Two years after announcing support, Ikea’s Dirigera hub can now be updated to act as a bridge between Ikea’s smart home devices and Matter-enabled systems. The software update builds on early beta support by allowing Ikea’s entire lineup of Zigbee-based smart home devices — such as lights, blinds, controllers, air purifiers, and sensors — to communicate with each other. connect to Matter-enabled devices from any company.
Adding support for existing Matter devices is a small but significant step in Ikea’s plan to fully support the new smart home protocol. It’s the same hot approach that Philips Hue took but hopefully with better results. Other companies such as Aqara have more fully embraced the standard by launching native Matter devices that do not require bridges to perform protocol translation.
Ikea’s smart home hubs have always featured custom integrations that have allowed its products to interact with setups from Apple, Google, and Amazon. “With Matter, we’ve expanded these possibilities even further,” said David Granath, range manager at Ikea of Sweden. “By combining our decades of home life expertise with cutting-edge technology, we believe we are uniquely positioned to reduce barriers and enable a smarter everyday life for more people .”
Product support for the Driver is available at each location where the hub is sold.
