Forthcoming Matter / Thread Temp Sensor from Ikea Surfaces
As it stands with Ikea’s smart home product lineup, it’s mostly based upon WiFi or Zigbee, with the latter utilising either the company’s Trådfri or Dirigera hubs. However, early reports of a new device shed possible light on Ikea’s possibly inevitable move towards Matter and Thread.
As reported by CybermodStudios on Twitter, this new listing on the FCC website shows a device called Timmerflotte that comes complete with an 11-digit Matter code and QR code. From other details, it clearly a temperature and humidity sensor, although with the name Timmerflotte, which is Swedish for a raft made of logs, we’re not sure how that relates to a such a sensor!
As it’s a freestanding temperature sensor, it uses two AAA batteries, which would indicate this is not going to be using Matter over WiFi, and in fact does state in other documents that this will use Matter over Thread. This would be the company’s first Thread-based product, with the Dirigera hub offering itself up as a Matter Bridge for devices connected to it.
This then begs the question as to how this device could possibly used in Ikea’s own ecosystem, which for Matter devices would require a Matter Controller, which the Dirigera is not, at least as it stands right now. Further, as this is a Thread device, a Thread Border Router would be required, which once again is not something offered by the company’s hub in its current state.
Could a new hub from Ikea be coming, complete with both Matter Controller and Thread functionality? If so, it would be akin to Aqara’s own M3 Hub, that offers all of the aforementioned features. Without this, the new sensor would work in other Matter ecosystems but not Ikea’s, which would be strange, but conversely give Ikea the ability to sell their products to Matter users without the responsibility of maintaining a hub or app – of which there are two when it comes to the latter. Still, this would leave their current ecosystem to fragment when so many people already use their products that rely on their hub and/or app.
Hopefully we’ll see this new, but admittedly not so exciting product in stores some time in 2025.
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Interesting! Their current DIRIGERA hub actually has Thread radio (and even WiFi) but both never have been enabled as of yet. I would assume a firmware update could bring Thread and Matter controller capabilities but somewhere in the back of my head I recall something about a revision of the current DIRIGERA hub a while ago where the FCC listing didn’t mention Thread. Whether it was actually removed because it wasn’t utilized or just simply wasn’t mentioned I am not sure, also not suer if this revision actually is being sold at all.
Yes, it’s entirely possible they could update it to cover both Matter Controller and TBR functionality. I guess we’ll know at some point soon, around the time this sensor comes out.
I find this very exciting. First, because, if I am not mistaken, the only Matter-over-Thread temperature sensor on the market right now is the one from Arre. And I don’t expect ongoing support from a tiny company that can’t even make a website that works in Firefox. Second, because IKEA moving to Matter would be a huge boost to the ecosystem.
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