After supporting Matter in beta since 2023, the open-source smart home platform is now officially certified as a Matter Controller. This won’t make a jot of difference for users, says founder Paulus ...

Dylan Coyle is a reporter for Android Police, and there isn't much he doesn't cover across the Android fold. At a basic level, regardless of how complex a topic is, he tries to make it easier for ...

In fact, I would argue that its failure to live up to expectations has hurt the smart home in multiple ways, leading to users ...

Google also announced its smart home APIs are now available to all developers. Google also announced its smart home APIs are now available to all developers. One of the key changes Matter is bringing ...

Home Assistant, until recently, has been a wide-ranging and hard-to-define project. After an announcement this weekend, however, Home Assistant’s shape is a bit easier to draw out. All of the ...

It’s been two years since Matter, the unifying smart home protocol, officially launched and about 18 months since v1.1 of the Matter spec added support for thermostats. By now, I thought things would ...

Home Assistant has just taken the covers off of its latest device: the Connect ZBT-2, which is a big USB dongle that will give your smart home a high-performance Zigbee or Thread connection. It’s the ...

If you have been in the smart home world for any length of time, you may have some older gear that doesn’t support Matter, such as older Zigbee sensors, Z-Wave thermostats, and IR remotes for ceiling ...

Imagine walking into your home in 2025, where every device, your thermostat, security cameras, lights, and even your coffee mug, works together effortlessly, regardless of the brand or platform. This ...

Last month's Ikea's announcement of more than 20 new Matter-over-Thread devices felt like a much-needed breakthrough moment for the high-profile smart home standard. If Ikea—a brand with a broad, not ...