Exposed capabilities of IKEA BILRESA dual button Matter remote

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Hi everyone.

I’m playing around with a few of the new IKEA Matter devices on my new standalone Homey server. Everything seems to work fairly well, but I’m having a problem that could very well be due to a severe lack of knowledge on my part on how Homey works.

Thing is, It’d like to run my automations in Node-RED, using @evervondel’s excellent Node-RED plugin. I trigger my flows using events from Homey, the events in question being a change in one of the capabilities exposed by the device. For example, I listen for a change on the alarm_motion capability on a sensor device to know if the motion sensor’s been triggered.

The Bilresa remote only exposes the measure_battery and button.identify capability, nothing related to button press. However, I CAN create a flow in the Homey app that triggers on a button press, even though this seemingly isn’t a capability of the device according to the developer tools app? Does anybody know why that is? Some problem with the IKEA integration, or is it something I’ve misunderstood?

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The button press isn’t a capability, the Flow card triggers are different from capabilities. The IKEA app simply triggers the Flow card directly

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Oh. That’s bad. Well, that explains it, thanks! Do you know why? Seems like the device must have the capability somehow and they chose not to expose it?

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It’s normal to not expose button pressed capabilities, as those are just events, so a boolean capability wouldn’t be appropriate since button presses are stateless.

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