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IKEA Debuts 21 HomeKit-Compatible Smart Bulbs, Sensors, and Controls

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IKEA today announced the upcoming launch of 21 new Matter-compatible smart home products that will be able to interface with HomeKit and the Apple Home app. There are sensors, lights, and control options, all of which will be reasonably priced. Some of the products are new, while some are updates to existing lines that IKEA previously offered.

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There are a series of new smart bulbs that are available in multiple shapes, sizes, lumen levels, and styles. IKEA is offering both white and color spectrum options, with dimming supported.

11 bulbs are available in total in E27/26, E14/E12, and GU10 sizes. Color-changing bulbs are available in each size, and lumen levels range from 470 to 1,521. Decorative clear-glass bulbs will also be available.

Several sensors will be available, for motion, air quality, humidity, and water leakage.
  • MYGGSPRAY - Indoor/outdoor motion sensor for lights.
  • MYGGBETT - Door/window sensor that detects when a door or window is open or closed.
  • TIMMERFLOTTE - Temperature and humidity sensor designed for indoor use.
  • ALPSTUGA - Air quality sensor that measures CO₂, particles (PM2.5), temperature, and humidity indoors.
  • KLIPPBOK - Leak detector that can be placed under sinks or appliances.
There are also four smart plugs and remote controls. The BILRESA is a remote control with either a dual button or a scroll wheel, and it can be used for adjusting smart home products. It can dim lights, turn lights on and off, activate scenes, and more.

The GRILLPLATS smart plug adds Matter connectivity to ordinary lamps or other small appliances.

Specific pricing for the new product lineup hasn't been announced, but the devices are expected to launch in January of next year.

IKEA is using Matter-over-Thread for its product lineup. Thread is a wireless mesh protocol that runs on the 2.4GHz band and allows devices to talk directly to one another, improving range and responsiveness. Matter-enabled products require a smart home hub to work, and on Apple's platform, the Apple TV, HomePod, and HomePod mini serve as home hubs and Thread border routers.

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This is a good thing, several of those will likely be relatively inexpensive, but IKEA stuff tends to be high enough quality to make it worthwhile. And they all fill useful niches too, though I'm waiting for their blinds, we have some high windows that could use a remote blind solution. If the rumors of Apple's home plans are true, next year is going to be a really good one for smart homes using HomeKit.
 
Curiosity piqued.
  • BILRESA remote control with dual button – A simple way to control smart products from afar. Use it to switch lights on or off, adjust brightness, change colour, or trigger a preset scene.
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The green BILRESA with dual button comes in pack of three, together with a red and a beige version. Also comes in plain white version sold separately.
  • BILRESA remote control with scroll wheel – Lets you adjust smart products with a simple turn. Use it to switch lights on or off, dim, change colour, or control a group or preset scene.
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The red BILRESA with scroll wheel comes in pack of three, together with a beige and a green version. Also comes in plain white version sold separately.
 
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Not 100% clear but the oval cutout underneath the buttons could be USB-C with a rechargeable battery.

See the 4000 × 4000 px full-res photo for clearest look.
 

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Pricing looks good!

www.theverge.com

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

Ikea’s affordable smart home devices will now work with other brands.
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Ikea hasn’t revealed US pricing yet, but it did share pricing details for the UK. The new Kajplats will range in price from £4 to £9 (around $5.21 to $11.73) while the dual button remote will be £3, and the scroll wheel remote will be £4. The Klippbok, Myggbett, and Myggspray sensors will each be £7, and the Timmerflotte temperature / humidity sensor will be £5. The most expensive device in the new collection will be the £25 Alpstuga air quality sensor.
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The ALPSTUGA Air Quality Sensor photo shows what appears to be a USB-C cable attached, increasing my confidence in the BILRESA observation above.

klasma said:
The scroll wheel looks like you can only operate it on its front surface, not on the edge where you would naturally operate a scroll wheel.
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Yeah it’s a strange one unless it’s more like a trackpad touch surface than a physically rotating wheel.
 
I'll buy a good amount of this stuff. All my lights only work with Google Home.
 
I didn't realize that Thread operated at 2.4GHz. For the past while, I thought 2.4GHz was being phased out. The last few internet modem/router units that I received from my ISPs only broadcast on 5GHz, making it difficult to connect some IoT devices that I have. I've resorted to daisy-chaining an AirPort Express router, which broadcasts its own network on the 2.4GHz frequency, and that works fine.
 
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I didn't realize that Thread operated at 2.4GHz. For the past while, I thought 2.4GHz was being phased out. The last few internet modem/router units that I received from my ISPs only broadcast on 5GHz, making it difficult to connect some IoT devices that I have. I've resorted to daisy-chaining an AirPort Express router, which broadcasts its own network on the 2.4GHz frequency, and that works fine.
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Lots of devices pick 2.4 GHz because it's an unlicensed frequency (nearly?) worldwide (compare with protocols like Z-Wave that have different frequencies by region), but Thread in particular does because it's heavily based on the physical layer of Zigbee, which also uses 2.4 GHz. Matter in "Matter over Thread" handles the application layer that Zigbee Home Automation 1.2 and Zigbee 3.0 do, and the Matter spec was also influenced by this, but there are other physical layers allowed in Matter, the other native wireless protocol being Wi-Fi. There's no reason it has to be this way, but many Matter over Wi-Fi devices are also 2.4 GHz only. This is likely a fallout from the practical matter that Matter uses Bluetooth for onboarding, and Bluetooth is another protocl that works at 2.4 GHz -- so they can share an antenna and possibly even a chip if it's dual protocol.

That sounds like one of your issues.

But Thread doesn't have anything to do with Wi-Fi per say if that's what you were trying to say. :) Overlapping channels can be a problem, as good as Zigbee and Thread are supposed to be at "clear channel assessment" that should do what it can to prevent problems even if your channels overlap (all have some concept of channels, though Wi-Fi channel numbers and widths are different from Thread and Zigbee). Since "Matter" alone doesn't define a specific physical layer, I'd pay attention to what that is for your specific devices if you have problems with one in your environment and want to avoid it (e.g., 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi?).
 
cire1244 said:
Wow I had been planning to buy some HomeKit-compatible leak detector sensors. They are all quite expensive unless you want to buy a 3rd party hub. It seems like Ikea's will run about $10. That's amazing.
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... you still have to buy a third party hub, an ikea one.
 
Earendil said:
Now if Apple would support Matter 1.4, instead of still being on 1.2, we’d get even more from IKEA. In particular, Matter has supported energy reporting (volts, amps, watts) for a while, but none of that data can make it to Homekit.
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After tvOS 26, Matter on Apple TV 4K got updated to 1.4.

www.matteralpha.com

Apple TV upgrades to Thread 1.4 with tvOS 26 beta

Apple TV's tvOS 26 upgrades to Thread 1.4, promising enhanced performance, improved credential sharing, and a new Fluid Glass design for smart homes.
www.matteralpha.com www.matteralpha.com
 
erihp said:
maybe those keyboard-mashing chinese company names on amazon have been on to something all along...
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Except for that those IKEA names are actual swedish words. Not keyboard mashing.

Myggspray = mosquito repellent spray

Myggbett = mosquito bite
 
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