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Hi. pual I'm.new to smart home gadgets. I'm renovating my house and what'd to add smart switches and led strip lights in the ceiling and kitchen. how do I go about it, should I buy amazon echo or Google or ikea tradfri. this is getting abit overwhelming and confusing. would appreciate your help.
You're probably aware of this, but advanced home assistant (or zigbee2mqtt) users can pair motion sensors/remotes/buttons to most lights/etc - it's in the Zigbee spec, and they expose enough advanced features to link it up manually.
I'm excited to see how much better the new IKEA Dirigera Hub will be. Completely new hub, new app and new way of interacting with your stuff. With built in Thread, Zigbee and Matter compatibility, as well as native out-of-home control I'm looking forward to the new hub
I've had a Philips Hue Outdoor motion sensor (connected directly to Home Assistant) outside for 2 years and hasn't even needed new batteries. It's working great :)
I’ve had Homekit with IKEA running my smart home for a few years, After a bit of time upstanding the madness of their setup, it’s actually been working really reliably. I can’t wait to see the new hub and App in October
11:48 connect a powerbank to the hub then a charger to the powerbank, so any loss of power keeps your hub running, I do the same to my dashcam so it keeps ticking on.
Glad your view on the IKEA stuff has improved. I use IKEA and Sonos around my home because the two integrate with scene controls etc. It makes sense for me to keep things simple with as few systems as possible and the IKEA stuff does everything I need including smart blinds. Setup can be a bit buggy but once you get your head around it it all works reliably for me.
The motion sensor CAN control third party devices through Homekit. This is thanks to an Ikea firmware update released Jan. 2021. I'm controlling my Sylvania strip lights with the Ikea motion sensor.
Mmm that’s what I thought but I’ve fought with it for two days now trying to get this to work. The only way I seem to be able to get it into homekit is to pair it with a light or socket or whatever. I can’t seem to get it to add as device on its own. I can SEE it in homekit and apparent,y set up automations with other devices it just never detects motion unless it’s paired with another ikeas device. I’m sure I must be doing something wrong but can’t work out what.
reading all of this make me think: people have suuuch easy lives when they have time to spend soo much on building light systems!!! i have a timer for my balcony and i do not understend this language here.....at all. zegbee, hub..wtx....😂. I would just like to dimm lights from time to time and find out if its worth the money?
I can anyone advice not to use Ikea Smart Home gear. Made the mistake of using it all over my flat. 1.5 years and a switch to the new hub later, 2 smart power switches and one light broke down completely. Most fun though, that the hub casually forgets every connected device from time to time, with no power cut. This means the devices are still in the app, but you have to remove, reconnect, name and assign EVERY device. Most fun are the ones you need a screw driver for. Too expensive for single device use, but unsutible for real smart home applications, unless you have the time to reinstall the whole setup every 6 month or so and have no problem with gear breaking down within a year...
Ring has just increased, the price of Protect Basic will change from £24.99/year per device to £34.99/year per device! Corporate greed, need more bigger yachts.
I'll be interested to see if you'll still be able to use it in 'local only' mode. One of the big things that attracted me to the Tradfri setup was that it didn't need my life story to switch a few lights on.
You drop a helpful fac5 and hen drop several lame jokes. Degrades any value in the video. Also many user forums discuss pairing multiple remotes to a single bulb without a hub, contradicting your own video.
Great video. I've been quite happily using an Ikea bulb attached to a Tuya ZigBee hub. The only limitation around Ikea bulbs in the UK is that they're all Edison screw, whereas the UK overwhelmingly uses bayonet fittings for ceiling lights. Sure, you can change them (as I did), but it's a shame the don't doing any Bayonet fittings.
The problem with the bayonets is the they’re extremely UK-specific (well.. probably plus Ireland, but you know what I mean.) they’re probably on the list to produce at some point, but the range would have to be popular enough to make the volume in *just* the British isles worth it.
I’ve used the ikea stuff the last few years and it has got better over time. HOWEVER ITS NEVER IN STOCK! quite literally (yes I mean literally) the last time I visited the only thing available was one idea button.
@@carlovonreyher Well that screws me over... I was thinking a drip to my local store was in order. Maybe I'll wait for a time I was planning on going there anyway.
You can pair the remote and the sensor to a light bulb!!! Just keep them both away from the lightbulb(s) say another room. Then hold the pairing button on the remote keep holding it and then hold the pairing button on the sensor both for 10 seconds. Then they are both paired!!!
