Ikea launched the Ormanäs, its first smart RGB LED light strip, in the Netherlands. The news comes by way of Dutch tech site Tweakers, which notes that the Ormanäs is a four-meter, or roughly 13-foot, dimmable Zigbee affair for €29.99 (about $32) that works with the company’s Dirigera smart hub. The light strip is only available in the Netherlands for now, but Ikea typically starts its rollouts there before bringing products to the US and beyond.
The strip is simple and, judging from the images on Ikea’s site, won’t have individually addressable LEDs like some of the fancier strips on the market — which means the whole strip will show only a single color at a time. Still, it supports multiple control methods like the Ikea Home app and the Ikea Styrbar remote as well as Apple HomeKit, Google Home, and Amazon Alexa smart home platforms (through the Dirigera hub). It also supports Google Home and Amazon Alexa. And being a fairly standard LED strip, you can cut it to length in designated places.
The Ormanäs has a nice balance of features — it’s affordable, long, dimmable, and with Zigbee control, is likely to be very responsive. It’s rare to see a smart LED strip that ticks all of those boxes and also supports HomeKit and out-of-home control via the maker’s app — something the Dirigera hub improves on over Ikea’s now-defunct Trådfri Gateway.
My solution is a bit DIY’d; I use my Zigbee devices with Home Assistant & a Silicon Labs Zigbee/Z-Wave combo stick.
I have a few of their air quality sensors, too! They seem to work pretty well, it does take them a minute to calibrate once they’re plugged in though. I also don’t really have anything to compare them to (other than the onboard air quality sensors in the air purifiers).
That’s pretty much how I’d be doing it.
Which air quality sensors are you using?
I’ve been meaning to get some internal ones for a while (currently, I pull data from a WAQI site across town).
I have a Tuya Zigbee one sitting in my shopping basket.
I use the VINDSTYRKA from Ikea inside. Notably it doesn’t follow AQI so if you’re looking for that it won’t be able to do it, at least not directly. You’d need to write your own AQI function based loosely on the PM of the sensor.
Were you able to directly access the VINDSTYRKA vias zigbee?
Or do you have to talk to it through IKEA’s hub? I’ve fancied one of these for a while, but don’t fancy another hub.
It connects directly to my Silicon Labs Zigbee/Zwave combo stick. That’s the great thing about Zigbee, you aren’t stuck on someone’s hub.
That is indeed good news! I’d held off buying IKEA’s stuff previously, as I thought it had to go through their gateway. Thanks!
I finally migrated my Hue bulbs over recently (previously, I had bad information), and direct control is so much nicer. Plus, they work as repeaters.
Sorry my autocorrect changed “ones” to “home” which made it a weird question - I was curious about which air purifier you used.
Oh sorry! I have three of the STARKVIND model with charcoal filters.
Cheers. And no need to apologise - that was completely my mistake.