Adding Matter devices to Apple Home and Home Assistant.
The above, basically, describes what I wanted to do. Add Mater devices to Apple Home and to Home Assistant. I mean Matter over WiFi and/or Thread. It also shows my environment, especially as far as Home Assistant is concerned. I have an Intel Mac mini running VMware Fusion, which is free. Inside which I run a virtual machine which runs Home Assistant on HAOS (Home Assistant Operating System). As part of this configuration, I'm also running Matter Hub which enables me to bridge non-matter or non Apple Home devices devices to Apple Home via Matter over WiFi Getting this all to work has not been easy and has required some significant effort, especially with Home Assistant. I felt compelled to write this as I found no single document that helped me through the process, and it took me weeks of working out on how to do it. Matter over WiFi with Apple Home. WiFi is suitable for high data throughput devices, such as cameras. However, we've seen it used a great deal for low throughpu...
