All Matter How To Articles
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Nov 29, 2024
How to Control Your Matter Smart Home From Your Samsung SmartThings TV
One of the most popular television brands, Samsung, has stealithy been adding Matter into households for the past few years. Via the SmartThings smart home panel on Samsung TVs, you can add and remove Matter-compatible and other smart home gear. Better still, Samsung SmartThings is easy to set up on your TV, too.
Nov 29, 2024 -
Sep 11, 2024
How to Use the IKEA Dirigera with Matter
IKEA has joined the Matter revolution, adding support for the new smart home standard to its Dirigera hub. But how do you set up the Dirigera to work with Matter? We lay out all you need to know to get it operating without a hitch.
Sep 11, 2024 -
Aug 29, 2024
How to Use Apple Home Adaptive Lighting With Your Matter Lights
While the transition to Matter for Apple HomeKit users was pretty seamless, the omission of one major feature—Adaptive Lighting—left some smart home fans in the dark. Thankfully, that changes with the release of iOS 18. Apple is finally bringing Adaptive Lighting to Matter devices with its latest operating system, so users both new and old can put their home's lighting on auto-pilot.
Aug 29, 2024 -
Aug 16, 2024
How to Set up a Matter Smart Plug
One of the best ways to get started with smart home tech is to employ a smart plug. These internet-connected devices have a simple task – to switch on and off, thereby powering up or powering off any connected device. And just as smart plugs have been the ideal intro to smart home tech in the past, they’re also perfect to help you get to grips with Matter.
Aug 16, 2024 -
Aug 5, 2024
How to Use Matter Multi-Admin to Share Your Devices Across Ecosystems
While Matter brings enhanced security, reliability, and a streamlined pairing process to the smart home world, the real star of the show is interoperability through its Multi-Admin feature. But how exactly do you use Multi-Admin with your devices? We'll walk you step-by-step through the process.
Aug 5, 2024 -
Jul 10, 2024
How to Set Your Preferred Apple Home Hub
If you have multiple HomePods or Apple TVs in your smart home, you may notice that the Home app doesn't always pick the most centrally located or the most powerful home hub. This can lead to slower response times and disconnections, and it may even break Matter device automation. To better optimize your smart home, you'll need to know how to set your preferred Apple Home hub.
Jul 10, 2024 -
Jul 8, 2024
How to set up a smart device home with Matter
One of Matter's big selling points is its simplicity. But there are still some things to remember when setting it up for the first time.
Jul 8, 2024 -
Jul 4, 2024
How to Update Matter Devices in the Apple Home app
Staying on top of the latest firmware updates is crucial for securing your Matter devices and ensuring your smart home runs smoothly. However, navigating through various vendor apps for each of your devices can make tracking down updates rather tedious.Thankfully, some Matter platforms—like the Apple Home app—can help by offering firmware updates directly to compatible devices.
Jul 4, 2024 -
Jun 20, 2024
Apple Puts Swift on Cheap ESP32 Boards—And Shows How to Make DIY Matter Accessories
Now you can make a DIY Matter accessory... in Swift!
Jun 20, 2024 -
May 21, 2024
How to Add a Matter Device to the Amazon Alexa app
Matter, the smart home standard that aims to unify the connected home is here, and with it comes significant changes—especially for Amazon Alexa users. Now, instead of trying to figure out whether a device integrates directly with Alexa or through a Skill, you'll only need to scan a QR code to set up compatible hardware.
May 21, 2024 -
May 10, 2024
Can I Customize Any Device to Work with Matter?
Don't want to buy all-new devices just so they work with Matter? Don't worry, there's a few ways to retrofit old appliances.
May 10, 2024