# IKEA Trådfri round dimmer working flow in 2.0 - help **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions & Help\ **Created:** [December 31, 2018, 11:43pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/ikea-tradfri-round-dimmer-working-flow-in-2-0-help/6145 "2018-12-31T23:43:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![luvis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/luvis/32/2742_2.png) [@luvis](https://community.homey.app/u/luvis)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2018, 11:43pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/ikea-tradfri-round-dimmer-working-flow-in-2-0-help/6145/1 "2018-12-31T23:43:43Z")
I just bought the ikea trådfri dimmer and wanted to create a flow. However the variable #value doesn’t show upp in the list of variables so I can’t set “dim to #value” so I’m stuck and need help. I’ve tried the instructions I’ve found for the previous versions of Homey but I’m at a loss… Does anyone have a working flow in the mobile app on 2.0? ---
**Author:** ![Btwvince](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/btwvince/32/9473_2.png) [@Btwvince](https://community.homey.app/u/Btwvince)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2019, 4:14pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/ikea-tradfri-round-dimmer-working-flow-in-2-0-help/6145/2 "2019-01-04T16:14:32Z")
Same here, only the value can be send through push to a mobile phone, but can’t add it to a card like dim to tag or to a variable ---
**Author:** ![Jan\_Peeters](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jan_peeters/32/86660_2.png) [@Jan\_Peeters](https://community.homey.app/u/Jan_Peeters)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2019, 7:21pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/ikea-tradfri-round-dimmer-working-flow-in-2-0-help/6145/3 "2019-01-24T19:21:30Z")
Don’t think it works in 2.0… > **[\[Solved\] Dimming with Ikea round dimmer and bulb](https://forum.athom.com/discussion/3996/solved-dimming-with-ikea-round-dimmer-and-bulb)** > > Hi all, I have 1 round Ikea trådfri dimmer and 1 e27 dimmable Ikea bulb. ---
**Author:** ![luvis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/luvis/32/2742_2.png) [@luvis](https://community.homey.app/u/luvis)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2019, 7:26pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/ikea-tradfri-round-dimmer-working-flow-in-2-0-help/6145/4 "2019-01-24T19:26:00Z")
The latest update fixed the problem! If anyone is curious 😊 ---
**Author:** ![Jan\_Peeters](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jan_peeters/32/86660_2.png) [@Jan\_Peeters](https://community.homey.app/u/Jan_Peeters)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2019, 8:58pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/ikea-tradfri-round-dimmer-working-flow-in-2-0-help/6145/5 "2019-01-24T20:58:15Z")
> [@luvis](#): > > The latest update fixed the problem! If anyone is curious 😊 Could you maybe point as to how it could be used to dim a dimmable light bulb? Br, G. ---
**Author:** ![luvis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/luvis/32/2742_2.png) [@luvis](https://community.homey.app/u/luvis)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2019, 9:16pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/ikea-tradfri-round-dimmer-working-flow-in-2-0-help/6145/6 "2019-01-24T21:16:04Z")
Create a flow like this. Hope it makes sense. If not I’ll make some screenshots when I get the chance. When Dimmer rotated And “value” is more than 0.1 (“value” is the name of the local tag from the dimmer) Then Dim to “value” (dim the light to the tag “value” same as above) Else Turn off The “and value is greater than 0.1” is for the else part to work, otherwise you’ll have trouble actually turning the light completely off. ---
**Author:** ![Jan\_Peeters](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jan_peeters/32/86660_2.png) [@Jan\_Peeters](https://community.homey.app/u/Jan_Peeters)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 5:50pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/ikea-tradfri-round-dimmer-working-flow-in-2-0-help/6145/7 "2019-01-25T17:50:51Z")
> [@luvis](#): > > If not I’ll make some screenshots when I get the chance. I am probably making a noob mistake, but… Turning the dimmer should just turn “on” or “off” a light. No sigar ☹ Am I missing something? ![51](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/2X/2/2360608789d4efdcb22fb22cfeef5cfa75693827.jpeg) ![57](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/2X/4/464232219bcdbe86d1164bcb8bed678836cd1ae6.jpeg) ![59](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/2X/4/4dd832938972f734a5962b1b52fc233cd4eba16b.jpeg) ![22](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/2X/a/a11db33ee390edea87110301a766af7077cb0c1b.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![luvis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/luvis/32/2742_2.png) [@luvis](https://community.homey.app/u/luvis)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 7:09pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/ikea-tradfri-round-dimmer-working-flow-in-2-0-help/6145/8 "2019-01-25T19:09:06Z")
Sure, if you only want the dimmer to turn on/off a light but if you want to be able to dim the lights you’ll have to set “dim to value”. It’s not wrong at all, it’s just a matter of preference 😁 ---
**Author:** ![Jan\_Peeters](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jan_peeters/32/86660_2.png) [@Jan\_Peeters](https://community.homey.app/u/Jan_Peeters)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 8:35pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/ikea-tradfri-round-dimmer-working-flow-in-2-0-help/6145/9 "2019-01-25T20:35:00Z")
> [@luvis](#): > > set “dim to value” Of course; stating the obvious is always helpfull (not)… Since the “dim” function is not responding, I tried first with something very basic. Do you have a functional example? ---
