Hey r/Matter community! 👋

I'm the Product Manager leading the development of a new P1 smart meter reader that we're planning to launch later this year. For those who don't know, P1 meters are the standard in the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and are rapidly being adopted in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and parts of Germany . They plug directly into the P1 port on your utility meter and give you real-time access to your energy consumption, production, and tariff data.

Now, here's the big decision I'm wrestling with: should we prioritize native Matter 1.5 integration for this product?

As you all know, Matter 1.5 (released November 2025) finally added proper support for electricity meter attributes, including:

• Real-time power consumption/production
• Cumulative energy usage (import/export)
• Voltage, current, and power factor readings
• Crucially for us: dynamic electricity tariff rates

This is a game-changer because it would allow our meter to expose all this data natively to any Matter-compatible platform, without needing custom integrations or cloud bridges.

But before I push my company to invest the engineering resources into this, I need to get a better sense of the actual demand and ecosystem readiness. I'd love to hear your thoughts on these questions:

My main concerns and questions

1. Ecosystem support status:
   • Home Assistant is obviously all-in on Matter 1.5 and energy management
   • SmartThings was the first to support Matter 1.5 and has been pushing energy features hard
   • But what about Homey? I've seen mixed reports about their energy meter support over Matter
   • Apple Home: They support basic energy monitoring now, but do you think they'll add proper tariff support and energy automation anytime soon?
   • Google Home is still stuck on Matter 1.2 - any rumors on when they'll catch up?
2. User demand:
   • How many of you would actually choose a P1 meter specifically because it has Matter support?
   • Would you pay a premium (say €10-15 more) for native Matter vs. a cheaper model that only works with its own app + Home Assistant via custom integration?
   • Is multi-admin support (being able to add the meter to multiple ecosystems at once) a big selling point for you?
3. Technical considerations:
   • Have you had good experiences with Matter energy devices so far? Any major bugs or interoperability issues?
   • For those who use both Apple Home and another platform, does the energy data sync properly across ecosystems?
   • Is there anything specific you'd want from a Matter-enabled P1 meter that we might be missing?
4. The alternative:
   • If we don't do Matter initially, we'd still support Home Assistant via MQTT and our own API, which is what most P1 meters do today
   • We could potentially add Matter later via a firmware update, but that's always more complicated and risky than building it in from the start

Why this matters (pun intended)

Right now, the P1 meter market is pretty fragmented. Every brand has its own app, and while most work with Home Assistant, it's usually through community-developed integrations that can break when manufacturers change their APIs.

Matter could change all that by creating a truly universal standard for energy data. Imagine buying any P1 meter, scanning the QR code, and having it work instantly with your smart home platform of choice - no custom setup, no cloud accounts required.

But I need to make sure there's actually enough demand to justify the investment. If most people are still happy with Home Assistant custom integrations, or if the major platforms are still too slow to support the full Matter 1.5 energy spec, then maybe we should wait a bit.

What I'm promising you

I'll be reading every single comment here, and I'll take your feedback directly to our engineering and executive teams. If we do decide to go ahead with Matter, I'll make sure to come back and update this community on our progress, and maybe even run a beta program for you guys.

So please - be honest! Tell me what you really think. Would you buy a Matter-enabled P1 meter? What features are most important to you? And what concerns do you have about Matter energy devices in general?

Thanks in advance for your help! 🙏

I’m planning to replace most of my home lighting and I’d really appreciate advice from people with long-term experience using Matter smart bulbs.

Current setup:

• Home Assistant
• MikroTik network (currently Wi-Fi 6, planning to move to a MikroTik hAP be3 with Thread Border Router support)
• Mostly Tapo devices right now (smart power strips/plugs)
• Apartment setup, starting with living room, dining room and hallways first
• Gamer/tech enthusiast, but I care more about reliability and good lighting quality than RGB gimmicks

I’m intentionally excluding Philips Hue because the cost becomes very hard to justify where I live.

Right now I’m mainly comparing:

• Tapo L535E
• Linkind Matter RGBTW bulbs (especially the 1600lm A21)
• Nanoleaf Matter bulbs
• Govee Matter bulbs

Things I care about:

• Good white light quality (important!)
• Consistent color temperature between bulbs
• Efficiency/power consumption
• Low flicker/fatigue
• Matter reliability
• Home Assistant integration
• Long-term ecosystem stability
• Good brightness for common areas
• Preferably local-first behavior

I discovered my current bulbs are generic ones 1055lm 6500K 12W, so the Tapo L535E would basically match my current brightness while using less power.

However, the Linkind 1600lm RGBTW bulbs look VERY tempting because of:

• CRI90
• 1600 lumens
• 1800-6500K
• RGBTW architecture

At the same time, I keep seeing mixed opinions about long-term software/ecosystem maturity compared to TP-Link/Tapo.

