What’s the difference between these two Apps? Official IKEA Trådfri App Unofficial IKEA Trådfri Gateway App Yesterday I replaced my WeMo, Hue, and Eve outlets by IKEA Trådfri outlets. My main way to control these outlets will be HomeKit (and IKEA’s App). It would be nice if I could also control t…

The difference is that with the “official” app (the one created by Athom), your IKEA devices pair directly with Homey. They become part of Homey’s Zigbee network. The “unofficial” IKEA app (the community-created one) interacts with the IKEA gateway to handle your IKEA devices. That means that those…

Hmm… thanks. Another nail in the coffin perhaps… I have now removed 2 devices, rebooted and still unable to add the signal repeater… I’ve tried both directly next to Homey and directly next to one of the router devices with nothing being picked up at all as far as I can see… Don’t really know what…

Done a few times sadly. Might be worth another one tho

Tried again since I’d deleted the devices but nothing still :frowning: EDIT. Given up… wanted to rule out the IKEA devices and just managed to reconnect them back to the gateway again… Will leave it like that

Seems to be broken as per gateway update version 1.15.34 (30th june 2021]

Yes confirmed it is fixed v0.1.5

So, at v 1.8.4 and 7.1.1-rc 1 and still they wont work after 7.1v homey came. Any solutions?? Just ditch the homey ???

In my previous Homey setup I ran into trouble because of too many connected zigbee (tradri gu10 spotlight) devices. Homey adviced me to remove these from the Homey network and connect trought the ikea gateway. I have not fully setup this since its a nuisance to manualy remove, pair and reinstall al…

[image] Ezdada: Question: if I install the UN-official gateway app, will this prevent me from running into my previous problems of too many connected zigbee devices? The IKEA gateway has more capacity, either 50 or 100 light bulbs (internet sources are unclear). However, the IKEA gateway app …

Official IKEA Trådfri vs IKEA Trådfri Gateway App

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DirkG July 1, 2021, 9:16am 24

New app version v0.1.5 is published and it seems that the bug is fixed (-> Thread).

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