Not with a 2019 Homey
Might be possible by using a Tuya Matter/Thread gateway and linking the devices via this app:
Okay, hopefully someone who already has these Ikea sensors is willing to give this a try before I go out and buy them, haha.
Unfortunately, I have to say that the sensor has disappointed me so far. It seems to suffer from rapid battery drain again. It stopped working after only three weeks. I also think it might be related to ongoing updates of the Homey OS. I will try another set of batteries to rule out faulty ones.
These sensors are currently pretty much un-usable…
Horrible battery drain and going offline just after few days.
I normally like IKEA’s smart home products (good bang for the buck ratio) but these not so much…
I have 1 Myggbett and 5 Myggspray but no problems at all. (5 weeks)
Battery 100% and a stable connection. All sensors are linked to their location via Android because the distance to Homey is too far. Also use 4 kajplats lamps.
If Homey is without power for a few minutes, it will rebuild the Matter network after starting up. You might need to wake up the battery sensors once all the lights are connected again. It might be worth giving it a try.
I have 15 Myggbett devices and they almost never go offline. Occasionally a single one might go offline briefly after, for example, a power outage, but it soon reconnects on its own through the self-healing mesh system.
The battery life is impressive. I use Ikea Ladda AAA batteries. After 3–4 months, most of them still have about 80 percent battery remaining.
Works fine here. No battery drain, but I’ll find out that if there is not enough matter bridge then they will lose connection and drain battery fast. Make shire you have enough bridge.. then it will work fine.
fre. 13. mar. 2026 kl. 15.04 skrev Jocke Wallén <notifications@athom.discoursemail.com>:
What do you use to make a Thread network?
Good news! The sensor received a new update through the Homey system, and so far it looks very promising (the update was released a few weeks ago).
For those who are concerned about the so-called battery drain issue: it really depends on your sensors network, how your devices are arranged, routing, and other factors. Some users experience the problem, while others never do.
A specific example in my case is that I use sensors from several different manufacturers, and my Homey Bridge is not located in the center of the sensor network. Instead, it’s at one end of the entire sensor chain. I believe that’s probably the main reason for the issues I’m seeing, since the network topology can have a significant impact on routing stability and battery life.
In my case, it usually happened after Homey received a system update. After the reboot, the network seemed to get into some kind of lag, and these sensors started draining their batteries very quickly. Whenever I noticed it, I simply restarted Homey, and everything went back to normal.
i’ve set one up over a month ago and have been checking the batteery usage. its been over a month and its only used about 10% battery life. the sensor is triggered a couple of times a day on average as ive got it on my door to the home office. ill be happy if this lasts 6 months considering i can just recharge the battery.
it was right on the edge of getting a good thread signal from my homey hub when i first set it up but didnt have any drop outs or disconnections. i couldnt add any grillplats plugs from ikea up until a week or 2 ago. there was a known issue with matter on the homey hub as i had a support ticket logged with athom also. i suspect it had to do with the version it was on as homey upgraded to matter 1.5 and had no issues adding my grillplats plugs. also been using the recommended recharagable 1.2v aaa battery.
i’ve also replaced my parasoll door sensor on my fridge as that had so many issues with the battery lasting only a week or so. for some reason i had issues adding it to my homey hub. i suspect my mesh network was not recognised at the time as i was also adding grillplats plugs throughout the house. so far its been working with no issues since ive installed it around early july.
i did do a quick test where a had a grillplats plug which i already added to homey. i plugged it in further away and it did not work via the app. i waited a bit and actually woke up the device my pressing the power button. eventually did re-connect so i suspect it will be the same for battery devices that have lost connection.
i have tested ikeas other thread devices such as their bulbs, temperature and motion sensors. no issues so far. hasnt disconnected. i suspect having a decent thread mesh network helped. i initially couldnt add some devices from my bedroom upstairs. after my order of a few more devices arrived i added the same devices in my bedroom and had no issues adding them to homey. whether it had to do with matter 1.5 or not im not sure. hasnt gotten any worse which is good.
i would agree with @Jumpingtrees having a thread powered device in each room such as the grillplats, alpstuga or kajplats. they are the cheapest option here in australia to build a thread mesh network. it was a struggle to add battery powered devices at the start as i had to be somewhat close to the homey hub.
typically matter over thread mains powered devices make a thread mesh network. ikea grillplats plugs, kajplats bulbs and alpstuga sensors will help to build a thread mesh network. cheapest would be the plugs and bulbs here in australia.
I have just sent back 4 Mygbetts to Ikea, so instable. One day OK, other day not responding. Thought thread / matter devices to be the future but maybe go back to traditional zigbees.
there were updates not too long ago for the ikea matter devices. it will help to update them. i had more success moving them close to the homey hub to update. theree was also an update to the homey hub which updated the matter version 1.5 from memory. that helped a lot for me as i couldnt add the grillplats plugs before.
i did a test with a grillplats plug by using one of them to see how far it can go from my homey hub. you may need to wait a few mins for it to reconnect. sometimes turning it off/on may help to establish the connection again. but be patient. i initially thought i was out of range but i came back to it a few mins later and i could turn off/on the plug from the app successfully.
every house will be different as theree is also interference and how thick your walls are to get to your myggbett sensor. you may also have interference with other wireless signals such as your wifi and zigbee. from what i read matter is using 2.4ghz.
there are some apps out there such as the screenshot that @Tom_ten_Den has noted here.
id say you need to place some matter over thread mains powered devices inbetweeen the mygbett and your homey hub. i initially didnt have any matter over thread mains powered devices and i can i was at the edge of my mygbett connecting to my homey hub directly. i did see some disconnections at times. it is a big improvement to their previous zigbee parasoll door sensor. that has terrible battery life.
not sure where you are located but here in australia grillplats plugs are the cheapest way to build a mesh network. with my zigbee mesh network i followed the same with that setup. meaning i added 1 matter over thread powered device in each room if i was planning to add any matter devices in that room. then one in both hallways (upstairs and downstairs).
