Matter's Ambitious Plan: Bringing True Interoperability to Smart Speakers
Interoperable speakers: Emphasizes the key benefit – cross-ecosystem control.
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Matter's Ambitious Plan: Bringing True Interoperability to Smart Speakers
The smart home landscape is fragmented. While the Matter standard promises to unify control across different ecosystems, true interoperability for speakers has remained elusive. This is about to change. The Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA), the organization behind Matter, is developing a new specification for streaming speakers, a move that could revolutionize how we interact with audio in our homes. The Limitations of Current Matter Speaker Support Currently, Matter includes "Media Device Types," primarily focused on TVs and video streaming devices. Speaker support is limited, offering basic on/off and volume control. This falls short of the true interoperability envisioned for the smart home. The Vision: A Truly Interoperable Speaker Ecosystem The new specification aims to address these limitations by introducing a dedicated device type for streaming speakers. This will enable: Cross-Ecosystem Control: Control any Matter speaker from any Matter-supported ecosystem app (e.g…