I seem to be the minority, but I do like the content you provide, but cannot stand the delivery and all the stupid BS skits you do... probably why I rarely watch your videos. Cheers mate.
Hi, Amazon Alexa can now find the motion sensor and setup routines without it being paired to a bulb. I'm using it as a "house alarm". Even did a video about it. Its just a matter of being creative with it. ;)
You totally just got me. Although I am already subscribed! My Hubitat is so reliable, I set it up two years ago and have literally never had to go back into the administrative interface to adjust anything, so I forget how it works precisely. Is there not a community driver for Hubitat? Don't tell me I have to investigate on my own!
nice video i love all your charactors they...you crack me upheres a reward, did you hear that the founder of ikea was elected as the president of sweden? yeah right now hes building his cabinet
I absolutely love the ikea bulbs I got in my bathroom. I have added them to my circadian lighting system, and they just fade so smooth. Brightness is so high I run them at around 75%, and on top... they were pretty cheap. They completely blow my ledvance light out of the water.
I have to comment on this one. I have had Ikea smart home stuff for several years now. I like the cloudlessness of it. But there are few things I hate about it. One is that every time Ikea updates the hub, my HA loses connection to it and goes haywire if I don't ro a integration reload and/or a hub restart (I have a wifi outlet controlling the hub). Also I have not been able to get the buttons and motion sensor to talk to HA if they are connected to the hub. One thing I have waited for a long time is that Ikea would start to include more sensors to their line up. Currently there are no temperature sensors, door sensors, vibration sensors.....etc. But overall after buying about 10 bulbs and bunch of buttons and motion sensors, only one buldb and one dimmer has broken during the past +5 years.
They’ve also got very affordable shades, I’ve just recently installed one and it works great. Setup process was a bit of a bear for me but now that it’s in I have no issues.
@@paulhibbert You can, but I suggest you get your more handy brother to do it for you 👍👍😁😁 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PL6LPZZoFlo.html
I don`t use smart bulbs anymore ( Wife/Kid unfriendly ), but I use their repeaters a lot as all their stuff works flawless with HA. Spoiler Alert, the very choosey Aquara Devices can use Ikea repeaters, have probably 6 of them in my house :) Hope they do at some point Wall switches etc, they would make a killing with that too. Their Smart lamp is great if you want Sonos sound for cheap...just sad that the lamp part is actually not smart :(
Hello, I do not know if I am first to tell you, but IKEA lights/sensor/button, are even better, than you described. Yes, you can not pair button and motion sensor to one light at a same time, but, you can pair one, or more buttons to a motion sensor and then pair lights to motion sensor and then motion sensor and all buttons will be able to controle those lights. I have done in it in my parrents kitchen and it works flawlessly :D
Hi Paul, you can use a remote and motion sensor together with a bulb without a hub. But you need to link the remote and motion sensor with each other. Soooo… 1. Reset everything. Just in case. 2. Link the remote to the bulb. 3. Link the motion sensor to the remote. (Not the bulb!) Done! Ofcourse you can also link the motion sensor to the bulb first and then connect the remote to the motion sensor. Just do it how you want it to do.
Yeah. Glad they kept that “hidden feature” 😁 It’s also possible to pair more then one remote to an bulb/sensor. That was even possible this way, before IKEA officially added that function to the hub 😁
@@paulhibbert dont forget to wake up the remote(press a random button) before trying to link the sensor to it! i have seen many peopel complain they cznt get it to work only for me to come and link them in one go because they forgot tho make sure the remote is awake to recieve the pairing request.
I actually tried buying a couple IKEA Trådfri things to test if they worked with my Zigbee hub (Nedis/Tuya). The bulbs work just fine, but the dimmer/switch doesn't appear in the app at all. I'm curious how you managed to make it work for you.
I have 11 IKEA bulbs and 3 IKEA sockets connected to a SmartThings hub for more than a year. Since some time last year they work locally. I also have two IKEA remotes that can control them but they are cloud only. Only problem is the bulbs don't remember their state after a power outage. Otherwise a sturdy cheap system.
That last is deliberate - I have one of the big panels on my ceiling lighting point in the kitchen, and what it means is that even if it was turned off by the smart side, someone on the conventional power switch can turn it back on (via turning it off and then back on). It makes it possible for these lights to be seamless upgrades to existing lighting setups, but only a *little* less useful to the true smart home - as far as I am concerned this is the right call.
