Ikea is finally bringing Matter to its new smart home hub. | Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge
Ikea’s Dirigera hub, its new hub for controlling its line of connected devices, may soon get support for the Matter smart home standard. While promised when the hub was announced in May 2022, Matter for the Dirigera didn’t materialize within a “couple of months” of the product launching, as initially announced. It was then delayed again last November. But the company has now announced the rollout of Matter for the hub in beta.
“We are excited to unveil the first version of Matter support for the Dirigera hub, available now for beta users through the Ikea Home Smart app,” David Granath, range manager at Ikea Home Smart told The Verge.
“The initial release transforms the Dirigera hub into a Matter bridge, allowing Zigbee devices to be…