IKEA Tradfri bulbs

Easiest to use in my opinion is the Tradfri range of IKEA. They come in 3 flavours, all dimmable: = dimmable white = dimmable and adjustable white colour temperature = dimmable and full RGB They are not expensive and - at least the many in my house - absolutely reliable. Regards, ahartman, belgium

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IKEA bulbs support the full range of white balance. Just their phone app is limited. Once you integrate with HA you have them all on a slider. 👌

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We rent, so I use Zigbee bulbs in our house. Ikea Tradfri bulbs as well as Sengled bulbs. Tradfri bulbs also act as repeaters, so help establish a good mesh. Sengled bulbs are just end devices. I did have one Sengled bluetooth bulb at first. Annoying thing, got rid of it fairly quickly due to it not functioning well.

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I don't know about the conbee software, but with zigbee2mqtt it's easy to have the exact same fail-to-local behavior as with the IKEA hub. I have TRÅDFRI lights everywhere and all the remotes are bound directly to the lights so they still work even when my HA is down. This is how it's done: 1. Add the lights and remotes to your zigbee network as usual 2. Create zigbee groups (via zigbee2mqtt dashboard) for light fixtures 3. Assign lights to the groups (via the dashboard) 4. Unbind the remote from the coordinator (you may push a button just before sending the command to make sure the remote is …

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IKEA Trådfri bulbs and buttons has been a pleasure for me. Aqara and Sonoff as well.

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IKEA Tradfri are good - cheaper than Hue but more expensive than some D2C Chinese ones - but the difference is IKEA support and returns policy is pretty good. You don’t need their hub, just get the Sonoff Zigbee stick.

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Well, if you want the best then it's probably hue. The price is crazy tho, so I've put ikea tradfri everywhere. They were 2-3 times cheaper when I compared, and work perfectly for my HA z2m setup. I have about 25 of them, e14, e27, gu10, both rgb and brighter cwww. Can't compare the light quality with hue, but they don't seem to be any worse than my previous dumb philips LEDs. However, those had beautiful 2500 lumens that I really miss... But as far as I understand philips smart bulbs are not any brighter than ikea.

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IKEA Tradfri equipment. Can be a little finicky to set up straight into HA but I've never had the Tradfri bridge.

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I'm using IKEA Tradfri zigbee sockets.

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ikea's color bulbs are worth a look, way cheaper than hue and they pair straight to zha or zigbee2mqtt with no bridge. only catch is the older tradfri ones have a narrow color gamut, so grab the newer generation if you want the saturated festive colors for the kids.

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ikea is def the move for bulk, i grabbed a dozen tradfris for my place and they've been rock solid on zigbee

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The problem I have two electric shades grouped together using essentially the configuration shown below (*Example YAML snippet*). When I control this group in the Home Assistant UI, as the blinds move, the UI slider jumps between its current position and 100% (open) repeatedly. Similarly, in HomeKit (through the integration), the slider for this group jumps back and forth to fully open as it moves. I understand that it may not be possible to aggregate the state of two covers, but I am looking for a way to not have the value jump around on the frontend. Both blinds start at the same position, …

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Although, it should be noted that only my Tradfri lamps are affected, not anything else in the mesh. This is on the latest lamp firmware. Ikea hub seemed more reliable.

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Yeah 100%. In terms of Zigbee stability Ikea Tradfri is also good, but: - Dimming is worse (lowest brightness is way brighter than all my Hue bulbs) - Color reproduction is worse, especially blues - And most importantly they reset by powering off and back on a couple of times in a row. Guess what my kids like to do?

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