Thank you for the response.
The attached images show how our device is currently displayed across different platforms. This is not a Home Assistant-specific issue — the same result appears across all platforms.
The closest example of what we are looking for is actually a screenshot captured from Home Assistant in July last year, when HA was displaying the UserLabel value directly in the UI. That is the behavior we would like to see.
[HA screenshot from July last year]
It was possible to display not only switches but also modes. (Modes were created using a combination of ON/OFF clusters.)
Your point about A/C switches is exactly the problem we have been thinking about. A device may be rated for light bulb currents but not for high-inductance motor loads — and today, there is no standard way to express that distinction in Matter. Users have to read the specification manually.
As AI systems begin to control physical devices, they must make decisions with little to no structured information — relying on inference alone. That is not safe enough.
We have been exploring whether Matter’s existing FixedLabel structure could carry exactly this kind of information — manufacturer-defined operational boundaries that platforms and AI systems could read directly, without inference.
For example:
“FixedLabel”: {
“LabelList”: [
{ “Label”: “risk”, “Value”: “high” },
{ “Label”: “auto-off”, “Value”: “300s” }
]
}
This requires no spec changes. It is simply a structured use of fields that already exist in Matter.
We have written up the full proposal here:
We are curious whether this direction seems useful from your perspective.