Today, almost a year after I purchased a Home Assistant Green, I’m finally committing and moving all my Ikea TRÅDFRI smart home stuff from Ikea’s own gateway directly to Home Assistant using ZBT-2 as the Zigbee antenna/gateway. So far many things work as planned, others are more involving.

The main issue to be aware of if you are going this route is that you can not transfer settings from the IKEA Smart Home app to Home Assistant. The only way, as far as I know, to make this transition is to factory reset every single TRÅDFRI gizmo in your house and pair them with Home Assistant, re-labeling, resetting, making new scenes, etc. I was more or less counting on that so I have set the whole day aside for this.