Smart home tech can get confusing. If you have ever set up smart lights or a voice assistant, you may have run into problems getting everything to work together. Matter is a new standard that is ...

The prospect of smart home products all seamlessly working together across ecosystems is an idea we've been sold for years. In the early days of smart home ecosystems, everything operated ...

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At CES 2023, we had the pleasure of talking to Chris LaPré, who is the Head of Technology at CSA (Connectivity Standards Alliance), the organization behind the newly-launched Matter networking ...

Whether you’ve been thinking about piecing together a smart home or you’ve already committed to a platform like Amazon Alexa or Apple Home, you’ve likely come across something known as Matter.

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. How Matter works, when it’s coming, what you’ll need to use it, and how it integrates with Alexa, Apple Home, ...

The specification for Matter 1.0 was released on Tuesday—all 899 pages of it. More importantly, smart home manufacturers and software makers can now apply for this cross-compatibility standard, have ...

Matter, an upcoming smart home protocol aiming to unify device communication across platforms, is slated to be released in 2022. According to the Connectivity Standards Alliance, this could be as ...

It’s not too often that there’s an international launch event for an interoperability standard with a nearly 900-page spec manual. But there are big hopes pinned to Matter, an industry-wide effort to ...