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Ikea Debuts Matter-Compatible Smart Home Hub

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Swedish furniture and accessory store Ikea today announced the upcoming launch of the Dirigera smart hub, which supports Matter. Matter is a universal smart home automation connectivity standard that is being adopted by Amazon, Apple, Google, Samsung, and other manufacturers. It promises smart home interoperability, and is just beginning to roll out this year.

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The Dirigera is an upgrade from the existing Trådfri gateway, and is built to handle more product segments. It features a revamped onboarding experience, along with personalization options that include different scenes and pre-set functions for smart products. The hub will work with Ikea smart products, and as it it supports Matter, it will also work with other devices that have Matter integration.

The Matter smart home standard has been delayed until fall 2022, but Apple plans to support it, so Apple HomeKit devices should be compatible with Ikea's hub.

Ikea is planning to deploy a newly updated Ikea Home smart app alongside the Dirigera, and the app is meant to be easier to navigate and more user friendly for those who are new to the smart home experience.

The Dirigera and the revamped Ikea app are set to launch in October 2022.

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Ricebucket
56 months ago

Let me guess: this one still won't support PoE, right? Because, why have just 1 cable, if you can have 2.
This is a statement that is very out of touch with reality. These home automation devices are for everyday homes. And IKEA home devices are for budget-minded everyday homes.

1) PoE has never been a consumer feature. Even if this device supports PoE, no consumer will have the router/switches to power it, because there are no consumer routers with PoE support.

2) Ethernet in the consumer space is on the way out. WiFi is the norm now and this hub supports WiFi. Most users of this device won't even use plain ethernet to connect, much less PoE.

Are there power users that would be interested in PoE? Sure of course. But there's no mass market for that.
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SpringKid
56 months ago

If you're in the apple eco-system, there's no reason to get an Ikea thread enabled hub. The HomePod mini and Apple TV 4k has HomeKit and thread support built-in. The less hubs, the better it is on your wallet and for maintaining the setup long term.
If you want Trådfri compatible things in your HomeKit environment, you would need either the Trådfri gateway or this device.
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ignatius345
56 months ago

:confused:

The TRÅDFRI gateway is $39.99.
This Dirigera smart hub will probably be around the same price.
The HomePod mini is $99.00.
The Apple TV 4K is at least $179.
Yeah, but he said "if you're in the Apple ecosystem". For instance, I own an Apple TV 4K and a HomePod mini. It's easier on my wallet to just use my existing equipment and there's no reason to buy the product listed here.
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doboy
56 months ago
It should be called No Matter :)
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Ricebucket
56 months ago

If Ethernet is on the way out why give it an Ethernet port?

Sorry but Ethernet will never be on its way out, whilst wifi is less restrictive and may have become the norm it still has its limitations

As you say devices such as this are for everyday homes. I live in an everyday home and trust me before I installed a proper network nothing would pass from the router (which at the time was a top consumer router) to a room 5m away.

We have over 50 Devices that require a network connection, which if they have a port they get a cable as its more stable and data transfer speed is quicker
It definitely is on the way out dude.

This is not the same as saying Ethernet is not useful. I must have ethernet at home because I'm a power user. But you're in denial if you think everyday users need it or even know what it is.

Since we're on the mac forum, let me ask you: when's the last time an Apple laptop had an ethernet port? Has the iPhone ever had an ethernet port? Does the HomePod, a HomeKit hub, have an ethernet port? What is the device that users will use to interact with the IKEA hub (hint: there's an app)?

And if are going to point out "but but... desktops still have ethernet ports" then I suggest you look at laptop vs desktop sales numbers. It's even more lopsided if you include phones, which is the primary computing device for the masses these days.

You can survey your friends (*non-tech industry friends*) and see how many of them use ethernet.
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