This ACTUALLY Works Now!?

Matter is the newest Smart Home Standard on the block, but when I tested it way back when it was first released, I had a nightmare. 6 months later, Matter 1.1 has been released for your Smart Home, but is it any better now, and can you actually use it!? Find out as we test Matter in Home Assistant, Alexa, Google Home, SmartThings and HomeKit!

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[wildekek]

I love that you benchmark Matter by doing real end-to-end tests. This is the way.

[bill_automated]

Great to see the matter progress. Thanks for the ongoing testing. Getting standards to work is hard.

[alanjrobertson]

Pretty impressed how that's all working now - a massive step forward to have this degree of interoperability 🎉

[davidtomic]

Great videos as always! Your benchmarks are THE BEST!

[jakobh]

I hope Matter will work out soon, but it really seems like some companys want to slow down the progress so that people have to use their ecosystem exclusively. Let's hope for the best.

[Brendan]

Im still trying to rap my head around where matter fits in with my other smart home devices. I use HA and Home Kit and a smattering of everything protocol wise. Your getting started videos are always super easy to follow and Id love to see one.

[emq]

Would love to see a video on how best to make a decent mesh. I have HomePod mini in several rooms around the house so in theory it would be best to join devices to those hubs. Do other hubs (such as Sky Connect) form part of the SAME mesh? Thanks for the video. It’s great to see some progress on matter.

[AwesomeOpenSource]

This is realy awesome! Every time you said 'Hey' with such happiness, I got this image from the movie Hot Fuzz where Danny clapped his hands like the monkey at the fair and said 'Hey'...just awesome, and honestly so wholesome that you got such joy from the success. Well done.

[alanpaone]

it'd be nice to see Amazon get their butts in gear here, just because i use HA and my roommates use Alexa, but really we just need to see some matter devices hit the market now

[SlackerLabs]

Yes! This is starting to look better. Although...thats a lot of hubs... I thought we wanted less hubs. haha

[qazwsxxswzaq]

Great video. Glad that you are making progress though I think I will stick with good old Zigbee at the moment despite the drawbacks haha

[pablorosenbaum]

Great video Lewis!. I couldn't realize whether aqara motion sensor exposes illuminance sensor through matter. It doesn't expose it through Homekit so It's not possible to use it in Home assistant through aqara hub (homekit integration), but perhaps things changed with matter. Which entities are created?

[Bigglare]

Great video by the way. I had Matter working smoothly since ios 16 beta using the Matter device from HA's Matter workshop. My HA never worked with matter back then. Apple found the Espressif board right away. When Matter launched, I got the Hue Firmware and all my zigbee devices compatible with Hue, were instantly in Apple Home. Latter Matter devices paired with Apple Home, and Smartthings pretty easily. Last month with Amazon finally supporting IOS all my non bridged devices paired with Echoverse. Google's update this week for IOS finally accepted it all into Matter home. Matter worked flawlessly despite software problems with Controllers, cough Home Assistant. Waiting for Amazon and Smart Thigns to support Bridges and everything will be fine. Only thing left is Home Assistant to become a Matter Bridge itself.

[davetreadwell]

I REALLY hope ikea implement matter soon (it’s promised) so I can integrate the new hub with home assistant

[manicmods]

Well done, thanks for this! Matter is becoming more and more promising. I think in another 2 years, it will supercharge the smart home market!

Can't wait to see Matter working beautifully!

[mikosoft]

Congratulations on making it into the what's new page of home assistant!

[nickmcg]

I would be interested to see this with skyconnect and/or Sonoff ZBDongle-E. Would they connect with the devices directly or would a hub be needed too?

[superolo]

Your videos are the best!!!! Could you make a video about how to connect Amazon echo and devices from alexa app to google home and google nest? Is there even a way?

[chrisdixon]

Though it doesn't matter to me personally (I don't expect to multi-platform my devices), I was really happy to have an update on this subject and see the progress made with Matter.
Glad that your good lady doesn't mind you sharing your big huge wand around in the name of progress :D
Now get to bed (01:30?)!