Act as a Matter bridge

Feature Requests
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Great project!

Is there a plan to allow Home Assistant to act as a Matter bridge?

This will allow other UIs to be used while still enjoying the amazing variety of integration and add ons

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Have you looked at the feature set of 2023.1? …the preliminaries are in there. So you don’t really need a feature request…

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Yea I did but the release only talk about being able to connect matter devices to Home Assistant, what I’m asking is different:

Let non matter devices be “exported” as matter through Home Assistant so other UIs can be used (such as Apple Home app (I know I can use the HomeKit integration but it never worked for me well))

Maybe I’m not using the terms correctly and instead of “hub” I should have said “bridge” or “gateway”?

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You are asking about a Matter bridge.

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This feature would make the difficult self-hosted Google Home and Alexa setup obsolete. While nabucasa would suffer from the decreased revenue, from an open-source point of view it would be one of the most important features possible. Any updates or open source developers who know how to implement it?

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Hi, I’m developing a Node-RED plug-in that allows this, it’s not natively integrated with Home Assistant but you can use the Home Assistant nodes to write a functional integration.

The plug-in is @node-red-matter/node-red-matter on the palettes manager.

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Would be so great if this is implemented in Home Assitant.

Btw. Homee already has this feature: https://hom.ee/homee-core-2-40-0/

Mediola also: mediola mit weltweit erster zertifizierter Matter Multi-Protokoll Bridge - mediola - connected living AG

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This feature would also allow us to expose ESPHome devices as Matter endpoints without having to implement Matter in ESPHome itself. This means they can be used in Alexa / Google Assistant routines locally, without having to expose your HA instance to the internet.

Tasmota already has this feature: Matter - Tasmota

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This is amazing. Would live to see this in HA.

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Would this work in the same way as the Hue Bridge emulation? i.e switches only or does Matter support full functionality?

If the latter, I would love to see this in HA. In a way, I think this is only logical if HA is to be the centre of the smart home.

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Im actually working on precisely this type of integration (HA exposed as a Matter bridge) since quite some time!

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What is the state of your development? Anything functional? Do you have a Github repo?