I paired 27 Ikea Tradfri bulbs, spots and panels successfully this way: Turn the lights on, select search from the Hue app, switch the lights 6x off and on, and hue will find them. I had 16 GU10 lamps in 4x4 spots, and hue found 15 lamps in one search. Then, I did the 16th indivudually. The bulbs were about max 9 meters from the bridge.
Thank you so much for the tip on "Turn off IKEA light > Search for lights in Hue > wait 2 seconds > Turn on IKEA light". Worked perfectly. Best tip ever!! :-) I was struggling before, thinking that my lights may have old firmware. But I tried your method and it worked 1st time. Thanks heaps! This is probably the most useful tip.
Thank you so much for your tips. I had tried, unsuccessfully, to get my new Ikea lights to be discovered by my Hue Bridge. This was despite watching other videos. Then I found yours - and this solved the problem in moments!!! Excellent!
Brilliant! Thank you for this video. I’d tried everything with no luck and after seeing this, my GU10’s linked straight to the Hue app. Boom! So happy. 🔥🔥🔥
Thank you!!! You saved me so much time. I've just moved to a new flat and all lights are GU10. I bought 1 GU10 smart bulb from IKEA but was struggling to pair it with Philips Hue Bridge. Using your tips I've added the bulb in 10 seconds :)
I just paired 4 of them really easily with the 6 on/off times but renamed it one at a time and kept doing the reset. All of them would blink but the renamed ones would come back anyway so it also works this way without having to take them out constantly.
Hello mate, confused here,bought 2 ikea smart tradfri colour bulbs, thought l could just use the phillips hue app.I see there is a choice for bluetooth in the app. or phillips bridge.Also if l buy the ikea on off switch,do l need an ikea type bridge also,just to operate their on off switch. ??
All was Well, found All g10 bulbs and set it up. But when I wanted connect the IKEA remote, the hub bridge lost contact with all G 10 bulbs I paired with the remote. What am I doing wrong?
@@EverydayTechchannel Good morning, Many thanks for your answer. I am paring bulbs with hue hub first then remote to the bulbs(need to pair 4 trådfri bulbs to the remote).
Hey, just wanna drop in to say hi and thank you for the great tips. Simply the best and simplest method to connect the IKEA bulb to the Philip Hue. Excellent!
What is the purpose of using the hue essential app and pairing the ikea remote? Can't we just physically pair the Ikea remote to the ikea bulbs itself and use it as a remote?
To be honest I've never really been a fan of hue essentials and I don't really use it. Yes the tradfri Remote pairs with the bulbs but I think the idea was to give flexibility. I think it was trying to offer a solution nobody asked for. 👍
Hi, I bought a Philips bridge and a number of Ikea's bulbs. Can I turn on and off ikea's bulbs in the same way as philips own bulbs when i am not at home for example abroad?
Yes when you pair the bulbs to hue they will appear in the hue app, so they can be controlled from the app just like the Philips bulbs. Hope this helps
So you’ll need to run Homebridge on an always on computer like a Raspberry Pi, and then add the Homebridge Hue plugin. It’s against the HomeKit policy to allow 3rd party devices connected to hubs to be exposed to HomeKit, so that’s what you have to do.
Thanks! You helped me add the ikea bulbs to my hue setup without the ikea bridge where other youtubers told me I had to update my ikea lights and use ikea bridge. Any drawbacks for me when not updating my bulbs before hue-pairing?
Great video. I’ve long been a fan of Philips hue. However everything they ever release is just so expensive, and like others I can’t justify the price. I’ve upgraded a few bulbs to colour with ikea and paired them to my Philips hue. Only issue I’ve had is needing to upgrade the firmware on a few IKEA bulbs so I had to buy the Tradfri hub. I think the best setup is using a Smart things hub and then you can literally control everything. That’s the next plan, as I can then add ikea smart switches and anything else they release
With the ikea stuff i cannot connect a switch AND the bridge. The second I connect my switches I immediately lose control from the bridge. It's infuriating. Do you have a solution for this?
