It's no secret that I'm a big fan of Home Assistant, which gives the closest thing to the interconnected smart home marketing teams promised me. But the consortium behind Matter also promised things, ...

Matter is the future, but we live in the present.

After supporting Matter in beta since 2023, the open-source smart home platform is now officially certified as a Matter Controller. This won’t make a jot of difference for users, says founder Paulus ...

Today, May 4th, Homebridge 2.0, which has been in beta for over three years, officially launches. Along with other ...

Many users are discovering that IKEA’s new line of Matter smart home products is buggy and unreliable. Matter’s multi-admin is a disaster and causes many issues if you try to control these lights with ...

The open-source project for connecting devices not supported by Apple is maturing. Version 2.0 brings various improvements.

Discover why building a Matter smart home is getting more expensive in 2026 due to new FCC regulations and global compliance ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. As a smart home user, you've probably heard multiple mentions of Thread, Zigbee, and Matter from different companies, and seen all three names ...

Homebridge is a free, open-source project on GitHub that has been quietly powering Apple Home setups since 2015. Built on Node.js, it runs locally on hardware as modest as a Raspberry Pi or an old Mac ...