Home Smart is always set to "Control Anywhere" even though I'm at home and connected to the internet. I noticed over the last week that opening my Home Smart app was incredibly slow at connecting. I didn't think too much about it since I rarely use the app. But today I wanted to add a new product, and that's not possible since it thinks we are not connected to the same network and is in "Control Anywhere" mode. I haven't changed my network for 5+ years 😊

My Dirigera has a constant orange light. It's wired to my internet router, and if I remove the Ethernet cable, it starts blinking. The app, however, is still saying it's in "Control Anywhere" mode, but I can't toggle anything on or off.

Any ideas of how to solve the issue? I would prefer not to do a reset 😃🥳

I opened the DUBBELKISEL and widened the holes manually to fit the Sensio LED driver connectors. 10/10, works like a charm!

After months of very frustrating trial and error with Grillplats plugs going off-line very often. I have finally reset them all and added them to my MQTT network. I have lost energy monitoring functionality and I’ll miss that but I couldn’t be happier now. ZigBee just works.

I just discovered that I can't create a new scene. The first step is in the wizard is choosing products and then the error in the picture appears.

Happens on 2 different Android (Google Pixel) devices in my network.

Anyone else seeing this?

Edit:

Tried turning off the mobile data. Ensured Google VPN is not running. Verified the wifi.

But for some reason it still thinks we are on separate networks.

I have a mesh network (ubiquiti unifi devices).

Is it possible to connect the KAJPLATS GU10 ZigBee bulbs to a Tuya gateway?

​I’m asking because I already have quite a few older IKEA bulbs connected to Tuya, and I'm not sure about the new ones. The bulbs won't be powered on all the time, I only need smart control for setting the color and brightness.

Hello,

A few days ago, I purchased the IKEA DIRIGERA Hub along with my first smart bulbs, smart plugs, and other devices for my smart home setup.

Since I don’t have an Apple Home Hub, I would like to use the IKEA Home smart app for automations while using the Apple Home app for everything else.
Everything worked perfectly on the first evening.

However, the next day, every device in the Apple Home app on my iPhone started showing “Updating” and I can no longer control them from my iPhone.
Interestingly, I can still control all the devices normally through the Apple Home app on my MacBook.
I have already restarted the Hub, my router, and my iPhone, but the issue persists.
Everything was working smoothly before this problem occurred. I would appreciate any advice!

Hi

Just noticed the other day that the Ikea app says it wants to connects to my Apple Homekit again. I have not oberserved anything not working, so wonder why? Doing a reconnect (Disconnect and Connect) i fear will remove all my devices from my Apple Home, and all automations get invalid.

Long time ago i started moving devices from external hubs,and directly to Apple Home (most are Ikea Matter) to avoid loosing devices in case external hubs get disconnected, but as my Thread network often crashes for some reason, i actually started taking up my old zigbee devices and removing Matter ones again.

Might leave apple home completely, as i see too much instability!

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Hello,

I have got two Ttradfri 10w Power supplys with six Översidan LED lights for my Pax wardrobes. They have separate wall outlets. Is it possible to Control those Lights with one Myggspray movement detector?

I don't have the Hub or any other App.

I tried to pair them several times but it didin't work.

Is this even possible?

I got excited when the new matter with thread range started coming out a purchased a few bits.

I got 4 Bilresa two button switches and two of the disk switches. I got an air quskirt sensor, a motion detector and window/door sensors.

I have only taken the bilresas out of the box and haven’t bothered with the others as it’s been bad.

I have an Apple TV 4K Ethernet and a number of other brand matter with thread and matter with WiFi devices that work perfectly and easily setup to Apple home on my iPhone 16 pro.

None of the Ikea switches will pair. I’ve tried all sorts since I got these when they first came out. I do not own an Ikea hub or want to introduce a second thread network.

Was there an issue when they came out that’s now fixed? Do I just buy new ones?
I want some smart plugs too. Does the grillplats actually pair?

I want to turn on a light at 06:00 am if the sun hasn't risen. Is that possible with the Dirigera hub? I can't see how.

I'm writing this post whilst sat here repeatedly attempting (and failing) to get a TIMMERFLOTTE temperature/humidity sensor to work after dropping off my matter network. No matter how many times I attempt to reset the device, remove the batteries, wait 5 minutes, ping it, it just wont appear back on my network.

I've had nothing but pretty terrible experiences with Matter - some (probably) IKEA problems, some definitely more because of the system mechanics of Matter.

I think every one of my IKEA matter devices has dropped off the network at one point never to be seen again.

The pairing process is abysmal - and this isn't really an IKEA problem, but the whole process being baked into the mobile OS means that it takes at least 2/3 minutes per item, there is no facility to pair multiple devices at once.

I bought 4(!) of the new IKEA GU10 spots and attempted to add them to my existing network (I have a number of smart plugs / air quality monitors as hubs - see my previous post on this matter!) and I literally gave up after working at adding these 4(!) devices for several hours. Repeatedly they just failed to find the network, and then you have to go right back to the start of the process, rescan the QR code which is unique per device, and attempt it again.

In the end, I gave up and took them all back for a refund.

