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Eve Energy smart plugs transmit Energy information via Matter (eventfrontier.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/homeassistant

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I just learned that the Eve Energy smart plugs transmit energy consumption information via Matter. I didn't think energy consumption information was supported in Matter yet, but it is.

This makes them incredible to use with the Home Assistant Energy dashboard.

Even tho I was hesitant for a while, I took the leap to using the Matter beta Home Assistant integration and no issues so far.

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[–] just_another_person 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Metadata is supported in any HA supported protocol. Your concern is what?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

but as the Matter standard doesn't yet support energy monitoring, users are limited to basic features like on and off and scheduling

- from this link

Granted the article is almost a year old. But I just didn't realize that Matter now supports energy monitoring. Somehow I just missed that news.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It looks like it got added in the protocol V1.3 and then further refined in 1.4: https://csa-iot.org/newsroom/matter-1-4-enables-more-capable-smart-homes/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yep just saw that too after I researched it a bit more. What is strange is I don't remember Eve Energy having a firmware update since then. Makes me wonder if they had it ready to go in previous firmware versions based on internal specs they saw? Or maybe I just forgot about a firmware update I did.

[–] just_another_person -2 points 1 month ago

Matter itself is different from data passing through HA.