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Ikea Transitions from Zigbee to Matter/Thread (www.ikea.com)

submitted 4 days ago by cm0002@toast.ooo to c/smarthomes@feddit.uk

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The old (but still relatively new) smart home offerings from Ikea utilized Zigbee. Think light bulbs, remotes, leak sensors, air quality, outlets with power monitoring, etc.

The new devices will soon transition to Matter (many I have tried use Thread but some might use WiFi in the future).

I have the leak and CO2/2.5um air quality matter sensors and Zigbee leak, outlets with power monitoring, lights, remotes, door open/close sensors.

I would recommend the new and old Ikea sensors. They all run with AAA batteries instead of random coin cell batteries. They seem to have almost all functionality implemented in Home Assistant.

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[–] BennyInc@feddit.org 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Would the new ones be any more reliable? Less battery hungry? I haven’t really understood the big advantage of Matter/Thread yet I think.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 3 points 3 days ago

The advantage is matter/thread is a true standard not a propriitory thing. Long term more devices will use it both lowering costs and making it more likely you can make it work in 10 years.