Matter, the smart home standard designed to connect and control all your smart home devices, could soon support speakers. Chris LaPré, CTO of the Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA), which runs Matter, confirmed to The Verge that “a new streaming speaker device type and related controls” is under development.
As part of Matter, speakers could leverage the device-to-device communication enabled by the standard to send you an alert when someone rings your doorbell, notify you when your washing is done, or sound alarms when a smoke detector is triggered. Additionally, Matter support could allow you to play music on any Matter-enabled speaker from any Matter-enabled app regardless of the ecosystem or brand, according to Fiede Schillmoeller, CEO of Legato, the company leading the group developing the spec.
However, it may be a while until we see any of these benefits, as there are several hoops to jump through before speakers become part of the standard. “It’s too early to put a timeline to when these will make it into the specification or what the full capabilities will be,” said LaPré.
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