How to connect to IKEA Dirigera Matter BRIDGE?

Ikea just announced that their IKEA Dirigera Smarthub has enabled Matter Bridge functionality (beta - read more here).

Does anyone know how to connect a matter bridge to Homey Pro?? I can only find how to connect matter devices, but this seems different since it needs a QR code/code.

Are you asking in general, or are you having a specific issue with connecting the Dirigera to Homey? I assume that adding Matter devices offered by the Dirigera bridge works similar to Matter devices offered by the Hue bridge.

I can try to rephrase my question; How do I add a Matter Brigde which doesn’t have a Matter QR code?

Ikea, and other bridges, will be software updated to add bridge support. These devices was not a native matter bridge device with they launched, and will not have these QR codes printed on them. The process of adding Matter Devices (and bridges) in Homey require this QR code.

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And the IKEA app (official app, not the Homey app) isn’t showing you one? That’s how it works for Hue, AFAIK.

Correct, the IKEA official app on the Phone does not show a QR code or other ways to add the bridge to 3rd parties.

Found the QR code! Thank you for pointing me to the official IKEA-app on the phone, @robertklep! I had to go to “Settings - Integrations - Matter Bridge - Create Matter Bridge”. This created the QR code. Thank you for your help! :slight_smile:

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I am having difficulties adding the Matter bridge to Homey Pro.
I manage to activate the Matter bridge in the IKEA app and add the code to the Homey app. It searches and tries to connect, but eventually fails. I have also tried adding the bridge to Homey with the iOS function. It successfully detects the DIRIGERA, but aren’t able to add it to the Homey Pro.

Any suggestions? (yes I have rebooted both devices.

Dirigera and Homey needs to communicate over the local network (LAN). Are they connected to the same network, and are you sure they can communicate with each other? Make sure you haven’t enabled client isolation or similar on you network (this is normally an advanced feature, and not something you enable if you don’t know that it is)

I just posted some of the process here. I assume you need the HP2023 to make this work. I also had to use the iOS way to connect it, as the Homey matter include didn’t do the trick:

Make sure you have at least 1 lamp in the Dirigera, otherwise you cannot connect it to the Homey.

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Hi All,

I’m unable to connect Homey pro to Dirigera via Matter. It keeps complaining that the device is already connected with Homey Pro (I tried to connect via Homey Pro and iOS) and the wizard stops. It doesn’t continue and doesn’t show lights connected to Dirigera.

Steps I’ve executed;

  • Connected Dirigera and Homey pro to same WiFi SSID.
  • Positioned Dirigera and Homey Pro next to each other, because of bluetooth for initial Matter pairing.
  • Connected an IKEA light bulb and remote to Dirigera
  • Enabled Matter in IKEA app (workshop) and generated QR
  • Tried to add a Matter device in Homey Pro iOS app; New device → Matter → Connect via Homey Pro
  • Pasted Dirigera Matter QR code into wizard.

Homey Pro early 23 version 11.0.0
Dirigera version: 2.556.0

Did I miss a step? Anybody has a suggestion?

Thanks!

You must have at least 1 light connecting in de Dirigera hub and after it hou van connect de Dirigera to Homey.
If you have an empty Dirigera (after a Factory Reset) then you get an error.

Dont put them near each other, it broke my zigbee network, all end devices lost their connections.

It’s never a good idea to put devices with radio transmitters/receivers (too) close to eachother.

This is why zigbee has selectable channels.
Your (or your neighbor’s) 2.4GHz wifi signal can ruin your zigbee signals as well.

When tuned right, with the most optimal channels, you could run zigbee networks from Homey, Ikea, Hue and zigbee2mqtt next to one another.

Hi all i have been trying to connect my dirigere hub for some time now and get the message unable to connect. i use the qr code generated , and have tried in apple mode and homey mode, but it keeps on failing. any hints or help are apriciated . avery thing is at latest releases.

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Hi,
Thank you for the info.

  1. Both Homey Pro and Dirigere are cable connected not WIFI
  2. No light bulb setup only TREDANSEN blinder
  3. The procedure described for connecting is done.
  4. Error can not find Drigra on Matter.
    So
  5. Do I have to set up a light bulb to make it work?
  6. Do I have to move both systems to WIFI to make it work?
    Dag

Only light bulbs are working at the moment.

I have this same issue now, somehow either the Dirigera or the Homey Pro 2023 doesn’t remove the information. I completely factory reset the HP2023, so I guess it’s the Dirigera.

Did you manage to fix it?

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Ikea announced full matter support on their Dirigera hub: IKEA Introduces Matter support for the DIRIGERA Hub – IKEA Global

I’m curious, is there someone who already has both Dirigera and Homey Pro and can confirm that, besides light bulbs, all other Ikea smart home devices now also work via this route?

Yes it works. But when you connect them to Dirigera the Tradfri-connection on Homey is lost and you would need to replace them with the matter-one in your flows. The thing with the matter-ones is that not all functions are properly copied. For instance my tradfri remote, the first round one, has multiple buttons and all these buttons show up as " Button." So you have to test which “button” does what.