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.
