I went and grabbed one of each Bilresa units to fiddle around. Pairing was quite slow (first time with Thread for me), but after that I was pleased to find a load of flow cards for the buttons. The names not quite descriptive, but manageable by trial and error. It even sent a long press before release and the release itself as separate events – so basically a door opener for dimming by long press.
However the events fired unreliably, also the button froze at one point and I had to restart it. So I decided to restart the Ikea app and now all cards are gone except the ones for battery status which are utterly useless on their own.
Has anybody here experienced this?
Which flow cards do you have available?
Oh yes, I do hope that will be possible with Matter devices. As much as I love my Homey, not being able to update device firmware without going through the tremendous hassle of removing the device from Homey and having to own the proprietary bridge is my biggest gripe.
My Bilresa ist still up and running now though. And I got dimming by turning the dial implemented easily. It’s not an instant experience as with a conventional dimmer, as it treats every notch of the dial as a single event, but better than nothing. And there’s a lot to like about the device: form factor, AAA batteries and the price of course.
I did it pretty bare bones as you can see. Every notch triggers a relative dim and pushing the dial toggles the light on and off. I went with single clicks though, because the multiple notches seemed a bit hit and miss. Retraining muscle memory to gently scroll the wheel notch by notch instead of trying to perform multiple turns as on a legacy dimmer is no big deal though.
If the wording of the actions in the flow wasn’t as utterly confusing building this would obviously take less than a minute.
Everytime I restart my Homey, the buttons no longer have the actions for flows. When that happens I need to repair it. I tried using generic matter device, but it just goes back to an ikea device.
For now this seems very unstable and not really usable.
I noticed that when buttons and flow cards are gone or the device becomes unresponsive one can try to interview and then update the devices in the matter node via developer tools
Me too. After the purchase, I tried the device by adding it to my home and creating a test flow, and I saw that there were many options such as double press, scrolling, etc.
Today I wanted to set it up to control my LEDs, but to my surprise the “When” cards had disappeared. I can only see flows related to battery status.
for dimming etc 
