Well, technically nothing implements the pairing mechanism entirely right now so yeah, at least the pairing still phones home. I believe homeassistant requires you to use google home to pair the device to it (though that may change, the extension is still in beta)
Interesting. As far as I can see you can pair Matter devices either through the HA app itself, Apple Home or Google Home, so I don’t think it’s required. I’ll keep that in mind though before I get my first Matter device.
Last time I checked the HA app uses the system tool, which just uses Google Home behind the scenes. Apple Home is probably the only other implementation of the pairing tool.
Is there anything actually to this or just tinfoil-hat rambling?
Is it really tin foil at this point? Their core business model is hoovering up data to serve advertisements.
Well, technically nothing implements the pairing mechanism entirely right now so yeah, at least the pairing still phones home. I believe homeassistant requires you to use google home to pair the device to it (though that may change, the extension is still in beta)
Interesting. As far as I can see you can pair Matter devices either through the HA app itself, Apple Home or Google Home, so I don’t think it’s required. I’ll keep that in mind though before I get my first Matter device.
Last time I checked the HA app uses the system tool, which just uses Google Home behind the scenes. Apple Home is probably the only other implementation of the pairing tool.