**Author:** ![luvis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/luvis/32/2742_2.png) [@luvis](https://community.homey.app/u/luvis)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 8:42pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/ikea-tradfri-round-dimmer-working-flow-in-2-0-help/6145/10 "2019-01-25T20:42:23Z")
Ill attach my settings. For me it worked fine dimming only one light but the more lights, the buggier. Unfortunately I have 8 lights I want to dim so it’s not exactly perfect. If you want to test the dimmer just to see if it works, create a variable under more\>logic\>+(number variable and set it to 1) and add it as shown in the screenshot. When turning the knob, the number should change from 0.0 to 1 where 1 is 100%. ![Screenshot_20190125-213559](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/2X/5/5b1c697f4a525ea0855c9df87453691e04b38545.jpeg) ![Screenshot_20190125-213605](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/2X/d/dbb001a17a5a37f760a40456cf113f1140aff31f.jpeg) ![Screenshot_20190125-213614](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/2X/c/cc7f8e439eef9ce864180c7d854091f219888823.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Rocodamelshekima](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/rocodamelshekima/32/8209_2.png) [@Rocodamelshekima](https://community.homey.app/u/Rocodamelshekima)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 8:45pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/ikea-tradfri-round-dimmer-working-flow-in-2-0-help/6145/11 "2019-01-25T20:45:55Z")
If it’s running from 0 to1 why not use greater then 0? ---
**Author:** ![luvis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/luvis/32/2742_2.png) [@luvis](https://community.homey.app/u/luvis)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 8:50pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/ikea-tradfri-round-dimmer-working-flow-in-2-0-help/6145/12 "2019-01-25T20:50:02Z")
I guess you can, it’s just that, at least for me, the dimmer “bounces” and never really reaches 0 and it often ends up on 0.1. I just assumed that they behaved that way but it might just be mine thats buggy… ---
**Author:** ![bvdbos](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/bvdbos/32/2352_2.png) [@bvdbos](https://community.homey.app/u/bvdbos)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 9:44pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/ikea-tradfri-round-dimmer-working-flow-in-2-0-help/6145/13 "2019-01-25T21:44:44Z")
My experience is that the dimmer is buggy as hell 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sigge](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/sigge/32/12687_2.png) [@Sigge](https://community.homey.app/u/Sigge)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 11:32pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/ikea-tradfri-round-dimmer-working-flow-in-2-0-help/6145/14 "2019-01-25T23:32:32Z")
I have a dimmer like that set up to din 5 bulbs in the same lamp and it’s not working reliably even on its own (not paired with homey). Turning the control, I get at least 50% of the time one bulb on or off while the others dim… ---
**Author:** ![luvis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/luvis/32/2742_2.png) [@luvis](https://community.homey.app/u/luvis)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 11:34pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/ikea-tradfri-round-dimmer-working-flow-in-2-0-help/6145/15 "2019-01-25T23:34:36Z")
Same behavior here… Works better with group devices actually… It’s just very slow ---
**Author:** ![Jan\_Peeters](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jan_peeters/32/86660_2.png) [@Jan\_Peeters](https://community.homey.app/u/Jan_Peeters)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2019, 7:04am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/ikea-tradfri-round-dimmer-working-flow-in-2-0-help/6145/16 "2019-01-26T07:04:11Z")
First of all: Thank you for the example! But wow, must say this one isn’t intuitive at all… Still can’t make my dimmer work. How did you guys configure the variable? Like below? ![00](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/2X/3/33271355e518202d02a5e826a248f9f9e804808e.jpeg) ![08](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/2X/b/b44ebc44f468cf91be35a8aa34329c7ccce56b77.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![luvis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/luvis/32/2742_2.png) [@luvis](https://community.homey.app/u/luvis)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2019, 7:56am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/ikea-tradfri-round-dimmer-working-flow-in-2-0-help/6145/17 "2019-01-26T07:56:56Z")
np. Yeah that was my configuration as well, if it still doesn’t work, I don’t really know what you can do… it might be defect? maybe try and re-pair it with Homey. Btw, is it far away from your Homey? I noticed that the range was quite bad so I actually had to move my Homey to the same room as my dimmer for it to pick up the signal… ---
**Author:** ![bvdbos](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/bvdbos/32/2352_2.png) [@bvdbos](https://community.homey.app/u/bvdbos)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2019, 8:03am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/ikea-tradfri-round-dimmer-working-flow-in-2-0-help/6145/18 "2019-01-26T08:03:17Z")
Which app-version do you have? From build 247 this should work, before there was an issue with the local tag not showing… ![afbeelding](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/2X/e/edb87faf23d1ecdce2e63c990346162f6c503ce0.png) ---
**Author:** ![luvis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/luvis/32/2742_2.png) [@luvis](https://community.homey.app/u/luvis)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2019, 10:54pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/ikea-tradfri-round-dimmer-working-flow-in-2-0-help/6145/19 "2019-01-27T22:54:06Z")
Now that I finally got it “working”, I realise that the ikea dimmer is in fact a horrible product or it just works really poorly with homey… I returned it and bought a hue dimmer switch to dim my ikea lights through homey. Works flawlessly and quick too… So if anyone else is thinking of buying the ikea round dimmer, I can only recommend not to. At least until it works well. ---
**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:** [January 28, 2019, 9:33am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/ikea-tradfri-round-dimmer-working-flow-in-2-0-help/6145/20 "2019-01-28T09:33:57Z")
> [@luvis](#): > > So if anyone else is thinking of buying the ikea round dimmer, I can only recommend not to. At least until it works well. It works well for me, but I’m using one to directly control my lamps, not with Homey in between. [Next page](https://community.homey.app/t/ikea-tradfri-round-dimmer-working-flow-in-2-0-help/6145.md?page=2)