Matter standardises the communication. Different manufacturers can report values and controls differently for their bulbs. If the bulbs have matter support your “base station”/server can send the same “turn on/off” to the different bulbs without having code specific for that brand/model. This CAN allow us to skip brand specific bridges and such, or as in the philips hue case. All bulbs are exposed as matter devices through their bridge.
Diogenes59
joined 1 year ago
It is TECHNICALLY possible, but not worth actually thinking about.
As it stands now. No zigbee and matter are not compatible, as zigbee has it’s own way of addressing devices (i’m not 100% clear on what they use or how it works), while matter wants to use tcp/udp. However if you have for example aqara devices that use zigbee, and you have their aqara controller, the controller will expose the devices via tcp/udp as matter devices