Here’s why you may need to have Ikea’s newest good devices in your house

For a couple of years now, everybody’s favorite Swedish flat-pack furnishings maker has been dabbling in good dwelling tech. And quickly, I’ll truly have the ability to use certainly one of Ikea’s good dwelling devices.

That’s as a result of after years of inexpensive but frustratingly restricted vary of gadgets, Ikea is lastly doubling down on next-gen good dwelling tech with Matter help. You’ll have the ability to choose from greater than 20 new good dwelling gadgets.

To recap, Matter is a latest common commonplace that brings all of your good devices collectively below one interface, letting them discuss to one another with out the standard bickering between ecosystems. Supported by the likes of Apple, Amazon, Google, and Samsung, it guarantees interoperability, safety, and the sort of seamlessness good properties have been promising for years.

Ikea’s 21 gadgets on the best way will embrace the whole lot from good bulbs and plugs to sensors and remotes, all designed to play properly with the Matter ecosystem. You gained’t even want Ikea’s personal hub to make use of them, although if you happen to do have the Dirigera hub, it’s now been upgraded to be a full Matter Controller with Thread help – the low-power mesh community that connects all of it. The hub now works as a Matter Bridge too, which is how older Ikea good dwelling merchandise keep suitable with newer Matter platforms.

This follows a reboot of Ikea’s audio line-up that launched in the summertime. The Symfonisk vary, as soon as made in partnership with Sonos, is being proven the door in favour of some wallet-friendly Bluetooth audio system. The $50 Nattbad is a retro quantity that appears like an previous radio however truly streams Spotify. Meanwhile, the Blomprakt is a desk lamp with a speaker baked into the highest.

What’s notably interesting about this new batch of substances is that Ikea isn’t asking you to commit to 1 ecosystem. Want to manage your new Ikea bulb by Apple Home? Go for it. Fancy including it to an Alexa routine? No downside. Backward compatibility stays intact, and Touchlink remains to be alive and kicking. Of course, Matter isn’t precisely flawless. Adoption has been patchy, and it’s nonetheless not the magic fix-it-all a few of us had been hoping for. But Ikea is doubling down on its dedication to next-gen good dwelling tech. Ikea additionally says this is step one in a much wider long run rebuild of its Home good lineup, based mostly on years of testing in precise properties.

The new good dwelling vary, together with over 20 Matter-over-Thread gadgets, is about to begin rolling out from January 2026, with extra following in April and past. Here is the total checklist of all 21 merchandise coming subsequent yr:

• Kajplats Smart Bulb Range E27/E26 Colour and White Spectrum (470lm)
• Kajplats Smart Bulb Range E27/E26 White Spectrum (470lm/1055lm/1521lm)
• Kajplats Smart Bulb Range E27/E26 White Spectrum (1521lm)
• Kajplats Smart Bulb Range P45 E14 White Spectrum (806lm)
• Kajplats Smart Bulb Range P45 E14 Colour and White Spectrum (806lm)
• Kajplats Smart Bulb Range GU10 Colour and White Spectrum (470lm)
• Kajplats Smart Bulb Range GU10 White Spectrum (575lm)
• Kajplats Smart Bulb Range E14 Clear Glass (470lm)
• Kajplats Smart Bulb Range E27 Clear Glass (470lm)
• Kajplats Smart Bulb Range E27 Large Globe Clear Glass (810lm)
• Myggspray Motion Sensor
• Myggbett Door and Window Sensor
• Timmerflotte Temperature and Humidity Sensor
• Alpstuga Air Quality Sensor
• Klippbok Water Leakage Sensor
• Bilresa Remote Control Dual Button
• Bilresa Remote Control Scroll Wheel
• Bilresa Remote Control Kit Three Pack Scroll Wheels
• Bilresa Remote Control Kit Three Pack Dual Buttons
• Grillplats Smart Plug

Prices might be in typical Ikea territory. The Nattbad speaker is available to buy for £29/$50, and the Blomprakt speaker-lamp combo is due in October.