I have 2 parasoll devices connected to Home Assistant through ZHA using a Conbee II. Interview did hang once on the first device, now that u metioned it but it works great for me. It has one sensor: opening. (closed or opened). also it shows battery in diagnostic, Identify, LQI and RSSI. They havent failed on me since i own them.
They are extremely slow at responding by industry standards though. Even their range is something like 2m at best. Yeah, they are cheap but you get what you pay for.
I have Ikea Vallhorn working just fine in Home Assistant with ZHA. Had some trouble installing a few of them, but when I tried again the next day they were installed with all values. They work best with Ikeas rechargeble batteries (1,2 v). Added comment: My Vallhorn has firmware 1.57, Home Assistant Sky connect.
Now I know why the old motion sensor was priced down. Bought two of those yesterday 😅. The option to place it into a corner is nice. I also picked up the Parasoll to try it out. It lives in my pantry now, just turning the light on when I open the door.
update, stopped working after 10 days. Battery change fixed it. Hope this is due to a bad battery and not because it uses that much power @@BeardedTinker
I bought these for fun. IKEA is about 20 minutes away, and I don't wanna buy items from Chinese companies, so this lined up. I didn't expect much, but it's cool that some of these work at all.
Just found two Vallhorn at my Charlotte NC, USA store. Can't beat the 8.99 price. Added readily to HA ZHA this morning with Lux, Occupancy and an Opening Entites. Lux Sensor working as expected.
I have no clue you needed to press the link button 4 times in quick succession. The instructions said to hold for 10 seconds even on the remotes, but the 4-press of the link button fixed all my issues trying to link these!
There is known issue with Vallhorn sensor when he start to send false motion trigger. After doing some research the solution is really fun - replace battery with rechargeable battery. I believe because of higher voltage of regular batteries it starts to produce noise. I spend few days in researching, hope will save someone’s time. Nevertheless sensors working great, and illumination values working great for me.
Nice video, but showed only from the perspective of the Home assistance network, some of us don't have it, and will glad to hear how the buttons working, for example, how to change day/night mode and such things.
I use skyconnect and i could adopt all of the sensors into ZHA, both Parasoll and Vallhorn, although im not using 1.2v batteries both types work as expected in my Home assistant, opens and closes, shows brightness, Vallhorn does give false positives currently but i suspect that is caused by the wrong battery voltage. The door sensor works as expected for me, got two of them and have not seen anything wrong with them yet.
That's really strange... Check this. Same issue -community.home-assistant.io/t/ikea-parasoll-vallhorn-devices-not-working-zha/668852 but again this was tested with SkyConnect with the latest firmware.
I can confirm Vallhorn working great with ZHA and Sonoff Dongle-E on HA Blue with all the latest versions installed as of today. Zero problem. Rundning with IKEA Ladda batteriets.
Just wanted to mention with the parasoll I experienced a similar issue with the process hanging trying to add the device to ZHA. I think what was said about routers possibly being the problem may be true as when I was trying to pair them, I was in a different room to the Skyconnect and the closest router was a smart plug. The plug is allegedly 3.0 but it's a cheap aliexpress plug so not sure if there is any truth in that or not. What I can say is I tried multiple times with different parasolls and if I was closer to a router rather than the Skyconnect, the sensors would not pair up. The second I went in the room with the Skyconnect and retried the process it got paired up straight away, no issue at all. So I would suggest pairing up with the device close to the Zigbee coordinator. I have since move my 4 parasolls to different areas of the house and they are all working very well and are responsive. Looking at the ZHA network map only one of them is currently connected directly to the Skyconnect, the other 3 are all connected via the same smart plug it was probably struggling to pair through and they are working absolutely fine, so you should be fine to pair with coordinator and then move them to wherever they need to go and they should be able to figure out the routing. Originally I had two of them reporting 0% battery level even though I knew they definitely weren't as it was a brand new set of batteries, but they are now displaying the correct level so if anyone is having that issue, just be patient and it might correct itself.
Thank you for explanation! I tried on network where there are no routers - just SkyConnect and same issue. About battery, I've mentioned that - it can take some time for battery te bo reported. It's considered normal for battery state to be updated after some time, up to 24hrs.
I believe that may be (one) of the problems. I tried connecting directly to ZHA via SkyConnect, without any router on the network, and that also didn't work. But, again, this could be by design issue that doesn't allow that too :)
@@BeardedTinker strange. Only other difference is you tested on the 2024.1.5 version, but I’m on the 2024.1.4 version. I’m a bit worried to update now!
I got 3x Vallhorn sensors and put all 3 aside and went back to the old IKEA motion sensor. One tip, found in these comments, is to use rechargeable batteries. I did not try that one yet
While it needed multiple run for the motion sensor I could connect the motion and the door sensor to ZHA with sonoff zigbee stick-P. The motion sensor drops some times from the zigbee, but I think it is because my network and not the sensor. The door sensor is really nice. Small and AAA battery use is nice.
Glad it's working for you. Did you check signal strength on motion sensor? Maybe that's the issue. Maybe try to add the via other router on the network.
Parasoll works fine with ZHA, I have the conbee 2 and HA running in an VM What I found out, is that if you are too far away from your Zigbee stick, the configuration fails. Then reset the Sensor and pair it again.
I just bought the Parasoll motion sensor 2 days ago and tested it with Home Assistant ZHA and it connected with no problem! The illuminance and lux do not work for ZHA as far as I could see.
