Home Assistant, how to setup with IKEA Zigbee Devices (TRADFRI and SYMFONISK) and Zigbee2MQTT -Part1

In this video I'll show you all of the available IKEA remotes, a bulb and a plug top. I'll get them setup into Home Assistant using Zigbee2MQTT and an CC2531. This removes the need to use the IKEA integration, and the TRADFRI Gateway.
This is Part 1 of 3. In the next video, I'll show you the configuration.yaml that needs to be added in and some cool things we can do in Node Red.
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[@Saturn2888]

Dude, you're so good! I just bought a Tradfri bulb, and it said to hold a steering device to it. Instead, I power cycled it 6 times, and it instantly paired!

[@GioBen68]

Followed your instructions and managed to connect 3 tradfri devices 👍🏼 thanks

[@HomeSight]

Good stuff!

[@kbhasi]

I had considered buying into the IKEA system for general lighting in my bedroom, but didn't because they didn't offer a remote control that would let me control multiple lights on one remote like with the existing 433MHz RF system and BroadLink RM setup I have. However, for my studio lighting, which is all controlled through Deckboard connected to Home Assistant, I was considering getting the BroadLink SP4 plug tops, but the IKEA ones look more compact than those and I could see myself doing something like this, since those IKEA plug tops cost $13 a piece here (Singapore), and the BroadLink ones are way more expensive. I could also try to see if the new Yeelight ceiling lights I had installed in the living room are compatible with Home Assistant, so I could try to hook up one of those IKEA motion sensors, and maybe a temperature sensor to control the half-broken wall fan I have in the storeroom. (8:53) This reminds me: I have a first generation Xiaomi air purifier, and it had a strange sensor on the top near the power/speed button and Wi-Fi indicator. It was only when I connected it to Home Assistant that I found it was actually a light sensor not exposed through the Mi Home app, but through Home Assistant! I could actually use it, but I haven't come up with any automations. (12:57) I believe that's because the European plug version was likely the original design, as IKEA corporate is based in Sweden which in turn uses European plugs and sockets. They would've then produced the other country plug versions later on.

[@timonsporri4094]

Your Video helped me a lot. Thanks!

[@LemonZorzCinema]

Thanks for the life of me couldnt see that little reset button on the smart plug. I also got a 4 pack of the SONOFF S40 Lites at the same time and I gotta say: I much prefer the SONOFF ones. They're smaller, more likely to fit on a power strip or a cramped outlet, go into pairing mode right away so you don't even have to set it to pair, the pairing button is actually big and press-able by your finger if you need, and paired immediately. The Ikea ones, while not required, did have a firmware update available when they showed up where as the SONOFF ones were fully up-to-date though that's a small gripe. Oh and not to mention getting them in a 4 pack had them ~$9 USD a plug, vs the $15 for the ikea plug.

[@benwebb6421]

Life saver thanks mate!

[@Nqrgaard]

How can I add the small toggle on/off button from IKEA to dim graduation using Home Assistant, Sonoff Zigbee and MQTT. I have added the on/off but when I program it I only get an option where it stepwise dimm the light. I don’t have an IKEA hub

[@MrBobWareham]

Thanks for the reply, I see that Ikea has now moved away from Tradfri to Dirigera so is it worth updating or just staying with Tradfri? I am not sure

[@brene.p]

To get the ikea remotes into pairing mode, i had to press that pairing button 3-4 times quickly, then the red led would flash (the light is behind the front cover thus it is dim). Holding for 10 seconds did nothing...

[@Webrisernl]

Can I also control and add a ikea lamp with the zigbee app without the ikea contol unit?

[@Jannick-mp7bf]

Thanks for the clear video. I tried doing the same as you, but then in Zigbee Home Automation (ZHA). The traffic wireless dimmer does seem to pair to the intrad CC2531, but when pressing the button doesn’t trigger any zha_events. So no succes yet. I might give deconz or Zigbee2mqtt a try and will see how that unfolds.

[@HomeSight]

I must admit I tried ZHA at one point but moved to Zigbee2mqtt and that seemed to work pretty well. Does your HA see the CC2531 correctly?

[@TheDarmach]

The left and right buttons cycle trough the colours/temperature of the light

[@caspersn1971]

Do you know if All ikea tradfri products are zigbee?

[@ohartley73]

I have a conbee 2 device, is it compatible??

[@kukumalu255]

Can anyone confirm how long the ikea button battery lasts on zigbee2mqtt ? ZHA drains them in 24-48 hours

[@wizdude]

I was rather bummed as well to discover that all of the IKEA lights are Edison screw. Bayonet is the standard default socket in Australia as well. I’ve grabbed a pack of bayonet to Edison adapters from Amazon for the time being just so I can play. I love the IKEA controllers and they are very well priced.

