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martin_a | 3 months ago

I find pairing my IKEA bulbs and switches and whatnot to my Conbee 2 stick sometimes hard to do.

I'm thinking about buying a Dirigera hub instead, using that for the IKEA devices and using the Conbee stick only for non-IKEA products.

Does that work flawlessly when being controlled via HA or are there other issues to be expected?

edit: Maybe even ditch the Conbee stick after all, build some ESPHome devices as replacements (temperature/humidty - or wait for the IKEA version of that).

discuss

whitehexagon|3 months ago

Agreed. I had no problem with the conBee II itself, but it did take me a while to figure out different IKEA ZigBee devices required different 'secret handshakes' to tigger pairing. eg number of button presses within a second, I think one was 5x, another 4x, and lights were different again. Still, I prefered that hasle than having a hub dialling home.

But it was pretty stable once it was setup. Just occasional reboot on the rPI but I think that was my flakey SMS gateway code.