Matter: Is there a HomeSeer technology roadmap or even a plan?

[seerbeliever]

Good article on the need to support existing protocols and Matter by bridging. Homeless is the best in the industry at bridging.

[scorp508]

I think Matter has a similar certification process?

They do for devices, but it isn't clear to me yet if the controller (?) side has a similar process. It feels like Matter is more of a common communication API, which potentially isn't a bad thing if it actually works and becomes adopted widely.

[kenm]

If it is built into Homebridge, can HS just ride on top of that?

I wouldn't think the homebridge developers would want to mix HomeKit and Matter in the same implementation. Really it's the HomeSeer HS4 plugin for Homebridge that provides the connection to HS. In the past, HST seems to have avoided HomeKit support most likely to steer clear of Apple's legal team. The Homebridge guys seem to have avoided legal issues by open sourcing it. Apple released on open source ADK for non-commercial use. HomeSeer is commercial and therefore would have to use the commercial ADK and go through the MFi certification process.

I think Matter has a similar certification process?

[wpiman]

If I were a betting man, I'd put my money on Michael McSharry to be first to have something working within mcsMQTT.

I am going to guess it will work through Homebridge first....

[wpiman]

Maybe I'm thinking about this the wrong way but it seems like this could be implemented as a bridge similar to what the homebidge for homekit does for Apple Homekit?

Edit: and like the HomeSeer nodes for Node-RED that use the existing control and status interfaces of HS4.

If it is built into Homebridge, can HS just ride on top of that?

[pistacheL0]

Ohhhhh get out of here with the dad jokes. 😂

What’s the matter?

[kenm]

This was mentioned by Rich in the past.

OK. Clearly I've been using HomeSeer for too long.

[TC1]

Maybe I'm thinking about this the wrong way but it seems like this could be implemented as a bridge similar to what the homebidge for homekit does for Apple Homekit?

This was mentioned by Rich in the past.

[kenm]

Maybe I'm thinking about this the wrong way but it seems like this could be implemented as a bridge similar to what the homebidge for homekit does for Apple Homekit?

Edit: and like the HomeSeer nodes for Node-RED that use the existing control and status interfaces of HS4.

[kenm]

If I were a betting man, I'd put my money on Michael McSharry to be first to have something working within mcsMQTT.

[TC1]

Doesn't matter, in order to incorporate a new protocol into the HS4 platform it would come in the form of a plug in. All device protocols are supported through the plug ins, Z-wave, Zigbee, etc. Whether HST or another developer does it.

I'm not going to do the googling, but yes, Rich has already indicated in the forums that Matter would be supported in the form of a bridge function. There was no timeline specified because at the time the Matter folks still hadn't gotten their act together.

If you want a "formal" answer then you need to contact HST.

[jbfoster]

That thread is in regards to someone creating a Plugin. I was wondering if HomeSeer was going to incorporate Matter into HomeSeer software sometime in the future. I didn’t want to hijack the OP thread.

Jim

[kenm]

Another thread has already been started on this.

https://forums.homeseer.com/forum/ho...rd-is-official

[scorp508]

Unless they think it doesn't matter ...

Ohhhhh get out of here with the dad jokes. 😂

[vasrc]

Unless they think it doesn't matter ...