@@JasperJanssen Yup. But I've seen people on both sides. I prefer the lights to keep their last state. I understand the need to be able to use a smart bulb as a dumb one. If only there was a protocol/standard for power state "remembrance" everyone adhered to. Imagine having the option to choose with any hub/bulb/platform combination...
Really enjoy your stuff, Its so good to see smart home stuff from the UK, Question, the motion sensor with the light sensor, Can it create an action based on the light level to trigger an Alexa Routine? Example: Light level is less than X, Alexa routine Y triggers If not, any ideas on anything that can handle triggering Alexa Routines based on the light in the room?
You should check out the IKEA smart black out blinds, they're amazing for movie time routines and general wake up, close up times linked to sunrise and sunset times.
Thanks Paul. I was a bit on the fence about Tradfri but think I will be taking a trip to IKEA now. Big fan of your channel. Keep up the great work mate 👍 Shouting "Tradfri" while thrusting 😂😂
the best thing is; *ALL* the IKEA stuff works on Atom Homey, without the stupid hub. I am now still considering if I'm going to burn it, trash it or throw it under my car. it is bullocksy irritating, this hub. But the periferics are nice.
You can have two or more sensors/switches directly control one or more lights without a Ikea bridge, and it work like this, the first remote or senor that you use to link one or more lights, will be your "main" remot/sensoere and when adding another remote/sensor, you need to reset the remote/sensor and than link it with the "main" remote/sensor, by holding them close and keep the link button pressed on both devices and make sure at least one light that was linked with the "main"remote/sensor is powered on (will not work without a zigbee router in proximity, to add the remote/sensor, also known as zigbee end device to the network). Next to scare you, Ikea announced a new bridge, that will come later this year and it will support Matter......
Hi Paul, have tradfri become better? I had 4 gu10 lights outside in a enclosed lamp. They started dying after 3 months. After replacing them for 3 times I bought 4 hue lights from a marketplace (would have bought innr lights if i had to buy them new) They are 2,5 years old and still going strong. Also had allot of connectivity issues with the tradfri, the range was abismal. So Hue is expensive but more reliable and no1 here in the netherlands uses lifx so you cant get those 2nd hand. Motion sensor looks awesome going to try this outside.
I had one bad batch when I did my kitchen, but all of them failed inside a year and Ikea didn't bat an eyelid when replacing them. The replacement ones have lasted about 3 years so far. Range and reliability is a tough one to quantify out 'in the wild', since there are so many factors involved. I can say for my house that everything's got a lot more stable now than it was 2-3 years ago.
all I wanted is to watch a couple minutes of video if I can connect my iphone with the bulb.. I ended up getting a headache of this silly video. 3 minute add 3 minute playing with socks 3 minute of doing weird noise and 3 minute of trying to spell.. is this a comedy show?
Paul - no real mention of IKEA and home assistant. How far along are we from decent ZHA zigbee integration? I know you lampoon Phillips hue (sure it’s expensive) but it’s way easier to implement in HA without a hub. Same for TUya. Would you mind doing an update vid comparing these? Firmware updates, ease of integration etc? Thanks!
Home Assistant + Zigbe2Mqtt + Tradfrii Bulbs + Aqara Sensors = OH! The Zigbee! (Never had any problems with Ikea devices because of Zigbee2MQTT). BTW, that Motion sensor is so ugly! ...and big.
I have just started using Tradfri. They are so good for the money. I paired mine via Alexa to existing Ring Alarm motion sensors. They work well with Alexa routines.
According to your request I press subscribe button everytime you ask for it... The result is that on one sunday I subscribe and on the other one I unsubscribe... Is that you are asking for??? 😅😅🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Paul you can pair a motionsensor and a remote together (and even 2 motionsensors) just put the new motion sensor/ remote to the already existing motionsensor/remote and pair it and it wil kopie itself and now you have two remotes/motionsensors to control one lamp and if the existing sensor/remote already has multible light on it they will al work. (and if you have a hub it wil recognize it too) I already use a motionsensor and remote together because it want to dim it without using a phone or my voice and i have 2 motionsensors for my hallwaylight so it wil turn on if im upstairs and downstairs
Hahaha 🤣 😝 Ok so I have been officially Mastur Bated. Lol 😂. I had no idea 🤷♂️ about Ikeas compatibility. That’s seriously awesome. I am so on board with them now. Thanks 🙏 heaps for the info.
