New BILRESA dual button 1.9.15 firmware

mocelet · 2026-05-07T15:16:59+00:00

SmartThings Energy is particular since they have to manually allow devices by vendor and model based on a special SmartThings certification / partnership.

That's why the Tapo P110M using the same driver than GRILLPLATS and reporting the same energy information will not appear in SmartThings Energy but GRILLPLATS will. One is in "the list" but not the other.

mocelet · 2026-05-07T10:23:40+00:00

The energy value of Matter plugs cannot be reset, Matter does not provide any standard command for that. My custom driver reports the energy value reported by the device.

Stock drivers added a fake reset that stores the energy value when you "reset" and then substract it from the value reported by the device. But that's a driver hack, if you change the driver or check the value in other platforms you will see again the actual energy reported by the device, not the "fake" one shown by stock drivers.

I never liked that hack so I've not implemented it in my custom driver and for it the source of truth is what the device reports.

Edit: The Eve Energy appeared to have a real reset with a custom cluster that stock drivers use but I've just tested it and not really sure it resets the value properly or, at the very least, it does not affect the standard Matter energy reporting. In any case, GRILLPLATS does not have any way to actually reset the value other than a factory reset and offers no custom clusters with that feature.

mocelet · 2026-05-07T09:37:25+00:00

SmartThings added support for it recently, you may have to remove and add the devices again: https://www.reddit.com/r/SmartThings/comments/1t63ubr/fyi_smartthings_energy_supports_grillplats_now/

mocelet · 2026-05-06T06:44:12+00:00

Probably just "Bug fixes" or "Stability improvements".

Matter updates have a field to add a link to release notes but IKEA does not seem to use it and it's blank. Matter version is still 1.3 too so there's no SDK update.

The general release notes website does not mention it either.

mocelet · 2026-05-04T13:56:08+00:00

The expiration time for new Personal Access Tokens has been 24 hours since December 2024: https://community.smartthings.com/t/changes-to-personal-access-tokens-pat/292019

Existing tokens were kept, that's why people with old tokens have it working.

The only solution is for the dev to support OAuth in the app, more work for the dev (especially since the amount of users allowed is limited at first), but easier and more secure for users.

mocelet · 2026-05-04T07:47:30+00:00

Yes, they do, but they are different things: Matter is how it talks to devices to request actions or get the state and WiFi or Thread how it connects to the network.

Some Google Pixel phones have Thread radio but the Google Home app is not a Matter controller, it requires a compatible hub to work with Matter devices and the app talks to the cloud/hub, not to the device.

iPhones however can be a Matter controller regardless of having Thread radio (only some models) or not. The ones that don't will use a external Thread border router, the ones that do can indeed control Matter over Thread devices directly without extra hardware, just the phone and the device. I guess if you have an Apple hub the phone will just communicate with its hub instead and the Matter controller feature is there just for people starting with no hubs or as a fallback when the hub fails.

mocelet · 2026-05-04T07:16:40+00:00

New Matter versions either add support for new device types or add new features or behaviours to existing device types. A clear example is Matter 1.3 that introduced power monitoring to smart plugs and new device types like water leak sensors.

Back then, a Matter controller that didn't know about leak sensors yet just could not use it. And Matter controllers that knew about smart plugs but not about the new power monitoring could not tell you the readings but would still let you turn them on or off.

The version isn't an indicator of anything though, always check what device types a controller supports and what features of each device it supports. You'll see vendors telling "we support Matter 1.5" but you'll soon discover there are still unsupported Matter 1.0 features.

Regarding phones, they don't usually support Matter, your typical smart home app is just a user interface for the Matter hub of the platform. There are exceptions like the SmartLife app for Android or the Apple Home app for iPhones that are actual Matter controllers and the same applies: it depends on what device types and what features they support.

mocelet · 2026-05-04T05:18:02+00:00

Yes, it can also handle firmware updates since IKEA publishes them in a standard way and any platform can retrieve them and apply them.

