From Lights to Blinds: How You Can Control Any Smart Device with IKEA Dimmer

Learn the tricks and techniques for Home Assistant to effortlessly control your smart devices at home with the budget-friendly IKEA dimmer.

The almighty IKEA Dimmer. Photo courtesy of Ondrej Svoboda.

If you are reading this, you probably already have some smart devices at home—lights, switches, or TV. And you probably also have multiple remote controllers and apps on your phone to make it all work.

Speaking about apps, it’s funny how all the manufacturers use an image of a house for their apps. It’s so confusing to have all the little homes, most of them in blue or teal shades.

Houses. Blue and teal houses everywhere. Screenshot by Ondrej Svoboda

Although apps can provide many options for control, it’s often more pleasant to control your devices and the home with a switch or button in the real world, placed precisely where you need it to be.

Let’s say your lights are fully controlled via an app, and you don’t have any switches on the wall. That would be weird, right?