Most probably, false advertisements are not forbidden by the law there …
@Mariano_Colmenarejo I am pairing the Tuya hub as a Matter device to Apple Home first, then from Apple Home I am turning it into Pairing Mode - a new QR code is generated, and I use the new QR code to pair to to ST.
I had the same issue with a completely different Matter bridge: Tapo H100.
What solved the issue was to create the QR code, unplug the bridge, plug it in again, wait ten seconds and then add the device with the QR code.
In the official documentation it said that creating the QR code would trigger the pairing mode but that wasn’t true. The device seems to enter the pairing mode after a power cycle and leaves it after 15 minutes.
Switchbot has released a remote control that it claims is Matter compliant. Fine print indicates that it only works with Home app at this time. Looks like many features are to be added later.
At this time, only the Home app is compatible with this feature; Alexa and Google Home
are not available due to platform limitations. Updates may follow.
But it doesn’t say anything about SmartThings one way or the other, so it might work via matter over bridge that way or it might not.
It’s clear that the matter specification has not been robustly implemented for matter bridges yet. For example, the aqara models can only bridge a single air conditioner, and no other IR devices at the time of this writing.
Google and Amazon have both lagged SmartThings on Matter bridge support.
All of this, of course, is directly counter to what matter is supposed to do: make a device work the same way on all home automation platforms without requiring custom code. It’s very frustrating.
A new firmware update is rolling out to the Aeotec hub and the V2 and V3 SmartThings hubs which includes support for additional matter 1.2 features.
(Note that that is not matter 1.3. The matter specification itself is updated twice a year, but it can take platforms a while to get around to implementing it.)
I was able to add the Welov Matter air purifier. Everything works well but the PM2.5 air quality sensor is not exposed to ST. Hopefully an update/s will fix that. In the AiDot app you can create one auto on automation and one auto off automation based on the PM2.5 sensor. I was hoping to do this with ST. It’s using the driver for a Matter thermostat and I tried selecting a different driver but was not given any other options.
Could be that the capability is defined for the device, but not exposed by the presentation. I’d check the ST Advanced Web App to see if the air quality sensor capability is present. If it is, you could 1) modify the driver presentation to expose it; or 2) likely create rules in a 3rd party rules engine like sharptools.io.
Side note: buy three replacement filters now. They will be out of stock way sooner than you might think.
I took me half a year to find filters for my air purifier. I had to create a developer account on Tuya, find comparable devices, companies who sold them and matched those with one from a completely different company.
Ok, doing a little research, it looks to me like an air purifier and an air quality sensor are two separate device types. I suspect you’re running into the dreaded composite device issue where the combination of different device types used in a single device requires an explicit fingerprint definition for that combination in the driver. The thermostat driver was selected because it matches the generic device type fingerprint for the matter-thermostat:
- id: "matter/air-purifier"
deviceLabel: Matter Air Purifier
deviceTypes:
- id: 0x002D # Air Purifier
deviceProfileName: air-purifier-hepa-ac-wind
If you go to the API Browser+ and look at the device details for the device, I suspect there will be (at least) two device types in the fingerprints (0x002D for air purifiers and 0x002C for air quality sensors). It’s likely that the first device type listed is the 0x002D so that is the first match.
Single socket. First release will be for the European region. Has energy monitoring for Apple home or the SmartThings energy dashboard.
Looks like it’s just a weatherproofed single socket version of their indoor outlet.
. Reasons to monitor your power consumption and cost are aplenty. Eve Energy Outdoor gives you the insight to embrace yours – and gain a complete overview by entering your electricity rate. Available on the Apple Home platform through the Eve app for iPhone and iPad and the Samsung SmartThings platform through SmartThings Energy, monitoring power consumption and improving energy efficiency has never been this easy.
if you have a Flic hub for use with the Flic buttons, they now have an open beta, which allows you to control additional matter certified lights with a flic button when using the Flic app. So it will be very useful to some people, but it’s a pretty limited use case.
if you haven’t gotten into the Flic ecosystem before, they do have an official SmartThings integration which works OK. I like the buttons because they can be used to trigger Alexa routines and because my service dog is able to push them with his nose. But they are more expensive than many of the zigbee buttons from other brands.
They have two hubs, a mini hub for $30 and the “LR“ hub for $90. The LR hub includes an IR blaster and has HomeKit compatibility which the mini hub does not.
Often on sale or in bundles, so you might want to wait for any prime day sales if you’re not already invested.
But if you already have one, the additional matter feature is interesting, if limited, especially since you can probably already get to all of the potential target candidates via SmartThings.