[@HomeSight]

I've done the same thing David, it's a shame they don't do the Bayonet version. The adaptors are ok, but make the bulb stick out quite a bit more.

[@MD-S282]

They have some bayonet ones now

[@wizdude]

@@MD-S282 thank you for that news! I can see a bayonet dimmable/white spectrum bulb on their site which is definitely a great start. I couldn’t find a bayonet colour bulb however. But thanks for letting me know. That solves a problem for some of my rooms at least :-)

[@MD-S282]

@@wizdude same here. I found out the hard way too - but I’m glad they’ve at least accommodated for a simple light.

[@CaptainQwerty]

I have the IKEA outlet connected to home assistant via a zigbee dongle but doesn't seem to get synced to Alexa like my other Home Assistant items. Anyone else have this?

[@L1van]

Hi Simon, Can you please explain how to add CC2531 to HA installed on KVM? Thanks.

[@HomeSight]

Hi, you need to pass the USB device through to the guest OS. Try this: david.wragg.org/blog/2009/03/using-usb-pass-through-under-libvirt.html

[@daelowkey]

Anybody had issues with the colour red? Its missing, it goes from orange to pink skipping the red

[@tiagomaciel3779]

Hello, this integration will work with the xiaomi multi-mode smart gateway 3?

[@HomeSight]

Hi, If it truly supports Zigbee and you can get that into Home assistant, yes. I've not used that one myself. But I've certainly proved that the IKEA devices are not only tied to the TRADFRI gateway. I hope that answers your question.

[@rednasjj]

Hello Simon, thanx for the vid. I have a rapsberry pi with home assistant and a zigbee usb dongle. Is there a easy way to connect the installed lights in my house to them… they are now all installed with the ikea app but what if they were not? Do i have to unscrew them all and have them near my zigbee dongle firts?

[@HomeSight]

Hi, no you don’t generally need to put them near the dongle, although I know Ikea tell you to do that with their hub. Just put them back into pairing mode, make sure the Ikea hub is off, and HA Is accepting new Devizes.

[@rednasjj]

@@HomeSight awsome!! I let you know as soon is finally get my raspberry pi 4b 💪💪👍👍👍

[@chrisrosenkreuz23]

Would a xiaomi gateway be able to receive the mqtt zigbee messages? I wanna buy some tradfri devices but won't buy the hub as I already have a zigbee hub

[@HomeSight]

I would expect the Xiaomi gateway should work - zigbee is a standard after all... however some manufacturers lock it down so they can only work with their own devices!

[@drreality1]

Thanks a lot

[@HomeSight]

You’re very welcome! Thanks for watching.

[@richardburguillos3118]

Nice... Now since I actually have a HUE hub for my HUE Lights, I actually pared my IKEA units to Hue and they show up there and from there I can see them in Home Assistant. I did buy one of the IKEA Hubs so I could update the firmware on the lights as the older firmware would not work with Hue. But once upgraded, they added with no issues to HUE. I keep the IKEA Hub around should I need to do the same again with new devices. Now with all that said, will this work with HUE items??

[@HomeSight]

Hi Richard, thanks for watching. Yeah, all the Hue devices are just using Zigbee too. The Hue Hub is just an expensive version of a CC2531 and zigbee2mqtt (kind of).

[@richardburguillos3118]

@@HomeSight Ahhh you may have just solved an issue I’m having. I want HA to manage ALL my devices so I added HUE integration to it and they all show up. Problem is, I cannot find a way to tell Amazon’s Alexa to NOT auto ads HUE to itself so when I add HA to Alexa, she has two (2) copies of all my Hue items!!! Then she complains that she doesn’t know which one I want to control. I end up having to go one at a time and disable each one she found. Grrrr So maybe now I can do away with it. But is is nice to have a backup access to those lights via the Hue app. Ahhh well guess I’ll complain to Hue about adding an option NOT to auto add devices.

[@HomeSight]

If you’re using emulated Hue to pass HA devices to Alexa, you could exclude those devices in HA from being passed to Alexa. That way Alexa can manage directly to the hue hub, and HA can still manage them as well... (if I understood your problem correctly)

[@jkw203]

Hi, I just want to make sure: I don’t need the gateway to set them up right? (I’ve got a „zigbee antenna“) Thanks :)

[@HomeSight]

Hi, correct, you don’t need a specific gateway. Your zigbee “antenna” should act as the gateway.

[@YogeshPatel-io2sz]

Thanks for very informative video. I paired Remote successfully. but Why this IKEA Remote draining battery very fast !

