{"id":62,"date":"2026-05-04T12:35:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T12:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/homebridge-2-0-is-here-and-it-speaks-matter\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T12:35:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T12:35:06","slug":"homebridge-2-0-is-here-and-it-speaks-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/homebridge-2-0-is-here-and-it-speaks-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"<div>Homebridge 2.0 is here, and it speaks Matter<\/div>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Logo by Gabriel Garcia \" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/homebridge.png?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\"><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/homebridge.io\/\">Homebridge<\/a>, the popular software solution that allows you to integrate non-HomeKit devices like Ring cameras into Apple Home, is <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/homebridge-plugins\/homebridge-matter\/wiki\/Enabling-Matter\">adding support for the Matter smart home standard.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Today, May 4th, <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/homebridge\">Homebridge 2.0<\/a>, which has been in beta for over three years, officially launches. Along with other improvements, the update brings the &#8220;initial groundwork for Matter support,&#8221; according to a post on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/homebridge\/comments\/1sbu1z6\/homebridge_20_launch\/\">r\/homebridge subreddit<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npmjs.com\/package\/homebridge-config-ui-x\">NorthernMan5<\/a>, one of the GitHub core maintainers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">The update enables Homebridge to act <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/homebridge-plugins\/homebridge-matter\/wiki\/Introduction#:~:text=The%20Homebridge%20Matter%20API%20allows%20you%20to%20create%20virtual%20Matter%20devices%20that%20bridge%20your%20physical%20IoT%20devices%20(cloud%20API%2C%20HTTP%2C%20MQTT%2C%20etc.)%20to%20the%20Matter%20protocol%2C%20making%20them%20accessible%20in%20Apple%20Home%20and%20other%20Matter-compatible%20platforms.\">as a Matter bridge<\/a> in addition to a HomeKit bridge, allowing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23568091\/matter-compatible-devices-accessories-apple-amazon-google-samsung\">Matter devices<\/a> to appear in Apple Home through Homebridge. It will also  \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/922877\/homebridge-2-0-matter-update-robot-vacuums\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homebridge, the popular software solution that allows you to integrate non-HomeKit devices like Ring cameras into Apple Home, is adding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,5,43,21,16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-gadgets","category-matter","category-news","category-smart-home","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paltechnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}