New pimatic tradfri plugin / IKEA Smart Lights

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Hi all,

I’m writing a small pimatic plugin which implements an interface for the tradfri devices.

Features Release 0.1.9

• Discover devices, groups, and scenes/moods
• Tradfri Hub as presence device available
• Control lights (also with temperature stepless)
• Control groups
• Observe changes
• Scenes/moods per Group
• Action providers for all features
• Presence check for lights
• Configurable transition time for smooth changes

It is over npm available.

The lights must be paired with the gateway before.
Then, just put in your config :

{
  "plugin": "tradfri",
  "secID": "GATEWAY KEY",
  "hubIP": "GATEWAY IP",
  "debug": true
}

It has beta status and needs testing.
Please send me bugs over github.

i offer me as tester

Just installed,
Can’t auto-discover light… I’m still trying

That’s bad. But the bulbs are with the gateway paired?

Try to make a device in pimatic manually.
The address for the first bulb is normally 65537. Maybe that helps.

The next release in some days will have more debug output too see where are the problems.

Have someone​ an positive result ?

Yes all works ok (android app)
Gateway is pinging…

Autodiscover is not working …
Can’t seed any debug messages from the tradfri plugin though…

Actually… I can’t get the plugin device entry in adding new hardware…

Tradfri plugin is shown as active though…

Spoted this:

18:18:18.515 [pimatic] info: Loading plugin: “pimatic-tradfri” (0.1.6)
18:18:18.780 [pimatic] error: Unexpected token …

@Muldy_

i have the same problem (“token…”) If the installation process is not clean.

Remove the plugin by deleting the pimatic-tradfri folder in node_modules, and restart pimatic

Inspect the install process if there is an error

Did what you said, and is working now thanks!

Perfecto! New features will come soon.

That’s awesome Thx a lot for this nice plugin!!

Hello. I need help.
I deleted the pimatic-tradfri directory from the node-modules.
I reinstalled the plugin (no errors).
I added device tradfri dimmer manually but does not connect to the lamp.

{
  "plugin": "tradfri",
  "secID": "hwaqPxxxxxxxxxxx",
  "hubIP": "192.168.1.208",
  "active": true
},


{
  "address": 65537,
  "xAttributeOptions": [],
  "id": "tradfri-1",
  "name": "Tradfri 1",
  "class": "TradfriDimmer"
}

When I switch after a while it appears "Oops…timeout"
No error message appears. Did I miss something?

Something for the off topic but is tradfri now compatible to Philips hue?

@kosta hey …frist nice that you do this 2nd at the moment is only dimming possible, right? I have at moment no stuff from ikea but i think about to getting​ it. But then i need to switch on/off the lights

@temp I’m not sure, because I don’t have Philips devices.
pairing tradfri devices with a hue gateway (newest firmware) is not possible. See here
The other way round I think it should be possible. I read it somewhere, but I don’t find the link to the site.

@tehmilcho
At the moment I use a normal dimmer device template, so in the GUI you see a slider.
Switching on/off is possible over the slider (completely​ right/left) or over an action rule.
I’m working on a new release with an own device template(a slider, a switch and a color picker)

@Andi-Tudor
The config looks good. Discovery is still not working?
Please be patient, the new release in some days will have a connection test and more debug output.

Auto-discover is working, I can confirm that

New version is published…

Features

• Discover devices and groups
• Tradfri Hub as presence device available
• Control lights (also with temperature)
• Control groups
• observe changes
• autoreconnect on errors

allright, the plugin is getting very serious
need to get my hands on the tradfri asap somehow

Just bought a 1000 lumen bulb, remote and bridge. Works like a charm thanks @kosta !
Will let you know if I’m having problems.

I get it to discover my lights, groups and so on but I can´t add lights to my dashboard.
LOG:
https://pastebin.com/081cNvKE

Thanks for the great work, this Plugin will be really helpful!