Every machine that works with Matter (December 2024)

Two years after its launch, the Matter sensible house normal remains to be plugging away at its mission to create a sensible house that’s simple to make use of, works with each ecosystem, and operates domestically and securely in your house. Numerous merchandise now work with Matter, which in lots of instances means it’s now simpler to purchase a related gadget like a sensible mild or sensible lock and get it arrange in your house.

Matter is an business normal developed by Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and lots of others to allow simpler, safer, and extra dependable communications between Internet of Things units. It additionally permits producers to construct to 1 normal — Matter, whereas nonetheless working inside any ecosystem — together with Apple Home, Google Home, Amazon Alexa, and Samsung SmartIssues.

To provide help to navigate this courageous new world, we’ve compiled a listing of all of the Matter-compatible merchandise you should purchase now, together with particulars on how they may work in your sensible house and whether or not they work with Thread — one of many two fundamental wi-fi protocols Matter runs on (the opposite being Wi-Fi).

We even have data on the sensible house platforms that help Matter, which units work with them, and what it’s good to get began. We’ll maintain this text up to date as new data comes out.

Following the discharge of the latest Matter spec (1.4) in November 2024 by the Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA, the group that runs Matter), Matter now helps a lot of the widespread machine sorts you would possibly need to use in your sensible house (with some notable exceptions, together with safety cameras and safety techniques).

Most devices can now theoretically work with the brand new normal — together with lighting, locks, home equipment, TVs, robotic vacuums, routers, thermostats, and sensors. Additionally, vitality administration — a compelling motive to attach your units if you wish to scale back vitality use and lower your expenses — can be now a part of the usual.

However, simply since you construct it doesn’t imply they’ll come. While Matter gives the constructing blocks for a better house, as of December 2024, not all sensible house producers have added Matter help to their units. Additionally, not all platforms help all of the machine sorts.

This could make getting arrange with Matter complicated and is partly why Matter remains to be not able to be the principle option to join all of your units in your sensible house. But if you happen to’re desirous to get began with Matter and need to see among the promised advantages — native management, improved machine safety, and having the ability to management your devices with any sensible house platform you’d like — then learn on for a listing of each gadget you should purchase at present that works with Matter and what it’s good to get began.

To use Matter units, you will want a Matter controller from the sensible house platform you propose to make use of. For instance, an Apple HomePod or Apple TV for Apple Home, a Google Nest Hub for Google Home, a SmartIssues hub for Samsung, an Amazon machine for Alexa, and so forth.

Every main sensible house platform has up to date its current hubs and sensible audio system to make them Matter controllers. You’ll additionally want that platform’s smartphone or pill app. These act as Matter commissioners and join the Matter machine to the Matter controller.

Some Matter controllers are additionally Thread border routers. You want a border router so as to add Thread units to your private home. (Apple customers can use an iPhone with Thread in it to onboard Thread units to their house community.)

If your Matter controller shouldn’t be a Thread border router, you’ll be able to add a Thread border router-capable machine from any producer to your community, and it ought to present the connectivity you want — it doesn’t need to be from the platform you might be utilizing. (Multiple Thread border routers from completely different corporations may cause some points, so maintain that in thoughts as you add units to your private home.)

(These Matter controllers are all additionally Thread border routers until indicated as Wi-Fi solely)

• Nest Hub (second-gen)
• Nest Hub Max
• Google TV Streamer 4K
• Google Nest Wifi Pro
• Google Nest Wifi Router / Point
• The following Google units are Wi-Fi-only Matter controllers: Nest Audio, Nest Mini, Nest Hub (first-gen), Google Home (authentic sensible speaker), Google Home Mini

• Aeotec SmartIssues Smart Home Hub
• Samsung SmartIssues Station
• Samsung SmartIssues Hub Dongle
• Samsung SmartIssues Hub v3
• Samsung Smart TVs (2023 and newer), Smart Monitor M80C (2023 and newer), and Q-Series Soundbars (2023 and newer) 
• Samsung Bespoke Family Hub fridge (2023 and newer)
• The following Samsung units are Wi-Fi-only Matter controllers: Samsung SmartIssues Hub v2, Samsung Family Hub fridge (2017 and newer, can add Thread with a dongle), Samsung Smart Monitors 2022 fashions, Samsung sensible TVs 2022 fashions, Samsung Music Frame

• Echo Hub
• Echo (fourth-gen)
• Eero Pro 6E, Pro 6, 6 Plus, 6, PoE 6, and PoE Gateway
• Echo Show 8 (third-gen)
• Echo Show 15 (second-gen)
• Echo Show 21 (second-gen)
• Eero 6 units and newer, together with Eero Max 7
• The following Echo units are Wi-Fi-only Matter controllers: Echo Dot and Echo Dot with Clock (third-gen and newer), Echo Pop, Echo Spot, Echo Studio, Echo Show 5, Echo Show 8 (second-gen), Echo Show 10 (third-gen), Echo Show 15, Echo Input, Flex, and Plus (v2)

Other platforms with Matter controllers

Matter now helps over 40 machine sorts — you’ll be able to see a full checklist by Matter 1.3 right here, and the brand new Matter 1.4 machine sorts right here. However, the Matter specification doesn’t require that every platform help all machine sorts. This signifies that whereas your sensible air air purifier may go by Matter with Amazon Alexa, it could not work with Google Home.

