I have joined my IKEA Dirigera that way, and it worked.
However, I joined my TRÅDFRI Driver för trådlös styrning, grå, 30 W - IKEA, but it isnt working as a light yet. The developer of HomeKit Controller is working on the issue.
I’ve tried to achieve this with HomeKit Controller as well, but I can’t make the DIRIGERA hub appear as a new device in the HomeKit Controller view. I’ve tried as suggested to open the “join to Home Kit” dialouge from the IKEA HOME app when trying to add a new HomeKit Controller device, but it only says that it cannot find any new devices.
Homekit aka. Home app for IOS recoqnize the Dirigera HUB with no hassle. I even tried the newest test version of Homekit Controller = 1.1.4, but nothing pops up.
Other things like restarting IKEA hub and clicking the “action button” on it, has neither got it to work. So as @ysa ask for: What is the instruction of doing this?
Nice thanks @RickardDehlin just a control question: what’s your homey pro version? I have the old white rounded version of pro(2019?). Could this’ll be the cause I’m not able to do it? Since it’s not Matter inside?
The same way as you added the bridge.
First add the bridge as described in the prvious post. Then just to be sure reboot homey.
Then you can add the rest of the bulbs etc through the same prcedure.
All devices should apear the same way as hte bridge did. Pretty simple.
One downside, you have to choose. Or Homekitt connection on ikea app, or added to homey. Added to both wont work.
So if you want to use homy , you have to add all of the devices manualy as i described here.
my idea is that athom/homey does not want to support ikea as they support hue. i also have new hub and use it on HA but Homey does not want to find it.
Hue bridge was already supported before Athom enabled ZigBee on the older homey pro’s, and they don’t want to offer 2 apps themselves, hence only bridge support (by Athom themselves).
Ikea only made ZigBee devices after Athom enabled ZigBee on Homey Pro’s (or rather, ZigBee support was added when Ikea was rolling out their first few ZigBee devices), and it was just a good sales pitch to be able to support Ikea ZigBee devices.
But the not wanting to offer 2 apps for 1 brand is still the case.
So as @Dijker already says, it is up to the community to create such an app for the Dirigera hub.
To your information, IKEA just announced that they have enabled Matter Bridge support on the Dirigera hub! This is a beta version, and you have to enable it in “The Workshop”. Read more here: Does the DIRIGERA hub supporting Matter? - IKEA United kingdom
PS! You need to update the IKEA app on your phone before you get access to this setting.