Matter was announced in 2022 with the promise of unifying all major smart home ecosystems—but three years later, that promise ...

Apple’s new M5-powered iPad Pro is the first iPad to officially support the Thread smart home protocol. It comes with Apple’s ...

The vision of a truly connected smart home—secure, seamless and sustainable—is rapidly approaching reality. According to an IDC report, the global market will grow from 892.3 million smart home ...

The Matter standard has received the 1.4.1 update, which includes a series of improvements and optimizations specifically designed to eliminate most of the pitfalls you encounter when setting up ...

A new “Manage Thread Network” menu in the SmartThings app Hub interface will allow you to connect a compatible hub to an ...

Like many smart home manufacturers, Ikea took its time warning up to Matter, the new standard that aims to unite the big smart home ecosystems. When it introduced its new Dirigera smart hub back in ...

Finally, there’s the swanky Aqara Panel Hub S1 Plus, a 6.9-inch touchscreen smart home hub designed to take on the likes of the Amazon Echo Hub, or higher-end control panels from the likes of Control4 ...

Panasonic Industry Europe has announced that it will integrate DigiCert Device Trust Manager into its PAN-MaX intelligent manufacturing service for “seamless” certification of its interoperable smart ...

Ikea is making big changes to its smart home lineup, introducing 20 new devices supporting Matter-over-Thread that will work with HomeKit without needing an intermediary hub. Homeowners wanting smart ...

The smart home company is also opening its ecosystem to work with major third-party platforms. The smart home company is also opening its ecosystem to work with major third-party platforms. The ...

Matter-enabled smart shades? Nothing new there, and same goes for smart shades that support Power over Ethernet. But Matter shades that do the PoE trick? That’s new in our book. SmartWings has just ...