Something big is coming! (June 2021 app update)

[JDRoberts]

The thing is, they’re also using the plain “Samsung” hashtag. So I’m thinking that’s not going to be for anything as narrow as the home automation features.

Unless…it’s something to do with Matter. That’s getting a lot of buzz right now, and they might want to be part of it. Which as I’ve mentioned elsewhere, could actually be very cool.

Matter - smart home connectivity standard (formerly Project CHIP)

I was just thinking today that although the impetus for project CHIP originally came from the voice assistant companies (Amazon, Google, Apple), Samsung has been a member from the beginning. And think how cool it would be if some of the rules engine platforms like smartthings and Tuya could also easily work with matter-compliant devices. All the devices out there where we have to hack together integration through intermediaries like Alexa routines and IFTTT and homebridge Might be able to just work with your smartthings account if the radios were compatible (WiFi works) and they were Matter-compliant. It would be like the stock Z wave DTHs today, you might not get all the advanced features, but still… That could be very cool.