Home Assistant officially Matters
Home Assistant officially Matters
Home Assistant gains certification, but also a powerful tool for any open source project
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Fantastic, hoping to see more Matter devices, I wonder what a hub will cost to connect HA to Matter
You can flash the Sonoff Zigbee Dongle-E to turn into a Thread antenna using OpenThread RCP. So you can run Matter over Thread. This dongle cost less than $30 on AliExpress.
https://darkxst.github.io/silabs-firmware-builder/
I’ve connected my Nuki smart lock via this dongle. Though I’m preferring to use the MQTT over Thread implementation for this lock. Since it broadcasts more information over MQTT than with the Matter integration.
My Matter (and Zigbee, and Z-Wave) hub is a laptop I paid 300.00 for almost 10 years ago, when I wanted something cheap for the semi truck.
I run Home Assistant on it now. I have both a $40 zwave USB stick, and a similarly priced Zigbee stick.
The software for the hub comes with HA. Just install the matter server
Their zbt-1 dongle can do either zigbee or thread, but matter does not technically need anything else. Thread does, but not Matter. Install Matter Server addon and you can use any matter WiFi device.
I have a Zigbee dongle, so Matter works on WiFi hardware? I don't need a extra dongle?
Correct. Unlike zigbee and zwave Matter does not define a single communication technique.
It can be used with thread, or over a standard
tcoTCP IP network.Typically, Matter devices will support either thread or WiFi, but there's no definite distinction to Matter itself.
If you also want to use Matter over Thread devices, you will need a thread dongle. The ZBT-1 can do either thread OR zigbee but not both at once.
In fact, the biggest issue I see with Matter is that there's no real easy way to tell if the device uses WiFi or thread.
There are a lot of Matter devices out there now, but only a few use the Thread protocol.