Silicon Labs Encourages Tech Companies to Get Involved With Matter

Silicon Labs backs Matter, encouraging more companies to join the smart home revolution.

Aqara's CES 2025 Matter Smart Home Lineup Leaked

Get a sneak peek at Aqara's upcoming Matter smart home devices, including a new camera with advanced features and an innovative in-wall display.

NXP and geo Team up for New Matter-certified HEMS

A new Matter-certified Home Energy Management System is coming in 2025. The SeeZero thermostat and display are the result of a collaboration between microcontroller producer NXP and geo.

NEC Platforms Joins Connectivity Standards Alliance, Targets Matter Smart Home

NEC Platforms has joined the Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA), but what can it offer the Matter-driven smart home?

You Can Now Enjoy Dynamic, Adaptive Lighting with IKEA Dirigera – Here’s How

Wouldn’t it be great if your lights automatically adjusted their intensity and temperature depending on the weather or time of day? Well, a new update to the IKEA Home app has added that very feature.

Can Using Matter Devices Save Energy and Help the Environment?

One of the key aspects of the Matter smart home platform is its energy monitoring features, extended in Matter 1.4. With careful management and configuration, there is the potential for a smart home to not only save you some physical energy, but to also reduce on domestic energy use. So do Matter devices contribute to energy efficiency and environmental sustainability?

How to Control Your Matter Smart Home From Your Samsung SmartThings TV

One of the most popular television brands, Samsung, has stealithy been adding Matter into households for the past few years. Via the SmartThings smart home panel on Samsung TVs, you can add and remove Matter-compatible and other smart home gear. Better still, Samsung SmartThings is easy to set up on your TV, too.

Can Matter be Integrated into Garage Door Openers?

The smart home is gradually moving out of the house and into other parts of your property. Exterior lighting was the first step, then gardens. But what about your garage? Can Matter work with your garage door?

The 5 Funniest Smart Home YouTube Videos

The promise of a slick, functional smart home is tantalizingly within reach, and failure is frustrating. But just sometimes, it’s a good idea to sit back, take a more holistic view of the situation, and let yourself have a bit of a chuckle. After all, we managed okay before the smart home came along. With this in mind, here are five funny smart home videos guaranteed to lighten the mood.

Aqara Adds Matter-Compatible Smoke Detector and Valve Controller to the Smart Home

Aqara has been spoiling smart home users with its increasingly common inclusion of Matter compatibility over the past few months. Two new products, previously announced but unavailable until now, underline the company’s commitment to Matter.

Leadership Insights Provides a Look at How Matter Is Developing

The CEOs of the Connectivity Standards Alliance and the Wi-Fi Alliance recently put their heads together to discuss the impact of both bodies on the development of the smart home. It’s an interesting chat, but what are the takeaways that Matter from this discussion?

The Matter Wishlist: 5 Devices We Need in Our Smart Home

Matter is expanding its reach across the smart home space, but we've spotted a few common household items that could really do with some improved smart integration.

Why Doesn't Matter Work With the Ring Doorbell, and Will it Ever?

The Matter smart home standard promises interoperability, compatibility, and an easier experience with your smart tech. But one area where there is still work to be done is with doorbells, particularly Amazon’s smart Ring doorbell. Does Matter work with Ring? If not, why doesn’t it? And will you ever be able to use a Ring doorbell on your Matter smart home?

Matter 1.4 Is Here, But What Does It Add to Your Smart Home?

Sticking to its Spring/Fall release cycle, the Connectivity Standards Alliance has today announced Matter 1.4. This brings a collection of overall improvements, including new features, revised functionality on existing features, and support for new device types.

What Matter Smart Home Devices Should a Beginner Start With?

If your smart home is just getting started, and Matter is something completely new to you, you'll need to get familiar with it without breaking the bank. Below, we’ve got five Matter devices you should get hold of if you’re new to smart homes.

Can a Smart Home Function with No Internet?

One of the key elements of the growth of the smart home is the presence of wireless networking. Almost every home has some form of Wi-Fi router installed, and this makes it easier to manage and run smart tech and Internet of Things devices. But does your smart home need a permanent internet connection? Can your smart home function reliably without the internet?

IKEA's Matter-compatible Smart Home Products

One of the easiest ways to start building a Matter-compatible smart home is to head to IKEA. But it’s not immediately clear which IKEA devices will work with Matter, and which ones are tied to IKEA’s previous smart home platform, TRADFRI. So, to help you out, we’ve collected all of IKEA’s smart home devices with Matter compatibility in one place.

When Did Smart Home Technology First Appear? An In-Depth History

Having lights that switch on when you enter, or a robot cleaner that detects mess as soon as it hits the floor, and voice-controlled living room environmental settings, were once the stuff of fiction. But smart home technologies in the real world have been with us longer than you might imagine. How did we get from basic electronic appliances to voice controlled robot cleaners?

Does Matter Require mDNS?

As with most smart home protocols, Matter relies on wireless networking. But there is an aspect of Matter’s Wi-Fi requirement that might just impact its implementation on your network: multicast DNS (mDNS), a stand-alone protocol intended for small networks. Does Matter demand mDNS, or can you use Matter without it?

HomeAssistant and SmartThings Embrace Matter 1.3

Samsung SmartThings and the open source Home Assistant have become the first platforms to support Matter 1.3. But hold on: wasn’t Matter 1.3 released in May 2024? It’s taken five months for adoption, so why is Matter adoption so slow?