[SOLVED] Trådfri outlet support

Add-ons Bindings
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HI!
Bought one of the new IKEA Trådfri outlets today to test. The few minutes I have had it, it seems to work fine except that it is not supported by openHAB. Is there any way I can help so that the outlets will be added to the Trådfri binding or is that work already on its way?
Unfortunately I did not get ahold of the wall switch, they where all sold out.

br
/edward

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Hi Edward,

Nice. It depends on the OH2 version which you currently use in your system. It should work in the latest snapshot or OH2.4 milestone build:

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Thanks, missed that totally :slight_smile:
Is it possible to run 2.4 bindings in 2.3?

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Yes, it is. See manual add-on installation. But I am afraid you - or someone else - have to build it from the sources.

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Ok, great. Thanks for all the quick responses. Just started working with eclipse and java so perhaps… or I’ll have to wait until I upgrade. Now I know that it is doable atleast.

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Hi Edward,

Good news. I just got the information that you can download the different binding versions from https://openhab.jfrog.io/openhab/libs-milestone-local/org/eclipse/smarthome/binding/org.eclipse.smarthome.binding.tradfri/.

Good luck.

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HI Christoph

Great, thanks for the information, have tried to build it myself but it keeps failing so this will save me a couple of hours.

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Made me happy for a while, unfortunately karaf complains about dependencies: Unresolved requirement: Import-Package: org.eclipse.californium.core, tried to install the californium.core files I could locate but only got other errors instead. Any ideas?

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Log into the Karaf console and try to install the missing feature:

feature:install openhab-transport-coap
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Thanks once again, both for the answer and how fast you answered. Will try tonight or when I can login on my server again.

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Now I think I have managed to add the latest Trådfri-binding, in karaf it says:

269 │ Active   │  80 │ 0.10.0.oh240M4         │ Eclipse SmartHome TRÅDFRI Binding

and in paperUI i get a new ON/OFF switch. Unfortunately the switch has no channels when I open up the thing. All it says is that it is online. I had som trouble with the installation so not sure if that might have caused it. All other Trådfri things works as before.

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What about your logs? Do you see anything in there? May I ask you to enable DEBUG log for the TRADFRI binding and look what is happening?

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Hi!
Have to learn a bit more on how to enable logs for bindings, have’t really had the time since I migrated from 1.x

However, i got the following in the openhab.log:

2018-09-27 11:44:11.464 [INFO ] [g.discovery.internal.PersistentInbox] - Added new thing 'tradfri:0010:gwa0cc2bf86a87:65591' to inbox.
2018-09-27 11:44:39.481 [WARN ] [ore.internal.thing.ThingTypeResource] - Cannot find channel type: system:power
2018-09-27 11:44:47.518 [WARN ] [re.thing.internal.ThingFactoryHelper] - Could not create channel 'power' for thing type 'tradfri:0010:gwa0cc2bf86a87:65591', because channel type 'system:power' could not be found.```
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I see. That is the culprit. The implementation uses one if the the new system default channel types which are not available in OH2.3. I am afraid there is no chance to get it running for you without upgrading your system to at least OH2.4 milestone 3. Sorry for the circumstances.

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Hi Christoph!
Nothing to be sorry about it is as it is and I am really grateful for the fast responses and all the help you have given me with this. Now I know I have to wait until I go up to 2.4, unfortunately that might take a while since I am also depending on the Tellstick binding but that is another matter.

Once again, thank you for all help

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You are welcome.

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UPDATE: Fixed it - You need to remove/re-add the thing for it to get the default channel :slight_smile: Works now thanks :slight_smile:

Hello
I follow this thread with much interest, and since I’m in the same situations I decided to actually upgrade to 2.4.0 M4-1 (from Testing relaease on Ubuntu 18.04).

I can add the Tradfri 2.4.0 M4 Binding from within PaperUI, and I can add/connect to my Tradfri Gateway and also add my Power Outlets as Things without problems :slight_smile:

BUT, since the Power Outlet Thing doesent have any Channels, I dont know HOW to add and use it as an Item. (I usually add Items by editing my config files in /etc/openhab2/items).

Any suggestions would be very much appreciated :slight_smile:

Cheers,
Kalle Larsson

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There is a workaround for those who are on OH 2.3.0 and currently don’t want to upgrade to OH 2.4.0 M4-1.
I got the outlets working by manually adding a thing type 0100 (Dimmable Light) instead of the upcoming thing type 0010, which will come with OH 2.4.0 M4-1.

Here is my configuration:
(OH 2.3.0) things:

Bridge tradfri:gateway:MyTradfriGateway "Bridge Ikea Tradfri" @ "ControlRoom" [ host="192.168.xx.yyy", code="MyCode" ] {
  Thing 0820 65550 "Outlet Tradfri RemoteControl" @ "Kitchen" [ id=65550 ]
  Thing 0100 65551 "Outlet Tradfri"               @ "Kitchen" [ id=65551 ]
}

(OH 2.3.0) items:

Dimmer OutletTradfri_Switch     "Outlet Tradfri"                       <poweroutlet> { channel="tradfri:0100:MyTradfriGateway:65551:brightness" }
Number OutletTradfri_Battery    "Outlet Tradfri RemoteControl [%d %%]" <battery>     { channel="tradfri:0820:MyTradfriGateway:65550:battery_level" }
Switch OutletTradfri_BatteryLow "Outlet Tradfri RemoteControl [%s]"    <battery>     { channel="tradfri:0820:MyTradfriGateway:65550:battery_low" }

(OH 2.3.0) sitemap:

Switch item=OutletTradfri_Switch

Of course this workaround needs to be changed after upgrading to OH 2.4.0 M4-1 or later:

  1. change thing type from 0100 to 0010
  2. check if Switch item instead of Dimmer item will be needed
  3. change channel from “:brightness” to “:power” or whatever the new channel will be named
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Hi all,
I am looking to purchase this bulb:

Would it talk to the HUSBZB-1 USB Hub? Or would I need IKEA ’ s controller too?