Wake Up light with dirigera

[HanseNico]

Hello,

I desperately try to make a wake Up light with a Tradfri bulb&remote Combo and the Dirigera Hub. All instructions I find suggest to Set Up a Timer in the Home smart App but I can't find timers in the App. I can add scenes only which Just allow me to Turn the Light on and Off at specific Times but there is No Option for wakeup or dimming.

The Apps shown in all instruction-videos also Look extremely different from my Version (1.1.1). It's freshly installed from the Play Store and I can't find any Updates either.

How can I Set Up a wakeup-light with this?

[Heiko]

Hi  @HanseNico 

fading in lights is not part of the IKEA Home Smart functionalities and has never been. Would be an absolute "nice to have", I agree.

It would be interesting to know, which videos you have seen?

regards, Heiko

[HanseNico]

Hi Heiko,

It's straight on ikeas Website: https://www.ikea.com/jp/en/customer-service/product-support/ikea-home-smart/getting-started-and-how-...

The 2nd Video Shows the Setup of the "rise and Shine" Timer. My App doesn't have any timers at all... 🤷🏼‍♂️

[Heiko · Accepted solution]

Hi  @HanseNico,

ok, seeing this I have to admit, what I wrote yesterday was wrong...

On the old Tradfri gateway and the old smart home app (they have renamed it to "IKEA Home Smart 1" and the app icon is white, instead of yellow), there is such an option to fade in light at a specific time, but that's not (or not yet) implemented in the Dirigera environment.

I would suggest, you wait, until this function is available for Dirigera too.

If you are highly motivated to achieve this beforhand, you could try to use 3rd party tools. In the beginning of this year for example, I have played around with "Home Assistant" and was able to fade in my evening lights along with the actual sunset. But that means, you have to run a server (i used a "Raspberry Pi" on Linux) within your home network and I don't know, how the Dirigera support is about yet. So some possible obstacles...

regards, Heiko

[HanseNico]

Thanks, but that's really disappointing. It's the Main Feature I Bought this system for and Ikea is advertising with it.

I consider giving everything Back and buy another system. 🤷🏼‍♂️