IKEA Matter: Seven Running, Thirteen More Boxes to Open
IKEA's 2026 smart home range is 21 Matter over Thread products, and seven of them already run in this house. Thirteen more just arrived: six KAJPLATS bulbs from 450 to 1600 lumens, two GRILLPLATS indoor plugs with energy metering, an IP44-rated TOFSMYGGA outdoor plug, and more sensors. This page is a list of what is coming. The reviews follow once each device has been living in the house long enough to say something useful.
IKEA announced 21 Matter-compatible products in November 2025 and started shipping them from January 2026. Seven are already running here. A box of the rest arrived this week.
Almost none of it has been tested and most of the batch is still boxed. This page exists so you know what is coming and can judge the reviews when they land.
What already runs here
These have been in the house long enough for me to have opinions about them. All Matter over Thread, reaching an Apple TV 4K and two HomePod minis acting as border routers.
| Device | What it does | Firmware |
|---|---|---|
| TIMMERFLOTTE | Temperature and humidity, Bathroom | 1.0.21 |
| ALPSTUGA | Air quality: CO₂, PM2.5, temperature, humidity | 1.0.26 |
| BILRESA | Dual button, two of them | 1.9.15 / 1.8.5 |
| KLIPPBOK | Water leak sensor with a local sounder | 1.0.13 |
| MYGGBETT | Door and window sensor | 1.1.4 |
| MYGGSPRAY | Motion, exposed to HomeKit as occupancy plus light level | 1.1.4 |
Two of these are reviewed: the MYGGSPRAY, where the lux reading turned out to matter more than the motion sensing, and the MYGGBETT, now on its second unit.
What just arrived
Thirteen boxes.
Six KAJPLATS bulbs, all E26 with a 360 degree beam and wireless dimming: two at 450 lumens, one at 800, two at 1100, and one at 1600. Most are tunable white; one of the 1100 lumen bulbs is the full color version, so I can compare color against white spectrum in the same wattage. Then two GRILLPLATS indoor plugs with energy metering, an IP44 TOFSMYGGA outdoor plug, another TIMMERFLOTTE, two more MYGGBETT door and window sensors, and a BILRESA remote control kit, the scroll-wheel version rather than the dual buttons already in service here.
Lighting is where IKEA has the longest history, going back to the Zigbee TRÅDFRI range this line replaces, and it is also where the current Leedarson bulbs in this house have already set a low price to beat.
The plugs close a gap. This house runs Meross, VOCOlinc and iDevices plugs, none of them Matter, so a GRILLPLATS is the first chance to compare a Thread plug against the Wi-Fi incumbents doing the same job. The outdoor TOFSMYGGA is the first outdoor plug of any kind in this house.
What the testing will cover
The same things every review here covers, which for a range this cheap comes down to a few questions.
Whether Adaptive Lighting works properly on the KAJPLATS bulbs. The range covers 2200K to 6500K, so it has the tunable white that Adaptive Lighting requires, and there are already reports of the bulbs mishandling whites below 2700K under Apple’s curve. That is a specific claim I can check rather than repeat.
The GRILLPLATS plugs raise two more: does energy reporting show up in Apple Home or stay in IKEA’s app, and how does each one sit at the wall? The iDevices Switch still wins that comparison after nine years because of its side-facing outlet. The first GRILLPLATS went in on August 3 and live wattage shows directly in Apple Home, 23 W on the bedside lamp it now controls. The full review lands after it has run for a while.
And Thread coverage as the device count climbs. Nine IKEA Thread accessories currently route through three border routers here, counting the two installed on August 3. Adding the rest of the batch roughly doubles the mesh.
What I already know
IKEA’s range is Matter over Thread rather than Wi-Fi, so it needs a border router Apple Home will use. An Apple TV 4K with a Thread radio or a HomePod. Your Wi-Fi router’s Thread radio won’t do it, and DIRIGERA only serves IKEA’s own ecosystem.
Matter vendor ID 4476 identifies IKEA of Sweden, and it is what your accessories will report to Apple Home regardless of what the box says.
When the reviews land
Each device gets written up once it has done a real job for long enough to be worth reporting. For sensors that means weeks. For bulbs it means a season, because color temperature behavior changes as daylight does.
Runs the homekit.reviews test home, a real mixed Matter/Thread/HomeKit house. Everything reviewed here was set up, paired, and lived with. See how I test →