[crims0n]

My new HomePod was delivered yesterday and while exploring I discovered HomeKit now has Matter support. I have a few ESP 32s lying around and wondered if I could connect them directly instead of bridging through ESPHome / Home Assistant. Apparently you can! Will be trying it out later: https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-matter/en/main/esp32...

[MegaDeKay]

Whoa. You can also use their ecosystem to put together a Thread border router! I think your HomePod might integrate that functionality already, but this is super interesting for someone like me and my old trusty Asus wifi router.

https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/tree/master/examples/op...

[balloob]

It’s possible. We’ve published a couple of example apps for ESP32 variants build from the official SDK. You can find them at https://nabucasa.github.io/matter-example-apps/

[stavros]

It looks like that's Matter Wifi, though, rather than using the Thread protocol (which may be fine for your needs, I don't know much about Matter).