Does anyone know if the new eve matter light switches are compatible with smarthings energy?
Thanks
Dom
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Based on my experience with their duplex Matter over Thread outlets, I would expect the switches and dimmers to be supported in ST Energy as well. Only downside to the duplex outlets is that all energy usage from both outlets is aggregated, not displayed separately.
I’ll update you on whether the switch is supported tomorrow once mine arrives.
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Thank you.
Well, I spoke too soon. Looks like the switch uses the switch-binary profile and the dimmer uses the light-level profile. Neither of those includes energy monitoring. When I tested the switch, it just supports on/off and there are no configuration parameters.
Also, looking on the Eve website, they only list energy monitoring on the plug-in outlet, the in-wall duplex outlets, and the power strip so I’m thinking there is no energy monitoring for either the switch or the dimmer. I may try changing the profile for the switch to use the one for the outlets, but I’m guessing that it won’t make any difference.
So changing to the power-energy-powerConsumption profile (used by Eve outlets) got me the Power meter and Energy meter on the device card. Not sure whether they would ever show usage as I don’t have a load on the switch at the moment (bench testing).
The main:powerConsumptionReport:powerConsumption capability was also calculated every 15 mins, but didn’t result in it showing up in ST Energy. My conclusion is that the switch (and probably the dimmer) are not supported in ST Energy.
According to the Matter compliance documents for the switch and for the dimmer switch they don’t include the Power or Energy measurement clusters so they don’t report energy at all.
Looks like they don’t support bindings either, so can’t be bound to Matter smart lights. SmartThings does not support bindings anyway.
Just like every Matter device, they support groups, which would be good for the popcorn effect in automations with more light sources, but SmartThings does not support Matter groups either.
Weird that they didn’t include energy measurements in these Matter devices like they did in the outlets.