I have managed to add the IKEA Tradfri Remote E1810 to homey. Now I’m trying to setup this flow that uses the long button press of a remote. However for this to work I need access to a button release events. I can only discover press events and no button release events. Is this missing functionality for this remote or do I need some kind of logic to “detect” a release of the button after a long press?
For the button release event is not trigger available for this remote model from IKEA you have.
The example you referred is probably a Xiaomi button that has more scene and trigger options including the release button trigger.
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Thanks for your reply. Indeed this is not supported by this remote. I also found out using your PaperTrails app that the long press event is only sent after releasing the long pressed button. That also rules out any custom logic for this implementation.
Well, it’s not supported by the app, the device itself sends release/hold events for long presses. You could ask Athom (support@athom.com) to add support for it.
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@robertklep I stand corrected. I have emailed the feature request to Athom. I will keep posting to this thread when I got updates.
Feature request has been confirmed
Hi Patrick,
Thanks for reaching out and thinking along!
We’ve added it internally to our list of feature request, so we can discuss this with the development team.
Please keep in mind that we cannot give any guarantees on if and when we will implement your suggestions, as there is already quite the development roadmap laid out. That being said, it is definitely noted.
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Thanks for your input,
Best Regards,
Erik
The Athom support team.
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Same is true for the remote E1743 on/off switch a.k.a. Tradfri wireless dimmer. Without release events for the long press button events I don’t see any way to create a good bulb dimmer flow as one can’t stop the flow.
I have got a TRÅDFRI bulb and STYRBAR remote control (actually, I got several setups and both have the same issue with continuous dimming).
If I connect them directly (not through Homey), then long press works as continuous dim or color change. It means that Release event is handled on that level.
But when I connect them through Homey, I see no alternatives for the same continuous dimming in flows.
If I understand correctly, the issue is in the app which doesn’t have a proper event to handle that case.
My current solution to dim up/down by 30% after holding the button for 3 seconds is… weird and not user-friendly.
Who I could contact about that thing? Ikea app is developed by Athom B.V, i.e. developers of the Homey, right?
Thank you!
Have you followed these instructions? https://support.homey.app/hc/en-us/articles/360015669840-Controlling-a-Zigbee-device-with-a-Zigbee-remote-directly
I tried that solution now in several ways now.
Both IKEA products (Remote Control and a dimming bulb) can pair with each other and then they work fine directly. But Homey isn’t involved in this case.
I should also have access to the bulb from Homey flows, i.e. bulb is double-paired (tripled?) with 2 devices and listens to both. But it doesn’t work like that:
- I pair the bulb with Homey (I can control from Homey)
- I pair the bulb with RC (I can control from RC but the bulb immediately loses connection with Homey.
Same thing happens in other pairing order. If I pair with RC first and with Homey after, RC loses control
The bulb supports only one device at time, as I understand it.
IKEA resource said that I can pair a bulb with several RC, but it doesn’t work with Homey in this case - all the RCs should be paired at the same time with their direct pairing method (it differs from common Reset/pair method that I use for Homey). It is more like duplicating controls so
So in my case, if I had a possibility to control continuous dimming (not short/long click as it’s implemented now, but pressed/released events), then I would fix that problem with flows.
When you pair the bulb with the RC, are both the bulb and the RC paired with Homey first?
It could well be that this doesn’t work though, Homey’s Zigbee implementation is very limited in that you cannot set up explicit bindings between two devices like with other implementations. So if you can’t get it to work with the method as decribed on the support page, there’s not much you can do (dimming through flows will always be substandard because flows don’t have a “WHILE … DO …” equivalent: “WHILE the button is pressed DO dim down a bit”).
Can continuous dimming be done with scripting using advanced flows?
No.
Dear Alex @Karpsson I just bought the Homey Pro. During installation I encountered the same issues with the Tradfri light bulb E27 RGBW and Styrbar remote. I see several communications about it but don’t see the exact outcome how you solved this. Would it be possible to explain what you did to get it working?
Thank you very much in advance for your help.
I use following flows:
IF Higher Brightness was long pressed
THEN Set relative dim-level 33% during 1 sec
IF Lower Brightness was long pressed
THEN Set relative dim-level -33% during 1 sec
IF Higher Brightness was pressed
THEN Toggle On or Off
IF Lower Brightness was pressed
THEN Toggle On or Off
IF Left button was pressed
AND [Color temperature] > 0.5
THEN Set temperature 50%
ELSE Set Temperature 0%
IF Right button was pressed
AND [Color temperature] < 0.5
THEN Set temperature 50%
ELSE Set Temperature 100%
In other words, I use graded transition for both color and intensivity. 
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Thank you very much for your quick reply. I’ll try this set up.
Have a good new years eve and good beginning of 2025…
Regards, Sandor
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Dear @Karpsson, The brightness worded. But the Colors don’t… Sorry to ask but have you got a picture for me of the flow? Attached what I created but I think I did something wrong. (Sorry newbie). My setting is in Dutch.
