IKEA plans to overhaul its smart home lineup with full Matter support, making its budget-friendly products compatible with ...

HomeKit compatibility used to attract a noticeable price premium when buying smart home products, but the Matter standard is ...

Ikea is making big changes to its smart home lineup, introducing 20 new devices supporting Matter-over-Thread that will work ...

A new firmware update allows the Dirigera hub to control Matter devices, rather than simply bridging them to existing Matter ...

In other words, you can start connecting non-IKEA smart home products to the IKEA hub, not just the other way around. It’s ...

I won't dig into the many smart lighting products from either brand. But I will note that Ikea has an edge on pricing while Hue's selection is larger. The smart hubs for Ikea ($70) and Philips Hue ...

Ikea’s Dirigera hub is now compatible with smart home platforms that use the Matter standard. Matter is a new open-source standard for ...

As of September 11, all products connected to the Dirigera Hub will work with the interoperability standard. That’s a big win for Ikea, allowing its gadgets to interact with those from other ...

It took months for even the non-Matter version of Dirigera to become available in the US. But by May 2024, Ikea was again announcing Matter support for the hub.

The Ikea Dirigera is a small hub that, together with the Ikea Home Smart app, lets you control all the gadgets in your smart home. Or at least, some of the gadgets in your smart home. Because ...

Since IKEA released the beta Matter integration some time ago I've tried to add it to HomeAssistant and it always fails. I tried it on my Iphone (different iOS Versions - now using the latest iOS 17) ...

On the downside, IKEA's Dirigera hub isn't quite in the same impulse buy territory as a smart plug and doesn't fully support the Matter smart home standard.