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Next generation Matter
If you are interested in building a next generation Matter version of this, some good examples: https://github.com/espressif/esp-matter/tree/main/examples
The Zigbee and BLE bridges have the ability to dynamically add/remove devices. These are just examples, not nearly as full featured as HomeSpan.
Matter support mostly works in IOS 16.1 https://github.com/project-chip/connectedhomeip/blob/master/docs/guides/darwin.md
Thanks for the links. If Matter takes off, as I hope it will, I'm anticipating there will be a lot of libraries, both commercial and open-source, that will make it easy to connect a wide variety of devices to HomeKit/Alexa/Google. Provided that the protocol continues to remain fully open, AND it gets updated, Matter would likely displace the HomeKit protocol itself at some point in the future. The biggest problem I have with HomeKit is that Apple does not really support non-commercial use. The HAP docs were incomplete when first published (there are critical steps to pairing that are missing, I assume by accident), and have not been updated since 2019, even though HomeKit has evolved a lot since then.
Matter explicitly allows you to use non-certified devices. When you add them to the network you get a prompt indicating non-certified allowing you to add them anyway. This works in those OS beta links.
Matter has a lot of Homekit inside of it. Apple donated Homekit to the Matter effort and the Apple Homekit developers are working on Matter. https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10298/ last half of video
The Matter spec is still behind a paywall, but it is just Zigbee Cluster Library warmed over. Google for Zigbee Cluster Library and you will find full specs. Matter == ZCL + Homekit security. Everything will be released by the end of the year, but you don't really have to have the spec right now, esp-matter has enough to get you going. esp-matter has a large library inside of it implementing the spec so that you don't have to.
Everyone is using the same Matter library, it has been ported to numerous architectures. Look in the examples for the various ports. https://github.com/project-chip/connectedhomeip/tree/master/examples
No plans to add Matter to HomeSpan at present. I assume the use case would be for HomeSpan to work with Google and other non-HomeKit ecosystems?
yes , and ble support for adding devices. amazing work on the library btw any idea if using homespan we can get devices to certify?
To certify requires an MFi license from Apple, and they need to test the device before certifying. I believe that means that those using the library would also need to each have their own MFi licenses and perhaps submit their devices to Apple for testing. There's unfortunately not a lot of public info about the MFi program out there.
Cool , would love to see a matter library one day , its going to be a huge hit considering how bad the esp-idf and programming with it is for people who have majorly worked on Arduino ide. I would love to help in anyway possible if you plan on working on it
Matter is run by the CSA, not Apple. There are 'test' ID which can be used for free. https://csa-iot.org/all-solutions/matter/