# Ikea dimmer **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions & Help\ **Created:** [June 17, 2024, 7:36pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/ikea-dimmer/111645 "2024-06-17T19:36:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Christian\_Bertelsen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/christian_bertelsen/32/78899_2.png) [@Christian\_Bertelsen](https://community.homey.app/u/Christian_Bertelsen)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2024, 7:36pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/ikea-dimmer/111645/1 "2024-06-17T19:36:25Z")
Is it really not possible to use the tiny ikea dimmer, as intended? i mean, is it not possible to dim in (automatically) incremental steps, when longpressing, as it does when paired to the “dumb” trådfri hub? is it only possible to “pair” the dimmer with bulbs via flows and steps-dimming, fx long-press off–\>dim 50% / long press on–\>increase 50%? Hoping for some good answers, thanks 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Kawa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/peter_kawa/32/173848_2.png) [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2024, 8:04pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/ikea-dimmer/111645/2 "2024-06-17T20:04:06Z")
> [@Christian\_Bertelsen](#): > > (automatically) That’s the part you’d create with flows 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Christian\_Bertelsen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/christian_bertelsen/32/78899_2.png) [@Christian\_Bertelsen](https://community.homey.app/u/Christian_Bertelsen)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2024, 4:29am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/ikea-dimmer/111645/3 "2024-06-18T04:29:16Z")
Hi Peter, sorry, English is not my native language, and thanks for replying. What I meant with ‘automatically’, was that it would dim seamlessly when longpressed, without me having to make any flows for that specific action, or at least that there was a card for that function as there’s an on/off card :). It seems, to me at least, unnecessarily difficult to achieve a functionality that works out of the box in its own ikea-ecosystem. ---
**Author:** ![robertklep](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/robertklep/32/160628_2.png) [@robertklep](https://community.homey.app/u/robertklep)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2024, 5:05am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/ikea-dimmer/111645/4 "2024-06-18T05:05:12Z")
That’s how Homey works, it doesn’t support “advanced” Zigbee features that all other Zigbee controllers support so you have to create flows that can _somewhat_ mimic the required functionality (albeit in a very crude way) 🤷🏼‍♂️ ---
**Author:** ![Christian\_Bertelsen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/christian_bertelsen/32/78899_2.png) [@Christian\_Bertelsen](https://community.homey.app/u/Christian_Bertelsen)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2024, 4:53pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/ikea-dimmer/111645/5 "2024-06-18T16:53:50Z")
Yes, it’s just that I’m surprised it’s considered an advanced feature. One other thing thats confusing, is that the dimmer that’s connected to my kitchen light (led strip via led transformer) does exactly what I would expect. It dims as before. How is that possible? All devices are Ikea. Br Christian ---
**Author:** ![robertklep](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/robertklep/32/160628_2.png) [@robertklep](https://community.homey.app/u/robertklep)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2024, 5:26pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/ikea-dimmer/111645/6 "2024-06-18T17:26:48Z")
> [@Christian\_Bertelsen](#): > > Yes, it’s just that I’m surprised it’s considered an advanced feature. It’s not, that’s why I put it in quotes 😉 > [@](#): > > One other thing thats confusing, is that the dimmer that’s connected to my kitchen light (led strip via led transformer) does exactly what I would expect. It dims as before. How is that possible? All devices are Ikea. There are two ways this can work: the remote sends broadcast messages to a particular Zigbee group, and your LED transformer is part of that group (so it listens to those messages and acts on them), or the remote is bound to the transformer (meaning they have a “direct” connection with each other). Most Zigbee controllers have a way of assigning devices to groups, or to bind them together, but Homey doesn’t, so it’s either a group broadcast or the remote and the transformer were bound to each other by IKEA (usually happens when they are sold as a pair). FWIW, group broadcasts can also cause problems between brands: some Aqara devices will send messages to the same groups as IKEA, so it can happen that using an Aqara switch will inadvertently switches IKEA devices on or off. Again, when this happens you can’t fix this with Homey since it also lacks the abilities to _remove_ devices from a group.