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Matter 1.4 tries to set the smart home standard back on track
Illustration: 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 set-up 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.The new spec introduces enhanced multi-admin," an improvement on multi-admin - the much-touted interoperability feature that means your Matter smart light can work in multiple ecosystems simultaneously.... Continue reading...
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