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New IKEA Matter over Thread devices might actually still support Zigbee
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New IKEA Matter over Thread devices might actually still support Zigbee

Many people are sad that IKEA discontinues the Zigbee line in favor of the new Matter over thread devices (and you see many IKEA haul post where people bought a lot of the old Zigbee devices during clearing sales).

But I just stumbled over this comment, linking to a GitHub issue where someone paired the new KAJPLATS bulb via Z2M by doing several reboot cycles.

I dug a bit deeper and apparently the Qorvo chips in the new devices support multiple protocols and would in theory even support running Zigbee, Thread and Bluetooth in parallel:
https://matter-smarthome.de/en/products/how-ikea-masters-the-combination-of-thread-and-zigbee/

I don't know if all devices use the same chip but I'm very excited to see what the people will find out and maybe we'll have easy guides or scripts to easily pair the new devices with existing Zigbee networks.

I thought this topic is definitely worth it's own post and maybe some of you already know even more about this!