Alright Paul, wonder if you can help. Looking to add an LED light to en-suite and bathroom ,but want to add a motion sensor and create a routine through 'she who shall not be named' so if I go in through the day, it comes on full brightness, but if I go o through the night, it comes on 10-20% brightness like a nightlight. Interested in the Tradfri motion sensor, but Ikea says it needs their hub. Can I use any other zigbee hub/bridge, with an Ikea motion sensor, along with a suitable 'smart' LED bathroom ceiling light? Just confused abotu which devices are 'universal' and which need to be paired with specific manuafcaturers kit. Cheers mate, keep up the good work on the vids.
How is the brightness particularly of the GU10 bulbs? I currently have dumb GU10s in all of the rooms in my holiday home and would like to convert that to a smart setup as cheaply as possible (I have 38 GU10 bulbs!). My one concern is that my current dumb bulbs are rated on the box as 400 lumens and I already wish they were a bit brighter whereas the IKEA fancy full-colour GU10s that I would like to use in at least a few rooms are rated at only 345 lumens. In your experience Paul is the lumen rating actually a good indication of brightness or does reality sometimes contradict the specs? I know you sometimes test with a light meter so I’m wondering if you’ve ever encountered situations where you’ve compared 2 bulbs that claim the same lumen output but in your testing you found one to be obviously brighter than the other perhaps because some manufacturers are much more conservative with their claims than others. I suppose what I should do is bring one of my dumb bulbs home with me, buy a single IKEA bulb and then compare the two at home but I would be interested in any insights that you or others might have.
I have a complaint!! I currently have a tab open learning about home assistant!! Damn you Paul Hibbert and damn you mr sockee!! Im doing it, I am actually doing it!! Home assistant is happening!! P.S If I see you in Ikea I am definitely going to walk up behind you and shout "ooooh the zigbee" complete with the Hip thrust and its all your fault (Just for the Police Evidence after). Have a great day fella!! Loving the videos as always!!
I'm in the process of installing a motion sensor to control an external light and am looking for both motion and dusk-to-dawn functionality in one. You highlighted this on thr IKEA product, but are there any other sensors that have both features? The product descriptions are woefully short on this topic, though I'd think it would be an expected feature, even for indoor lighting (especially with the D2D switched at the sensor like you demonstrated, because I can't seem to build an Alexa routine that will condition the motion sensor trigger on time-of-day).
any help? I am new in smart things. well I have echo dot 4gh Gen .... the Ikea Tradfi getaway, styrbar, tradfi shortcut and tradfi on off buttons. I don't know to to connect them to Alexa!!!!I enable the skill ikea. nothing happened when I am searching for devices. somewhere says that I can connect them directly to echo dot ....but how?!
I bought an IKEA plug, it will not be discovered by my 2 echo show 5s nor my echo show 8, they are first and second gen. Only echo plus or the echo 10 will discover them as they are the only echoes to have a Zigbee hub built in. I was hoping the plug would work as at only £12 it's £18 less than the Phillips plug at £29.99 of which l bought 2 but would like more plugs but not at that price.
First video of yours that I've seen and I'm already in stitches at less than 4 minutes in. As somebody who's only been researching smart lighting for a couple of days, I can already relate to the nauseating feeling of Phillips Hue *spew*. Seriously though, why is it so expensive, and why are some of the products so ugly???
I bought the IKEA motion sensors and their 5 buttons remotes. I then paired it to my Samsung Smartthings hub but not without bi%?&*()7, the IKEA instructions say one thing, the Smartthing hub says something else and neither is right. Example: press the pair button ten seconds, yet to get it to work you have to press the pair button 5 time in 5 seconds then hold for 10 seconds for the motion sensor, and 4 times fast for the 5 button remote but the instruction say to hold for 10 seconds only, also you have to add zigbee device drivers ahead of time if not the device are recognize as a thing without any qualities to it. Basically hard the first time around but once paired works very well. Thanks for the laughs and funny videos, cheers!
Wait… the IKEA sensor works outside? How the hell did I not know this before?? I’ve got one doing the square root of sod all and a set of outside lights I’m nervous about wiring up to the mains as I’m not convinced of the capability of the dumb sensor I installed (yeah, I know, probably should have thought it through first, but that’s me all over). Right, time to get that sorted then! Off to Ikea I go!