Here is a rundown of which platforms at the moment help which Matter units:

Apple Home helps lighting units, air conditioners (air purifiers and air high quality displays), buttons, bridges, locks, sensible plugs / shops, thermostats, blinds and shades, and sensors (movement, ambient mild, contact, temperature, and humidity). The firm has stated it is going to add help for robotic vacuums to Apple Home with iOS 18 in early 2025.

Amazon Alexa helps lighting units, sensible plugs, door locks, bridges, blinds and shades, followers, sensors (together with movement, contact, ambient mild, humidity, and temperature), generic buttons and switches, room air conditioners, dishwashers, robotic vacuums, smoke and carbon monoxide alarms, air high quality sensors, and air purifiers.

Google Home helps all lighting units, sensible plugs, door locks, bridges, blinds, followers, thermostats, and sensors (together with movement, contact, occupancy, ambient mild, humidity, temperature, strain, and movement).

Samsung SmartIssues helps all Matter machine sorts by Matter 1.3.

Home Assistant helps all Matter machine sorts by Matter 1.3.

What follows are lists of all of the sensible house units we all know of that at the moment work with Matter.

Most Matter-compatible merchandise will be recognized by a Matter emblem on the packaging and a Matter QR code on the machine itself. However, some older units have been up to date to Matter with over-the-air firmware updates. Others (equivalent to Philips Hue lights) will be added to Matter by a proprietary hub or bridge.

All the foremost platforms help sensible door locks by Matter, however solely a handful of locks at the moment work with Matter.

I’ve written extra about how Matter works with sensible locks right here, however the greatest factor to know is that if you happen to use a lock by Matter, the one assured help is the flexibility to lock and unlock it. Features equivalent to including PINs and utilizing auto-lock rely upon the platform you might be utilizing. For instance, Apple Home and SmartIssues help PINs by Matter, however Google and Amazon Alexa don’t.

Recently, Apple added help for Home Key to Matter locks utilizing its platform. However, this solely works on locks which are NFC enabled and connect with Apple Home straight by way of Matter, not by a bridge or hub.

Matter 1.4 added help for scheduling and preset modes like trip and residential / away settings, along with temperature adjustment and mode modifications. However, there are solely three thermostats that help Matter within the US: Google’s Nest Thermostat (2020), its Nest Learning Thermostat (4th gen), and the Meross Matter Smart Thermostat.

Smart thermostat firm Ecobee has stated it’s dedicated to Matter however hasn’t shared a timeline for when its thermostats will help the usual. There are a number of different local weather management units designed for European heating techniques that work with Matter.

Air purifiers arrived with Matter 1.2 and at the moment are supported by all platforms besides Google Home.

For robotic vacuums, the Matter spec helps capabilities together with distant begin and progress notifications, switching cleansing modes (i.e., from dry vacuum to moist mopping), and standing particulars equivalent to brush and charging standing and error reporting. 

Matter doesn’t help room mapping, so you’ll nonetheless want to make use of the producer’s app for that. However, primarily based on Apple’s plans to implement robovac help in Matter, it seems you can management room-specific cleansing by Matter.

Samsung SmartIssues and Amazon Alexa at the moment help robotic vacuums, and Apple has stated help will come early subsequent yr. However, no robotic vacuums have Matter help absolutely enabled. Most on this checklist have stated will probably be obtainable on these fashions by way of an OTA improve later this yr.

Read extra about Matter help for robotic vacuums in my robotic vacuum shopping for information.

Fridges / freezers, dishwashers, washers, dryers, microwaves, and ovens are all supported Matter machine sorts, however to date, precise on-sale home equipment with Matter help are few and much between.

Manufacturers Whirlpool (which owns KitchenAid and Maytag), Bosch, Midea, Hisense, Toshiba, LG, Samsung, and Haier (which owns GE Appliances) are all members of Matter. But solely Midea and Bosch have carried out the usual.

Midea has added it to a dishwasher and microwave, neither of which you should purchase but. Bosch has Matter in its Siemens / Bosch XXL built-in fridge freezer and its Bosch 100 Series French Door fridge, however the replace gained’t be reside till March 2025.

Some Samsung fridges and TVs are Matter controllers however not Matter units . Notably, Samsung has not dedicated to creating any of its home equipment Matter units.

Several TV producers, together with TCL, Hisense, Toshiba, and Universal Electronics have stated their merchandise will help Matter. LG and Samsung have enabled their newer TVs as Matter controllers, however not Matter units.

As a Matter-enabled machine, a TV must be controllable by your sensible house app, together with adjusting quantity, altering inputs, powering on and off, and altering channels.

Amazon has added Matter help to its Fire TVs and Fire Sticks (working Fire OS 7 or greater), which allows Matter Casting. This function of Matter permits you to solid content material from an app in your cellphone to an app on a TV or show. So far, solely Amazon helps Matter Casting, and just for Prime Video.

