Hi!
Today one of the members of my household mentioned that one of our lights in the kitchen is “too yellow”. It’s a Zigbee LED white spectrum controller connected to the Ikea Tradfri gateway. I used my phone and played around with OH app trying to change the color of the light… nothing happened. I could change the brightness but not the color. So I opened the official Ikea app… I could change everything just fine.
So I went on looking through OH settings and found an interesting thing… the UI shows no channels for any of the Tradfri devices… like they don’t exist. Shows the devices just fine though.
Setting the brightness works fine, but the temperature… not so much. But if I change the value through the ikea app the change will be reflected in the log just fine.
I am running the latest OH 3.1. I am not sure if this happened when I upgraded to OH3, or to OH 3.1, or even if this happened today. I don’t use the color (temperature) changing capabilities much.
So I did some more playing around… Removing and re-adding the thing has made the channels for it re-appear. But I still cannot change the color temperature. Well I can change it in the UI, it just that the light ignores the change.
Sadly I didn’t, no. I only change color temperature on one of the lights. And since I am moving from Tradfri gateway to a Conbee gateway soon (when I find some time) I just moved that specific light there.
It was a solution for me, yes. I am sure there are other possible solutions as well. Sadly I haven’t found one in reasonable time. And if you are considering moving… I suggest Conbee. I was not happy with the Zigbee binding. It is a bit too limiting.
i’m using an Tradfri Gateway too and i’ve some IKEA Tradfri Bulbs with adjustable color temperature. This works perfectly from openhab and IKEA App. But i can confirm, that the channels section of the thing is emtpy.
