IKEA Home smart 1

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Last verified 31 Jul 2026

4.2 3550 ratings · App Store

1. 4/5A bit of a pain to setup, but works great after that

   It takes a while to setup and get everything to pair correctly (3-4 tries per item), but once everything is connected, it works well. Would like to see it add HomeKit compatibility, but that's not a deal-breaker for me. The setup does require a different controller for each set of lights you connect if you want to control them separately (one for living room, one for bedroom, etc). A previous reviewer mentioned that they couldn't pair their lights The to the gateway. I ran into this problem at first, but figured out that you have to connect the remote to the gateway first, before you can connect the lights. The setup wizard skipped that when I first tried to set it up but the Help section sent me in the right direction. I also had to reset the gateway before I could get the remote to successfully pair. Just keep trying. Hope this helps!

   keeper5689 · 31 Jul 2026

2. 5/5Easy and Cheap

   If you are looking for a way to do smart lights on the cheap, the IKEA solution is pretty amazing. It took me a little bit to figure out how to set it all up, but compared to actual IKEA furniture it was pretty much a breeze! The IKEA Smart Home app and lineup of products does pretty much all the stuff you’d expect, although I’d like to see a few things added: (1) I would love a sleep timer that will gradually dim or just shut off the lights after you activate it. Currently, you can only set up the app to turn the lights on/off at fixed times. (2) More full RBG bulbs! IKEA smart bulbs come in two types: adjustable white tones (think warm vs blue light) and fully adjustable color bulbs. The distinction isn’t always clear on the website or products. I would love some full color adjustable bulbs for some of the smaller sizes such as the GU10. I would also love a color adjustable LED smart strip!!! (3) Customizable UI for App: the IKEA App is very clean, but I would like if you could custom size aspects like the limit on the number of scenes you can put on your main dashboard. (4) iOS widget: would love to be able to control my lights right off the Home Screen vs. going into the app. Any or some of these improvements would elevate this to a 5 star product for me. If you’re on the fence about this product, I highly recommend you go for it!

   B.Reviewer · 31 Jul 2026

3. 3/5Lose settings, A lot of opportunites

   Still not a reliable system Gateway will NOT connect. Makes the whole system useless. Need a Fix!!!!! Major concept flaw is that timer toggle between on/off.... and that the light settings is lost from time to time, unknown when/what trigger the setting to reset. Some pain to set it up.... very limited information what it does or does not do .... The app can adjust the brightness and temperature of the lights. You can set some timers and you can use the app to turn on or off any bulbs. Neither can set like a sleep timer (tap on the small bulb icon} Feels overall very basic and dated A major flaw is the toggle switch on the remote... while you set timer on individual bulb the remote will turn on the other bulbs and turn off the bulb that was on by timer. It should be that the toggle should be able to get all bulb to the same state aka all on or all off ( now you have unpower the bulbs to get them in sync) We need version 3 now A m

   b3nkt · 31 Jul 2026

4. 1/5Super Klunky

   IKEA is known for their ability to simplify unnecessary complexity. Unfortunately, in this regard, IKEA Home Smart is, so far, a step in the wrong direction. The major weakness in the IKEA home automation ecosystem is their super-klunky app. I started with a simple remote switch/outlet combo, which actually worked great as a standalone system. I was then able to register the remote switch with the central hub through the app. Not only was I then still not able to do any automation on the device, but now the switch had stopped working with the outlet! I tried to resync the switch with the outlet using their recommended procedure, but that didn't work either, so I will probably have to swap out another new remote switch/outlet until I can figure out what's going on with the first one. I also still have no clue how to set on/off times for the one device I've managed to register so far. I probably should have stayed within the Apple ecosystem, but I wanted to give IKEA a try, but so far no love. Deeply disappointing.

   Albanaco · 31 Jul 2026

5. 3/5Works but Very buggy

   It is ridiculous homeSmart does not have Cloud Integration for remote access after several years on market or a means to provide port forwarding to be able to control Trådfri hub from app. Sonos integration is not polished and crashes a lot hence my only view is to use the Sonos app but the effort to create a Sonos integration is nice overall as it helps bring down the inflated price of Sonos. Would love a Connect device for existing stereo that did not cost $350 a pop. Lights since they are on Zigbee Light Standard are better to integrate with SmartThings/HomeAssistant or if lucky integrate with Hue app. HomeSmart needs a lot work from Ikeas software development team in my opinion to compete competitively with Hue. Also random issues with not able to connect to Hub from app although directly connected on same network. Many areas for improvement.

   ChiJeffA · 31 Jul 2026

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