homeassistant @lemmy.world glimse @lemmy.world 12mo ago

New IKEA motion, door, and water zigbee sensors under $10 - will these work with Home assistant?

www.theverge.com Ikea debuts a trio of affordable smart home sensors

All priced for less than $10 each when they arrive next year.

They're at the right price for an impulse buy but it'll be another month or two before I move so I don't have HA set up. I know other IKEA zigbee stuff works fine, but will these new ones?

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IKEA new Zigbee sensors for doors and windows, motion, water leaks are under $10

www.theverge.com /2023/11/28/23977693/ikea-sensors-door-window-water-motion-price-date-specs

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Just a day after I bought a load of Shelly flood sensors...
- Hey at least you know for sure those are solid!!
They should. It’s the same protocol right?
- All of the ikea Zigbee devices I’ve bought work seamlessly in HA and usually have custom blueprints made by the community.
- There's a lot of aqara "zigbee" stuff that just doesn't work properly, even though it's the same protocol. Also smart electric meters that have zigbee but not in a way that's useful, just as another example
  
  Aqara works, your zigbee radio might not.
- Yeah (thought they only work with the newer IKEA controller), I just wasn't sure if new drivers had to be written or if they'd pair "out of the box"
  
  The new hub requirement seems very odd, the newer hub I believe supports thread so maybe these are not zigbee devices but thread devices.

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