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Google has upgraded Google Nest and Android devices to allow support for that Matter standard of smart home devices. The cross-company connectivity standard allows Google devices to connect with other people around the Matter standard using their company brands and streamlined the bond and control byGoogle Home, Nest, and Android devices.
Google Matters
Google, Amazon, and a large coalition of tech companies created Matter as a connectivity standard they might agree to share. Making Matter the default for the net of products allows customers thinking about smart home devices to create purchases without needing to check that it matches their current setup because the setups and connections have enough in common to create installation easy and require only one app across a large number of devices, and ensuring most customers won’t be tied to an isolated smart device restricted to a single voice assistant or any other AI. Google plans to include more than 80,000 Works together with Google Home devices around the Matter standard, but not all at one time. Currently, Android devices can pair a handful of Matter-compatible devices from brands like Eve, Nanoleaf, and Level and control all of them with a Nest, iPhone, or Samsung’s SmartThings hub. Exactly the same can occur backwards by having an Android device operating a good home appliance set up by an apple iphone. Amazon’s own limited list of Echo-controlled devices around the Matter standard is placed to grow rapidly next year.
“Like a person in the Connectivity Standards Alliance, the organization that develops Matter, we've worked alongside 300 companies for nearly 3 years to help make it easier to connect smart home devices across countless brands. With Matter, from smart lighting, thermostats, shutters and door locks is more efficient together with less time and effort on your part,” Google Home director of product management Karen Yao explained inside a blog post. “Within the year, we’ll enable much more Google devices with Matter and bring iOS support to the Google Home app. We're excited to see the way the smart home grows and evolves as more Matter-enabled devices become available.”
Google Smart Home
The Matter compatibility follows the discharge of a new Google Home app designed around Matter, including more customization tools. The Fast Pair feature provides automatic detection and setup for smart home devices for speedier installation. Once installed, users can view the devices, their potential actions, and automated service in whatever form they prefer, meaning live camera streams and doors that lock automatically once the app is opened. It also continues Google Nest's integration with Samsung SmartThings, which has deepened significantly this year using the introduction of a Google Nest app for that SmartThings platform offering more control over Nest devices to SmartThings users. The app lets users add Nest devices towards the SmartThings controls. Nest can integrate devices certified within the Works With SmartThings (WWST) program. Using the new Google Home platform embracing Matter, the integration should be even smoother.
