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Matter 1.4 Tries To Set the Smart Home Standard Back On Track

Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from The Verge: It's been two long years since the launch of Matter -- the one smart home standard designed to rule them all -- and there's been a fair amount of disappointment around a sometimes buggy rollout, slow adoption by companies like Apple, A...

Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from The Verge: It's been two long years since the launch of Matter-- the one smart home standard designed to rule them all -- and there's been a fair amount of disappointment around a sometimes buggy rollout, slow adoption by companies like Apple, Amazon, and Google, and frustrating setup experiences. However, the launch of the Matter 1.4 specification this week shows some signs that the Connectivity Standards Alliance(CSA, the organization behind Matter) is using more sticks and fewer carrots to get the smart home industry coalition to cooperate. It brings a solution for making Thread border routers from different companies play nicely together and introduces a potentially easier way to add Matter infrastructure to homes through Wi-Fi routers and access points.

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