{"id":17954,"date":"2026-04-21T14:49:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=a62cc19e74a56d39bc11a79c42fb0b77"},"modified":"2026-04-21T14:49:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:49:51","slug":"samsung-and-ikea-just-made-the-6-smart-home-real-and-your-tv-is-already-the-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=17954","title":{"rendered":"Samsung and IKEA just made the $6 smart home real, and your TV is already the hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2026\/04\/samsung-smartthings-ikea-matter-integration.png\" width=\"868\" height=\"488\"><\/p>\n<p>In short: Samsung SmartThings and IKEA announced that 25 new IKEA Matter-over-Thread devices can now connect directly to a SmartThings hub without requiring IKEA\u2019s own DIRIGERA hub, with smart bulbs starting at $5.99 that undercut competitors by half. The integration leverages Thread border routers already embedded in Samsung TVs, soundbars, and appliances since 2022, meaning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/samsung-smartthings-ikea-matter-integration?utm_source=social&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=profeed\">This story continues<\/a> at The Next Web <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/samsung-smartthings-ikea-matter-integration\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In short: Samsung SmartThings and IKEA announced that 25 new IKEA Matter-over-Thread devices can now connect directly to a SmartThings hub without requiring IKEA\u2019s own DIRIGERA hub, with smart bulbs starting at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}