IKEA Home smart 1

Why does an app to remotely manage a smart home disable itself once you leave your home. This used to work just fine. What was the reason to break this functionality. I am removing all traddfri devices and replacing them with something that is not so stupid.

I love the Ikea system and it usually works ok with Homekit. Been stable for a couple of years actually. But lately I started having issues again with some lights disappearing from Hoekit. But that seemed to resolve itself. But now, with iOS 17, my bridge simply stopped being available and I can no longer add lights at all to a remote. Related to iOS 17? Not sure, but getting support is not easy with Ikea, so I'm writing here as they seem to respond sometimes.

Everything makes these Ikea automation devices need resetting. If power. Network. Etc. goes off 6 times off and on and 4 presses on the back and ya put your left foot in and shake it all about. What if the hokee pokee is what it is all about???

I avoid using this app because it’s junk. I use the Home app from Apple to do all the work I need. Worked fine until today when Ikea decided to wipe every single device (42 of them) and made me start over all the way back to the hub. Who has 6 hours to reprogram everything from scratch???? Time to throw this entire line of garbage out.

We have been using this system for a while, and it’s now working quite well. They seem to have sorted out the earlier issues. We use the ikea app to control our lights and blinds and to occasionally set up some timers. We appreciate that it only works with the app while your on your home wifi. It reduces the hacking potential. I gather not everyone sees it as a positive feature, but it also means that you can control your system even if your internet is down as it’s not using the cloud to control it, you only need your wifi to be operational.

The app is, OK, there’s a lot of aspects to it that just aren’t really well thought out, a lot of “oops, let’s shim that in” instead of customizing the interface to the specific device. The system as a whole is unbelievably frustrating, can rarely sync / pair stuff correctly in one go.

This used to work fine with Alexa but after a reset it claims there’s a geographic restriction on the connection. Seriously, why is there a geographic restriction on light bulbs. Avoid this and buy bulbs that are not so restricted.

Couldn’t connect to Gateway using iOS 16 for days. Suddenly started working after I used an iPad that had iOS 15 on. Then iOS 16 connected. Unplugged reset the router multiple times before returning to the iPad. This thing is trash for iOS 16.

No issues once we got it setup

The IKEA smart home system is a smart money decision, everything connects seamlessly and it is all extremely good value and high-quality.