Matter formally launched on the finish of final 12 months, and from what we have seen to date, 2023 seems set to be remembered because the 12 months the brand new smart home commonplace went mainstream.
A uncommon instance of the massive boys of tech getting collectively to do one thing for the higher good, Matter has the likes of Apple, Amazon, Google and Samsung on board.
The thought is that Matter is a brand-agnostic, interoperable utility layer software program suite.
In phrases you are extra prone to perceive, it’s a platform that enables your entire linked home tech – regardless of who makes it and it doesn’t matter what smart home ecosystem you utilize – to play properly with one another.
No extra leaping out and in of various apps, no extra worrying that your family is break up between iOS and Android, and no extra locked platforms; Matter is designed to make issues simple when establishing your smart home.
Take a look at our complete information on the Matter smart home to dig slightly deeper, however, if you happen to’re prepared to leap aboard, then learn on to seek out out what units work with Matter and what tech you will have to stand up and operating.
What Matter Controllers can be found
When Matter was first introduced, there was a number of pleasure round the truth that it promised a smart home life away from hubs, bridges and brand-specific controllers.
Nevertheless, that is not fairly the case – you’ll nonetheless want a Matter Controller to be the brains of the system.
In contrast to, for instance, with a Hue Bridge or an Arlo SmartHub, the excellent news is that your Matter Controller is not tied to a selected model or set of merchandise. It should work throughout the spectrum of Matter-certified units.
Android and iOS units can even act as Matter controllers, too, however you will should be sure to’ve obtained the most recent software program on board – and in addition a suitable Matter controller app, corresponding to Apple Home, Amazon Alexa or Google Home.
A variety of these Matter controllers additionally double up as Thread border routers, however extra on that within the subsequent part.
Here’s a full record of all Matter controllers on the time of writing:
- Aeotec SmartThings Hub (*additionally Thread border router)
- Amazon Echo (2nd and Third-gen)
- Amazon Echo (4th-gen) (*additionally Thread border router)
- Amazon Echo Dot (and with Clock) (2rd-gen+)
- Amazon Echo Flex
- Amazon Echo Enter
- Amazon Echo Pop
- Amazon Echo Plus (2nd-gen)
- Amazon Echo Present 10 (Third-gen)
- Amazon Echo Present 5 (2nd-gen+)
- Amazon Echo Present 8 (All gens)
- Amazon Echo Present 15
- Amazon Echo Studio (each generations)
- Apple HomePod 1st-gen
- Apple HomePod 2nd-gen (*additionally Thread border router)
- Apple HomePod Mini (*additionally Thread border router)
- Apple TV 4K 2022 128GB (*additionally Thread border router)
- Apple TV 4K 2022 64GB
- Apple TV 4K 2021 (*additionally Thread border router)
- Google Home (1st-gen)
- Google Home Mini (all-gens)
- Google Nest Audio
- Google Nest Hub (1st-gen)
- Google Nest Hub 2nd-gen (*additionally Thread border router)
- Google Nest Hub Max (*additionally Thread border router)
- Google Nest Mini
- Google Nest WiFi
- Google Nest WiFi Professional (*additionally Thread border router)
- Hoobs Professional (*additionally Thread border router)
- Home Assistant
- Homey Professional (*additionally Thread border router)
- Nabu Casa Home Assistant Yellow
- Samsung SmartThings app (Android)
- Samsung SmartThings Hub v2
- Samsung SmartThings Hub v3 (*additionally Thread border router)
- Samsung SmartThings Station (*additionally Thread border router)
- Samsung Household Hub Fridge 2022 fashions onwards
- Samsung Smart Displays 2022 fashions onwards
- Samsung Smart TVs 2022 fashions onwards
What Thread border routers work with Matter?
The likes of the Nest Hub Max, HomePod Mini and the most recent SmartThings hubs talked about above additionally double up as each Matter controllers and Thread border routers.
However there are additionally a bunch of units that simply function the latter, serving to to make your Matter Thread community stronger.
Learn our information Thread within the Matter smart home to seek out out extra about how precisely this works.
