The smart home migration project is going along fairly smoothly. I spent most of Saturday on it (today’s Tuesday) and then I’ve kept fixing smaller things along the way.

The physical challenge of resetting and re-pairing the LED drivers ended up being less challenging then I expected. The shelves were easier to move and the drivers less tucked away than I thought. Instead what proved to be the hardest part was getting the FLOALT ceiling panels to disconnect from the Ikea gateway and connect to Home Assistant. After many superstitious rituals I think I’ve landed on the problem and solution. The Ikea gateway was ”taking them back” as soon as I reste them, so once I disconnected the power to the gateway before resetting the panels, it worked fine.

So now all my lamps, outlets, LED drivers and buttons are moved to Home Assistant. I do however have a lot of work left to do in Home Assistant. Currently there are way too few scenes and automations, most of the buttons are not setup to do anything and too many daily operations¹ requires us to use the phone app to turn on and off lights.

Primarily I need to look into the remotes, particularly the simpler on/off buttons. In one case it and a LED driver is paired together and the button controls the driver, even thought as far as I know I haven’t setup anything in Home Assistant. I assume there is some sort of way to tell a device that it should be controlled by a button and that on, off, dimm up, dimm down, etc. will just work.