IKEA TRÅDFRI

RunDMC · 13-12-2018 6:19pm

I have the same setup! "Ok, Google, turn on the Christmas lights."

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Rew · 14-12-2018 2:04pm

Anyone know if the outlets are HomeKit compatible? presume they are like the lights.

Murtimus · 14-12-2018 8:05pm

The outlets aren’t HomeKit compatible yet from what I’ve read, but they are working on it.

Do you have to have a dimmer or remote in order to set them up does anyone know?

L1011 · 14-12-2018 11:07pm

Outlet showing as out of stock online. Only have a few things I want and none actually urgent and its clearly insanity to go there this close to Christmas - did anyone happen to be there today and see stock?

I am looking at the outlet alone option - the outlet and switch option is there but I know its not in at all yet.

jmBuildExt · 17-12-2018 10:58am

L1011 wrote: »

Outlet showing as out of stock online. Only have a few things I want and none actually urgent and its clearly insanity to go there this close to Christmas - did anyone happen to be there today and see stock?

I am looking at the outlet alone option - the outlet and switch option is there but I know its not in at all yet.

I checked the site on friday night and could have sworn it said they were in stock.
So i went there sat morning. Shelf was empty and the girl said there were 2 there earlier in the day that were now gone. After a trip to the restaurant, I came back and another girl was unloading a trolley of odds n ends and happened to put 1 of them on the shelf. Someone must have decided they didn't need it and thrown it somewhere in the shop. So i took it... could have done with a few more though!

Anyway... sorry for the long winded story but they had none as of saturday

It actually wasnt too bad out there traffic wise - no worse than any other time of the year. There was one person ahead of me in the queue for the till. That was at 11.30am saturday - Id say people are more fussed about hitting the shopping centres at this stage.

R.O.R · 17-12-2018 1:54pm

I picked up 2 outlets on Thursday afternoon. There was one tray that was more or less full at that stage.

Have one controlling the Christmas lights, which is part of the group in the Living room with the 3 lights in there, so controlled via the on/off button on the Tradfri controller in the room or via google home by voice.

Wanted to use the other one for an Electric Blanket, but need to figure out how to set it to turn off 20 minutes after it's turned on, whenever it's turned on, so I can have that as part of the good night routine.

SemperFidelis · 18-12-2018 12:58pm

Murtimus wrote: »

The outlets aren’t HomeKit compatible yet from what I’ve read, but they are working on it.

Do you have to have a dimmer or remote in order to set them up does anyone know?

Yes you need a remote to set them up

Rew · 07-01-2019 12:40pm

https://9to5mac.com/2019/01/06/ikea-smart-blinds-homekit/

Ikeas smart blinds are battery operated!

ted1 · 07-01-2019 12:53pm

Rew wrote: »

https://9to5mac.com/2019/01/06/ikea-smart-blinds-homekit/

Ikeas smart blinds are battery operated!

Seem to be only light blinds that provide shade from the sun as opposed to thermal black out blinds. I guess weight is sn issue.

Rew · 07-01-2019 1:06pm

ted1 wrote: »

Seem to be only light blinds that provide shade from the sun as opposed to thermal black out blinds. I guess weight is sn issue.

No there are 2 types:
https://www.ikea.com/de/de/catalog/products/40408196/?query=Fyrtur
https://www.ikea.com/de/de/catalog/products/20408116/?query=Kadrilj#/90408127

R.O.R · 07-01-2019 1:24pm

ted1 wrote: »

Seem to be only light blinds that provide shade from the sun as opposed to thermal black out blinds. I guess weight is sn issue.

IKEA wrote:

With the included remote control or the IKEA TRÅDFRI app in the smartphone, the blinds can be adjusted without you having to get up from bed. The darkening special fabric does not let light through - perfect for the bedroom.

That's the google translation from the German site for the FYRTUR blinds - https://www.ikea.com/de/de/catalog/products/40408196/?query=Fyrtur

68 lost souls · 07-01-2019 10:18pm

Got 2 GU10s to test out, was a pain to get them paired. Have a spot light in the same room as the hue hub and what I had to do was get a 4m cat 5 cable and an extension cable, plug in, plug the bulb in and turn the lights on and off 6 times at which point the bulb blinks to show factory reset and then climb a ladder. Then using the Hue Lights app use touch link to pair a bulb while pointing the blue circle of the hub towards the light about an inch away.

