I’m looking for a Thread button or rotary encoder to control my smart lights, preferable under $15. It can be battery powered or wired. I have a border router across the house, within wifi range. Does anyone have any recommendations?

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[–] 9 points 1 month ago (8 children)

I use this - IKEA Bilresa scroll wheel. It also comes in a 3 pack for $28.

I’ve got it working in HomeAssistant, and they’re pretty neat. The knob has a click action, and the remote has a click action, too. Clicks on the remote allow you to select between 3 different ‘channels.’
In HA, you can set each channel so that the click and scroll does something different. (The blueprint I use has click, long press, double, triple, and quad click, as well as scroll wheel actions.)
I’m not that fancy - I’ve got each channel’s click action mapped to on/off toggle, and to brightness, color temp, and a hue scroller.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    @Monument @eddiereasoner I have one of the bilresa scroll wheel Buttons, too. With the blueprint I use the scrolling is not working properly. Could you share which blueprint you use? #homeassistant #ikea #matter

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  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago* (3 children)

    This uses Matter, not thread.

    This is just a WiFi device using matter protocol

    (It has very mixed reviews also)

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    Nah.

    While they do use the Matter communication standard, these devices use the Thread protocol. The Venn diagram/conceptual model of how these interrelate is messy because Matter can run on both Thread or WiFi (depending on the hardware of the device), and Thread is a platform that supports multiple standards.

    These remotes are Matter over Thread:

    IKEA Bilresa scroll wheel device in Home Assistant, showing the device’s Matter network as Thread.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Oh good to know!

    At least on my regional product page they don't say Thread anywhere in the whole page.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    I think I only knew that before I bought because I watched a review over them. I’m on the same page regarding IoT devices on WiFi. Needs must if I have to, but I keep a separate WiFi network for them, with different access rules.

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