Skov Posted July 6, 2023 Share Posted July 6, 2023 Hi UD Community I have a Polisy with Zmatter installed and Z-Wave support enabled. Can I add Matter devices now that they are available? If not is there an ETA? Skov Link to comment
lilyoyo1 Posted July 6, 2023 Share Posted July 6, 2023 Not yet. UDI will announce when it's ready. From what little I've seen, matter is far off from what was promised so it may be a while Link to comment
Skov Posted July 6, 2023 Author Share Posted July 6, 2023 Thanks @lilyoyo1 .. With some of the majors already supporting Matter like Google Home I'd hope to see at least the beta from UD soon! Fingers crossed. Link to comment
lilyoyo1 Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 The majors support it but its extremely buggy. UDI has stated their planned support but im sure they'll wait until the kinks have been worked out within the standard itself. Being that they are a much smaller company, they can't afford to support a buggy protocol that they cannot fix. 1 Link to comment
Michel Kohanim Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 Hi All, We should have simple Zigbee support next week. We are also working in parallel on Matter support. With kind regards, Michel 3 1 Link to comment
brians Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 19 hours ago, lilyoyo1 said: Not yet. UDI will announce when it's ready. From what little I've seen, matter is far off from what was promised so it may be a while Ya, it seems that if you want to use the advanced, or extra features of a device, you would still require setup and use of the device manufacturers app, otherwise you often just get basic functionality. Matter could technically work in a Polisy or EISY without the ZMatter board, if the Matter device is ethernet, not Thread. A phone will be required either way to pair a Matter device because, because requires BLE to initially setup. This would require an update to UD Mobile which I would assume they are working on. There may be other ways to setup, but a phone with BLE seems to be the standard now at least. Even Home Assistant requires the mobile app to setup Matter devices and is not possible to do with normal interface on a PC. The whole thing seems designed around systems that do not require a HA smart controller and user just uses their phone app to do everything, on boarding similar to way HomeKit already does where you scan a code... just now is a Matter code instead and now Amazon and Google will have to scan code now. It is a bit foreign and convoluted process for people currently used to and using "real" home automation controllers... but average user with their phone only will be right at home with this! There are several Matter devices out now that use WiFi... light bulbs, a door lock, smart plugs. More recently we are starting to see some more Thread devices like power plugs and door sensors (which would require the ZMatter board). However, they are more expensive than current Zigbee products, and no real reason to buy now, unless you are exclusive HomeKit, Amazon, or Google Home user maybe. Link to comment
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