Hi
Im looking for Matter over Thread ceiling lights and the only ones i found are extremly expensive nanoleaf squares where you have to buy 3 or more for a 20m² room.
Does anyone have some recommendations?
Or should i go with strong matter over thread bulbs?
#Matter over Thread
Matter 1.5 added a Soil Sensor device type, and Home Assistant 2026.7 can finally show it. As far as I can tell, nobody ships a native Matter soil sensor yet, commercial or otherwise, and I wanted one for my plants.
The Seeed Studio XIAO Soil Moisture Sensor is about $12 and runs ESPHome over WiFi from the factory, but the ESP32-C6 inside has an 802.15.4 radio sitting unused. This firmware repurposes it for Thread.
The sensor pairs straight to Home Assistant as a real Matter soil sensor. No WiFi, no cloud, no YAML. Battery percentage and cell health report too, and there's on-device dry/wet calibration with LED prompts.
This is a starting point, not a finished product. AA battery life is weeks per cell right now (similar to what people report on the factory firmware), not months, and the data so far points at the board's boost converter rather than the radio. Everything is documented in the open, including a power page with the actual battery graphs from my two test units.
The hardware is cheap enough to just try. Flashing is over USB-C in a couple of minutes, and going back to stock is a browser flasher from Seeed, meaning the experiment costs you nothing but the sensor. You need HA 2026.7 or newer and test-net DCL enabled in the Matter Server, and the docs walk through all of it.
If you flash one, sample interval and TX power are build-time knobs, and battery reports as GitHub issues are the fastest way to make this better for everyone.
Repo with docs, field data, and prebuilt firmware:
https://github.com/automatous-io/xiao-soil-moisture-sensor-matter-thread
This device that I created turns any non metallic surface into a complete controller for your smart home. Up to surface thicknesses of 60mm. Completely local, no cloud. Compatible with Matter and MQTT. If you want to learn more, see a demo video or find further specs check out: www.novisense.ca
I recently moved my existing Zigbee2MQTT network from an SLZB-07 (USB) to a network-connected MR5U.
After getting everything migrated, I started playing with placement and eventually decided to try the coordinator over Wi-Fi instead of Ethernet.
I assumed this would be one of those “technically works, but why would you?” situations.
So far, though, I really can't tell the difference.
The coordinator is very close to my router, so maybe this an easy Wi-Fi environment.
To be clear, I'm not talking about Zigbee devices communicating over Wi-Fi — just the connection between Zigbee2MQTT and the network coordinator.
Anyone here actually running a coordinator this way long-term? Has Wi-Fi been completely reliable, or did you eventually run into disconnects, latency, interference, or some other reason to go back to Ethernet?
I wrote up the coordinator migration, Wi-Fi test, LQI/antenna changes, and some Thread testing here if anyone wants the details:
https://thingtootech.blogspot.com/2026/08/one-box-two-radios-i-moved-my-zigbee.html
Disclosure: SMLIGHT sent me the MR5U to test. They didn't pay me or review/approve what I wrote.
The smart mirror has a back light and front light, both capable of multiple colours at once, as well as Adaptive Lighting, with a top brightness of 1200lm. Three of the four built in buttons offer single, double, and long press actions, and are exposed to Apple Home for triggering other devices. The fourth button is solely for turning the defogging feature on or off.
The only downside is that whilst the front and back lights are individually controllable in LiFX, they’re treated as one light in Apple Home and other Matter platforms.
Hello I recently bought Zemismart MTP1 blinds motor specifically for their matter compatibility with the intention to connect it with ikea home smart app, When trying to pair at first it says successful but when it comes back the the ikea app it just says it didn't find any devices and its nowhere to be found. I tried many troubleshooting steps like restarting the hub and resetting the blind motor none helped. Any ideas?
Looking for people familiar with the Matter implementation rather than generic Thread advice.
Setup:
Home Assistant OS on Raspberry Pi 5
Matter Server 9.x
4 Eero Thread Border Routers
Single Thread network
IPv6 enabled on LAN
All border routers reachable over IPv6
Symptoms:
Almost never achieve a completely healthy network.
Usually exactly one Matter device is unavailable.
Rebooting HA/Matter changes which device is unavailable.
Occasionally several Matter devices drop together.
During those events another previously offline device may simultaneously recover.
Zigbee and Wi-Fi devices remain healthy.
Matter logs show repeated:
address unreachable
subscription timeout
probe failed
CASE/session recreation
retries against known IPv6 addresses
The Matter Server process itself does not crash.
My working theory is that after a Thread topology/reachability event, Matter Server may be retaining stale operational address/session/subscription state for a subset of sleepy devices rather than completely rebuilding node reachability.
Has anyone seen behaviour where:
a reboot changes the surviving subset of devices,
devices don’t naturally recover after hours,
and the logs continually retry unreachable IPv6 addresses?
Any suggestions to debug further or any known bugs directly on point?
Weiß wer ob sie die Produkte schon irgendwo zu kaufen gibt für Endverbraucher? Oder aber auch ob es andere Anbieter gibt die Matter over Thread Deckenventilatoren anbieten?
This panel is designed for EU and UK backboxes, replacing a double light switch, but it’s also a Zigbee Hub/Matter Bridge, as well as a Matter Controller. It can stream RTSP enabled cameras, like many of the recent Aqara options (G5 Pro, G400 etc), and can work with third party Zigbee devices.
I’m looking at the Matter over Thread smart blinds from SmartWings. Anyone here been using them for a while? Do they stay connected, or have you had to reset or pair them again? And what are you using as your Thread border router?
Hi I finally got my Matter project working and open sourced on Github, it includes a web installer and casing 3D files, so you can easily duplicate it without installing any software.
The project is base on ESP-IDE Matter SDK.
Main features:
Technical discussion welcomed.
It has received 150+ stars on Github: https://github.com/timj-code/bc7215_ac_matter
I don’t know if some of you remember my last post about what will be sub-GHz Thread and if anyone has info about it and the importance of sub-GHz for some devices and in some cases.
But I can confirm to you that sub-GHz Thread is coming!
I don't really know when, but I know that it was planned for June or July, maybe at the end of the year or early next year.
Z-Wave era is ending! Welcome to Thread LR 😁
I went to add some more HS054 in the house. I get through the entire setup. It says device installed. Then I look in the app and it's not there. I did this with two new sensors. Both did the same thing.
I went out to my shop and tried it there as well. Its got it's own gateway so I was checking to make sure the gateway in the house wasn't the problem. Exact same problem. It says device successfully installed but then it's not in the app.
Wifi is 2.4GHz. I connect to the wifi on the gateway and it goes the entire way and says successfully installed. I also installed Govee on another phone and the new sensors aren't there either. On the old phone I cleared cache and memory and tried again. Still doesn't appear
Any ideas?
