Not as practical as it seems
Love Ikea however I’m still in two minds when it comes to their home automation products. Very tricky and temperamental system
4 hours in deep network settings
After 4 hours of resetting networks, a deep dive into network settings, turning off everything but 2.4 gHz, enabling UPnP, eventually with AI help I discovered it’s a known firmware bug for connecting the first ikea matter over thread device. Yikes.
Hub barely functions
Everything disconnects all the time, plugs show as connected but won’t turn on or off, overall is just a frustrating terrible experience
Requires Dirigera
I’m able to add the air quality sensor motion sensors and smart plugs directly to HomeKit but the ikea home app is useless without buying an extra hub. I have sensors and smart plugs from another brand EVE that works directly with HomeKit and their EVE app to view advanced functions like history of the sensors with out having to by an extra EVE hub.
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Fix Google Home integration
The only way to integrate this app with Google Home was to uninstall it. This is unacceptable. The only reason I gave it two stars is because it allows adding other devices to it, if already installed.
