IKEA Dirigera Hub not connecting | Matter Problems? | Home Assistant | Page 1

wise island Jan 19, 2026, 6:19 AM

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Hello everybody. I have an IKEA Dirigera Hub. Tonight I installed Home Assistant Docker on one of my PC's. I also installed the Matter Server plugin.

One of the problems that I have is that I can't connect my IKEA Dirigera Hub to Home Assistant. I already tried to fill in the Matter code from the Dirigera Hub, but that isn't working at all. The Matter Server doesn't also seem to recognize my IKEA Dirigera Hub, although Home Assistant instantly recognized my Dirgera Hub as a Threads router, so I don't understand what's going on there.

Another thing I ask myself is how my Zigbee bulbs connected to the Dirigera Hub are going to behave. Will the Zigbee bulbs pop-up as a Matter device?

TIA!

supple kettle Jan 21, 2026, 5:27 PM

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I am not expert, but I can tell you that I have my IKEA diregera connected with home assist and all my Zigbee devices works great. I connected it as a bridge under integrations in the IKEA App.

I will say that all the old-style devices from IKEA works flawlessly. All the matter devices has to be added to IKEA, and then shared with Home Assist, but I have issues with them disconnecting for some reason that I have not yet found.

tacit mica Jan 21, 2026, 6:34 PM

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If you're doing a setup with docker, make sure to read through https://github.com/matter-js/python-matter-server/blob/main/docs/os_requirements.md since you might need to do some extra network configuration to make sure everything works properly.

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The Dirigera acts as a Matter bridge for zigbee devices. Once you add it to home assistant via matter, the connected zigbee devices will be available to home assistant through the matter integration.

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If you're having trouble getting matter working with docker, it might be worth considering using HAOS in a virtual machine since that has everything set up for you.

wise island Jan 22, 2026, 5:58 AM

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tacit mica If you're having trouble getting matter working with docker, it might be worth c...

I just installed HAOS on a VM. No succes connecting the Dirigera Hub with Home Assistant. Did also try to connect the Dirigera Hub with Google Home with the Matter code, but also no luck. Quite annoying to be honest. Don't also understand why it ain't working, because the Dirigera Hub is recognized as a Thread router in Home Assistant.

supple kettle Jan 22, 2026, 9:02 AM

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Did you enable Internet access for your IKEA diregera hub? I am not sure if it's a requirement...

wise island Jan 22, 2026, 7:18 PM

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supple kettle Did you enable Internet access for your IKEA diregera hub? I am not sure if it's...

Not sure what you mean by that, sorry 😅

supple kettle Jan 22, 2026, 10:41 PM

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You can enable access to IKEA hub from outside your network.

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