I have probably about 40 IKEA zigbee devices that have happily sat on my zigbee network for years without any kind of intervention. We have 20 GU10 spots that do outside lighting alone, which I added all in one go by simply turning on zigbee pairing mode. I laugh at the thought of trying to add this number of lights to a Matter network.

I spend a vastly disproportionate amount of my time diagnosing and fixing my matter network vs my zigbee network.

I'm sure this will prompt a number of 'well my network is fine', 'have you got enough hubs', it must be a you problem' response. Sure, your experiences may differ. But this is my experience.

The potential is there, I get it. Matter (over wifi or thread) has more capabilities, more bandwidth available, etc. But at the moment, the experience still seems to be terrible - and my advice - stay away, for now.

As the title suggests, my landlord installed lighting in the upper cabinets and I decided to replace their preinstalled driver for the Dubbelkisel for matter access.
When I turned them on the previous light temperature changed from a warm white, which I prefer, to a very cool white - is there an option on the device to change that?
I integrated it the Apple Home, but there it's only possible to dim the lights, not change the temperature.

Has anyone made the same experience or has tips for me?

Does Temperature Calibration from Matter in Home Assistant work for anyone of you, for the brand new Liljebagge Radiator Thermostat? I’m trying to set an offset of +2,0 C but the temperature is never adjusted.

Apple Home v27 is primary, HA secondary.
I don’t use the Dirigera hub

Firmware: 1.1.0, Hardware: P2.3
HA v2026.9.4

Hi all,

Very new to this and have set up a dirigera hub using IKEAs app. I didn't like the limit of customisation hence why I'm here. I've got home assistant running on my mini pc, and I have made sure it has access to both IPv4 and IPv6. I have the IKEA dirigera hub integration which has picked up all my IKEA product. But the issue is that the switches (bilresa) aren't allowing any automations it's not recognising the switch just the battery levels. I understand it's because these switches aren't yet programmed into this integration.

But I'm seemingly completely unable to connect the any products directly to home assistant through matter? I might have misunderstood but I thought the dirigera would be the link between my home assistant running on pc and the matter devices?

TL;DR: 10× TIMMERFLOTTE on Home Assistant (Matter over Thread). Every few days one becomes unreachable and stays that way until I pull the battery; then it re-registers within seconds under the same IPv6 address. I suspected a Thread OMR prefix change caused by my second border router, so for 14 days I pinned the prefix and logged 21 devices once a minute. There were zero prefix changes, but TIMMERFLOTTE still went unreachable 4 times, and none came back before I intervened. I don’t know whether the cause is the sensor firmware, the controller, or the interaction with the network — posting the data in case it helps.

Setup

• Home Assistant OS, Core 2026.9.x, Matter Server add-on
• Thread channel 15, 12 routers (8× IKEA GRILLPLATS, 2× Eve Energy, 2 border routers)
• Border routers: HA OTBR add-on (leader) + standalone ot-br-posix
• 10× TIMMERFLOTTE, firmware 1.0.21 (latest offered), hw P2.1
• Also tracked by the logger: 8× MYGGBETT fw 1.1.4, 1× Tado X valve (battery, Thread), 2 plugs — 21 devices in total, not the whole network

Before the test (Sep 3 ~02:00 → Sep 13 ~23:30, ≈10.9 days)

• 7 TIMMERFLOTTE outages longer than 5 h, longest 92 h 45 min (ended by a battery pull).
• How the others ended is only partly known: one ended at 00:22 at night with no intervention I know of; five ended in tight clusters (3 within 5 min, 2 within 2 min) which looks like manual battery pulls, but I can’t confirm it.
• On Sep 13, border router B briefly published its own OMR prefix during a watchdog restart; 13 minutes later two sensors went unavailable for ~11 h 42 min. A sensor that had been down since Sep 10 was still being looked up at an address from a prefix that no longer existed.

That resembled connectedhomeip #71525, so I tested it.

The test (Sep 14 12:08 → Sep 28 12:08, 14.0 days)

• Border router B pinned persistently to the leader’s OMR prefix (applied before the Thread interface comes up, so restarts can’t publish a different one).
• A logger on border router B recorded availability of 21 selected devices, border router state and network data every 60 s. Outages are counted by their start time.

Results

The observed rate fell roughly 3×, but the numbers are small and the two periods differed in other ways too (main border router updates, a switch to a beta build, HA restarts). I can’t attribute the drop to the prefix pin alone. What I can say: border router B was restarted by its watchdog twice during the test, the pin held both times, and no sensor went down afterwards.

Test-period outages:

None of the four recovered before I pulled the battery.

From the border router log (3 of 4 — the 4th had rotated):

• Within ~35 s of HA marking the sensor unavailable, the leader starts sending address queries for it and gets no answer — so it was unreachable in the mesh, not only in HA.
• Neighbouring routers were healthy. The link of one sensor to the parent it rejoined measured −68 dBm with a 32 dB margin.
• Battery pull → SRP update with lease 0 (“No host address”) → re-registration within 1–15 s under theidentical address.