In Matter 1.4, the CSA has added set-top packing containers as a sort that might be Matter-certified if the machine features a Wi-Fi entry level, a Thread border router, and Matter-specific software program capabilities. We’ve but to see any corporations launch a tool like this.

Controlling shades is pretty easy: they are often up or down, open or closed, or partly open. Matter help is out there for all these options, plus tilting for blinds, so if you’re in search of sensible shades, these with Matter help will work as anticipated with all the large platforms.

• Aqara Roller Shade Driver E1 (by Aqara hub)
• Aqara Curtain Driver E1 (by Aqara hub)
• Aqara Roller Shade Controller (by Aqara hub)
• Eve MotionBlinds (Thread)
• Eve MotionBlinds Upgrade Kit (Thread)
• Ikea sensible blinds (by Dirigera bridge)
• SwitchBot Curtain Motor (by SwitchBot Hub 2)
• SwitchBot Blind Tilt (by SwitchBot Hub 2)
• SmartWings (Thread)
• Zemismart Roller Shade Motor (Thread)
• Zemismart Curtain Motor (Thread)

There are many sensible lighting choices obtainable in Matter, from bulbs, switches, and sensible plugs to a lamp or two and a few shops. If you need to management your sensible lights with primary on / off, dimming, and colour management, then any of the choices beneath will work properly for you.

The good thing about Matter right here is that the lights will join on to your platform of alternative without having a third-party app and can work domestically in your house with out counting on the cloud for instructions, which means they need to reply extra rapidly and reliably.

However, if you wish to reap the benefits of further options provided by some sensible lighting corporations (Philips Hue, Wiz, and Nanoleaf, for instance), you’ll want their apps to manage these. This consists of dynamic lighting scenes, safety lighting, or circadian rhythm lighting.

With iOS 18, Apple’s Adaptive Lighting function now works with Matter sensible lights (so long as the lights have enabled the function). This at the moment consists of Nanoleaf, Aqara, and Philips Hue.

Several sensible plugs work with Matter (over Thread or Wi-Fi). Matter helps primary on / off performance. While the Matter spec now helps vitality monitoring, solely SmartIssues and Home Assistant have carried out it. If you employ a unique platform, you will want to entry vitality monitoring options by the sensible plug app (e.g., Eve Energy and the Eve app).

Sensors have among the most sturdy help of any machine sort, with help in Matter for occupancy, open / shut, mild, temperature and humidity, and strain and movement sensing for water leak detectors. Support for extra superior presence sensing applied sciences equivalent to mmWave and imaginative and prescient (by a digital camera) arrived with 1.4. Sensors are additionally getting extra customizable sensitivity settings and historical past reporting.

Smart house units that use a proprietary bridge — equivalent to Philips Hue sensible bulbs, Aqara sensors, or a SwitchBot door lock — will be “bridged” into Matter to manage their related units in a Matter sensible house platform. If you have got units that work by a bridge and that bridge has been up to date to Matter, the units related to it is going to work in a Matter platform.

However, some options particular to the producer’s app, equivalent to dynamic lighting or exact sensor settings, is probably not obtainable on the Matter platform. Additionally, some Matter-specific options, equivalent to Apple’s Home Key for Matter locks, gained’t work with units which have been bridged to Matter.

With 1.4, Matter added official help for Wi-Fi routers, modems, entry factors, and set-top packing containers, recognized collectively as HRAP (Home Routers and Access Points).

To be Matter-certified, an HRAP machine must be each a Wi-Fi entry level and a Thread border router. It additionally must run particular Matter software program that helps storing and sharing Thread community credentials and gives different infrastructure help for Matter in your house.

Importantly, HRAP units don’t need to be Matter controllers (though they are often), so they could be a platform-agnostic piece of Matter infrastructure in your house. This means all you would want as well as can be a Matter controller out of your platform of alternative, and also you’d have all it’s good to begin constructing a Matter sensible house.

Comcast, a serious participant in creating Matter, made its xFi gateway Matter-compatible, but it surely doesn’t have Thread and doesn’t at the moment work with any sensible house platforms. With the arrival of 1.4, there might be some motion right here, probably from corporations like AT&T, Verizon, and others.

Currently, Google Nest’s Wi-Fi routers are Thread-enabled Matter controllers for Google Home, and Amazon (which owns Eero) has added Matter controller help to its Eero 6 units and newer. Whether both firm will undertake the brand new HRAP spec on its routers stays to be seen, however if you happen to use Alexa or Google Home, their respective router is a good basis for a Matter setup.

Ultimately, a future the place all Wi-Fi routers have Thread and Matter built-in may lastly make establishing a sensible house simple. What would make it even simpler is that if these new HRAP units may be Matter controllers for any platform, however that’s in all probability asking an excessive amount of.

Update, December tenth, 2024: Streamlined the reason part of the article, added a bit outlining which platforms help which machine sorts, included newly introduced merchandise, and made updates all through.