Ikea’s smart home hub now supports Matter

Two years aft announcing support, Ikea’s Dirigera hub tin now beryllium updated to enactment arsenic a span betwixt Ikea’s smart location devices and Matter-enabled systems. The package update builds upon early beta support by letting Ikea’s full lineup of Zigbee-based smart location devices — for illustration lights, blinds, controllers, aerial purifiers, and sensors — pass pinch Matter-enabled devices from immoderate company. 

Bridging support for existing devices to Matter is simply a mini but important measurement successful Ikea’s scheme to afloat support nan caller smart location protocol. It’s nan aforesaid tepid attack Philips Hue has taken but hopefully pinch amended results. Other companies for illustration Aqara person much afloat embraced nan modular by launching autochthonal Matter devices that don’t require bridges to do nan protocol translation.

Ikea’s smart location hubs person ever featured civilization integrations that person allowed its products to pass pinch setups from Apple, Google, and Amazon. “With Matter, we are expanding these possibilities moreover further,” says David Granath, scope head astatine Ikea of Sweden. “Combining our decades of life astatine location expertise pinch innovative technology, we judge we are uniquely positioned to little nan barriers and alteration a smarter mundane life for much people.” 

Matter support for Dirigera is disposable successful each location wherever nan hub is sold.