Ikea’s new Dirigerasmart homehub is twice the price of the old gateway
by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy from The Verge - All Posts on (#64AW1)
Ikea's new Dirigera hub is coming soon. | Image: Ikea It looks like Ikea's new Dirigera smart home hub is coming this November for 59.99 (around $59), twice as much as the existing Tradfri gateway sells for in Europe and a month later than promised.
Tech Gaming Report spotted a sales page for the Dirigera hub, which replaces the gateway for Ikea's smart home ecosystem, on the German Ikea site. We then found pages for the hub on Spanish and Norwegian Ikea websites, too. A note on the Norwegian site that it's a new and better replacement for TRADFRI gateway. Sales start in November."
When The Verge spoke to Ikea about the new hub earlier this summer, pricing was still TBD, but we knew it would cost more than the Tradfri gateway, which currently sells for 29 (about $29). It is a little...