You can't connect the switch to the bridge, you can only connect the bulbs and what you do is pair the IKEA switch to the bulbs after the fact. You don't need to control the switch from the hue app as the bulbs can be grouped by rooms etc. Hope this helps 👍
Do you know Immax Neo products? They are a czech company, products are compatible to zigbee 3.0, and philips hue bridge. I am interested in some immax products, I would use the philips hue bridge together with them, and also together with the ikea bulbs for other applications, I hope it will be working well....
@@EverydayTechchannel great! I am not fully aware of the tradfri luminosity, there are the 806 lumen e27 bulbs (8 euro each), and the 1000 lumen e27 (15 euro each). For example I have to illuminate a kitchen with 2 luminaire available, do you think 2x 806 will be sufficient for a 15 mq kitchen? thanks
@@EverydayTechchannel I forgot also to ask if ikea bulbs will work connected to the philips hue bridge and also to amazon eco/alexa vocal commands. thanks
It works great with the Philips Hue app. thanks. Do you know how I can add the bulb to work with Apple HomeKit? Or how I can ask Siri to turn the bulbs on and off? I have not tried google home yet, that will be the next test.
I managed to get the ikea lights working on the Phillips hue app but as soon as I pair the dimmer with the lights they go unreachable, any ideas? Thanks
@@EverydayTechchannel Same for me, as soon as i pair a Ikea remote with a Ikea bulb it loses contact within Hue. Also tried with pairing a Ikea motion sensor with a Ikea GU10, same result.
Hi! Thank you so much for the tips! Your method worked flawlessly! Do you know by any chance how to pair an Ikea motion sensor with the Hue app and two of the Ikea bulbs which are now controlled by the Hue bridge? I’ve seen a video that recommends a third party app to do that (Hue essentials, which looks like doesn’t work properly on IOS, so not ideal for me) . I’d like to stick to the official Philips app. Many thanks!
Hi there. I've not tried the IKEA motion sensors but I don't think they can be paired to the hue app. I've used hue motion sensors and they are great. I would recommend waiting for black Friday and see if they come on offer. I got a hue motion sensor light switch and motion sensor bundle for just over £33 I believe. Alternatively if you have the IKEA sensors just try pairing it to the bulb without and apps, my IKEA switch is paired with my kitchen lights but not with any app. I hope this helps 👍
Thanks. I bought the Ikea motion sensor but I haven’t even opened it so I’ll return it and wait for a deal to get a Philips one at a good price. I’ve seen a few reviews of the Philips one and it looks better. Many thanks!
Hi sorry, I should have asked in my previous post. Do you know if the Hue motion sensor will work with Ikea bulbs and if it’s easy to set up with them? When I bought the Ikea sensor I got a couple of Gu10 that I’ve already set up and are the ones I want to control with the motion sensor. Thanks!
@@raulzc yes should work fine. Once you've added the sensor and paired the bulbs to the hue app go to settings and accessory setup select the motion sensor that you've added and then select the room/lights you want it to control. The IKEA ones will show up.
@@EverydayTechchannel Yea. I forgot to come back to this. I got it to work. Some of the bulbs were a bit difficult and required a couple of tries. :D Thanks for the tips. they really worked well.
They actually did the opposite. So don't worry on that part, this was NOT working back in the past at a point until Philips and Ikea did an upgrade on both their end.
@@EverydayTechchannel by the way, i added 3 gu10 ikea bulbs yesterday, one by one and it did take more then one try, after that i tried resetting all 3 and was able to add all at once, i did the on/offs to reset end up off, then search for about 2-5 sec then turn lights on and press the pir button on my hue hub, all 3 came up same time to add, and it works fine
I've not managed to find a way yet. You can get the hue switch to control tradfri bulbs but not the other way around. If I remember correctly the tradfri remote can't be added to the hue system but can still be connected to the tradfri bulbs which are connected to the hue app. Hope this helps
@@EverydayTechchannel it work with homekit but you can't see Ikea's bulb on homekit (only hue bulb) if you wan't to see both you need to use Homebridge.
