IKEA Home smart

Inter IKEA Systems B.V

About this app

With IKEA Home smart app and DIRIGERA hub, it's easy to create smarter everyday moments with lighting, speakers, blinds and air quality products.

Picture yourself waking up as your smart lights gently rise. Your favourite songs play on the speakers and you still haven't gotten out of bed. How lovely, right? Smart products like lighting, speakers, blinds and air purifiers can make a lovely addition to your everyday life. When you improve the IQ of your home, life itself runs a bit smoother.

The magic happens when you combine two or more smart products from IKEA, tell them what to do in the app and save it as a 'Scene'.

A great scene is one you will use often. Think about waking up and going to bed, cooking and eating, date night and family time, or leaving and coming home. All everyday moments when we can support you with the best lighting, sound that suits your mood, and cleaner air.

When it comes to control, we think of everyone, from young to old and even visitors. So while the app gives you total control to customise your smart home, our range of remotes make it easy for everyone to live with and use a smart home.

In control
• You can control products individually or in groups. You can turn whole rooms on and off or the whole home, all at once.
• Dim and change light colours, adjust blinds, speaker volume, and much more.
• Set the scenes you need and trigger them with schedules, a shortcut button or use the app.

Easy to use
• The home screen gives a fast overview of your whole home. Quickly control products, access rooms, or start/stop scenes. This is also where you add new products, rooms, and scenes.

Organised and personal
• Organising your smart products in rooms gives fast access to the products you want to control.
• Personalise the app with your choice of icons, names and colours for rooms and products
• Create personal scenes, for example your own combination of cosy lighting and your favourite music.

Integrations
• Connect to Amazon Alexa or Google Home to use a voice assistant.

Ratings and reviews

The app is generally friendly and easy to use for most folks. Hopefully there are plans in the works for slightly more advanced features in the future. In the interim, it would be nice if Vallhorn could be set to trigger a scene when it senses motion, and a different scene when it times out. Right now, the basic on/off is too simplistic. Keep up the good work !

App works great. The hardware / Software controllers not so much. I left a review before with an inconsistency on the Google Home setup, that seems to be resolved. But the main issue now is that 1) my Tradfri remotes disconnect randomly and need a power cycle to sync 2) one (random) lamp in a cluster randomly turns on by itself and that's very inconvenient at night in the bedroom.

There are a couple of issues with the app as it stands today 12/6/22. Scenes do not always work, especially those using sunrise/sunset as a trigger mechanism. It's inability to use geofencing is limiting, requiring another platform that makes using scenes/routines a choppy process. Also, it is still a closed ecosystem, unable to work with non-Ikea branded products. Update: They reached out to me asking what is not working. All I can say is scenes using sunrise/sunset do not ALWAYS run.

What's new

Forgot to close the garage door after bringing in the shopping? No problem! The app can now send a reminder if your PARASOLL door/window sensor is open too long. It’s great to have a little extra help around the home.