IKEA Dirigera hub

Done a bit more digging. I thought that the Dirigera hub might be in a faulty state. I rebooted it a few times but it made no difference. The hub works perfectly fine in my iOS home app via HomeKit. But I tried to add the Dirigera hub to the Home app via Matter. And it worked. All the devices and entities are there (twice of course). Which means the hub exposes its entities via Matter just fine. But the HA Matter server isn’t happy with that.

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maybe things have changed - i had terrible luck getting the ikea praktlysing working with the sonoff stick, but that was a year ago. i ended up caving and just spent the extra $60 on the dirigira hub, which is intergrated with homeassistant through a homebridge container

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I think the IKEA hub is very good. I have a few zigbee ikea blinds that were originally connected directly to HA via zigbee, but they would very often become unresponsive. Ever since I connected the blinds to the IKEA hub and then connected the hub to HA via Homekit, the blinds have been ROCK SOLID. It's been almost a year now without any issues whereas I would have issues with one or more blinds every few weeks when they were connected directly. I also have the aqara matter hub and the switchbot hub with matter. I don't think I have any issues with either of them

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I disagree about your comment on Dirigera. It's an excellent Zigbee / thread dual hub. There's no "defeat" about it. I have several Matter devices connected to a Google Nest 2 and they're exposed flawlessly to HA. But I'm running HAOS, not Docker. I'd be willing to bet that this is the main culprit. I wouldn't know exactly what is the problem, but the Docker approach does require more fidling, that's for sure.

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Disagree. It's gotta be your network settings. I am using 91 Ikea Matter over Thread devices, Dirigera as the only TBR and all devices are shared individually, one by one using multi-admin codes into HA's Matter.js server. None of my devices other than 6 Timmerflottes ever drop offline. Everything else is now pretty much rock solid and stays connected. That was not always the case and before the most recent firmware updates many of my Bilresas were not reliably. Now with 1.9.15 they are solid. Maybe I'm just lucky but I really love yhd Ikea stuff. And to be clear, my home network also has …

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As for the coordinator, I've used the Dirigera hub from Ikea since before entering the Home Assistant world, and it's surprisingly good. But still limited, in particular for switches. Most people who have tried several options swear by the SMLight SMZB-06. Mine is in the mail, I'm eagerly awaiting it. Zigbee2MQTT (Z2M) seems like the most robust way to go for future-proofing, so that's the HA route I'll take. The other one is ZHA, built-in, less flexible, less support for uncommon devices. As for expanding your meshed network, powered devices act as routers/repeaters, battery-powered devices …

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apple is not bad, but sooner or later you will be stucked with some limitations. I started with Ikea dirigera, connected to apple home, but later i changed to HA on mini PC. Dirigera works with zigbee stuff, but it doesn't expose all the options, automations are shitty, apple home is a bit better, but it works only as threads router and supports only matter devices, about whose opinions are divided. For all the things you want to control, i would go with Home assistant on mini pc or old apple mini. You just need extra Zigbee dongle. start immediately with z2mqtt. all other ways: sooner or …

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I create a thread a couple of weeks back moaning about the terrible experience I had with the IKEA matter devices. The issue turned out to be the dirigera hub. Not sure if mine was defective or they're just generally bad. I ended up buying a zbt-2 and recommissioned all the IKEA device directly through home assistant and everything is rock solid now. So I think as long as you avoid the IKEA hub, the devices themselves seem fine.

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The problem Today I bought the new IKEA Home smart hub, DIRIGERA. It is not supported by the IKEA Trådfri intergration (yet). I hope it will be soon! ### What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue? 22.10.5 ### What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core? _No response_ ### What type of installation are you running? Home Assistant OS ### Integration causing the issue integration: tradfri ### Link to integration documentation on our website _No response_ ### Diagnostics information _No response_ ### Example YAML snippet _No response_ ### Anything in the logs that might be …

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