘Advanced Zigbee Bulb’ driver.

Can’t really offer a suggestion other than get the ladder.

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Not aware of a Zigbee repeater but perhaps something is acting as one.

I think I am going to connect the Ikea bulbs to an Ikea gateway and double check that they all have fully updated firmware before getting the ladder out.

Not a great start to using the Hubitat. Was going to migrate over from SmartThings hub. Was sold on the local vs cloud concept. Also thought it might be a more reliable and solid platform. It certainly has a huge amount of configuration options and tweaks that can be applied. Little point in having that amount of control if devices cannot reliably or consistently connect to it.

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Handling the IKEA bulbs with all their specifics and oddities is definitely not the strongest part of Hubitat.

I keep mine connected to a Hue bridge, its working rock solid for more than 2 years now, using one of the community integrations ( CoCoHue)

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All I did was put the bulbs in pairing mode (power them off and on 6 times quickly) and Hubitat picked them up immediately. Mine work fine with the Generic ZigBee Bulb driver, but I don't have any control over the color temp unfortunately until I find a driver that supports that feature.

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