The new collection was teased by Ikea's David Granath during our exclusive interview earlier this year, and the company originally promised support for the Matter smart home standard when it announced its Dirigera hub in May 2022. Although the hub's Matter support ended up being delayed for several years, it was finally introduced in beta in March 2024. Several months later, Ikea updated its smart hub so all users could use it as a bridge between the company's Zigbee-based smart home devices and other Matter-enabled systems.
Smart lighting transforms how you experience your home, turning ordinary rooms into spaces that adapt to your mood, schedule, and activities with just a tap or voice command. The Philips Hue starter kit delivers this transformation in minutes and requires nothing more than screwing in bulbs and plugging in the bridge to unlock millions of colors and automated lighting scenes. This bundle includes the essential Hue brige and two 60W A19 color-changing bulbs that work in standard E26 fixtures throughout your house.
Signify is using both 2.4GHz and 5GHz Wi-Fi options on the Hue doorbell, as well as a Zigbee radio to pair with Hue lights. You can configure the Hue doorbell to automatically turn on other Hue lights when someone approaches your front door, and it also comes with a plug-in chime that can act as a siren for the Hue security system. The chime is also a requirement as the Hue doorbell won't work with any existing doorbell chime.
