The Google Home branding is a bit of a mess right now. The company was using it for all of its smart home gadgets until 2019 when suddenly Google started to phase out the “Home” part in favor of the new “Nest” moniker.
Google is developing Matter protocol to make smart home devices smarter
Google says it will add Matter support to Android and Nest-branded smart home devices, and is also creating a help database too.
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the company has revealed that it will add Matter support to Android and Nest-branded smart home devices.
Matter devices will work everywhere your Google smart home does
Google says that
Matter support will make the process of setting up a smart home device easier. Additionally, it will expand the ecosystem of interoperability too.
“You’ll have lots of ways to instantly control them such as Matter-enabled Android apps, Google Assistant, the Google Home app, Android Power Controls and compatible Google devices,” Google says.
Google brings smart home standard Matter to Android, Nest
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San Francisco, May 20 (IANS) Google has announced to bring interconnected cross-platform smart home standard called ‘Matter’ to Android and capable Nest products, powering them with interoperable control and enabling simpler setups.
Earlier called Project Connected Home over IP (CHIP), ‘Matter’ is a unified smart home standard partnership between Google, Amazon, Apple, Samsung, the Zigbee Alliance and others.
At its I/O developer conference, Google said on Wednesday that Android will be one of the leading operating systems with built-in support for ‘Matter’, letting users quickly set up devices with Google and link their favourite Android apps.
Google is looking to really simplify the smart home experience, not solely for buyers of its own branded products, but virtually all smart home device users. Introduced this week is Matter, a new.
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