This is a quick tutorial on how I added Ikea’s Frytur smart shades to Apple Home (p.k.a Apple HomeKit) using Homebridge.
These are the items I used to make this work:
- Raspberry Pi 4 running Homebridge
- ConBee II USB Zigbee Gateway
- Ikea Frytur shades
Having a working Homebridge implementation was very helpful as I didn’t have to setup another device and could just focus on getting the shades to work.
- Install and setup the Ikea Frytur shades
- Pair the remote with the shades and make sure they work
- Plug in the ConBee II to the Raspberry Pi via USB
- Install deCONZ software on the Raspberry Pi
- Connect to Raspberry Pi over SSH
- Set user USB access rights
sudo gpasswd -a $USER dialout
- Import Phoscon public key
wget -O - http://phoscon.de/apt/deconz.pub.key | sudo apt-key add -
- Configure APT repo for deCONZ
sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://phoscon.de/apt/deconz $(lsb_release -cs) main' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/deconz.list"
- Update APT package list
sudo apt update
- Install deCONZ
sudo apt install deconz
- Reboot
sudo restart -r now
- Once the Raspberry Pi is back online, connect to it via VNC
- Menu > Programming > deCONZ
- Go to the IP address of your Raspberry Pi from a web browser to access the Phoscon web app, the default port is 80
http://
<your-ip-here>/ - Follow the Phoscon setup instructions until you are able to access the ConBee II gateway
- Go to Devices > Lights under the hamburger menu
- Click on Add new lights
- On your Ikea shades, quickly press both front button simultaneously to put them in pairing mode
- After a few moments they will show up and be recognized in the Phoscon web app
- Login to Homebridge and click on Plugins and search for “Hue”
- Install the plugin named Homebridge Hue
- Configure the plugin with a name and address of the ConBee II, use localhost if your ConBee is plugged into your Homebridge device
- Restart Homebridge and your blinds will show up in Apple Home