Smart home tech can get confusing. If you have ever set up smart lights or a voice assistant, you may have run into problems getting everything to work together. Matter is a new standard that is ...

As the CSA prepares to launch Matter 1.5 this fall, a 1.4.2 update is setting the stage to improve your user experience.

Matter requires at least one Matter controller serving a compatible smart home app. Accessories are paired using a QR code, a 12-digit number, or an NFC. To keep things running smoothly, you'll ...

Smart speakers like the Amazon Echo, Apple HomePod, and Nest Hub devices are Matter Controllers, as are the smart home apps from Amazon, Apple, Google, and Samsung.

Matter is making smart homes far more accessible than ever, but today's drawbacks of the standard could hurt the smart home more than help. Chris Wedel Sept. 28, 2024 7:00 a.m. PT 6 min read ...

Eve’s Android app is finally almost here, thanks to Google’s new Home APIs With Google opening up its smart home platform, the once Apple-only smart home company Eve says development of its ...

Aqara unveiled three new Matter-compatible products: The Hub M3; the Border Router Plug, with Wi-Fi and Thread radios; and the Smart Lock U300 lever lock.

While Matter may be the "official" solution to too many smart home apps, other attempts at combining home automations in one place exist -- and some are good. Our favorites are the Home Assistant ...

Matter is the new smart home standard from Apple, Google, Amazon, and Samsung that’s designed to fix some of the biggest issues of the smart home. But over 12 months since it launched there are ...

Matter, set to fix smart home standards in 2023, stumbled in the real market Gadget makers, unsurprisingly, are hesitant to compete purely on device quality. Kevin Purdy – Dec 23, 2023 4:35 AM | 185 ...

It’s been two years since Matter, the unifying smart home protocol, officially launched and about 18 months since v1.1 of the Matter spec added support for thermostats.