EXCLUSIVE: Review of Ikea’s new Dirigera hub and Home smart app. The Ikea smart home is finally easy to setup and use, and available to buy this week.
users) to reset each device and Dirigera will find them for quick and easy inclusion into new or existing rooms. Yes, the new app is organized by rooms that map to your actual home layout, not illogical groups of devices organized by so-called steering devices like dimmers and switches. You can also bulk add devices into rooms. For example, I have three smart spotlights from Ikea on the same physical switch.
Sonos owners should be aware that Dirigera only supports speakers that can run the S2 operating system, making Ikea’s new Home smart app incompatible withand devices like the first generation Play:5 speaker. All is not lost, however, since Dirigera supports integrations with Google, Amazon, and Apple just like the Trådfri Gateway before it. Both Google and Amazon integrations support Sonos S1 devices allowing you to create cross-platform scenes with Ikea devices if that’s important to you.
I can’t speak to the long-term stability of the system yet. It’s been stable so far, but I’m less than a week in. The system is responsive, with lights turning on and off in a fraction of a second after pressing a paired remote, shortcut button, or tapping a button in the app. Voice commands can sometimes take seconds but that’s not out of the ordinary for smart homes, from Ikea or not, in my experience.