{"id":96442,"date":"2022-10-14T01:49:34","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T01:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/samsung-smartthings-hubs-will-be-upgraded-to-matter-this-month\/"},"modified":"2022-10-14T01:49:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T01:49:34","slug":"samsung-smartthings-hubs-will-be-upgraded-to-matter-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/samsung-smartthings-hubs-will-be-upgraded-to-matter-this-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung SmartThings hubs will be upgraded to Matter this month"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An over-the-air update coming later this month will turn Samsung’s standalone SmartThings hubs into controllers for the new smart home standard Matter. The v2 hub will control Matter devices over Wi-Fi and ethernet, while the current hub and SmartThings dongle will also act as Thread border routers. Samsung is the first company to publicly announce Matter certification. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jaeyeon Jung, Samsung Electronics corporate vice president and head of SmartThings’ mobile experience business, told The Verge<\/em> in an interview that the company received its Matter certification early on Wednesday, October 12th, a week after Matter launched. Michelle Mindala-Freeman of the Connectivity Standards Alliance, which oversees Matter, confirmed that it started issuing certifications this week and said Samsung was among the very first to secure one.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe worked with Silicon Labs to use software to simultaneously run Zigbee and Thread using the same hardware chipset.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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During the Samsung Developer Conference Keynote this week, Mark Benson, head of SmartThings, announced Matter support would be rolled out to its platform this month. Jung confirmed to The Verge <\/em>following the keynote that Samsung plans to push over-the-air updates to all existing v2 and v3 SmartThings hubs, the SmartThings dongle, and the SmartThings app on Android. The software-based SmartThings hubs built into newer Samsung smart TVs, monitors, and Family Hub fridges will be upgraded to support Matter at a later date, says Jung. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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While the upgraded hubs will still support Zigbee and Z-Wave, they won’t be Matter bridges, at least not anytime soon. \u201cWe don’t have a plan to support that function yet,\u201d says Jung. \u201cSmartThings users will be able to continue to use those devices connected to a SmartThings hub, but existing Zigbee and Z-Wave devices won’t be exposed to Matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The good news is that SmartThings v3 hubs (now made by Aeotec) and the $35 dongle for Samsung appliances with SmartThings software hubs will become Thread border routers. \u201cWe worked with Silicon Labs to use software to simultaneously run Zigbee and Thread using the same hardware chipset,\u201d says Jung. \u201cOnce we roll out the software, SmartThings v3 hubs will support both Zigbee and Matter over Thread devices, along with the dongle, too.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This means if you have a compatible Samsung smart TV or smart fridge and you pick up the $35 dongle, you’ll have a SmartThings Matter controller with a Thread border router ready to go by the end of this month. Of course, there are no Matter devices available to control yet. But with the launch of the standard last week, we should see products start to roll out this year. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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