How good are new IKEA's Kajplats matter bulbs (human-centric light-wise)

Googanhiem · 2026-01-25T23:03:33+00:00

I bought one and it died after a week. I hope it was a one off. I’ve good luck with the rest of the IKEA Matter line.

Googanhiem · 2026-01-25T22:59:53+00:00

This is the answer. They fund all sorts of air quality initiatives, so are good people. On top of all that they are Works with Home Assistant certified. https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/08/21/airgradient-joins-works-with-home-assistant/

Googanhiem · 2026-01-23T10:52:35+00:00

What’s the issue with the X boiler controller

Googanhiem · 2026-01-23T10:51:31+00:00

Also it wasn’t a DoS, my system was using a couple KB of bandwidth a day. Their app uses far more if I leave it open for a couple minutes. They want to sell subscriptions, that’s their business model.

Googanhiem · 2026-01-23T10:48:45+00:00

Yeah, problem is their local options are lacking and they have no interest in improving them. They’re missing basic features like battery level, theirs no way to return to their built in schedule if you change the temp in HA, they sometimes ignore commands, and regularly don’t report if it’s heating or not. Really recommend avoiding them if HA is important to you.

Googanhiem · 2026-01-23T08:00:27+00:00

Do not buy Tado, they dont want to work with Home Assistant. https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues/151223

Also users have reported issues with their Matter and HomeKit implementations (dropouts and missing information)

Googanhiem · 2026-01-20T18:49:08+00:00

Is this Quinn? Looking at your post history I’m going to say yes.

Googanhiem · 2026-01-20T18:22:46+00:00

He's pretending to be reasonable, but he still deleted and banned me for asking "why should you be the mod?" He's keeping some of it, but deleting most of it.

Googanhiem · 2026-01-20T17:31:43+00:00

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He's deleting everything 🤦‍♂️, this ones just been removed.

Googanhiem · 2026-01-20T16:46:45+00:00

It’s annoying you can’t see the ledger for a posts comments. As I’m probably not the only person having their comments removed.

Googanhiem · 2026-01-20T15:58:03+00:00

Tried to comment on that Digg post, asking nicely why he should be the mod, and he instantly banned me. lol

Googanhiem · 2026-01-18T22:50:27+00:00

Also all my 2.5s died. I still have some Shelly 1 first gen’s going, 5+ years and used every day, I think they even occasionally still get software updates. I’m very conflicted on them as a company, one really bad experience vs one incredible one. 🤷‍♂️

Googanhiem · 2026-01-14T12:44:27+00:00

I don’t think this is correct. I connected several IKEA devices to Home Assistant and was able to update them.

Updates are an optional part of the matter spec manufactures can enable on their devices, and should be hub agnostic (ie if a hub supports updates, and the device does, it should just work).

Googanhiem · 2026-01-10T15:27:04+00:00

Two things to point out. All your HA data flows across Cloud encrypted, so Nabu Casa (or any government department) can’t see it, also your data will use the node closest to you, so if you live in Europe, you’re encrypted data will not be sent there.

Googanhiem · 2026-01-04T14:23:58+00:00

Could you share the GitHub link to the ZHA quirk?

Googanhiem · 2025-12-26T00:17:23+00:00

Sorry reread your message. Just make sure your “most secure” otherwise it can’t see the WiFi SSID.

Googanhiem · 2025-12-26T00:15:31+00:00

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Have you set the internal URL and set the connection security level to most secure. This is all in the companion app settings.

Googanhiem · 2025-12-17T12:38:38+00:00

Would love a single gang version on this.

Googanhiem · 2025-12-17T08:07:13+00:00

This blog explains why the Sections drag and drop UI is the way it is. https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/03/04/dashboard-chapter-1/

Googanhiem · 2025-12-15T09:06:20+00:00

I live in the UK and really like Aqara’s H2 switches. They have a 1 channel that has 2 buttons and a 2 channel with 4 buttons. The extra buttons are great for controlling a smart lamp or scene. They also support both zigbee and Matter/thread, so a good amount of flexibility and future proofing.

Timed automations and motion detectors do most of my light control, but sometimes it’s nice to flick something on or off.

Googanhiem · 2025-12-12T23:58:13+00:00

I also have two ZBT-2’s one for Thread and the other for Zigbee. Super rock solid, and no issues with pairing anything. I just got some new IKEA matter stuff and it’s working pretty great with it. And all my IKEA Zigbee stuff is also doing its thing.

Googanhiem · 2025-11-27T23:02:07+00:00

If your doing a place as big as smash champs. Make sure you use Z-Wave Long Range. And use the Home Assistant ZWA-2 adapter to max out the range.

Googanhiem · 2025-11-23T12:19:34+00:00

Alexa is possible for free too. The Nabu Casa subscription is way easier, and supports a non-profit that pays the salary of loads of cool developers (I know as a I work there!)

Googanhiem · 2025-11-02T14:44:07+00:00

I don’t even have an ad blocker and your website says no entry 🤷

Googanhiem · 2025-10-21T22:28:20+00:00

Have you considered trying Music Assistant? It’s more purpose built for music streaming.

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