@@jean-louismonvoisin1932 if you buy a tradfri bridge for the ikea lights and a hue bridge for philips products, Both show up and can be programmed in homekit
This is cool if you plan to stay on the cheaper side, but i must mention, that Ikea bulbs ARE BUGGY!!!! Not just the tradfri hub/bridge whatever it's called. The zigbee HW in them are way less powerful then the HUE. One of the reason of the price. Also the Ikea bulbs tend to flicker, the HUE does not ever!!! The last thing to the mix is white color representation, where Ikea bulbs has a smaller range, so you cannot make the real bright white white colors. Overall not bad video, but my man, if you criticize others on YT that they not tell the whole picture do your research better!!!
Ikea bulbs are also slower then HUE, you cannot send them 50% on X white, because those can only process 1 command at a time! Hue can do a range of commands in 1 pocket! Sometimes they just not turn on.... you have to issue the command twice! Hue on the other hand..... IT IS JUST WORKING! I had both at my home, now it's HUE only and it's sooo much better. No finicky bull**** what the tradfri bulbs made before.
Hi, I appreciate your feedback. Hue is much better although not a perfect system. I think I did mention the buggy tradfri in another video I think 😊. For me the white representation isn't an issue but I agree with you that is annoying when you have to say your command twice. This video is more aimed at the price conscious consumer unable to make the big financial leap from tradfri to hue in one go. I know it's not ideal but it works for me 😁 👍.
I've actually just don't a quick look and it seems the Yeelight works over wi-fi and hue over ZigBee, but I think you could make them work together in the ifttt app and both would work with smart choice assistants. Hope this helps 👍
no I don't think so. although I haven't tried it myself. but if you need to do it then I suggest resetting the bulb by turning out on and off so many times connecting it the the IKEA gateway updating the firmware and start the hue pairing from scratch.
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I paired 27 Ikea Tradfri bulbs, spots and panels successfully this way:
Turn the lights on, select search from the Hue app, switch the lights 6x off and on, and hue will find them.
I had 16 GU10 lamps in 4x4 spots, and hue found 15 lamps in one search. Then, I did the 16th indivudually. The bulbs were about max 9 meters from the bridge.
Wow that's impressive 👍
Works like magic 🎉
Thank you so much for the tip on "Turn off IKEA light > Search for lights in Hue > wait 2 seconds > Turn on IKEA light". Worked perfectly. Best tip ever!! :-)
I was struggling before, thinking that my lights may have old firmware. But I tried your method and it worked 1st time. Thanks heaps! This is probably the most useful tip.
You're welcome. Always happy to hear that I've helped. 👍
Thank you so much for your tips. I had tried, unsuccessfully, to get my new Ikea lights to be discovered by my Hue Bridge. This was despite watching other videos. Then I found yours - and this solved the problem in moments!!!
Excellent!
Glad I could help 👍
Brilliant! Thank you for this video. I’d tried everything with no luck and after seeing this, my GU10’s linked straight to the Hue app. Boom! So happy. 🔥🔥🔥
Thank you!!! You saved me so much time. I've just moved to a new flat and all lights are GU10. I bought 1 GU10 smart bulb from IKEA but was struggling to pair it with Philips Hue Bridge. Using your tips I've added the bulb in 10 seconds :)
Brilliant 👍👍
How do i connect a ikea switch to a smart light that is not from ikea. I have the hue bridge and the ikea hub as well. Your help is appreciated
I just paired 4 of them really easily with the 6 on/off times but renamed it one at a time and kept doing the reset. All of them would blink but the renamed ones would come back anyway so it also works this way without having to take them out constantly.
Hello mate, confused here,bought 2 ikea smart tradfri colour bulbs, thought l could just use the phillips hue app.I see there is a choice for bluetooth in the app. or phillips bridge.Also if l buy the ikea on off switch,do l need an ikea type bridge also,just to operate their on off switch. ??
All was Well, found All g10 bulbs and set it up. But when I wanted connect the IKEA remote, the hub bridge lost contact with all G 10 bulbs I paired with the remote. What am I doing wrong?
