Tried to get the upstairs hall lightswitch moved over to home assistant the other day, connecting direct instead of via IKEA hub. It wasn't working, wasn't sure if it was the switch, the battery, or something else. Following the dongle wigglage debacle of the other day. Possibly it was the dongle, definitely it was the battery. It's now reset and working. These little IKEA dimmer switches that can turn on and off and dim can have several home assistant options. I've got a load of these, must check the batteries and try again with others that I thought were dead. I have a few of these shortcut buttons that you can do slightly less with I think, and are now £13 (were £5 or £6 when I bought mine). Looks like they might be phasing them out. I can find NONE of the actual swithces I'm talkign about. They used to come in a bundle with a bulb, but now all those bundles include the bigger switches that take AAA batterys instead of the 2032 coin cell ones that these do. The new ones are probably better, easier to get rechargeable batteries for them.
There are some suspiciously good deals on IKEA at the moment, I see three smart GU10s and a switch for £10, and then seemingly the same for £27. What is the difference?
The old one says
TRÅDFRI Remote control kit
- Brand Name IKEA
- Model Identifier LED2005R5
- Energy efficiency class E
- Energy consumption of the light source in on-mode 4 kWh/1000h
- Power consumption in standby mode 0.25 Watt
- Rated Power 3.4 W
- Rated luminous flux 345 lumens
- Colour temperature 2700 Kelvin
- Colour rendering 90
- Rated lamp life time 25000 h
- Starting time 0.5 seconds
- Dimmable No
- Wirelessly dimmable Yes
The new one says
TRÅDFRI Remote control kit
- Brand Name IKEA
- Model Identifier LED2005R5
- Energy efficiency class D
- Energy consumption of the light source in on-mode 4 kWh/1000h
- Power consumption in standby mode 0.25 Watt
- Rated Power 3.4 W
- Rated luminous flux 345 lumens
- Colour temperature 2700 Kelvin
- Colour rendering 90
- Rated lamp life time 25000 h
- Starting time 0.5 seconds
- Dimmable No
- Wirelessly dimmable Yes
Looks to be all the same values except the new says "class D" and the old one says "class E". Maybe the old set was just mislabeled and they need rid of it? Looks like a deal to me, though I am trying to move away from smart bulbs and going with dumb bulbs and smart switches.
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