Matter - smart home connectivity standard (formerly Project CHIP)

Perfect Christmas gift for my wife - I think. Depends on what Matter cluster is used for the ā€œscent intensityā€.

Matter Camera support is on its way:

Don’t miss the sub driver - a long read for a rainy day:

1600 lines and no lazy load? :exploding_head: Poor Aeotec / v3 hub with its halved memory… that’s not going to help folks already struggling with memory limits and performance.

The announcement for the Aeotec 2 / v4 said ā€œIt is the first hub with Matter camera supportā€ though, wondering if v3 is already getting behind.

quick scan of the driver, it looks like its using WebRTC. Looks like out of the gate it will support a lot of features. PTZ, two way talk, HDR, recording and snapshot triggers, multi-press buttons, presets, etc etc

Remember the LG Matter over Thread buttons?

I had given up hope. But I bet they are Korea only…

I’m still amazed that there’s so few Matter smart buttons. There are more ā€œthings with buttonsā€ (sensors, lamps, switches, etc.) than just buttons. Not that I don’t like the concept of those combos.

LG probably lost an opportunity window this year. And their buttons don’t have any extra features like bindings, which would be a differentiating factor.

No dates but there are details on the price of new IKEA Matter products

Ikea hasn’t revealed US pricing yet, but it did share pricing details for the UK. The new Kajplats will range in price from Ā£4 to Ā£9 (around $5.21 to $11.73) while the dual button remote will be Ā£3, and the scroll wheel remote will be Ā£4. The Klippbok, Myggbett, and Myggspray sensors will each be Ā£7, and the Timmerflotte temperature / humidity sensor will be Ā£5. The most expensive device in the new collection will be the Ā£25 Alpstuga air quality sensor.

I’m now even more curious about the button with wheel that has a button in the back to control multiple devices…

Can someone please explain to me what it means that Tubi got Matter certification?

Like I understand there’s plans to use it on TVs but I don’t get the benefit of an app like that having it.

Are you referring to Matter Casting?

Yeah that would be it. I’ll read that article closer but it does seem to explain what I was wondering.

I guess I thought you’d be able to Matter cast anything that’s on your phone to the TV box, similar to Airplay.

although it is Matter compatible, it is so only through one of their hubs. It also supports Home Assistant, allowing presence and light-level data to be used across multiple platforms.