One thing I’m struggling with:
Should I keep using Matter over Wi-Fi for bulbs since my network is already good, or should I start investing into Thread/Zigbee for lighting before I scale further?

Some people say Wi-Fi Matter is perfectly fine unless you have huge deployments, while others regret putting dozens/hundreds of Wi-Fi devices on their routers.

Also:
Is mixing bulb brands in connected spaces (living room + dining room + hallways) visually annoying in real life? I’m worried different whites/tints/dimming curves will look inconsistent.

Would love to hear real-world experiences from people running these bulbs long term, especially with Home Assistant.

One thing I’m also trying to understand better:

Linkind explicitly advertises true RGBTW architecture, while Tapo mostly markets the L535E as RGBW + tunable white.

Does anyone know if the Tapo bulbs actually use dedicated warm + cool white channels internally, or are they partially mixing white through RGB?

In real-world usage, does this actually affect:

• white light quality
• color consistency
• CRI perception
• dimming smoothness
• overall comfort

…or is it mostly marketing/spec-sheet differences?

I bought a WiZ smart bulb and am having trouble connecting it to my phone via Wi-Fi using their app. I think it might be because I can't create separate SSIDs for 2.4 and 5 GHz bands. If I buy a Matter compatible smart hub and connect the bulb via the Google Home or Samsung SmartThings app will will that solve my problem or will it have the same issue?

Here is the deal - I want to place an Aqara P2 sensor in my mailbox so that I can be notified when new mail arrives.

I already have M3, G410, and 2 HomePods as thread routers. And I was impressed that M3 holds the connection with P2 from the 5th floor to the 1st floor in a concrete building, while it loses connection at the ground floor.

I ordered an M100 to see if it will extend the signal, but still unsure where I can place it legally in the building.

I spent several days debugging what I thought was a code issue with my Home Assistant thermostat automation and finally figured out what was happening. Posting in case anyone else runs into this.

If you’re seeing a cryptic error like:

“Provided temperature X is not valid. Accepted range is X to X”

Here’s what’s going on. Matter communicates in Celsius internally. When HA sends a Fahrenheit setpoint to a Matter thermostat, it converts it to Celsius and your value may land right at or just over the device’s ceiling due to floating point rounding. The action then fails or behaves unexpectedly.
What made it so hard to diagnose was that it didn’t always throw an error. Sometimes it just set the wrong mode, or heat would update correctly but cool wouldn’t. All of it traced back to Matter’s unit conversion hitting that ceiling.

The fix: Back your cool setpoint off by a fraction of a degree until it converts cleanly under your device’s ceiling. The exact value will depend on your thermostat’s deadband and temperature limits.

My setup:
• Honeywell Home X8S connected via Matter
• Home Assistant
• climate.set_temperature action

Hope this saves someone else the headache.

I have a dedicated VLAN for my IoT devices, but I am trying to figure out how to have both Matter over Thread and Matter over IP working.

My primary network is where my Dirigera, and my HA Thread router are. I also have a Google Hub 2, which is currently logged into the VLAN. I can see both fabrics in my HAOS system, but I can't make a unified fabric, because of the different subnets.

I could move the Google Hub over to my main network, but then any Matter over IP devices I commission (Tapo/govee) will then exist in my primary network where I don't want them. I am not concerned about the Thread devices since they are IPv6. My Dirigera and my HA are ethernet and plugged into my primary network. My IoT network is wifi only.

What do I do here? Can I keep Google on the IoT network and publish Matter IP devices over there, and then keep Matter thread devices on my primary? Will the fabrics 'talk' to each other and let me use them all?

How should I handle the two different type of Matter devices?

Hi all, as the title suggests, I'm a newbie to Matter. I have a fairly large Philips Hue smart home and some TP-Link devices, which use their own apps, so Hue, Tapo and also Google Home Assistant.

I'm keen to try out some of the Ikea Matter over thread sensors and contact break sensors, and would like to be able to trigger an action, such as send me a notification if somebody opens my garage door (for security), or if I enter the garage, switch on a light via their smart plugs.

Does anyone know if I can set this basic automation via the Google Home app, or do I need to buy another hub of some sort (I've heard that the 'DIRIGERA' isn't needed).

I made an open source Matter over Thread firmware for the Shelly 1 Gen 4.

Shelly said they likely won't add the feature via firmware update, offering Matter over Wifi instead. So I spent a chunk of time figuring it out for my off grid Sprinter van setup.

I have these little relays commissioned to both HA using the Matter integration and Apple Home simultaneously, all humming along as on/off devices for lights using Matter over Thread - both commissioned separately without a HomeKit bridge. What started this journey mainly surrounded requirements related to having a low infrastructure smart home on wheels where wifi isn't exactly the most reliable or power conscious option I wanted to go with on a mainly 12v solar/battery system.

