IKEA has revised three of its newer smart home accessories to address early connectivity and battery problems, signalling efforts to strengthen its Matter-compatible ecosystem ahead of a larger product refresh planned for 2026.
IKEA has quietly revised three of its newer smart home accessories after early users reported weak pairing, unstable connections and disappointing battery life. The changes affect the Myggspray motion sensor, the Myggbett door and window sensor, and both versions of the BILRESA remote. According to A Smarter House, the revisions are not just cosmetic: they appear to replace the Qorvo QPG6200L radio chip that sat at the centre of the original devices’ problems.
The hardware change matters because the affected products were launched as Matter-over-Thread devices, intended to work across different smart home ecosystems with less friction. In practice, that promise has been uneven. The updated models are meant to improve reliability, but they also create a split between old and revised hardware that IKEA will now have to support with separate firmware branches. That raises the maintenance burden for the company and could make future updates more complicated for users and developers.
Platform support is also uneven. Samsung said its SmartThings platform has expanded integration with IKEA’s Matter devices, while Apple Home is widely seen as the smoothest option for the revised hardware. Home Assistant support is functional but can require more manual troubleshooting. By contrast, Google Home and Amazon Alexa users may still run into limited functionality until their software support catches up.
For buyers, the practical issue is identification. The revised devices appear to carry new FCC IDs, which should help distinguish them from earlier batches. That is worth checking before purchase, particularly for anyone building out a mixed smart home system. The wider context is IKEA’s push to strengthen its smart home range: in mid-2025, reports from MacRumors and iDownloadBlog said the company was preparing a larger Matter-compatible refresh for 2026, including more than 20 new lights, sensors and remotes designed to work more directly with major ecosystems. The hardware fixes now emerging suggest IKEA is already trying to clear some of the technical issues that have held back that wider rollout.
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