Ikea Smart Lighting Released

[ghesp (Greg)]

Heads up, Ikea have released their Smart Lighting into the UK

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/products/lighting/smart-lighting/

[SplanK (Steve)]

Looks like its using ZigBee Light Link so plausible they could link into ST… ?

However, if we can get them to work… £9 for an E27 1000 Lumen dimmable bulb… that’s going to shake things up a bit!.. and I love ikea stuff anyway… sooo sooo dangerous for my wallet!!

[lmosenko]

We need to get a DH and try one out. If they are here in the States.

[Automated_House (Jimmy)]

IKEA Trådfri

Yesturday I bought the new IKEA Trådfri smart bulb and remote. Trådfri just launched on selected markets (Sweden, Czech Republic, Italy and Belgium) and will roll out further in April 2017. There are different variants but all can both dim light strength and warmth (http://www.ikea.com/se/sv/search/?query=trådfri), are very affordable and has a very high quality feel. The solution runs on zigbee light link ZLL, same as Philips Hue and I managed to connect the bulb to Smartthings using a Hue device handler and it works perfectly. Since I bought a bulb+remote kit, I also tried to connect the remote. I managed to get the get the hub to recognize the remote as a zigbee button device but the hub does not receive any button events, the only thing I managed to receive was the battery status of t…

[SplanK (Steve)]

That’s good news!

I have a set of 4x GU10’s in the conservatory that I want to replace with LED’s, and with Ikea smart bulbs not being much more than standard LED costs, it seems as though its worth the punt next time I go down to my local store!

[sahennessy (Sean Hennessy)]

would be interesting to see if these are the same size as the INNR GU10’s…