Ikea’s smart home hub now supports Matter

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

Bridging enactment for existing devices to Matter is simply a tiny but important measurement successful Ikea’s program to afloat enactment the caller astute location protocol. It’s the aforesaid tepid attack Philips Hue has taken but hopefully with amended results. Other companies similar Aqara person much afloat embraced the modular by launching autochthonal Matter devices that don’t necessitate bridges to bash the protocol translation.

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

Matter enactment for Dirigera is disposable successful each determination wherever the hub is sold.