As with the array of Matter controllers, the excellent news is that you simply will not essentially have to exit and purchase any new equipment to get your Thread community up and operating.
Thread border routers may be enabled in current units through a firmware replace, and there are already a bunch of Thread border routers that work with Matter already obtainable and probably already in your home corresponding to:
- Amazon Eero Beacon
- Amazon Eero Professional
- Amazon Eero 6
- Amazon Eero Professional 6
- Amazon Eero Professional 6E
- Amazon Eero 6+,
- Amazon Eero PoE 6
- Nanoleaf Parts / Strains / Shapes controllers
It is price noting that, regardless of these Eero units being listed above (and Eero states that each one Thread units must be interoperable with them), Amazon is not fairly ‘reside’ with Thread for Matter but.
At CES 2023, it did announce that these utilizing iOS units to energy their Alexa smart home will obtain Matter performance this spring, whereas the assist may even lengthen to Matter over Thread.
And we have now seen the primary fruits of this extension as Matter over Thread is now reside on the 4th-gen Echo.
One of the best Matter-certified smart home units
With the launch of Matter 1.0 (and now Matter 1.1) we’re beginning to see units licensed from throughout the eight launch classes; gentle bulbs and light-weight switches, plugs, door locks, thermostats and HVAC controllers, blinds and shades, smart sensors, bridges, smart TVs and streaming units.
Listed below are the perfect Matter smart home units throughout these launch classes, with a breakdown of how manufacturers are rolling out their Matter updates.
Philips Hue
Signify initially acknowledged that Matter assist will come to its smart lights in Q1 2023 however Hue’s Matter plans had been delayed.
Nevertheless, in September 2023, Hue lastly added Matter to the combination. You’ll nonetheless want your Hue Bridge to sync it to Matter; the one Hue machine that’s Matter licensed is the Hue Bridge – the bulbs themselves are solely be capable to play a component when linked to the Bridge.
Wiz
Signify’s different smart gentle model Wiz is full steam forward for Matter, with the corporate updating all merchandise manufactured since Q2 2021 with an over-the-air (OTA) firmware replace to develop into a part of the Matter ecosystem,
Eve
Eve is arguably the most important participant when it comes to Matter launches to date.
In December, it rolled out an over-the-air Matter replace for 3 units – Eve Power, Eve Door & Window and Eve Movement – and, in consequence, they turned the primary units obtainable to assist the brand new commonplace.
After promising at CES in January it could ship a Matter-enabled product earlier than the top of Q1, Eve made the Eve Power smart plug obtainable quickly after.
The machine turns into the primary from the corporate to truly arrive with Matter enabled routinely, although assist has technically been obtainable since December by Eve’s Early Entry program.
Eve has additionally instructed us that Matter can be arriving for the likes of the Eve Aqua, Flare Lamp and MotionBlinds in 2023.
Meross
Meross is eager to push its app as a really perfect Matter controller and, when it comes to units, has gone reside with the Meross Matter Smart Wi-Fi Plug Mini (MSS115) within the US and the Meross Smart Wi-Fi Plug Mini (Matter MSS315) within the UK and the EU.
Nanoleaf
In March 2023, Nanoleaf launched a brand new Matter-enabled Nanoleaf Necessities line, comprising of three smart bulbs – A19, GU10 and BR30 fittings – alongside a lightstrip, with every providing the standard array of 16 million colours and management over colour temperature.
Nanoleaf additionally has plans to launch its Sense+ within the coming months with each the sunshine switches teaming up with the brand new Skylight, all of which can be Matter enabled. We’re additionally assured the brand new Nanoleaf 4D system will get a Matter improve in some unspecified time in the future too and there is some Matter enjoyable available at Christmas too with the Nanoleaf Necessities Matter Smart Vacation String Lights.
Nanoleaf legacy merchandise corresponding to Shapes, Canvas, Parts and Strains are all set to get a Matter OTA replace too and we’re instructed these will all additionally act as Thread border routers as nicely.
Aqara
Aqara introduced in February that Hub M2 customers can now obtain assist for Matter by a beta firmware replace.