Are you pairing the remote first or pairing the bulbs to the hue app then to the remote?
@@EverydayTechchannel Good morning, Many thanks for your answer. I am paring bulbs with hue hub first then remote to the bulbs(need to pair 4 trådfri bulbs to the remote).
Is it possible to pair ikea motion sensor and smart blinders with Philips hue bridge ?
Hey, just wanna drop in to say hi and thank you for the great tips. Simply the best and simplest method to connect the IKEA bulb to the Philip Hue. Excellent!
You're welcome. Glad I'm of some help 😁👍
Thank you! Worked perfectly
You're welcome 🙂👍
What is the purpose of using the hue essential app and pairing the ikea remote? Can't we just physically pair the Ikea remote to the ikea bulbs itself and use it as a remote?
To be honest I've never really been a fan of hue essentials and I don't really use it. Yes the tradfri Remote pairs with the bulbs but I think the idea was to give flexibility. I think it was trying to offer a solution nobody asked for. 👍
I added just added the TRÅDFRI GU10 bulbs using this method to a Philips Hue bridge. 🙏🏻
Glad I could be of help 👍
You mentioned you have paired the IKEA wireless driver and use a color led strip for your kitchen. What model is the led strip?
It's Ikea's own compatible light strip. Choice will vary in location but they work well and have lots of cable
Hi,
I bought a Philips bridge and a number of Ikea's bulbs. Can I turn on and off ikea's bulbs in the same way as philips own bulbs when i am not at home for example abroad?
Yes when you pair the bulbs to hue they will appear in the hue app, so they can be controlled from the app just like the Philips bulbs. Hope this helps
@@EverydayTechchannel Thank you very much!
@@emilbruun8701 your welcome 👍
Hi, can you do the reverse? No Hue bridge. Tradfri gateway and Philips bulb.
Yes you can. You need to use the remote of the Ikea to pair it with the Ikea app (gateway)
Thank YOU! I have been looking for this question for ever and didnt find the answer.
Hello! I’ve followed your tips and it did worked. But then, how can I make these new IKEA lights visible to my HomeKit?
So you’ll need to run Homebridge on an always on computer like a Raspberry Pi, and then add the Homebridge Hue plugin.
It’s against the HomeKit policy to allow 3rd party devices connected to hubs to be exposed to HomeKit, so that’s what you have to do.
Holy cow!!!. Worked like a charm. Immediate pairing.
Thank you very much, It work !!!!
Thanks! You helped me add the ikea bulbs to my hue setup without the ikea bridge where other youtubers told me I had to update my ikea lights and use ikea bridge. Any drawbacks for me when not updating my bulbs before hue-pairing?
Great video. I'm about to try this mix with philips hue and ikea trådfri. Hope it works!
Hopefully all will be well. Best of luck my friend 👍
Any update on how’s yours went?
Nanoleaf are an excellent compromise and new thread bulbs launching imminently
Great video. I’ve long been a fan of Philips hue. However everything they ever release is just so expensive, and like others I can’t justify the price.
I’ve upgraded a few bulbs to colour with ikea and paired them to my Philips hue. Only issue I’ve had is needing to upgrade the firmware on a few IKEA bulbs so I had to buy the Tradfri hub.
I think the best setup is using a Smart things hub and then you can literally control everything. That’s the next plan, as I can then add ikea smart switches and anything else they release
With the ikea stuff i cannot connect a switch AND the bridge. The second I connect my switches I immediately lose control from the bridge. It's infuriating.
Do you have a solution for this?
You can't connect the switch to the bridge, you can only connect the bulbs and what you do is pair the IKEA switch to the bulbs after the fact. You don't need to control the switch from the hue app as the bulbs can be grouped by rooms etc. Hope this helps 👍
solid review, no bullshit! and without the unboxing :), who cares about watching someone open a damn box!!