Do you have any tutorial on home asistant for someone who wants to start and wants to understand limitations and what does home assistant give you vs the built in Ikea Home?
The VALLHORN is working fine for me with Z2M, including luminance. But my PARASOLL is a mess, it sometimes doesn't detect at all (the light on the device doesn't turn on) or the ZigBee message is not received by the coordinator (light turns on, but no state change in Z2M). Both use the same grey LADDA batteries. Using a SONOFF P stick and have an ASKVADER switch that can act as a router.
If the lights aren't coming on it sounds more like a hardware issue. Regardless of connecting it to a network, the lights should still flash once when sensor is closed and twice when sensor is opened. If that isn't happening, you have a hardware issue and it might be worth returning and trying another.
I had a lot of problems with Ikea bulbs on SkyConnect and it turned out you needed to upgrade the firmware on the SkyConnect, just thought I would mention it in case you had not upgraded yours lately.
The issue with the availability of parasoll sensors it's probably due to something wrong with the default "are-you-alive" ping timings. As a temporary fix, disabling availability checks for those sensors in the zigbee2mqtt config should work.
Today 2 july it working , latest HAOS with Sky. That 2 buttons don't know how work. Now via ZHA work light , and occupance. Is one extra "oppening" but I don;t know is maybe if is a error. What to open ?
I don't have dirigera - only older Tradfri hub, but that one is offline. As for matter/thread, that more HUB issue for end devices - if hub supports it, you should be able to add it to matter network.
Hi, do we know that is the re arm / re monitoring time for motion sensor. Ikea motion sensors are generally dread full , previous generation one’s where timing 5 seconds for re test…
Have you tried the door sensor with an alkaline AAA cell instead of a rechargeable? Sometimes the lower voltage of the latter can affect the performance of some devices. Had been looking at picking some up next time I'm at Ikea, but may hold off for the short-term.
They should be fine as they are designed to work specifically with Ikea rechargeables. Ikea doesn't even sell non rechargeable AAAs and I don't think any of their products are designed to work with stuff that Ikea do not sell. It also specifically states on the product page to use them with Ikea rechargeables. I have 4 parasolls and have had no issues with them to be honest, set them up last weekend and they have been rock solid since the initial pairing difficulty.
That't correct. Device is designed for rechargeable batteries. Some users are reporting issues with standard/alkaline batteries, that are fixed as soon as they swap them.
@videolan 0 seconds ago I wonder if the sensors are not being updated beause of a bug that has also affected the Yolink integration since HA 2024.1.3 - It seems a similar problem. Maybe it is best to test things only in release versions. of HA?
If you're using it with SmartThings it can only use the light lumen option.. not motion. So luckily I was just in time to purchase a lot more of the old Tradfri motion sensors. But had gladly used the new type. Somebody know how to use with smartthings or are new devices being able to do it?
Besides IKEA, we have Sonoff SNZB-03, but you are probably thinking about Aqara motion sensor gen 2. First gen is very similar, but doesn't detect light. I got them from here s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_DkHjSnb
That's just random "tuya" Zigbee door/window sensor. There are tons of similar ones. I have these few: www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005175921792.html www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005409554837.html www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005873006042.html
Standard high capacity rechargeable batteries inside zigbee sensors? Sign me up. Looks like I know what I'll be putting into my house next... just need temperature/humidity sensors.
You had more luck than me, the Ikea latest motion sensor in z2m light reading is ok (although I didn't check the accuracy) but motion stays on "present". So, cheap but, as of today.. useless
Really disappointing if you are HA user. If I would us it in their environment, direct binding with lights or similar, it would be OK device. But, we don't live in isolated world.
They don’t look great I must say. I really like their gu10 bulbs, I’ve found them rock solid on z2m and I’ve not had any fail yet so they are great but these I’ll pass on I think
I really don't get these new ones. I know someone will probably say, ah, your fault, you need this, that whatever to get it working, but needing to wear red socks, stand on the hand and chant elf song while pairing it - it's not seamless experience :)
@@BeardedTinker Yeah, I think that is was @SmithyScotland meant, that IKEA want all batteries to be rechargable, no more CR2032s. Problem is, that makes the sensors REALLY big..
@@SmithyScotlandIt used to be villages and place but now it's all kinds of Swedish words. VALLHORN is like a trumpet for getting the livestock home in the evening and PARASOLL is what you think it is ⛱️
Rechargeable batteries only have 1.2 volts. It is much better to use Alkaline batteries that have 1.5 volts. Some devices won't even work with rechargeable batteries because you lose 0.3 volts on every battery you have, so if the device use 3 batteries you will lose almost 1 volt. IKEA's batteries are also crap. Both Alkaline and rechargeable, but those are cheap.
You are generally right. Unless, devices are specifically designed for rechargeable batteries, like these, and like these have warning to use rechargeable 1.2V batteries explicitly stated in manual. Also, aren't those batteries produced in Japan by same factory that's making Panasonic and few others?
@@BeardedTinker For 20 years ago we used IKEA's Alkaline and they were cheap and they last for 6 months. Panasonic/Duracell batteries lasted for 2 years in the exact same devices. We used them in clocks in a school. So, you could buy cheap batteries and replace them after 6 months or buy more expensive ones and replace them every 2 years.
@@fu1r4 The Ikea LADDA batteries, the 2450 and 750 mah ones, are high end Japan made batteries that have a lot of reviews out there. They are the real deal and there's not much out there that is better than them even at higher prices.