While the idea of motion-activated lights is appealing, I have encountered some issues with the performance of the sensors and limitations in the IKEA Home Smart app that have affected my overall satisfaction with the product. One of the main concerns is the inconsistency in the sensors' performance. There are times when the sensors do not detect motion, leaving the area in darkness when it should be illuminated. This unreliability can be frustrating, especially when navigating through the home during nighttime or in spaces with low natural light. Additionally, the limited range of timer options available for controlling how long the lights stay on after being activated by the sensors is inconvenient. Currently, the app offers settings from 2 minutes up to 10 minutes. However, it would be beneficial to have more timer options, including longer durations or even the option to keep the lights on permanently. I believe that IKEA should address these concerns by improving the sensors' reliability and updating their Home Smart app to include more timer options. This would provide greater flexibility and control over lighting preferences, enhancing the user experience and making the sensors a more versatile and practical solution for various scenarios. Despite these issues, the installation process for the sensors was straightforward. However, the inconsistent performance and limited customization options in the app have restricted the overall usefulness of the product for my needs. I hope IKEA considers addressing these issues in future product revisions and app updates to better accommodate diverse customer requirements. Rating: 2/5 stars

Basically this works, so I'm grateful. It could use a little more work, a home screen widget would be nice. The core functionality is basically there but the experience is a little lumpy. Sometimes a control will spin in a busy state forever even though it's working, one time the system seemed to forget the current blind positions and I had to open them all completely to reset them. It's generally a nuisance that accidentally tapping the wrong preset can't be cancelled by tapping it again, which would make more sense - for the smart blinds, tapping the physical switch while a blind is moving always stops it. If I've triggered a scene involving blinds it doesn't matter what I'll eventually choose to do with them afterwards, I just want to stop that slow whining noise and stop them moving right away. A weird grumble is that scenes get an icon to identify them, which is a great idea, except the choice of icons is so limited. You'd think the icon options would include ceiling lights and lamps in matching on/mid/off states, clear day/evening/night icons, cloudy sky, a couple of different faces for a preset that's someone's preference, a cocktail glass to indicate a house party, a laptop or wall clock or business shirt to indicate work hours at home... But instead it's broom, pine tree, spray bottle, trophy. There are not enough common-sense options and a whole bunch that don't feel very useful. What preset of lighting or blinds would I need an icon of a shopping bag for? This is a long paragraph of a complaint for something as trivial as some icon resources in the app bundle, but icons-for-scenes is a very good idea, and that idea hasn't been fully finished. I ran into the strange artificial limitation that I'm not allowed to configure a spare switch from the blinds to operate a light. Reading online this seems to have been possible in the past. What a shame to be limited for no reason except branding I guess. Ikea doesn't do deliveries of small items like other online shopping stores do, they are notoriously difficult in that regard, so getting one extra light switch is not something I can easily do. The artificial limit stopping me from using what I already have, is a nuisance.

Finding the IKEA automated lighting system to be an amazing system for programming lights and movement sensors as well as out heated towel rack too. We've also added it to our Apple HomeKit so we can verbally ask Siri to turn on or off lights.

I have done my update and now it’s stuck on that notification and won’t let me do anything else. When I press on the update button, it takes me to the App Store which says “open” because I have already done the update! And it takes me back to the app to the same update notification. Stuck in a loop! I am away from home and won’t be returning home for another 2weeks. Can’t even uninstall the app because it will ask me to connect to the hub. This trip was the whole reason I have completely converted my entire home into IKEA’s ecosystem spending over $2500!!!! Regretful decision!

Pretty basic and barebones app despite looking polished. Lacking a lot of automations and ways that IKEA products can work with one another (Vindstyker). Also - why isn’t Matter supported yet?

Is the promised Matter support coming soon? Would like to control my ilea lights when the internet goes down.

its much easier to sync lights and remotes with the new device and app. sometimes you have to repeat the syncing switch on-off or wait a bit longer, but it works and is easy to manage after.

Took me an hour of constantly resetting my hub for the app to finally accept it. No products are being recognised. App keeps bugging out and saying I’ve made a room then shows no rooms or added products. Really frustrating.

Works well and works with a few home offerings. But I turned off the drigera hub and all of the rooms were then reset in the app and the HomeKit Set it all back up again