We will begin rolling out Samsung SmartThings Hub firmware version 0.49.09 starting Monday, August 21. Once downloaded, your Hub will briefly go offline as it reboots and applies the update; most customers will experience less than one minute of downtime. We will update the status page when the release is complete.
Hub Target:
Samsung SmartThings Hub 2015 (Hub v2)
Samsung SmartThings Hub 2018 (Hub v3)
Aeotec Smart Home Hub
Release Date: 21 August 2023~ 06 September 2023
Note that this release may be spread out over a week, so you may not see your Hub update the first day of the release period.
Release Notes
Hubâs Matter Controller is now Matter 1.1 Certified
Added support for 3rd party Matter Bridges
Fixed a driver bug that prohibited reading from some Matter manufacturer-specific clusters
Added support for LAN drivers to optionally define search parameters to prevent running discovery (saving system resources) unless a device matching those terms is found. Drivers without search parameters defined will not see any change in behavior.
These parameters should start being used automatically for SmartThingâs official LAN drivers.
Additional documentation and details are forthcoming to be used for Non-SmartThings owned community drivers.
Minor Lua optimizations to decrease memory usage by drivers
Fixed an ssue where drivers could drop bytes during partial receives on cosock TLS sockets
Updated network connection manager and enable internet connectivity checking for V2/V3/Aeotec hubs
Fixed an issue that caused LAN child devices not to be marked offline when the parent device was online
In terms of âadding support for 3rd party matter bridgesâ does that mean I can now connect an apple TV acting as a matter/homekit hub to the SmartThings hub?
No, because Apple TV is not a âMatter bridgeâ. Itâs a âmatter controller.â The same is true of all smartthings/Aeotec hubs. They can bring matter devices into their own app, but they cannot export devices connected to their hubs to other platforms via matter. So Apple and Samsung currently offer one-way integration in. Matter âbridgesâ provide Outbound integration.
Currently available âmatter bridgesâ include:
Aqara M1s hub (beta version only)
Aqara M2 hub
SwitchBot Hub V2
ubisys G1 gateway
Philips Hue bridge (must be signed up for their beta program)
IKEA and Tuya have announced that they will offer matter bridge capability for some hub models in the future, but it is not available yet.
For smartthings users, I think the big question for this release is will the switchbot hub 2 and the Aqara M2 be supported?
Hereâs a good article with lots of details on how matter bridges work:
Most of the public comments have been that it will not.
There was one comment in one interview with one senior staff member who said that they were always open to considering new features, and then some reporters ran with that and said that there were plans to eventually make it a bridge, but I think that was a big jump from what was said to Reality. Weâll just have to wait and see.
That said, there are definite plans, including in this release, to be able to bring in other brandsâ matter bridges, so we should be able to connect an Aqara hub acting as a Matter bridge to a smartthings/aeotec hub with a local connection. Just no option to go the other way.
Only the ones connected to an Switchbot hub 2 and exposed through its matter bridge functionality. See the SwitchBot manufacturer site for the current list, they keep adding more.
Devices connected to other SwitchBot hubs will still only be available through the cloud to cloud integration. And even when connected to the SwitchBot Hub 2, itâs still not all models.
Wonder if IR devices setup will work too ?
Matter doesnât offer many options to support these kinds of Devices. Switchbot manufacturer site has a blog article explaining what can and canât work. But right now basically air conditioners have a few options and any other IR device is only on/off. Also, thereâs a limit on the total number that are bridged.
Why are infrared appliances other than Air Conditioners only able to be turned on/off?
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Matter does not support this feature.
Are there plans for Matter support for Smartthings hubs models Wifi and Home Connect? They still without any Matter support. Could they soon use at least 3rd party bridges?
I am still running on the 048.00005 Firmware Version but tried nevertheless to pair an Aqara E1 Hub via Smartthings Android App. Allegedly also a fully compatible matter BRIDGE.
Although the Aqara Hub tells me after my repeatedly unsuccessful try, that it âhas been bound to other ecological platformsâ and lists Smartthings as platform, I still get a changing* error within Smarthings App saying that it could not register in the SmartThings Cloud.
Guess, I have to wait for the Smarthings Hub update to go through, hm?
