At last ! Google offers Matter to Google, Android and Nest connected objects

The new home automation standard is entering a wide range of Google products and will make life easier for owners of connected objects.

After several years of waiting and a complicated development, Matter is finally a reality since November 2022.

Seamless updating across the range of Google devices

The Matter standard is supposed to improve the experience of users of connected objects. It will allow you to add and control any device, regardless of the brand of your smartphone, but also to add a device previously compatible with a single platform to integrate it into your ecosystem.

Google is part of the alliance bringing together many companies in charge of the proper development of Matter. The group has just announced that some of its home devices as well as Android are now compatible with the new standard.

To take advantage of it, there is nothing to do on the user side. The Google Home app was updated a few days ago to take advantage of the benefits of the standard.

A first step towards the interoperability promised by Matter

In detail, the connected speakers Google Home Mini, Nest Mini, Nest Audio, Nest Hub (1^D and 2^e generations), Nest Hub Max as well as the new Nest Wifi Pro and the first Google Home of the name are now compatible with Matter. In addition, the Nest Wifi Pro, Nest Hub Max and Nest Hub (2^e generation) are compatible with Thread, another communication protocol that improves the connection between the different objects present in the house.

On the Android side, Matter allows Google to expand its Fast-Pair device. This technology is known to smartphone owners and allows for example to connect a pair of headphones with a single tap. The process will be the same for adding a new connected object to your home, without having to go through a long and tedious configuration.

All is not perfect for all that in the best of worlds. Limitations are still present, and if Google claims to work with Samsung to offer control of SmartThings objects from the Google Home application, and vice versa, this will not happen before 2023. The search engine will also offer support next year. complete for iOS and hopefully interoperability with HomeKit devices.

Source : Android Authority