Home Automation

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Home automation is the residential extension of building automation.

It is automation of the home, housework or household activity.

Home automation may include centralized control of lighting, HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), appliances, security locks of gates and doors and other systems, to provide improved convenience, comfort, energy efficiency and security.

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Issues adding Matter device setup through HomeKit to an additional smarthome ecosystem like Alexa/Home Assistant (alien.top)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am having issues setting up some Matter compatible TP Link Tapo smart plugs that have been setup with HomeKit with other smart home ecosystems. The devices work perfectly in HomeKit, but if I put a plug into pairing mode and then try to add it to Alexa, Google, Home Assistant, or Smart Things, it goes through the configuring process, I get a HomeKit banner notification saying it’s been added, but then I ultimately receive a message within the configuration card that opens from the bottom of the screen stating that it’s failed to add the device and that I may have to restart the device. I understand I can link the plugs in the Tapo app by and enable an Alexa Skill to connect them, but I’m wanting to utilize Matter pairing to control them without having to use the Tapo API. It seems like it’s either an issue with HomeKit or my network because I have the same issue whether I try to add the devices to Alexa, Google, Home Assistant, or Smart Things. I’m using an iPhone 15 Pro on a WiFi 6E network. Any ideas on how to overcome this issue?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I haven’t tried this, yet, but to take advantage of the multi-admin feature of Matter, you do something like this:

Pair the device to Apple Home
From within the Apple Home app, generate a new pairing code for the device (that code will be different from the one that came with the device, and will expire in 5 minutes)
Use that code to pair the device to the second controller