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  • I would go with option one to start out. If the lights connect to HomeKit, then you probably don’t need Matter at the moment. And starting out, working within one vendor simplifies things for beginners. The nice thing about the IKEA stuff is that the devices use the zigbee wireless protocol to talk to the hub. So if you ever decide to go with a more capable automation software (Home Assistant, Hubitat, etc) the bulb and light strip can connect directly via an open zigbee dongle.

    The problem with option two:

    The Philips Hue bridge pretty much only controls Phillips hue devices (with a few exceptions). It does not control Nanoleaf devices which are WiFi based (if they are the Thread based ones, then you would need a Thread border router like the HomePods. Hue bridge doesn’t have Thread) It looks like the IKEA devices can be controlled by the Hue bridge but at that point, why not just go with the cheaper and probably more reliable option of using the same vendor’s bridge?