[varun_chopra]

Does anyone know if Matter is being embraced by companies working on home automation products?

I'm in India and it seems that the ecosystem is really garbage -- some devices work with Alexa, some with Google, and very little work with _all_ major providers (and I'm an Apple user). Is it better in other countries?

[mholm]

Matter was finalized fairly recently in hardware timescales. It's not better anywhere just yet, though I'm expecting we'll see quite a few expensive Matter devices start coming from the major players, then trickle down to the non-discerning customers as they get cheaper.

[supergeek133]

For some products it is a horsepower/memory problem, depending on the device you're building.

If you work for traditional thermostat company that happens to also build connected ones, adding Matter on top of other things required a lot of memory and microcontroller improvements that we just didn't have the space for previously. Especially when half your company does nothing but drive cost out of the BOM.

So, it's net new product.

Now a security panel on the other hand should be a little easier.. the modern ones are basically linux boxes.

[2Gkashmiri]

Have attempted to look at a lot of stuff but all revolve around their servers having to approve anything.

I remember a power strip that refused to work wothout internet because it could not communicate with server for auth and actions.

I have decided to go full diy and use relays and esp32 to power on devices and such.

Use raspberry pis with home assistant to do the work.