RODRET Wireless dimmer/power switch, smart white
Price $ 10
Batteries are sold separately. IKEA recommends LADDA rechargeable battery HR03 AAA 1.2V. 1 piece required.
How to get it
Now it's really easy for anyone to use smart lighting. With the wireless dimmer you can control your light sources – turn on, turn off and dim so you always have the right light and mood at home.
Article Number505.597.93
Product details
Use the wireless dimmer to dim, turn on/off up to 10 light sources - all will behave in the same way.
You can dim your lighting wirelessly and easily adapt the lighting based on activity.
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Reviews
simple but not neededIanhandy and simple to connect...but if using home hub or other smart home, this becomes useful to guests only
It’s dimmer than most but still smart.TammyPartner it with the TRÅDFRI controller and the lighting products of your choice, to customise the room lighting at the touch of a button. Dim the lights to create a mood, or brighten them to stop you walking into the coffee table.
RODRET REPLACEMENTMelissaWorks great
Will Buy AgainMichaelIntegrates easily with Home Assistant. Switching action has a nice feel. Updates via zigbee2mqtt.
Actions available in Home Assistant: on, off, brightness up, brightness down, brightness stop
Impossible to set upAnonymous reviewerNearly impossible to set up, spent over an hour trying to get the remote to work, no luck. Then out of no where (by random action) it started to work and left it for an hour, went to try again and it never worked again - threw it in the bin
Clumsy and frustrating set up. Fine when it's finally working, I guess.JossThis should have worked out of the box with the wireless Tradfri driver, but it actually took me 45 minutes of trial and error trying to get the remote to connect. And the cryptic heiroglyphic instructions were useless. You shouldn't need to go to Reddit to find out how to use such a simple product. The product itself feels like it'll break. Cheap.
50% DOA defect rateMatPurchased 2 of these 1 worked just fine, the other shows no signs of life, new batteries in both. Do not recommend. Will cost more than the purchase price to return the faulty one. Disappointed that Ikea quality is becoming worse.
Easy connectivityOvinLinking to the trafdri controller was easy and straightforward. Unfortunately, the instructions to connect the remote to the controller are only shown online and not in the booklet that comes with the controller
Works! Runs on AAA rechargeables tooMattHad this running for maybe 3 months now. Using it with Hubitat, not ikea’s hub, and it is working great. Love that it is a) cheap and b) designed to work with regular rechargeable batteries.
Kitchen lightingMorakotGood product but a little prizy
Definite improvementRoshanHad a lot of tradfri switches with me... and these are a lot easier to work with... easier, cheaper, works on AAA battery. The magnetic holder is better - it dsnt slide out like the tradfri.
If you are planning on using this with HA, do your research first. Gets detected but the button press events dont become available. You need a 3rd party blueprint and even with that, couldnt get it working (errors in rhe blueprint).
Great Zigbee switchChristopherIs very responsive. Connects to hub easily and sends signals quickly.
The "off" button/end appears to be a little squishy compared to the "on" button/end - could be a manufacturing issue, or by design - not entirely sure.
So far so good! I like them better than the old TRADFRI switches (Model E1743)GraemeThese are nice, cheaper than the TRADFRI switches (the square type) and have a matte finish which I like better than the shiny finish of TRADFRI.
They are ZIGBEE compatible so work with Home Assistant - note, to save you some time... to get them to pair to HA you'll need to press the reset button on the back 4 times quickly in 5 seconds - they'll then appear. I tried just holding the button down 10 seconds to pair but this didn't work. Took me over an hour to figure that out!
I like the hardware too... you can screw the plate to the wall, or use the provided double sided tape - the switch then neatly attaches magenettically. I found with the TRADFRI switch design the switch would slip off this plate... RODRET feel firmer and look nicer too.
Also note : these take easier to find AAA batteries, they'll probably last longer too. The AAA battery is not provided so you'll need to purchase these seperately.
All in all a bargain and well built. Very happy so far.
Customer reviews
3.6Average rating
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