It's ALWAYS great featuring the very fine Lady Hibbert. Be it for a mutual chat, or for antics galore, and those Disney singalong reactions... PRICELESS! 👌👍 😎🇬🇧
I have subscribed before but when you said my name, you caught my attention... *PELVIC THRUST* OHHHHHHHHHH THE ZIGBEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, CORPORATE GREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED, HOME ASSISTANTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
Well this is the first time I've had to re-watch one of your videos due to needing to check you hadn't actually said what I thought I heard you say - first time through it sounded like you said Neesha is "fatter" than you... On second time through, played back at normal speed, you definitely say she's "hotter" than you. To which I'm sure we can all agree... :)
Unfortunatly, im in far too deep with Hue to justify binning in. I made the catastrophic error of kitting out the whole house with bulbs, remotes with 3rd party light switch covers to house them, and one sensor. Was looking at getting more sensors. I'm right in thinking that this sensor can control hue bulbs via the hue hub right?
is the dislike for Philiphs Hue due to the price or something else? Im planning a move from HAS to Hubitat and on my way to Ikea on Sunday to test out the ikea stuff. but my whole house is currently Hue based. (bulbs anyway)
*puts hand up* Mr Hibbert, I have a question about the motion sensor!? *He replied* yes you the git in the back corner, what is it!? Spit it out!" Sir, if I pair the motion sensor to my smartthings hub. Will the night button cease to function or can this still be enabled to work in no light, that way I could save on battery and not need to worry about the automation kicking in at sunset....am I daft or is there any merit to this madness? *Puts hand back down*
Sunglasses in Ikea... then a Sing Song to a captive audience... That look from your poor carer, sorry wife... says it all... she's thinking... Did I sign a prenup... should I increase his medication... She's thinking... Daddy... DADDY.. you sold me to THIS for a TV!!!!! Watch this space next week! :)
This comment made me laugh a lot 😂 The glasses are because I'm super famous now. I don't want to be accosted by all the women I make giddy every week! 🤣
I have two ikea motion sensors without an ikea hub connected to my smartthings hub. The smartthings app shows 2 inputs motion and battery. The battery actually changes, but the app never registers motion. so weird and frustrating
My local IKEA is in Leeds, 30 miles away and I have discovered that there is only one IKEA employee there, who knows the fully skinny about their range. I think he is called Adam (maybe he is the Adam, Paul addressed the other week) and if he is not on duty, every other employee knows even less than zero about their entire smart home range. Also, they miss opportunities since their smart home offering resides in the Lighting section and so their roller blinds or example are not there - they are in the curtain/blinds section where the staff naturally know nothing about home automation.
Paul thank you. Best thing on. The web. No one can match you on heart you put into your videos. So I think I'll stay even if you start selling dirt on a stick. Anyway I am in a holding pattern waiting for the market to resolve. I hate Phillips. Nice to say out loud.
I really wanted to like them, but the color bulbs all made a buzzing sound on standby that drove me bonkers. And then the other bulbs just couldn't quite match color temperature of the things I replaced the color bulbs yet. Meh.
The tradfri shortcut button can actually be really powerful as well. With a somewhat recent firmware it supports press, hold, and double tap. I've set it up as the main light switch for most of my rooms with a normal tap toggling the lights (with some HA magic they get toggled on at a time dependent brightness), a long press turning them on dim regardless of the time, and a double press turning them on bright regardless of the time. Has the big advantage compared to the big remote that you will never accidentally press the wrong button, even in the dark, because there only is one 🙂
Where did you get the impression that this is rated for outdoor use? It only seems to be approved for bathroom use. The manual says it's only good down to 0°C, and shouldn't be left in direct sunlight.
Does your wife know what she gotten herself into? as I say as I bug my Girlfreind with myself and smarthome tech . True love is annoying someone without them killing you, and they think your decent enough to love you.
Hi Paul, I just wanted you to know that I paused the video to give it the thumbs up and post this comment because of your Baiting joke. Thank you. That is all
I've tried to connect the sensor directly to smartthings without a ikea light bulb to use it purely as a motion sensor for detection. Without any luck that is. The sensor will not b detected by the smartthings hub. Since the light is already coupled to a remote control, it won't work. Figuring out how to do this in another way.
I'm having a hard time connecting the motion sensor to SmartThings without a hub as the app wouldn't let me. Can somebody provide me with instructions on how to set it up?
Why are you giving me advice? you have like 40 videos and only 115 subscribers. 🤷🏻♂️ if you want some advice on how to add some cheap drama to them let me know
Can we connect two motion sensors to one same bulb ? Also, if connected to Philips hue bridge, Can we setup that the lights don't turn on After power outage.
I bought one of those sensors but home assistant doesn't recognise it as a sensor and can't do nothing with it expect turn the lights on/off... I'm using the ikea hub, don't now if with a dongle it would work as intended...
