Samsung, Google Team Up to Offer Support for Each Other’s Smart Home Ecosystems With Matter Bridge

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Team Up to Offer Support for Each Other’s Smart Home Ecosystems With Matter Bridge

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have announced that they will offer support for each other’s smart home ecosystems, the South Korean company announced on Thursday. Over the years, even though smart devices have gained traction, there exist compatibility issues between brands that ultimately cause headaches for users. The Matter protocol is aimed at making it easier to control a smart home that has a mix of devices from different makers, and a major step forward towards that goal has now been announced.

In order to resolve compatibility problems, Samsung and

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have agreed to build a bridge between SmartThings and

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Home devices, according to an

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by Samsung on Thursday. The bridge is built on Matter’s multi-admin feature, which allows different apps to connect to one or more devices and control them.

This means that a device set up in

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Home will also appear in the SmartThings app and vice versa, so users no longer have to remember which app controls the lights and which controls the smart speakers, as per a

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by GSMArena.

This will also free users up to buy the smart device they want rather than looking for one that uses the same app/ecosystem as the rest of their smart home.

As long as a device supports the Matter protocol, users will be able to control and automate it with either Samsung’s SmartThings or

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’s Home, whichever app they prefer.

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and Samsung are not the only supporters of Matter as the list includes

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, Ikea, LG, Midea, Tuya and several others, as per the report.

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