Different Aqara hubs – just like the Hub M1S (Gen 1 and Gen 2), Hub E1, Digital camera Hub G3 and Digital camera Hub G2H Professional – can be receiving the replace over “the approaching months”.
Aqara Hubs act as a Matter bridge so as to get its huge array of smart home units up and operating along with your Matter smart home; the model states over 40 units can be supported.
Aqara has additionally taken the covers off of its first native Matter machine; the Aqara Door and Window Sensor P2 is a Thread machine that can work with any Matter controller.
Aqara additionally has its personal Matter controller / Thread border router within the works; we’re instructed that the M3 Hub will arrive early in 2024.
Schneider
Like Aqara and Philips Hue, Schenider can be updating its bridge to get its smart units singing and dancing with Matter.
The model has acknowledged that current and new Wiser units (primarily based on Zigbee) will be capable to function inside the Matter ecosystem through the Wiser Gateway following a software program replace in some unspecified time in the future in 2023.
The Schneider Wiser Plug has additionally been Matter licensed, too.
TP-Hyperlink
Initially slated for a late 2022 launch, TP-Hyperlink’s Matter had been barely delayed, however there’s a lot coming throughout each the Tapo and Kasa manufacturers.
TP-Hyperlink tells us that “not less than 10 Matter-compatible merchandise throughout a broad vary of classes, together with plugs, switches, bulbs, and hubs, can be obtainable [and] Tapo may even carry to market a brand new model of the Tapo App with assist for Matter, permitting customers to combine all Matter-supported units inside one ecosystem.”
The primary fruits listed here are the Tapo Smart Wi-Fi Mild Swap and the Wi-Fi Dimmer Swap, which went on sale in June 2023, adopted by the Tapo P110M smart plug.
Govee
Govee launched the LED Strip Mild M1 in Might 2023, which is Matter suitable out of the field.
Packing an industry-leading 60 gentle beads per meter, the result’s the very best luminosity of any 2m lightstrip available on the market.
Yeelight
Yeelight Dice Smart Lamp and the Yeelight Professional smart lighting sequence can be found now and the Chinese language model has promised extra Matter units within the close to future.
SwitchBot
Utilizing the bridge mannequin that Hue and Aqara have favored, SwitchBot has made its SwitchBot Hub 2 Matter suitable, so the likes of its curtain motor and blind controls can be utilized in a Matter smart home setup.
Yale
The Yale Guarantee Lock SL has the consideration of being the primary Matter smart lock. It is not truly a brand new lock, however now you can get a Matter module (powered by Thread) that pops inside.
Yale additionally sells the Guarantee with different connectivity choices through the module system together with Z-Wave and HomeKit.
Leviton
Lighting resolution specialist Leviton has a lot of Matter suitable units now obtainable together with the Decora Smart Dimmer Plug Wi-Fi (2nd gen) and the Decora Smart Swap Wi-Fi (2nd gen).
Extra Matter units coming in quickly
The scenario with Matter is consistently evolving and there are a plethora of smart home manufacturers and units set to go reside in 2023 that we have not talked about above.
Hoobs and Hubitat have model new smart home hubs touchdown this 12 months that can be Matter controllers and Thread border routers.
As per Samsung, LG can be planning on placing Matter controllers in a few of its new smart TVs, too, and there is additionally a brand new Ikea gateway coming too that provides Matter to the combination.
And that is simply scratching the floor – there’s a complete bunch of manufacturers who’ve revealed plans (and in some circumstances have already got certification in place) to affix the Matter revolution in 2023 with new units together with – deep breath – Whirlpool, Mui, Arlo, Cync, Sensible, Belkin, GE Lighting, Sengled, Schlage, Veea, Eltako, Flic, Degree, Nuki, Yale, Tridonic, Comcast, Netatmo, Lockly, TCL, Bosch, Mediola, SwitchBot, Leviton and Eria.
Get began with Matter
Listed below are our guides to getting your Matter smart home up and operating…
Methods to add Matter units to Alexa
Methods to add Matter units to your Apple Home app
Methods to add Matter units to Google Home
Methods to add Matter units to SmartThings
