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How can you communicate to your ikea tradfri gateway/hub through coap-client
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Shortcut Button #23

Closed Hagbard235 closed 2 years ago

Hagbard235 commented 3 years ago

Maybe this thread helps implemting shortcut Button? https://community.home-assistant.io/t/ikea-shortcut-button/214998

glenndehaan commented 3 years ago

Hi @Hagbard235,

Unfortunately this thread is discussing the implementation of the shortcut button via the Zigbee protocol. This documentation uses the IKEA Tradfri as a connection hub. Therefore we are also limited to the CoAP protocol and the implementation of IKEA.

When implementing these devices over the Zigbee protocol you have complete control over the device itself and are not relaying on IKEA to expose all functions in the CoAP API.

The reason people like to use the IKEA Hub as a gateway is that you don't have to deal with Zigbee dongles to connect to every device. And this therefore also has its limits.

But thank you for your comment!