Getting the Ikea Styrbar Button to work with Home Assistant Background Reference images of the button and its box can be found below. Images of the Zigbee radio can be found on the Tradfri page.
Ikea Button Ikea Part Number 804.883.70 E2002 STYRBAR Remote Control white Input: 3V DC, 2x AAA/HR03 batteries Nortek GoControl Z-Wave/Zigbee Quick Stick Combo See also: https://www.homecontrols.com/GoControl-Z-Wave-Zigbee-QuickStick-LNHUSBZB1 Never done a firmware update Channel 15 Connected via a 6 foot USB extension cable to the Home Assistant to avoid USB port interference Home Assistant Home Assistant Blue host device HAOS version 13....
Migration from Azure CDN to Cloudflare Pages Background I was informed over and over the last few weeks about the imminent closure of Azure CDN by Edgio.
I mostly didn’t care and was going to let them try to migrate for me. But when I published the earlier page today about my Ikea Tradfri Button Fun, I noticed that the good ol’ key expired.
So. Since this site is barebones and since I spent 2024 trying a handful of services from Cloudflare because Google Domains sold out, I decided to try setting up pages on Cloudflare too....
Getting the Ikea Tradfri Shortcut Button to work with Home Assistant Background Reference images of the button, its box, and the Zigbee radio can be found below.
Ikea Button Ikea Part Number 203.563.82 E1812 Shortcut Button (per the manual inserted) Input: 3V DC, CR2032 Battery Nortek GoControl Z-Wave/Zigbee Quick Stick Combo See also: https://www.homecontrols.com/GoControl-Z-Wave-Zigbee-QuickStick-LNHUSBZB1 Never done a firmware update Channel 15 Connected via a 6 foot USB extension cable to the Home Assistant to avoid USB port interference Home Assistant Home Assistant Blue host device HAOS version 13....
For Christmas, someone got me an Aqara Door and Window Sensor P2. It’s a Matter over Thread device. The first one I have. The only other Matter devices I have so far are Matter over Wi-Fi (Nanoleaf Essentials Holiday String Lights) and two Wi-Fi-connected-but-Thread-gateways in the form of Nanoleaf Shapes.
When I attempted to pair it with my Home Assistant… it couldn’t correctly pair with the device.
After like 7 tries… I went to the Internet....
Background So I want voice assistants, but I don’t want to send all my data to either Google or Amazon. Fortunately, Home Assistant called 2023 their Year of Voice and worked a lot on voice last year. Instead of dealing with it being half-baked all year, now that it’s 2024… I’m going to try it out.
I’m following Home Asssistant Blog’s $13 assistant blog post.
I went and bought one of these things from M5Stack....