Came across a IKEA DIRIGERA hub in a thrift store that felt like a steal now that they’ve enabled more features.
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The Matter bridge works fine (except for this) and it updates the firmware of devices automatically, but custom drivers in SmartThings usually provide more features. It’s useful for multi-admin scenarios if you want to keep devices local.
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The Matter controller is beta and disabled by default, can’t say I was successful, just tried to share a Nanoleaf light from SmartThings to the IKEA Smart Home app and failed.
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The Thread border router is an OpenThread implementation using Thread 1.4 but IKEA closed the configuration API before I got it so couldn’t play with it.
Initially it created its own Thread network which was disappointing considering time ago I shared the ST network credentials and set as the preferred one in my Android phone thanks to the Home Assistant companion app so any TBR (even 1.3) could join it.
Well, I’ll be damned… just checked today and it joined SmartThings network! I didn’t do anything, maybe that happened when sharing the device? Or after a restart?