Thank 😁
Do you know Immax Neo products? They are a czech company, products are compatible to zigbee 3.0, and philips hue bridge. I am interested in some immax products, I would use the philips hue bridge together with them, and also together with the ikea bulbs for other applications, I hope it will be working well....
I've not heard of that sorry, I'll definitely keep and eye out for them. Always good to try new things 👍
@@EverydayTechchannel thanks for the reply. Do you know if Ikea Tradfri bubls work with Philips hue motion sensors?
@@davidlever3107 hi, yes they do work together. 👍
@@EverydayTechchannel great! I am not fully aware of the tradfri luminosity, there are the 806 lumen e27 bulbs (8 euro each), and the 1000 lumen e27 (15 euro each). For example I have to illuminate a kitchen with 2 luminaire available, do you think 2x 806 will be sufficient for a 15 mq kitchen? thanks
@@EverydayTechchannel I forgot also to ask if ikea bulbs will work connected to the philips hue bridge and also to amazon eco/alexa vocal commands. thanks
Brilliant, thanks for the info. Worked first time 👍🏻
Works like a charm, thanks for the helpful video.
It works great with the Philips Hue app. thanks. Do you know how I can add the bulb to work with Apple HomeKit? Or how I can ask Siri to turn the bulbs on and off? I have not tried google home yet, that will be the next test.
It works with Google assist, but unable to make it work with Apple HomeKit.
I think quite a few people have had issues with the homekit. I've not used it
Philips doesnt allow non-philips devices to be exposed to homekit
I managed to get the ikea lights working on the Phillips hue app but as soon as I pair the dimmer with the lights they go unreachable, any ideas? Thanks
Have you tried turning the light switch off for a few seconds then turning them back on?
@@EverydayTechchannel Same for me, as soon as i pair a Ikea remote with a Ikea bulb it loses contact within Hue. Also tried with pairing a Ikea motion sensor with a Ikea GU10, same result.
I have heard that IKEA bulbs with hue bridge do not work in HomeKit as you cannot control them with Siri. Have you by any chance tested that?
I've not tried them with the homekit sorry.
Everyday Tech thanks for your response. Appreciated 👍
@@mohsinzaib69 that is unfortunately true. For HomeKit you need Both ikea and philips bridges connecting to their respectedly branded products
Hi! Thank you so much for the tips! Your method worked flawlessly! Do you know by any chance how to pair an Ikea motion sensor with the Hue app and two of the Ikea bulbs which are now controlled by the Hue bridge? I’ve seen a video that recommends a third party app to do that (Hue essentials, which looks like doesn’t work properly on IOS, so not ideal for me) . I’d like to stick to the official Philips app. Many thanks!
Hi there. I've not tried the IKEA motion sensors but I don't think they can be paired to the hue app. I've used hue motion sensors and they are great. I would recommend waiting for black Friday and see if they come on offer. I got a hue motion sensor light switch and motion sensor bundle for just over £33 I believe.
Alternatively if you have the IKEA sensors just try pairing it to the bulb without and apps, my IKEA switch is paired with my kitchen lights but not with any app.
I hope this helps 👍
Thanks. I bought the Ikea motion sensor but I haven’t even opened it so I’ll return it and wait for a deal to get a Philips one at a good price. I’ve seen a few reviews of the Philips one and it looks better. Many thanks!
Hi sorry, I should have asked in my previous post. Do you know if the Hue motion sensor will work with Ikea bulbs and if it’s easy to set up with them? When I bought the Ikea sensor I got a couple of Gu10 that I’ve already set up and are the ones I want to control with the motion sensor. Thanks!
@@raulzc yes should work fine. Once you've added the sensor and paired the bulbs to the hue app go to settings and accessory setup select the motion sensor that you've added and then select the room/lights you want it to control. The IKEA ones will show up.
Everyday Tech that’s great thanks!
Hue white bulb is 11. Ikea is 6. Hue white ambience Is 15, ikea is 12. Why would you go through this hassle for these prices?
It depends, if you already had tradfri and looking to slowly integrate hue then maybe. That's what I did.
