Ikea’s new smart home collection is entirely Matter-compatible

The postulation includes a caller two-button wireless distant that tin beryllium utilized to power much than conscionable lights. | Image: Ikea

Ikea announced 21 caller Matter-over-Thread devices that tin “connect with a wider scope of devices and platforms, making it easier for customers to physique a astute location crossed antithetic brands.” The postulation includes some wholly caller products and updates to existing offerings introducing caller functionality and features.

The caller postulation was teased by Ikea’s David Granath during our exclusive interview earlier this year, and the institution primitively promised enactment for the Matter astute location modular erstwhile it announced its Dirigera hub successful May 2022. Although the hub’s Matter enactment ended up being delayed for respective years, it was finally introduced successful beta successful March 2024. Several months later, Ikea updated its astute hub truthful each users could use it arsenic a bridge betwixt the company’s Zigbee-based astute location devices and different Matter-enabled systems.

Earlier this year, Ikea updated its Dirigera hub to go a Matter controller, allowing Matter devices from different companies to beryllium added and controlled utilizing Ikea’s Home Smart app. The institution says it’s expecting its caller Matter-compatible astute location postulation to amusement up successful stores arsenic aboriginal arsenic this period successful immoderate countries. For the US, the astute remotes and sensors volition beryllium disposable successful Ikea stores starting successful January 2026, portion the astute bulbs volition debut successful April 2026. Ahead of that Ikea is already updating its app and hub this week to marque the Matter controller functionality officially disposable to each users.

Smart bulbs person been 1 of Ikea’s astir fashionable astute location products, and its caller Kajplats postulation features a simplified lineup, making it easier for customers to differentiate what’s available. There are 11 variations successful the caller Kajplats line, including 60mm E27/E26 bulbs with a modular globe shape, compact 45mm P45 E17/E14/E12 bulbs, and GU10 directional spotlight bulbs that are each disposable successful dimmable achromatic spectrum oregon afloat color-changing versions.

Ikea volition besides beryllium offering wide decorative bulbs successful 3 sizes arsenic ample arsenic 95mm, but they’re constricted to the achromatic spectrum. Despite the institution moving distant from Zigbee for its astute location products successful favour of Matter-over-Thread, the caller bulbs volition inactive beryllium compatible with Ikea’s older wireless remotes and tin beryllium utilized without its astute location app oregon Dirigera hub for customers preferring a simpler setup.

As rumored earlier this year, Ikea is introducing 2 caller Matter-compatible wireless remotes that are nary longer designed for circumstantial products and functions. The Bilresa distant volition beryllium disposable successful a streamlined two-button mentation and 1 with a scroll wheel, and portion some tin beryllium utilized to crook connected lights and set their brightness, they’re designed to beryllium generic and compatible with different merchandise types.

The scroll instrumentality distant tin besides power aggregate groups, switchable utilizing a fastener connected the bottom. You tin usage the scroll instrumentality to set the measurement connected a astute speaker, for example, and past power to controlling the colour of your lights. Ikea volition beryllium selling some versions of the distant individually oregon successful red, green, and beige three-packs truthful you tin differentiate their functionality and which devices they power based connected their color.

The remotes besides enactment with Ikea’s caller Grillplats astute plug that lets you remotely crook connected lamps and smaller appliances portion besides tracking their vigor usage.

Rounding retired Ikea’s caller astute location postulation are 5 caller astute sensors. Myggspray is an indoor / outdoor question sensor that tin trigger lights. Myggbett is simply a doorway / model sensor that tin activate lights oregon nonstop notifications erstwhile they’re opened oregon closed. And Klippbok is simply a h2o sensor tiny capable to acceptable nether appliances that tin alert you to leaks done notifications and a built-in audible alarm of its own.

The puck-shaped Timmerflotte is simply a somesthesia and humidity sensor that cycles done some measurements with a fastener property utilizing a pixelated LED show connected top. It tin assistance guarantee your home’s people somesthesia is reached adjacent successful rooms that whitethorn beryllium located connected different level than wherever your astute thermostat is installed. Lastly, the Alpstuga whitethorn look similar a desktop clock, but successful summation to displaying the clip it’s besides Ikea’s archetypal aerial prime sensor that tin measurement CO2 arsenic good arsenic the level of airborne PM2.5 particles successful your home, temperature, and humidity. It’s designed to enactment with Ikea’s existing aerial purifiers, expanding the scope of their built-in aerial prime sensors to different areas of your home.

Ikea hasn’t revealed US pricing yet, but it did stock pricing details for the UK. The caller Kajplats volition scope successful terms from £4 to £9 (around $5.21 to $11.73) portion the dual fastener distant volition beryllium £3, and the scroll instrumentality distant volition beryllium £4. The Klippbok, Myggbett, and Myggspray sensors volition each beryllium £7, and the Timmerflotte somesthesia / humidity sensor volition beryllium £5. The astir costly instrumentality successful the caller postulation volition beryllium the £25 Alpstuga aerial prime sensor.