Zigbee - bitronvideo and Ikea

[chris (Chris Jackson)]

Just for reference, another user also using the Ember coordinator with the Ikea switch -:

"IKEA of Sweden TRADFRI control outlet" detected as Light Dimmer, should be Switch

I am using an updated openHAB 2.5.0.M5 (openHABian on rPi 3+) with the latest Zigbee binding and a HUSBZB-1 stick and PaperUI. The IKEA TRÅDFRI Wireless control outlet is detected and added with the OpenHab Zigbee binding as “IKEA of Sweden TRADFRI control outlet” with Category “Light”, Type “Dimmer”. This works but the switch doesn’t provide gradual dimming of a lamp connected to it, for example. It will only turn on at >1% or off at 0%. I was able to get expected behavior after changing Cat…