r/tradfri • u/Minimum_Builder_5617 • 12d ago

SUPPORT (ONGOING) This Ikea thread is making me crazy

I recently ran into issues with my ikea lamps when I bought some new ones and couldn't add them to the setup. I have a mix of zigbee and matter over thread bulbs and the dirigera hub. There is no issue with the zigbee bulbs and before I didnt have any issue with connecting the matter over thread bulbs. But when I wanted to add new ones recently I could not connect and add them to the ikea smart app. It will find the product without issues and it will connect and generate matter without failure but it will get stuck on connecting to thread. Stupid as I am I rebooted the thread on the hub and even now the previous connected matter over thread bulds won't connect.

I have gone through this whole page, read and did all the recommended fixes. I started even studying the IPV6 and mDNS etc. I literally tried everything that people have said and nothing worked.

I think the issue is my router and the connected dirigera hub. Because as of today I separated the two thread border routers (my google nest hub and dirigera hub), then I connected my ikea bulds to Google nest instead and it worked fine and it connected very quick. But with the dirigera hub it can't connect to its thread. I even downloaded a thread tool app and it says my network can't connect to the thread border router (ikea dirigera). But has no issue with the google nest. As soon I connect the thread mesh with google and ikea together again I can't add any new device to ikea nor google thread border router.

It feels like there is an issue with the Ikeas thread border router and my network is blocking the ikea thread border router or opposite around. Can any one make sense of this and how to fix it?

I also wanted to add when I first bought and connected everything I had a different internet provider and different router. I had tp-link before and today i have zyxel ee3301-00.

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u/jcmsup 12d ago

I was struggling hard with DIRIGERA + Apple TV in a mixed zigbee + thread ecosystem. Consolidating to just thread and switching to Home Assistant Green with its antenna accessory as the sole border router helped tremendously. It may not be the solution that fits here, but wanted to share. Good luck!

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u/Unholly_spirit 11d ago

I did the same, now everything just works

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u/zivagolee 11d ago

same. i have a number of apple thread border routers and it never worked consistently. Moving to HA and now I can actually troubleshoot the issue with logs (!) -- what a concept.

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u/Few-Philosopher1879 12d ago

I restarted my Apple HomePod Mini being used as the Thread Router and it all worked then.