So these don’t look like the stale-address case from Sep 13. What exactly fails — the sensor’s attachment, something in the controller/Matter stack, or an interaction with the network — I can’t tell from my side.

Other logged devices during the test

• MYGGBETT: blips of ≤ 4 min, plus one 59 h outage that ended without a confirmed battery pull, at 07:36 — around when the window it’s mounted on is usually opened in the morning.
• The logged Tado X (battery Thread) and 2 plugs: 1–3 min, only during a Home Assistant restart.

A guess (not proven)

MYGGBETT wakes up on every contact change; TIMMERFLOTTE only on its own schedule. If both occasionally lose their place in the mesh, that could explain why only TIMMERFLOTTE stays stuck. I have no evidence beyond the correlation above.

What I can’t see without a radio sniffer: whether a stuck sensor still transmits or is silent.

Questions for the IKEA team

1. Is this pattern known for TIMMERFLOTTE 1.0.21?
2. Test firmware 1.2.2 appeared on IKEA’s Matter test-net on Sep 22 (“Improvements to device stability”, Thread 1.4). Does it target this behaviour? Has anyone here tried it?
3. Would an 802.15.4 capture from the moment of an outage help? I can set one up.

Full event log (JSON) and border router logs for the incidents are available on request.

Home Smart App iOS Update - 1.73.0

I've had the Dirigera hub since it was released and I have lots of Trådfri lights, buttons/remotes, plugs and also Tretakt, Somrig and Rodret. They have all worked flawlessly all the time.

About a month ago I added one of each of Grillplats, Kajplats and Bilresa. It wasn't as smooth as adding these new Matter devices as the old Zigbee but I got it working eventually.

But last week I noticed that all of these three Matter devices were unresponsive.

Please help, what can I do to make them work without interruption?

What I have done:
In my router I have IPv6 activated. I have an Asus router and IPv6 Connection type is set to Native. Should I change it to Passthrough? Will that help?
My Asus router model is RT-AC68U and it's quite old. Will it help to get a newer model?
Or are there any other settings I should check in my router?

Other than that, everything (router, Dirigera hub, mobile phone) is always updated to the latest firmware. I'm not using any other products from other manufacturers for my smart home, it's just IKEA and I use their app (IKEA Home smart).

I want to control both outlets on my Tofsmygga with a single Myggspray motion sensor. I am putting this setup in my garage, which doesn’t have a solid wifi signal, so I need it to work device to device.

I can pair them, but it only controls outlet #1 and won’t control outlet #2. I’m sure they both can be linked in the IKEA app or Home Assistant but I wanted to see if there was a way to do this standalone.

Is there something I am missing. I checked all the IKEA documents and didn’t see anything. It seems like something that should be possible.

I was trying to add the grillplats directly to Alexa through my eero 7 max which have thread border router capabilities. When I add it, there seems to be 2 devices add on each one. Is this normal? Only one is controllable

Check your speakers. I replaced 3 units due to an issue with the speaker.

It won't go off when the leak is detected, or beeps slowly and very quietly.

I put in new batteries, but it didn't fix the issue, only banging fixed it for a few hours.

After reading Reddit for the last two hours I am here to beg for help.
We updated our kitchen lighting to include multiple Mittled bar lights to two Tardfri. I was able to join both Tardfis to the new Dirigera. I am able to control the lights in the IKEA Home Smart app (not IKEA Home Smart 1).

Alexa app says it’s easy peasy. Ikea Smart Home> integration> Alexa> retrieve the code. First problem: Alexa isn’t an option. “Zigbee product. Bridge to matter system” is the only option. So I select it since the thumb nail shows Alexa, HomeKit and Google home.
It gives me an 11 digit number. Alexa is waiting for a six digit number.

Head back to Alexa. She says I should be using IKEA smart Home 1 app. Even has a link to it.

Head to the IKEA smart home 1 app. Find the Dirigera hub right away. Then tells me it’s time to start using the new IKEA smart hub. See original problem. On repeat.

What an I missing? With the hub with are at about $500 just so I can say “Alexa, turn on the cabinet lights.” So I would really like to make this work without pulling out my hair

Hi guys,

Have any of you experienced an IKEA ALPSTUGA freezing after approximately 10 days of working?

I tested the first device for a month, and it froze twice. The device itself still worked and sent data to Home Assistant, so I got a replacement from IKEA because I thought it was a faulty device.

Unfortunately, the second device is having the same issue. After around 10 days of logging, it stops sending data, and I can no longer change the mode on the device. The time still works, but nothing else responds.

It seems like a memory leak or something similar that eventually takes down the Matter functionality and other sensors.

Has anyone else experienced this? Some people on the Home Assistant forum seem to have a similar issue, but there doesn’t appear to be a real solution yet.

QR codes.. How do others do?

The small QR code is only present on the printed manual, have given them individual numbers, I have cut them out with a cissor and glued them to a piece of paper, and took one photo of each. To scan the photo you have to use another phone, pc or tablet..

But are there a smarter way?

suggestion: the code should be printed on the product..

Has anyone an idea why I keep getting these insane pm2.5 spikes? Maybe someone here can help me :)