IKEA Home smart Reviews

Buggy App where it forgets things I already configured DURING initial configuration. Does not migrate anything from previous Tradfri hub nor previous Smart Home app. IKEA needs to add a way to Check for Dirigera & accessory updates MANUALLY! Functionality removed from previous Home Smart app. Not impressed.

Also does not integrate rooms list with HomeKit, & HomeKit integration is manual, app does not prompt during initial setup. Half baked app!

This by far is the worst app experience I’ve ever had. I bought the Dirigiria to use with some black out blinds from IKEA. Set up was a pain, but I did finally get it to work initially. However, after a couple of days, the blinds started raising at 3 am. This continued for 3 to 4 days straight, despite me trying every single possible fix available to address the issue. Nothing worked. Very disappointed. I will be returning the blinds and the hub and deleting IKEAHomesmart. IKEA is good for cheap furniture. I would not look to them for any sort of electronic devices.

I’m able to add new shortcut buttons to the IKEA Home Smart app, but they do not show up in HomeKit, even after ensuring the bridge and the buttons are all on the latest firmware. I originally had issues when I first got the DIRIGERA gateway where new shortcut buttons wouldn’t show up in HomeKit until I removed and re-added the integration, and even then I faced an issue where one of my buttons would stop responding in HomeKit. Now I’m not able to see anything in HomeKit so my shortcut buttons are entirely useless.

Starting maybe in the last month, I’ve had to close and reopen IKEAHomesmart multiple times to get it to connect to the hub. After the last update I was no longer able to use IKEAHomesmart no matter how many times I closed it. I unplugged and re-plugged the Dirigera hub and while my husband’s worked, mine still didn’t. I deleted and reinstalled IKEAHomesmart and now it says “hub not found” when I try to connect even though it was working for my husband. Only one way to connect and it wasn’t working for me. We did a full reset today and now neither of us can connect to the hub. Really really frustrating! I think the last update may have broken something? Not sure where else to provide feedback on it. IKEA, please fix!

I really like the product ecosystem and IKEAHomesmart , but Alexa integration is not working for my paired lights. HomeKit and Google Home see the lights and have worked well, so far. But, I primarily use Alexa, so this has not been a seamless customer experience for me.

I just spent a considerable amount of money on smart blinds from IKEA. They’re not up yet, and I’m anxious because when checking the reviews, I see it’s been over a third of a year of problems with Alexa integration. I understand products will have bugs, and IKEA has acknowledged the problems in their replies, but that’s a long time to go without a resolution.

Here’s hoping that IKEA will come through soon.

Have the latest hub firmware, but shortcut buttons won’t update and IKEAHomesmart has no way to force updates. Constant shortcut button disconnects. Keep removing and reinstalling them, but they won’t stay connected even though I keep them 5 feet from the hub. Battery life of shortcut buttons is very poor.

Can you add the feature that shuffles a playlist on a scene where a music playlist is played from Sonos? This used to work on the old system. I have certain scenes that I use and the playlist is super long and every time I launch the playlist it starts from the beginning. I know all the first songs by heart since they are always playing.

Adding a new light or remote to the hub causes it to load for a little bit, and then eventually freezes IKEAHomesmart . I can kill and restart IKEAHomesmart and will see the newly added product under the “Finish setting up your smart home” prompt, but for some reason the RODRET remote's off button doesn’t work.

I have iPhone 12 max pro, after updating IKEAHomesmart to latest version, anytime I try to launch IKEAHomesmart , it is in disconnected state and I have to frequently try to connect the hub. Sometimes it connects back to the hub, but most of the time I have to unplug and replug the Ethernet cable, to gain access to the hub. Never had this issue in previous version.

I’ve got the hub and several lights as well as the smart plug. IKEAHomesmart usually controls the lights reliably.
The intent for the smart plug is to automate the led grow bulbs for my indoor plants with the surise and sunset, however this feature does not function in any form. The smart plug has to be manually switched on via IKEAHomesmart any time I wish to light my plants.
Overall, this product is no better or worse than others like it.

Since the last update which introduced remote control via Internet, outside of the home, IKEAHomesmart will often not react to commands when I am inside of my home network. Restarting IKEAHomesmart will usually fix the issue, but I’d expect better from IKEA.

IKEAHomesmart worked great and found my devices quickly with my DIRIGERA hub. However, even though it says it integrated with Alexa, it doesn’t add my devices to the Alexa device list. I tested this on Apple HomeKit, which I have but don’t use, and it setup easily and found my devices instantly so it’s definitely an Alexa issue. Hopefully an app update will fix this issue unless I’m doing something wrong.

App has numerous UI and functionality issues. Multiple duplicate devices, refusing to connect and just general “jank”.

The dirigera hub has a lot of promise with thread/matter support. Hoping both IKEAHomesmart and product continues to improve.

It would be helpful if there was a “vacation” setting for some or all devices. When I go out of town I would like to have my blinds not open, now I must unplug the hub to do that.

No more hub “can’t connect to device” errors. IKEAHomesmart is much more user friendly as it doesn’t freak out when trying to adjust a single blind.

Feedback: Ability to view ALL BATTERY LEVELS in one easy location.

Help: Scene is set to activate for 0730 (confirmed) but the pinned shortcut says 0230. No matter what time scene is set to, shortcut is always showing 5 hours off.

I’ve had IKEA smart home products for years now, and they’re always reliable, if sometimes a bit slow to respond (which cost them a star). They usually come on faster than they turn off, sometimes taking up to 30 seconds to go dark. But this could be the fault of the IKEA hub or the Tradfri light controllers and not IKEAHomesmart.

I can’t hook up styrbar remote and ormanas lights

The only thing I’d like to see changed is a way to edit the names of linked accessories without unlinking them first.

IKEAHomesmart is otherwise great with a fast UI written with Apple’s modern SwiftUI SDK.

App was working fine with my iPhone 12 Pro for years. When I upgraded to my 15 Pro, it did not offer me an option to sign on. It asked if I would like to set up a new profile. I tried uninstalling IKEAHomesmart and reinstalling. Now I cannot get past my Select A Region. I chose United Stated and IKEAHomesmart just freezes.

Very easy to set up and add new devices. The Dirigera hub and IKEAHomesmart have worked flawlessly each time I have added a new device or moved lights around to different rooms. However, IKEAHomesmart is lacking in features. There’s no sunrise sunset option to have lights change dim level gradually over a time period. There’s no way to organize or sort scenes. You should at least be able to sort scenes by either schedule or name.