[@HomeSight]

Hi, I’m not sure why the battery is draining, I’ve never changed the batteries in any of my Ikea remotes yet!

[@davidtjac]

Gone through your process purchased both the CC2531 dongle and the Tradfri remote. Realised that you had'nt gone into the setting up of the device, which was not insignificant and have four hours later got it installed. Unfortunately it fails to discover.... The only thing that appears different is in the GUI your permit join is blue mine just goes back to grey again. Also the Map requires me to load map each time and shows a star. I guess there isnt a map until there is somewhere for it to go.

[@HomeSight]

Hi David. I’m sorry if you feel I haven’t covered something. You are correct, I didn’t cover the setting up of the CC2531, nor Zigbee2mqtt. Although I certainly didn’t find it was a four hour process. Did you buy a pre-flashed zigbee2mqtt cc2531?

[@davidtjac]

@@HomeSight No not complaining, you said that you hadn't covered that bit in the video anyway. Interestingly I did manage to get working but by using my phone near the dongle and the device. I think the browser version is a bit strange. I cant really explain, anyway a days work. What else to do in Lockdown... Cheers for another video, keep then coming

[@FabrizioAscari]

How bind for example ikea bulb brightness to Aqara cube rotation inside zigbee2mqtt using binding? I really need help thanx in advance

[@HomeSight]

Hi, I’m sorry I haven’t got a Aqara cube, so can’t help.

[@FabrizioAscari]

@@HomeSight ok but how works binding into zigbee2mqtt? In understood you Can link two devices together but I’m not able do that.

[@y.abuwatfa]

Do I need the gateway to control the bulb from my phone?

[@HomeSight]

Hi, yes you will need some sort of gateway. Ikea sell the Tradfri gateway, or you can use any zigbee gateway in theory. The one I use is a dongle connected to my Home Assistant.

[@arriewarrie]

Hi Great video thanks. I see you use Zigbee2mqtt, can you run and ZHA this together on the same CC2531? Or will a second CC2351 be required? Because in ZHA which so far works ok, the ikea controllers only report battery state and nothing else. So they are not usable. But lights and aqara devices work as expected.

[@HomeSight]

Hi, thank you. No you can’t run them on the same device that I know of. You have to have flash the cc2531 with Zigbee2mqtt for it to work (or buy it pre-flashed of course).

[@arriewarrie]

@@HomeSight Thank you Simon. The second question then would be can you run it on the same RaspberryPi with 2 seperate dongles? I would imagine so as during setup you choose the ZHA setup and I imagine the same for zigbee2mqtt setup too.

[@HomeSight]

Hi, I don’t see why they couldn’t be run on the same Pi. In the setups you would define “address” or Device name of the dongles so, I would certainly try for the same Pi.

[@stephentittel4742]

Maybe signal interference can play a role in this case.

[@stephentittel4742]

@@HomeSight this is not clearly stated imo. I tried it out, the stick can’t be bound to zigbee2mqtt if it is already been bound to ZHA.

[@chewitt86]

Do you know if it is possible to set up a CC2531 without being directly connected to the home assistant hardware device? My HA hardware is quite remote so would like to deploy the CC2531 closer to the actual devices.

[@HomeSight]

I guess you could have another HA instance running on a Pi somewhere else running zigbee2mqtt, but rather than sending the MQTT messages to the local broker, sending it to a different one? But the cc2531 is essentially a serial device so must be connected to something running zigbee2mqtt not just powered somewhere. You might want to look at the sonoff zigbee converter?

[@chewitt86]

@@HomeSight going to be dumb but can that then be integrated to HA? The sonoff hub I mean. Ok a little Google search answered my question. Keep up the videos though, definitely got a subscriber out of me.

[@HomeSight]

That’s not dumb at all! Yes it can be, although I haven’t done it myself! I know some people flash tasmota onto it (which is probably advisable)

[@HomeSight]

James, did you end up doing anything? I have bought myself a sonoff zbbridge and have being doing a video on how to flash and set up!

[@chewitt86]

@@HomeSight I didn't but had planned to buy a sonoff hub so I'll definitely be looking forward to your video on it. I'm just in the process of upgrading my HA instance to a VM on a new server I'm building. Just trying to decide on the parts.

[@danieljensen761]

Hello. my devices are not shown as the friendly name, but rather the identity/ieee address in node red ? am i missing something ?

[@HomeSight]

Hi, have you renamed them in Zigbee2mqtt? Have you done the config.yaml with the name, and reloaded the devices?

[@danieljensen761]

@@HomeSight yes to all..