Once that all worked I was able to move the bulbs out to the porch.

jmBuildExt · 08-01-2019 11:10am

68 lost souls wrote: »

Got 2 GU10s to test out, was a pain to get them paired. Have a spot light in the same room as the hue hub and what I had to do was get a 4m cat 5 cable and an extension cable, plug in, plug the bulb in and turn the lights on and off 6 times at which point the bulb blinks to show factory reset and then climb a ladder. Then using the Hue Lights app use touch link to pair a bulb while pointing the blue circle of the hub towards the light about an inch away.

Once that all worked I was able to move the bulbs out to the porch.

I had 20+ of them to do. I made up a gu10 fitting with a plug on the end.

lawred2 · 22-05-2019 8:32am

Individual lights can be bought now from Ikea for delivery..

Anyone integrated the gu10s with Hue? Wonder what the experience was? Conflicting stories online..

lawred2 · 22-05-2019 8:34am

Just read the two immediate posts above. That sounds like a pain.

Alkers · 22-05-2019 8:50am

lawred2 wrote:

Anyone integrated the gu10s with Hue? Wonder what the experience was? Conflicting stories online..

I have three in the hall on a hue sensor with no issues

lawred2 · 22-05-2019 9:29am

Simona1986 wrote: »

I have three in the hall on a hue sensor with no issues

How was the pairing process?

Alkers · 22-05-2019 9:59am

lawred2 wrote:

How was the pairing process?

No issues at all, I followed a YouTube guide and it was done in a few minutes. It was long enough ago that I can't remember but it wasn't hard

lawred2 · 22-05-2019 10:37am

Simona1986 wrote: »

No issues at all, I followed a YouTube guide and it was done in a few minutes. It was long enough ago that I can't remember but it wasn't hard

Ok that's good to hear. I'd need about eight of them

Stoner · 22-05-2019 11:51pm

lawred2 wrote:

Ok that's good to hear. I'd need about eight of them

I put 9 on mine when it came out first

I paired them all in one go. I haven't even used them all yet.

It might be easier now, but pairing them to the hue app was hard, flicking power on and off etc

I bought the hue essentials app for 3 euro. It mimicked the Ikea hubs pairing button. Worked very well. I used a marker and named them IKEA 1 to IKEA 9

I also wired a gu10 to a plug top and lead so I didn't have to juice them in the ceiling.

Again it's probably easier now.

My only issue was , I've one in the porch. I had to put in a hue lamp nearer to it to pick it up.

They are fine, not as good as the Philips lamp, but it's all I'll buy going forward for white gu10s such good value

bk · 23-05-2019 9:40am

I had a very poor experience with the €7/8 GU10's. I ended up replacing them with Hue GU10's and much happier now.

Others though have had better experience, so it seems to depend. I'd recommend just buying one or two first to try out and then if your happy get more. I wouldn't recommend getting 8 straight off.

lawred2 · 23-05-2019 10:57am

bk wrote: »

I had a very poor experience with the €7/8 GU10's. I ended up replacing them with Hue GU10's and much happier now.

Others though have had better experience, so it seems to depend. I'd recommend just buying one or two first to try out and then if your happy get more. I wouldn't recommend getting 8 straight off.

Wonder would tradfri bulbs with more recent firmware result in a better experience

bk · 23-05-2019 4:34pm

lawred2 wrote: »

Wonder would tradfri bulbs with more recent firmware result in a better experience

I was thinking exactly that. It is certainly possible.

23-05-2019 7:58pm

My experience:
GU10's and E14 that I bought in the last year paired instantly by following this procedure:
1) Disconnect all Philips Hue & IKEA TRFRI lamps (I turned off the MCBs to do this).
2) Power up one lamp at a time to pair right beside the Hue bridge. I made up a lamp holder with a plug on the end of it especially for this purpose.
3) Once paired disconnect it from the mains supply and move on to the next one.

Earlier versions of IKEA TRFRI I found more difficult to pair. About 1 in 10 IKEA TRFRI lamps seem to fail but IKEA gave me a full refund even when receipts were missing without any argument.

digitaldr · 24-05-2019 12:16pm

I have loads of Ikea GU10s on my hue bridge. I made up a lamp holder too but find the the most reliable way to pair them is by using touchlink on the All4hue app on Android. I didn't bother disconnecting all hue/ikea bulbs while pairing and all went fine.

Also had good results with these led strip controllers - much cheaper than buying Hue strips .