Hope this helps someone else out like it did for me. It's fully reversible if you back up the stock firmware. Could even go ESPHome direction if you want OpenThread and don't care too much about the Matter protocol side of it.

I am having difficulty setting up my thread network. I had successfully setup all my IKEA matter devices without issues and they worked fine for 2 days. Now they are all disconnected.

And from HA setting, I am confused. My preferred router seems Apple TV, but when I check the thread network topology, they all seem to be around Aqara G5 and all disconnected. How? Why?

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I setup all my thread devices through my apple tv & home assistant mobile ios app.

The Chromecast with Google TV 4K received time ago Google Home controls but back then it was not a Matter controller, i.e. was not a "hub for Google Home" like the Google Streamer. It is not listed either on the official list of hubs for Google Home.

(Don't confuse it with Thread border router, only the Streamer has that feature since the Chromecast has no Thread radio)

I might have missed an announcement, but turns out my CCwGTV 4K IS a Matter controller now.

The realization came wanting to test what happened when adding a device without a Matter controller / hub available. I added a Matter light fine (expected since the app does the onboarding) but, more surprisingly, was able to control it (unexpected).

At first I thought that maybe Google Home app finally added Matter controller features to use without hub like Apple Home or Smart Life apps do, this would have been such a killer feature!

Then I thought, could it be the Chromecast? And, yeah, I unplugged the Chromecast and the light went offline in Google Home. I plugged the Chromecast later, and the light went back online. Confirmed.

Hello all,

I joined the site specifically to make this post about the Altitude fan. Skip down if all you want is the instructions.

I should first say that I really like the fan(s). I have the Altitude Dragonfly 56-inch fan and the more popular Boca II 52-inch fan. Bought them at Lowe's (online). I like the Dragonfly better, it's quieter. Would recommend either of them. The install manual is decent. Read it, follow it, save yourself the "I know what I'm doing" headache. Install and Matter pairing when new out of the box- no issues.

The issue came when I decided to upgrade my HA server to something better/faster. I decided to just pair everything again on the new server. My automations are simple enough. The fans however were the biggest headache. I did keep all the documentation that came in the boxes since I knew I would upgrade the server one day.

There are instructions in the documentation on how to do a Network reset (factory reset). The problem is THEY ARE WRONG. It was the same instructions for both fans. It says to hold the "Light On/Off" button for 3 seconds, stuff will flash, then reset is done. THIS DOES NOTHING. All it seemed to do is turn everything off on the fan. I was still seeing the ip of the device on my network. I was pinging it the whole time to see if it did anything. It never dropped. I cut power from the breaker a dozen times. Nothing. What am I doing wrong- I asked myself.

After a few days of searching I came upon a manual for the remote control here. It looked exactly the same as mine. Different model number, but identical. Whether mine is older or newer, who knows. At any rate, this documentation had a different method for network reset, the correct method. This is what you are really supposed to do:

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Reset the Fan’s Smart Network/Wif Settings

1. To reconnect the fan to a new Wi-Fi or smart home ecosystem, press and hold the 2H button on the remote for 3 seconds until the LEDs flash 3 times.
2. Repeat this process with the 4H button and the 8H button, ensuring the LEDs flash 3 times after each hold.
3. Once all three buttons have been held in the sequence, the remote’s LEDs will flash 10 times, and the fan will emit a beeping sound, indicating the reset is complete.
4. Power Cycle the Fan: Switch the fan’s main power OFF and then ON using the wall switch or breaker.
5. Wait 20 to 30 seconds before restoring power to the fan.

THIS WORKS!! The button holding is more like 5 seconds actually. The remote will flash for each button sequence hold. After the 8H button hold the light does indeed flash and there is a beeping noise. I did this with everything off (fan and light). Once done kill power on the switch or breaker. IMPORTANT: Give it a bit before you turn power back on. This gives the transmitter time to deplete any stored power and actually reset for pairing mode. I added step 5 above to make note of this. Personally I waited about 30 seconds before flipping the breaker back on. After that, HA pairing via Matter went without any issues.

Final note: I hope the manufacturer sees this and fixes their documentation. IT'S WRONG. Better yet, put it on your site. As of this post, there is no support page. Finding documentation on a manuals site isn't ideal. Make it accessible somewhere please. Oh and the Dragonfly fan isn't on the website either. It's an awesome fan!! I really like your fans. The price point and the fact that it's Matter enabled really gives you a leg up on what little competition there is out there right now.

I hope this helps.

Here are links to the fans mentioned (Lowe's). Both come in a few different styles. I am in no way affiliated with anything. Just a fan of the fans.

Altitude Dragonfly 56 inch Ceiling Fan

Altitude Boca II 52 inch Ceiling Fan