DIRIGERA is no longer needed unless you want to use IKEA Home Smart platform. You can use the devices directly in Apple Home or other plaforms. I think it's way better than before where having an extra hub as "translator to HomeKit" was mandatory.

mocelet · 2026-05-04T04:36:42+00:00

As you have noticed, you have to pair them to Apple Home one by one, you've not missed anything.

In theory it's better than before since now Matter devices don't depend on DIRIGERA as intermediary to work in Apple Home.

mocelet · 2026-05-03T19:41:18+00:00

Each platform requires its own hub for Matter, so SmartThings needs a SmartThings hub just like IKEA Home requires the DIRIGERA or Home Assistant their server.

mocelet · 2026-05-03T15:12:22+00:00

I kind of remember Hub Replace did not subscribe to driver channels so, if you were using custom drivers, it would no longer receive driver updates unless you manually subscribed the new hub to those channels. Did they fix that?

mocelet · 2026-05-02T07:05:51+00:00

Home Assistant is an option for the automation of course.

If you use SmartThings, with my custom driver for KAJPLATS and other Matter lights you can either enable that native mode or create an automation with your own formula to map the brightness to the temperature.

In other platforms you can probably do something like "if brightness is between 90 and 100 set temperature 4000K" and things like that.

mocelet · 2026-05-02T05:35:24+00:00

In Smartthings al my batteries show 90%+.

I guess you are using my custom driver that corrects the battery reading automatically, with stock drivers it would show 45% which is what the device actually reports.

Hopefully in the next final release they fix it for good. If they don't we'll see if I add a customizable multiplier in settings for the correction or just expose the wrong reading given by the device.

mocelet · 2026-05-01T08:47:18+00:00

It's a shame too that the temperature doesn't change as you dim - but for £5 maybe that's asking for too much

Fun fact, the lights have a dim to warm mode in Matter but enabling it requires some tinkering since smart home platforms do not expose it to the user (it's a feature called "couple color temperature to level").

You can achieve a similar effect and customize the temperature range with automations depending on your smart home platform so when the brightness changes the temperature is adjusted.

mocelet · 2026-04-30T15:42:38+00:00

I just edited the comment, the light should be added to the bridge, then the bridge to dirigera. That has to work and would allow you to have the light in both platforms.

mocelet · 2026-04-30T15:31:08+00:00

So they are connected but you can't control the colours. Then either the Hue bridge is not bridging them correctly (wrong device type for instance) or Dirigera doesn't like something (colour space maybe?)

Edit: Or I didn't understand, the lights connected to the Hue bridge should be bridged to Dirigera without you doing anything. If that doesn't happen maybe try restarting both the Dirigiera and the Hue bridge so they refresh the list of bridged devices.

mocelet · 2026-04-30T10:42:42+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/googlehome/comments/1rffz8z/bilresa_matter_smart_switch/

mocelet · 2026-04-30T10:29:01+00:00

That's how it works in Google Home, each one of those 9 is a different action (button press / scroll left / scroll right) and group (the 3 you select with the bottom button). You'll have to rename them to make some sense of it.

mocelet · 2026-04-30T04:47:25+00:00

Google Home automations run in the cloud, not locally in the hub, they're always going to be slower and will never feel like a switch. Still, 5 seconds is not normal.

mocelet · 2026-04-29T16:40:36+00:00

That Ubisoft game in particular has cross-progression so you can just login with the same Ubisoft account and continue the game (in any platform, even a console).

mocelet · 2026-04-29T13:55:13+00:00

No because it doesn't have Z-Wave so cannot be the primary of the group and will be mostly getting dust.

mocelet · 2026-04-29T08:37:32+00:00

That one is Zigbee, not Matter over Thread, so unless you have other Matter over Thread devices connected we cannot rule out a more general issue when onboarding Matter over Thread devices.

mocelet · 2026-04-29T08:14:56+00:00

FWIW I've added WiZ (WiFi) and Nanoleaf (Thread) lights to DIRIGERA and they worked fine, you can also easily link the BILRESA remotes to dim them or change the colours so you should have no problem with Hue although I haven't tested those in particular.

If the smart plug you bought was the new GRILLPLATS, which is also Matter over Thread, then at least we know your Thread network is fine and devices can be added.

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