L1011 · 24-05-2019 12:26pm

lawred2 wrote: »

Wonder would tradfri bulbs with more recent firmware result in a better experience

They're replacing the GU10s (at some point - the Zigbee cert for the new one is done anyway) so I suspect there's some issues that firmware can't sort.

Alkers · 24-05-2019 12:45pm

digitaldr wrote:

led strip controllers - much cheaper than buying Hue strips .

Recommended any particular strips to go with them? Do you need to wire up the controller to a plug?

donny · 24-05-2019 1:11pm

I picked up 6 of the GU10s maybe a month ago, so the firmware was relatively recent. I tried pairing them one by one with the Hue hub but wasn't really getting anywhere.

I saw a tip somewhere online that I followed.

I just used the standard Hue app, and started the search for new lights. I waited for a couple of seconds and then powered on all the lights together and all 6 showed up first time. They were all in place in their permanent location at the other end of the house and I hadn't disconnected any of my Hue bulbs either.

This worked with adding other Tradfri bulbs later, in place adding several together. Much easier than trying them one by one with a GU10 adaptor.

2011 wrote: »

My experience:
GU10's and E14 that I bought in the last year paired instantly by following this procedure:
1) Disconnect all Philips Hue & IKEA TRFRI lamps (I turned off the MCBs to do this).
2) Power up one lamp at a time to pair right beside the Hue bridge. I made up a lamp holder with a plug on the end of it especially for this purpose.
3) Once paired disconnect it from the mains supply and move on to the next one.

Earlier versions of IKEA TRFRI I found more difficult to pair. About 1 in 10 IKEA TRFRI lamps seem to fail but IKEA gave me a full refund even when receipts were missing without any argument.

robinph · 29-05-2019 11:25am

L1011 wrote: »

They're replacing the GU10s (at some point - the Zigbee cert for the new one is done anyway) so I suspect there's some issues that firmware can't sort.

There are new GU10's showing on the website now, but not yet in stock anywhere as far as I can tell. Local store has just had progressively empty shelves for Tradfri stuff then last few times I've passed through.

Want to setup a few more Tradfri lights around the house, but the number of weird light fittings that we currently have is a bit of a pain. Have pretty much every combination of E/B/14/27 and GU9/10 in different places and some other ones I've yet to properly identify and dimmer switches where I really would rather we didn't but I'm told that how pretty the switch is is more important than the functionality of the lights?!?! Grrrr.

digitaldr · 29-05-2019 11:37am

Simona1986 wrote: »

Recommended any particular strips to go with them? Do you need to wire up the controller to a plug?

I tried them with a cheap 12 volt strip off Amazon and a better 24 volt one from a local shop - both worked fine. Just need to wire the controller betwern the power supply and the strip.

lawred2 · 29-05-2019 4:45pm

I just paired 3 Trafri E27 colour bulbs with Hue today without any hassle... worked first time. Maybe the GU10s are different.

Didn't have the full spectrum white GU10s in Ikea today so I haven't tested them out.

31-05-2019 9:56am

donny wrote: »

I picked up 6 of the GU10s maybe a month ago, so the firmware was relatively recent. I tried pairing them one by one with the Hue hub but wasn't really getting anywhere.

I saw a tip somewhere online that I followed.

I just used the standard Hue app, and started the search for new lights. I waited for a couple of seconds and then powered on all the lights together and all 6 showed up first time. They were all in place in their permanent location at the other end of the house and I hadn't disconnected any of my Hue bulbs either.

This worked with adding other Tradfri bulbs later, in place adding several together. Much easier than trying them one by one with a GU10 adaptor.

That is interesting.
Perhaps mine were using older firmware and your newer version works seamlessly?

v10 · 14-06-2019 1:10am

Purchased a bunch of TRÅDFRI E14 LED Bulbs and GU10 LED Bulbs today and paired them without any issues with my Hue Bridge using the touchlink feature in the Hue Lights app (iPhone)

digitaldr · 23-06-2019 8:27am

I see Ikea now have white spectrum GU10s and E27s - not sure if they work with Hue but probably will. Personally wouldn't bother with them as quite happy with the standard ones.

L1011 · 27-06-2019 10:20pm

Power cut overnight, came back at 5:50am and we got woken up by a lovely fade in from off on *every sodding bulb in the house* and the gateway not being online yet to shout at Google to turn them off and leave us snooze.

This kit has some downsides!

IKEA TRÅDFRI

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