Hi everyone,
I’m busy developing an app for the IKEA Dirigera Hub so the Dirigera can keep the IKEA smart devices up-to-date while beeing able to control everything through Homey.
The problem I’m facing is with the remotes from IKEA. Whenever a remote is connected with an IKEA device through the IKEA Home smart app, I receive device updates through my websocket and can use that in flows. But as soon as I decouple the remote from the IKEA device in the Home smart app, I stop getting any updates from the remote.
My thought was to try to add Homey as a ZigBee device to my Dirigera hub so I can couple the remote to Homey in the Home smart app, receive updates in Homey and can use the remote in my flows.
Does anyone know if it’s possible to use the Homey as a client device instead of a coördinator?
Thanks in advance!
Sander
I seem to remember that this was also an issue with the old Tradfri gateway (or perhaps it was slightly different, in that remote events were never passed over the websocket, even if the remote was paired with a device).
This isn’t possible. But even if it was, you couldn’t connect the remotes to Homey because it wouldn’t be a coordinator anymore 
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It would act as a dummy device so the events would be sent to Homey. But I was already afraid this wasn’t possible.
Seeing as ZigBee devices can only be connected to one ZigBee network, one will have to choose unfortunately. Either use it with the Homey or with IKEA (and keep it updated)
Isn’t is possible to pair the remote using the “official” IKEA app? You wouldn’t be able to keep it up-to-date though, but if you want a proper solution for this problem you should probably look at something like zigbee2mqtt.
