#Remote outlet how to
#Remote outlet full

Playing with it today I found two other routes if the “Smart Lighting” automations don’t suit your purposes. I think it’s a great bit of kit for £9! I will definitely be buying more of these kits! Well done Ikea!

#Remote outlet full

The outlet (UK version) can handle a full 13A, and the European version can handle the a full 16A so what more could you want from an outlet? And the button is a great bit of design: the two sides of the button have different texture so you can feel in the dark which side you’re pressing, it’s very small and light, it has a strong magnet in the base to cling to a metal surface, and comes with a base plate to screw it to something and a couple of 3M sticky pads. The Ikea Tradfri outlet is a bargain at £10, and at £19 for the kit the extra £9 for a Zigbee button that can do four functions seems like an absolute bargain to me. With the Smart Lighting automations you can do pretty much any combition of actions you would likely want with the switch, so even though it looks like the button hasn’t been properly implemented yet, it’s good enough if you don’t mind a bit of extra set up work. Hold button 2 toggles on/off the Ikea outlet Hold button 1 toggles on/off my patio lights Press button 2 toggles on/off my cabinet lights Press button 1 toggles on/off my kitchen light And you can choose the action as a toggle if you like. I have found that it is best not to select the child devices - just select the master device as the trigger, then you get the option to choose button 1 or 2 (button 1 is actually the one marked “0” with a rought texture on the device, and button 2 is the one marked “I” with a smooth texture on the device). However, if I go into Automations and add a “Smart Lighting” automation, I can add an automation that does whatever I want, triggered by the Ikea button. Now if I go into the device in my list of devices in the new SmartThings app, it seems to offer me the option to assign actions to the various button presses, but if I try to do that the app crashes. If you look into the activity logs, you can see actions are being logged when you press the buttons. I let it keep those names for now while I got to grips with things.

Now it appears as a main device with two child devices:Ĭhild device: IKEA TRÅDFRI On/Off switch bottom buttonĬhild device: IKEA TRÅDFRI On/Off switch top button Red lights flashed four times to confirm the reset, then throbbed gently, and SmartThings found the button. I put the battery back in the button and again pressed the little button next to the battery 4 times quickly. Then in the SmartThings classic app I went to “add a thing” and it started searching. Then I took out the battery and left it out for about 20 seconds. To pair the Ikea button with the SmartThings hub, I pressed the little button next to the battery quickly 4 times to reset it (it flashed red four times to confirm). SmartThings can now control the outlet like any other outlet or switch. SmartThings recognises the outlet and has a device handler for it, so you complete adding it to your devices as normal. To pair the outlet with the SmartThings Hub, I went into the SmartThings classic app, selected ‘add a thing’, then once it began searching (and with the outlet plugged into the mains), I held the reset button in the tiny hole at the bottom with a paperclip until the flashing lights did their thing and the outlet appeared in the list of devices found. The button comes paired to the outlet, but we’ll erase that pairing and route all control via the SmartThings hub. I bought the kit with the plug socket and two-button remote which are both Zigbee compatible.

#Remote outlet how to

How to use Ikea Tradfri outlet and two-button remote with SmartThings: Searching online how to integrate this with SmartThings I only found posts from a few months ago saying that the button counldn’t be integrated, but after a bit of playing I have managed to get the button to control up to four actions so I I have joined the forum so I can share what I found in case it benefits others. Today I bought the Ikea Wireless Control Outlet kit with two-button remote.