[@HomeSight]

That’s very odd. Have you done a full server restart?

[@RodanChi]

Am I missing something? like the video for install and configuration of Zigbee2MQTT?

[@HomeSight]

Hi, sorry, this does jump straight into it and assumes you have it installed already. I do plan to do a video on the installation, just haven’t done it yet.

[@frostwo1f]

@@HomeSight Hey, nice video. Any update on the zigbee2mqtt one? I would like to see your setup ;-) thx

[@kubastachu9860]

Why does not a single soul mention IKEA tradfri power supply with dimmer for LED lights, across the entire web? Hasn't anyone tested them or have the tests yielded nothing so far?

[@ilco31]

kinda just want the button to switch on/of stuff not from ikea

[@groentoft]

So, I bought a Sonoff cc2531 and thought that this would be a walk in the park. It wasn't. I've been trying for the last few days to get a Ikea remote (E1743) work with zigbee2mqtt. Z2M registers it, but no click is recorded. I can't for the life of me understand what I'm doing wrong!

[@HomeSight]

Do you have any other zigbee devices on your network working ok? Did you get the cc2531 pre-flashed with the zigbee2mqtt router software? So you’re saying the device is paired correctly? Have you used configuration.yaml to configure the device, or are you allowing z2m to setup the device for you?

[@groentoft]

@@HomeSight I tried with a Ikea bulb, but it didn't show up. Yes, i got the cc2531 pre-flashed. The device was paired, but its state is idle according to the Z2M log. See below. I didn't edit the configuration.yaml, I'm trying to get Z2M to do the job. I'm not sure that it would work even if I edited the configuration.yaml myself. INFO: MQTT publish: topic 'zigbee2mqtt/bridge/log', payload '{"message":"interview_successful","meta":{"description":"TRADFRI ON/OFF switch","friendly_name":"0x(IEEE-address - removed by me)","model":"E1743","supported":true,"vendor":"IKEA"},"type":"pairing"}' INFO: Successfully configured '0x(IEEE-address - removed by me)' INFO: MQTT publish: topic 'zigbee2mqtt/0x(IEEE-address - removed by me)', payload '{"linkquality":5,"update":{"state":"idle"},"update_available":false}'

[@groentoft]

btw... If I give the remote a friendly name, i can see it change in HA

[@HomeSight]

Hi, yes it seems to say “removed” in the log there. Once I get my devices paired, I set them Up in config.yaml. I find this works more consistently rather than letting z2m or Mosquito add the device in.

[@groentoft]

@@HomeSight This is the return from nodeRED: {"battery":87,"linkquality":0,"update":{"state":"idle"},"update_available":false}

[@Animace]

Hello, I am able to get normal ikea switches into zigbee2mqtt but not multi switch. What might be wrong?

[@HomeSight]

Hi, are you getting the red light on the front flash when you press the reset button 4 times?

[@Animace]

@@HomeSight Yes, red light flashes 5 times

[@HomeSight]

That’s odd... maybe try restarting zigbee2mqtt?

[@Animace]

@@HomeSight restarted and no difference. Do I have to reset the device first?

[@HomeSight]

Maybe, I would remove the battery. Restart your whole device and try again... not sure what else to suggest?! Have you used the device before?

[@jacksonmin2058]

Hey, checking in on whether you’ve done the tutorial on zigbee Mttq on home assistant. I’d give my sub if I saw it tbh

[@HomeSight]

Hi, yeah I’ve done a few involving zigbee and MQTT. This one sets zigbee2mqtt with a very cheap usb stick: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y4rIgJWter-kgpY

[@jacksonmin2058]

Thank you thank you! Subbing as promised!

[@timonsporri4094]

Hahaha we're going to put it in the bin, we don't need it!

[@Mirage666]

Your pronunciation of our Swedish names is just awful.. luckily the video content makes up for it, and beyond ;) Great channel, will continue through your videos!

[@HomeSight]

Hi Lars, I’m sorry! Next time I look at an IKEA product I’ll be in touch looking for the proper pronunciation!

[@MrBobWareham]

Zigbee is just another way to get people to spend more on a new kit when 433mhz can do the same job unless you know different? that is my opinion but loved the video thanks Bob in the UK

[@HomeSight]

Hi Bob, I agree to a point, but zigbee devices definitely have their place… advantages of zigbee: 1- creates mesh network extending network away from receiver. 2- the 2.4GHz frequency had higher bandwidth so more data can be passed, this includes status and control messaging, i.e. a bulb may have colour temp, RGB . 3- devices typically have polling as well as notification of change of state. For something like a door or window sensor I would still stick to RF 433MHz because I just want to know when it opens/closes.