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Quinton Hebenstreit
I just paired my Switchbot Hub to HE with matter. That creates a HE device. So far I haven't found a way to create the child devices - blind/tilts and outdoor meter for me. Are blind/tilts even specified in the version of matter?
I'm probably confused. I have two 'groups' of blinds/tilt defined in Switchbot's app/hub as matter devices. Homekit see's these two groups as individual blind tilts and they open and close from Apple Home. I think I should be able to control those two blinds from hubitat too - assuming I can find the device and driver.
I don't have a switchbot hub, but do these devices have a Matter pairing code in each device? It sounds like you are trying to import the whole hub (hub to hub integration) and that won't work. You must bring in one device into Hubitat at at time.
As a matter hub, Switchbot is very limiting for example I have more than 9 of the blind tilts but they will only support 6 matter devices. They are also slow at updating their phone App and their hubs firmware. I haven't spent anytime on their forums so I can't comment but that's where I should go. Fortunately, Switchbot via matter is low priority. Interesting but low priority.
So if they are Matter, could you pair them to Alexa, Google, or Homekit and then bring them into Hubitat? Not sure if you can just bypass using the Switchbot hub completely, but with those weird and strict limitations, I would consider other methods.
They devices are bluetooth, I believe , so that makes the Switchbot hub interesting if it can do BT to matter - and it can for Homekit. Their hub is also supposed to do IR so that would be interesting as a possible Harmony replacement.
Could you please clarify, if you do bring the hub over, as I understand it, Hubitat currently doesn't see the individual devices. There will be a bridge/hub driver that brings in everything? That likely will happen in a future release?
I'm also hoping that Hubitat will release bridge drivers sooner rather than later. Both SwitchBot and Aqara have matter compatible hubs that act as bridges
and expose, at least some of, their devices through Matter.
In addition, the YoLink Hub 3 that will act as a Matter bridge for their devices is expected in the near future. I believe YoLink devices would be very beneficial to the Hubitat ecosystem as they are based on the LoRa wireless standard that has an open-air range of up to 1/4 mile.
Thanks for the offer @kkossev. Unfortunately, my C-8 is an integral part of my smart home. Testing alpha software on it would be in violation of the "wife acceptance factor" rules that I have to operate under. If I had another Hubitat hub I would gladly take you up on the offer and help out. Thanks again.
I am also very careful with my 'production' main C-8 hub which runs all the automations in my house (excluding the LAN integrations, that run on the old C-7 hub, together with some spammy Zigbee devices).
I don't have yet SwitchBot Hub 2 (Matter capable) but I will by one
but only if Curtains will be supported. My current integration is done
via Home Assistant (all controls are 100% local). It works very well
but I think more native support should/could be better.
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