Ikea’s New Low-cost Line Is A Huge Win For Matter And Your Smart Home 

Ikea is making nan smart location cheaper and easier pinch a caller statement of low-cost Matter-over-Thread smart location staples, including bulbs, buttons, and sensors.

Ikea just announced a bunch of ace cheap, colorful Matter-over-Thread devices that will activity pinch immoderate platform, and it feels for illustration Christmas came early for nan smart home.

The 21 caller products see a statement of smart bulbs starting astatine conscionable £4 and 2 caller distant controls that commencement astatine conscionable £3 (US pricing is not yet confirmed). Ikea besides officially updated its Dirigera hub to a Matter controller and Thread separator router to support nan caller products, which will commencement to get successful nan US successful January.

It's a large displacement toward a simpler, much unfastened smart home, a ballot of assurance successful Matter from a awesome mainstream brand, and awesome news for users, w …

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