Smart home manufacturer Aqara announced a series of new Matter-compatible smart home products at CES this week, including a Matter-compatible hub, a smart plug with an integrated Thread border router, ...

Smart home devices automate many of our daily tasks and make it easy to check in on our home from anywhere in the world. Still, most smart home devices are only compatible with other products made by ...

Three things, in addition to a Matter device like a light bulb or a doorlock: A matter “controller,” a smart home platform app, and a Thread border router. It’s important to know that there is a ...

The Thread Group will be fixing one of the largest adoption issues of Matter as a smart home standard, by making Thread border routers work nicely as one larger network. One of the problems with using ...

Matter, the smart home standard that promises an interoperable future for home automation, even if it’s scattered and a bit buggy right now, is out with a new version, 1.4. It promises more device ...

Yeah, my Threads network has been rock solid, even with the early, buggy nanoleaf firmware on their smart bulbs. Most of my Matter devices are MoT, barring a Smart Hub 2 and a nanoleaf holiday light ...

Amazon says it will bring Matter-over-Thread support to its Echo devices this spring. All of the company’s remaining compatible Echo and Eero devices will be updated to support Matter by spring as ...

We round up all the new product announcements and look at what’s next for Matter as companies start to monetize this newfound interoperability. If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may ...

Nanoleaf constantly strives to bring the latest smart home technology to gamers looking to add more light, or aesthetic lighting near their rigs. One of the most significant shakeups with the ...

Amazon is bringing support for networking standard Matter to various Echo and eero products in 2023 via the Thread protocol. The company announced a gradual rollout of Matter support in 2022, saying ...