The catalog of Matter-enabled smart home products has been steadily growing over the past few months, but the latest addition to the list might be the most eye-catching yet. As of April 18, you can now use the Nest Thermostat with Matter.
Only the standard Nest Thermostat (2020) supports Matter — both the Nest Learning Thermostat and Nest Thermostat E are left out for fun. A Google spokesperson told Digital Trends that the company is “still investigating compatibility with Matter s [the] Nest learning thermostat and [is] right now I hope it will be available in the coming year.”
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The Nest Thermostat (2020) is now the first smart thermostat to support Matter, and there’s a good chance the door has opened for more products to follow in its footsteps.
Matter support will be added to the Nest Thermostat via an automatic, over-the-air update. Google is rolling out this feature in waves over the next few weeks, so if you don’t already have the feature, be sure to check back often until the end of April.
Once your device is updated, you will be able to control your smart thermostat from any Matter certified smart home platform. Most excitingly, this includes Apple HomeKit — and since HomeKit doesn’t have the most robust selection of smart thermostats, this is sure to be great news for homes using Apple’s platform.
The Nest Thermostat is the latest Google product to receive Matter support, joining several smart displays and smart speakers such as the Nest Hub Max and Nest Audio. It’s great to see Google investing so much in Matter, especially when some other companies are starting to pull back from the interoperability platform.
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Source: newstars.edu.vn