I picked up a Bilresa button recently, the variant with the wheel. The way it's represented via matter is pretty strange. The physical device has a button at the bottom that toggles a 3 way LED and at the top is a wheel that can be pushed as a button. In Home Assistant this shows up as 9 separate button Events. I'm assuming 3 buttons for each LED state? Even then, there are several buttons I can't seem to trigger. The wheel position seems to be accessible in the state. Very strange. Anyone know what's going on here?
#New IKEA matter buttons
remote owl
latent carbon
You're correct, the BIlresa wheel remote implements nine "different" buttons. I didn't get it working properly in matter mode, so I paired it over zigbee instead. That way, the blueprint for the ikea remotes could be better used.
toxic grove
@latent carbon care to elaborate how you did that?
latent carbon
I followed a guide to switch the remote from matter to zigbee. I think it was https://community.home-assistant.io/t/ikea-bilresa-2-button-remote-pairs-with-zha/968513
lusty pumice
the bottom button toggles 3 scenarios. depending on which led is lid it will emit events on button 1-3, 4-6 or 7-9. So, it will send:
button 1 = tick counter clockwise
button 2 = tick clockwise
button 3 = center button press
pretty straight forward, except for the HA bug, that it only accepts 8 ticks max at a time or discard them. So currently you would only be able to jog the wheel for about a 3rd of a turn at once.
dawn ginkgo
yeah, some ongoing discussion about how to fix that. home assistant used to expose the "multipress" events from matter devices directly, allowing you to be able to handle arbitrary number of ticks as they happened (rather than waiting until you stopped) but that got removed at some point when they tried to make the events simpler for normal buttons. Then IKEA went and did this…
lusty pumice
yeah, some ongoing discussion about how to fix that. home assistant used to expo...
which should be in line with the CSA matter definition of a latching/rotary switch... so they are not to blame, I guess.
dawn ginkgo
CSA actually recommends doing a rotary switch as a multi-position switch, and reporting the position changing as it rotate. this thing where it's being treated as two buttons with multipress is quite strange.
whole rain
Those knobs are mechanically awful anyway. Need a dent for a finger tip or a texture on the knob. Not sure how that design passed tests.
I hope these ikea products get first class support in ZHA and z2m soon.
remote owl
Yeah, I like the regular matter button but this wheel one is pretty bad. Mine just stops sending rotate events, either for some or all modes.
And like you say, the wheel is too smooth. I was thinking of sticking a little rubber foot to it for grip.
whole rain
Hopefully someone will CAD up a piece that can be printed and glued on. Just a faint random texture would probably do the job. Or a little protrusion to push with a finger.