I'm still getting No devices found. bought the bulb new today. gu10 led1837r5
I'm not sure why it wouldn't work,I was able to connect all 8 of mine without issue.
@@EverydayTechchannel Yea. I forgot to come back to this. I got it to work. Some of the bulbs were a bit difficult and required a couple of tries. :D Thanks for the tips. they really worked well.
@@Popupkiller glad it worked 👍
But, do the Ikea bulbs also act as repeaters for Hue bulbs?
Have you tried using hive tuneable gu10 to the hue hub
No not used them yet.
Also one worry i have is that hue will update there bridge to exclude ikea bulbs .. could be very likly
They actually did the opposite. So don't worry on that part, this was NOT working back in the past at a point until Philips and Ikea did an upgrade on both their end.
Thank u so much for this!
You're welcome
Very helpfull. what are the cabinet lights you are talking about.. can you post a link?
@@EverydayTechchannel and they have same features than lightstrips from hue?
how about adding the motion sensor to hue? im struggeling with that
I've not found a way to connect the sensor to hue
@@EverydayTechchannel by the way, i added 3 gu10 ikea bulbs yesterday, one by one and it did take more then one try, after that i tried resetting all 3 and was able to add all at once, i did the on/offs to reset end up off, then search for about 2-5 sec then turn lights on and press the pir button on my hue hub, all 3 came up same time to add, and it works fine
@@rene9900 that's great to hear 👍
can you use the ikea remote to control the philips hue bulbs?
I've not managed to find a way yet. You can get the hue switch to control tradfri bulbs but not the other way around. If I remember correctly the tradfri remote can't be added to the hue system but can still be connected to the tradfri bulbs which are connected to the hue app. Hope this helps
Any confirmation? For it to work with HomeKit ?
Hue should work with Apple homekit
@@EverydayTechchannel it work with homekit but you can't see Ikea's bulb on homekit (only hue bulb) if you wan't to see both you need to use Homebridge.
@@jean-louismonvoisin1932 if you buy a tradfri bridge for the ikea lights and a hue bridge for philips products, Both show up and can be programmed in homekit
This is cool if you plan to stay on the cheaper side, but i must mention, that Ikea bulbs ARE BUGGY!!!! Not just the tradfri hub/bridge whatever it's called. The zigbee HW in them are way less powerful then the HUE. One of the reason of the price. Also the Ikea bulbs tend to flicker, the HUE does not ever!!! The last thing to the mix is white color representation, where Ikea bulbs has a smaller range, so you cannot make the real bright white white colors.
Overall not bad video, but my man, if you criticize others on YT that they not tell the whole picture do your research better!!!
Ikea bulbs are also slower then HUE, you cannot send them 50% on X white, because those can only process 1 command at a time! Hue can do a range of commands in 1 pocket! Sometimes they just not turn on.... you have to issue the command twice! Hue on the other hand..... IT IS JUST WORKING!
I had both at my home, now it's HUE only and it's sooo much better. No finicky bull**** what the tradfri bulbs made before.
Hi, I appreciate your feedback. Hue is much better although not a perfect system. I think I did mention the buggy tradfri in another video I think 😊.
For me the white representation isn't an issue but I agree with you that is annoying when you have to say your command twice. This video is more aimed at the price conscious consumer unable to make the big financial leap from tradfri to hue in one go. I know it's not ideal but it works for me 😁 👍.
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Thanks 👍
What about Hue + Xiaomi Yeelight?
I've not tried it. but I may give it a go.
I've actually just don't a quick look and it seems the Yeelight works over wi-fi and hue over ZigBee, but I think you could make them work together in the ifttt app and both would work with smart choice assistants. Hope this helps 👍
Your beard is very distracting 🤓
This did make me laugh 😁
Hey buddy, is there a way to update the tradfri bulbs firmware without disconnecting them from the Philips Hue Bridge?
no I don't think so. although I haven't tried it myself. but if you need to do it then I suggest resetting the bulb by turning out on and off so many times connecting it the the IKEA gateway updating the firmware and start the hue pairing from scratch.